Channel 4’s Dirty Business shows why private companies cannot be trusted with vital services like water, says PAUL DONOVAN
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The impact of the Truss regime on rural and coastal communities
DAWN EVANS looks at the prospects for the local class struggle from remote south-west Cornwall, where pay is poor, union membership is low, second-home speculators plague communities — but the fightback is growing
CORNISH RESISTANCE: XR activists march through St Ives, June 2021
Washington’s unprecedented capture of the Venezuelan president was meant to demonstrate US power — but instead it has galvanised the Bolivarian movement and exposed the limits of the regime change agenda, argue ROGER D HARRIS and JOHN PERRY
With our ruling class struggling to secure a new vehicle for power and the disintegration of the traditional party system, a volatile new chapter is opening, sharpened by war, austerity and electoral distortion, argues NICK WRIGHT
TONY FOX reports from a commemoration of the legendary Battle of Jarama in which four Stockton-on-Tees volunteers fell
Does widespread and uncontrolled use of AI change our relationship with scientific meaning? Or with each other? ask ROX MIDDLETON, LIAM SHAW and MIRIAM GAUNTLETT
The biggest strike in global history is a template for our future. The silence tells you all you need to know, writes CLAUDIA WEBBE
THERE may be one good thing to be said about Britain’s latest Tory Prime Minister: Liz Truss doesn’t hide that she’s an enemy of the working class.
Her predecessors Boris Johnson, Theresa May and David Cameron did — to an extent. Johnson hid it behind the jovial clown image, May behind a benign blandness and Cameron behind his “big society” One Nation Conservatism nonsense.
All of them liked to claim they were the torchbearers of Margaret Thatcher’s legacy — but Truss is the one who has truly been channelling Thatcher’s dogged resolve to crush the unions and disempower the working class.
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