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Councillor SAM WHEELER says there’s a tangible shift in mood on the left in the city whose mayor has recently become PM — but there’s no room for complacency
No method in this madness
IdeasTap provides training, mentoring, extensive job listings to help young people enter the arts and creative industries – all this will end if the government does not step in. FAYE LIPSON reports
Communist Party leaders Alex Gordon and Lorraine Douglas deliver vital medicines in trip to besieged socialist island
TUC Cymru is playing a leading role in tackling far-right ideas in the workplace, says LAURA DOEL
A New Delhi press conference in which Sheikh Hasina and her son implied the new order in Bangladesh is a security threat to India has sparked fears she is planning a comeback. SIAM SAROWER JAMIL reports on the fallout
Two months of student unrest have forced out India’s education minister and rattled the BJP regime. Could this be the beginning of the end for Modi, asks Communist Party of India (Marxist) general secretary MA BABY
MAT COWARD says the heatwave is a testing time for gardeners — but he has some tips
NEWS that IdeasTap is closing due to a lack of funding comes as a deep blow — both to its 200,000 members and to the social and cultural architecture of Britain.
The arts charity, aimed at “young, creative people at the start of their careers,” gave hope of fulfilling and creative work to a generation that came of age in the midst of roiling financial crisis.
IdeasTap provides training, mentoring, extensive job listings and hard cash to help young people enter the arts and creative industries. Its help is speedy and tangible, and many will have personal stories of careers made with the assistance of this organisation. This is my own story.
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