FRAN HEATHCOTE believes that while the the Chancellor outlined some positive steps, the government does not appreciate the scale of the cost-of-living crisis affecting working-class people, whose lives are blighted by endemic low pay
Amid the Brexit muddle, we need to get back to the basics of workers’ rights
The world of work must be our number one political issue, however Brexit turns out, argues DAVE WARD
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz is pouring €11.5bn into the Kiev swamp, blocking Trump’s peace plan, and pushing Nato right up to Russia’s borders – no matter if it costs hundreds of thousands of lives, warns SEVIM DAGDELEN
The 2025 Budget shores up the PM’s political position with headline-grabbing welfare U-turns, but with no improvements on offer to declining public services or living standards, writes MICHAEL BURKE
The unifying victory of Irish progressive forces in the presidential campaign should be a salutary lesson to the left in this country, argues MARY GRIFFITHS CLARKE
Martin Taylor, the hedge-fund multimillionaire who has poured millions into pushing Labour rightwards, helped finance Lucy Powell’s supposedly dissenting campaign — suggesting her victory was not the ‘soft-left’ rebellion some have claimed, says SOLOMON HUGHES
A November 15 protest in Mexico – driven by a right-wing social-media operation – has been miscast as a mass uprising against President Sheinbaum. In reality, the march was small, elite-backed and part of a wider attempt to sow unrest, argues DAVID RABY
AFTER another night of Brexit votes in Parliament this week, it feels like the government is no closer to finding a way forward.
After dragging us into this mess in the first place in the name of party management, this week has been about nothing more than patching up the Tory Party once again so it can limp on in government.
For all the triumphalism about being able to win a vote in Parliament, Theresa May is now heading back to Brussels with a plan that the EU has already rejected. The reality is that we are now closer to a cliff-edge, with a Prime Minister at the mercy of the hard right of her party.
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