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When thousands hit the streets to express their anger and despair
From across the left and beyond, people united to send a message to the politicians who think the poor are nothing but a drag on society. Everyone had a story to tell, writes LESLEY DOCKSEY
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
ON THE day when thousands of people from across Britain poured into London to demonstrate against Tory austerity, high society poured out of London to attend the last day of racing at one of the main events of the summer season for the privileged — Royal Ascot.
While coaches, cars and trains decanted protesters, Waterloo station was awash with top hats and posh frocks waiting to board the Ascot train.
Up to 250,000 people came to London and no-one can say the demonstration, organised by the People’s Assembly, wasn’t representative of the broad spectrum of people’s anger at Tory policies — policies that have seen vital budget cuts affecting so many people, with the poorest targeted more than most, and the rich not at all.
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