While slashing welfare and public services, Labour’s spring statement delivers a bonanza for death-dealing bomb merchants. We now see the true and terrible face of austerity 2.0, writes MICHAEL BURKE
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ScotRail: public ownership but no consultation with the public?
Despite promises of a new era under state control, the SNP government backs massive cuts to ticket office hours while ignoring safety concerns and excluding disabled passengers from consultation, writes ANN HENDERSON
Detailing the deluge of delusion and dishonesty pushed by the pro-war camp, IAN SINCLAIR identifies four key tactics corporate journalists use to confuse audiences and suppress opposition to the proxy war in the east
From ‘moral duty’ to ‘military Keynesianism,’ Labour manipulates language to justify slashing welfare but pouring billions into warfare, condemning communities like Glasgow South West to deeper poverty, writes MATT KERR
With politicians dismissing constituents’ fears of global war, the peace movement must look beyond Parliament to prevent catastrophe, writes TOM MORRISON
The mass movement supporting Palestine represents potential political power that the left must now embrace as central to its strategy, writes HUGH LANNING, ahead of this Saturday’s Socialism or Barbarism day school in London
Health Secretary Wes Streeting taking £53k from Tory-linked recruiter and outsourcer Peter Hearn’s OPD Group is a great example of how Labour’s rich donors shape policies targeting the poor – not their wealth, writes SOLOMON HUGHES
MAT COWARD recalls the communist and pacifist aristocrat whose commitment made a difference in the Spanish civil war, the Blitz and WWII Europe
SCOTRAIL, in public ownership since April 2022, is proposing to reduce station ticket office opening hours in stations across Scotland.
The Scottish government Cabinet Secretary for Transport Fiona Hyslop MSP, in response to a question in Parliament from Richard Leonard MSP last month, advised MSPs that she had considered the proposed changes carefully and was content with them.
“Content with proposals” that have not been scrutinised by the public, proposals that were not shared with the disabled passenger body Mobility and Access Committee Scotland, proposals that will impact on other station facilities such as waiting rooms and toilet facilities where currently provided, proposals to which the trade unions are opposed. RMT has accused ScotRail of misleading the public.
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