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While international actors discuss governance and reconstruction, Netanyahu has made it clear that Israel has no intention of ending its military occupation, says RAMZY BAROUD
Austerity vision is of a 1930s Britain
Zoe Hennessy explores how an ideological war against the welfare state is turning the clock back on hard-won gains in employment and housing
NICK WRIGHT continues his series analysing the trends in European politics
We have the alternative economics, histories of our struggles and the confidence to change the world
General Federation of Trade Unions assistant general secretary HENRY FOWLER reports on the final day from the GFTU’s residential Summer School at the Workers’ Retreat, Quorn Grange Hotel
Capitalism has exploited — and polluted — our natural resources for too long, it’s time we treated our rivers as living beings, writes MIRIUM GAUNTLETT, LIAM SHAW and ROX MIDDLETON
Treating the Clacton by-election as a joke risks reinforcing the Reform leader’s claim to be the victim of an out-of-touch Establishment, argues JOHN McINALLY
MPs and others called for the urgent release of tortured Palestinian doctor, Hussam Abu Safiya, held hostage by Israel and reportedly near death, reports LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
In case you hadn’t noticed, 2015 is general election year — which means another round of vandalised Tory election billboards. But hopefully it also means that we are coming to the end of the current Conservative government — a government which has used the pursuit of so-called debt reduction to wage a war against working people and shore up profits for the super-rich.
They have been successful. The wealthiest 1,000 men and women in British society have doubled their wealth in the last five years, and are now worth a combined fortune of £519 billion.
The cost for working people has been huge, and has fallen particularly heavily on the young, people with disabilities and women. In his Autumn Statement Chancellor George Osborne announced a further round of cuts beyond 2015, which will take public spending down to levels not seen since the 1930s.
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