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One thing we all share now is poverty
CHARLOTTE HUGHES discusses the poverty she has witnessed while demostrating against Tory-driven austerity
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
WE WERE out for our regular demo day last Thursday outside the jobcentre. I say demo but we do so much more — hand information leaflets out, offer solidarity and advice. We’ve become a lifeline to many who are desperately needing all of the above.
Regular readers will know that we hand out food parcels each week. This week we had about five to start with. There was already a queue forming for them. So they went within 30 minutes. Later on a comrade arrived with three more and they went in no time at all. It’s awful. Queuing in the street for a food parcel.
This government does not care one bit, and it’s pointless trying to reach to its so-called compassionate side because it doesn’t have one. Instead Theresa May spouts on about a “shared society.”
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