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When you have nothing, Christmas can be the worst time of the year
For those left behind in Tory Britain, even a trip to the supermarket is a reminder of what you don’t have, says CHARLOTTE HUGHES
While Iranians take to the streets en masse to protest sky-high inflation, Trump and Netanyahu are threatening military intervention. The Iranian population is trapped between a repressive regime, a suffocating economic war from the outside, and a history of dark alliances, argues MARC VANDEPITTE
Unison Scotland’s BRENDA AITCHISON says her union won’t tolerate further cuts to public services
The Danish Communist Party’s Lotte Rortoft-Madsen assesses the fallout from US threats to annex the huge Arctic island
Trump threatens war and punitive tariffs to recapture Iranian resources – just as in 1953, when the CIA overthrew Mossadegh and US corporations immediately seized 40% of the oil, says SEVIM DAGDELEN
Once derided by Farage as a ‘fraud,’ Jenrick has defected to Reform, bringing experience and political ruthlessness to the populist right — and raising the unsettling prospect of a Farage-led movement with a seasoned operative pulling the strings, says ANDREW MURRAY
LAST Thursday we held our third Christmas demonstration outside Ashton-Under-Lyne jobcentre.
We gave our demonstration a special Dickensian theme to highlight the significance and similarities between life in Victorian England and the struggles that the poorest in society are having now.
We handed out leaflets, food parcels, advice and solidarity.
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