A vast US war fleet deployed in the south Caribbean — ostensibly to fight drug-trafficking but widely seen as a push for violent regime change — has sparked international condemnation and bipartisan resistance in the US itself. FRANCISCO DOMINGUEZ reports
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Don’t be fooled: austerity is here to stay under Labour
Everything we’ve seen so far from Starmer and Reeves indicates that they remain committed to the economic orthodoxy of cuts imposed by the Tories – which is why we need to revitalise the anti-austerity movement, says BEN SELLERS of the People’s Assembly
ANSELM ELDERGILL recalls the misjudgments, mishaps and moments of farce that shaped his years in legal practice
MAT COWARD tells how 18th-century scholar and revolutionary democrat Joseph Ritson turned a medieval outlaw into England’s people’s hero — soon to be gracing panto halls around the nation
The Communist Party of Britain’s Congress last month debated a resolution on ending opposition to all nuclear power in light of technological advances and the climate crisis. RICHARD HEBBERT explains why
Amid the festive lights, Scotland faces a stark holiday truth: only real investment in public services and the workers who sustain them can lift communities out of poverty, argues LILIAN MACER
Behind the cute names of Scotland’s road gritters lies a workforce underpaid and overlooked – a fitting reflection of a Budget that protected profits, bungled its rollout and offered hardly a glimmer of hope, writes MATT KERR
THERE will be few surprises when Chancellor Rachel Reeves delivers her first Budget today. In these days of carefully scripted media management, almost everything is leaked ahead of the Budget speech. Nor should socialists be surprised at Labour’s trajectory. It’s not like they’ve been hiding it.
The Labour leadership has been bending over backwards to prepare the ground for more pain, amid so-called “tough choices,” while making noises about “preventing austerity” with a sleight of hand that no-one who cares about public services, poverty and the welfare of our communities should be fooled by.
No-one is preventing austerity. Austerity never went away, and it is still with us under Labour. By sticking with their fiscal rules, the government is guaranteeing further austerity cuts and the decimation of our council services, mental health support, libraries, and arts provision — just to name a few.
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We cannot refuse to abolish the unjustifiable two-child benefit cap that pushes children into poverty while finding billions of pounds for defence spending — the membership and the public expect better from Labour, writes JON TRICKETT MP
People's Assembly demo on June 7 will warn ministers to stop the cuts and invest or face oblivion
Instead of responding to changed circumstances by adjusting policy, Reeves is using fiscal ‘rules’ as an excuse to force government departments to make even deeper cuts than she had already flagged, says CLAUDIA WEBBE