In the third of a four-part serialisation from her new book No to Nuclear, LINDA PENTZ GUNTER explains how the world had a chance to build an energy system around renewables more than 70 years ago — instead, it chose nuclear
Freeports are a neoliberal nightmare
The proposals to build deregulated free-trade zones – where workers’ rights and the taxman are kept out – are completely unacceptable, writes Plaid Cymru economy spokesperson LUKE FLETCHER MS
A view of the construction site of Teeside Freeport
Elon Musk says AI will make work optional. The world of abundance he predicts actually spells the end of the capitalist system, argues FAWZI IBRAHIM
Indian students have fought for the right to education, schooling us all in the process. Comrades from the Students’ Federation of India (SFI) — UK comment on the resistance and its ripples here
Edinburgh’s upcoming by-elections offer tenants a chance to put politicians under pressure over soaring rents and a council that has repeatedly sided with landlords and developers, says ADITI JEHANGIR
The real welfare dependency is at the top of our society, says ALAN SIMPSON
Tony Benn’s constituents chose him by an overwhelming majority — but because he had inherited a peerage, parliamentary rules declared their choice invalid, writes MAT COWARD
IN the 1980s, it was Coal not Dole — today it’s Enough is Enough. The story of managed decline experienced by working-class communities in Wales hardly needs retelling.
Since Thatcherism wove this fabric of decline into our communities, the term regeneration has cast a very large shadow over Welsh life.
It has by now become part of everyday speech among policy-makers, local councillors, trade unions and social activists, filling pages in newspapers and mouths in conversations.
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