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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Anti-racism begins in the classroom
Every student needs an anti-racist education and teachers need appropriate training and encouragement to help bring about an end to racial exclusion and fear, writes DANIEL KEBEDE of the National Education Union
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
THAT we are having to organise national demonstrations against the far right in Britain shows the challenge we face.
The rise in racist, Islamophobic and anti-semitic attacks recorded in Britain is a matter for alarm for us all. Years of outright or thinly veiled racist comments and xenophobia spouted by senior politicians and some sections of the media have had the effect of normalising racism. It’s emboldened and assisted those on the far right.
This has posed a real threat to the social cohesion of this country and our progress towards a fairer and more equal society. It has an impact on our schools and colleges.
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