As Colombia approaches presidential elections next year, the US decision to decertify the country in the war on drugs plays into the hands of its allies on the political right, writes NICK MacWILLIAM
Welfare state or warfare state?
From ‘moral duty’ to ‘military Keynesianism,’ Labour manipulates language to justify slashing welfare but pouring billions into warfare, condemning communities like Glasgow South West to deeper poverty, writes MATT KERR
Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves meeting military personnel during her visit to Wellington Barracks, London, to meet with defence personnel spearheading defence and security innovation, after she delivered her spring statement to MPs at the House of Commons, March 26, 2025
The move against alleged PKK members that sparked outrage as a community centre in north London was raided last year has now come to trial, writes TONY BURKE, but in the meantime, the peace process abroad has changed the situation almost entirely
A new report points a way to overcome complacent framing of climate issues, ‘by sparking a wider public reckoning with climate realities,’ and reconnecting with working-class people. IAN SINCLAIR reports
We cannot understand today’s world without understanding the rise of China – and we cannot understand China without understanding how it was shaped by the second world war, writes JENNY CLEGG
NICK WRIGHT reports from Italy, where 80 cities saw Gaza strikes as unions paralysed transport and massive crowds clashed with police in Milan — but France is also kicking off, and Westminster, in a very different way, is facing a crisis of legitimacy too
Escalating anti-China rhetoric from the West has a clear purpose – to manufacture consent for the new cold war, and potentially a hot one, argues CARLOS MARTINEZ
THERE were two ways of dealing with the last fortnight. Hands over face, peeking out at the carnage unfolding, or step out into the world.
For the purposes of science, obviously, I tried both.
It began with Liz Kendall’s announcement on welfare reform. Literally millions of lives to — at best — be turned upside down to save a rounding error in the national budget. The language was that of tough love, the delivery was closer to that of the coked-up pal of the pub bully. Letters had been written by a collection of crawlers in advance to big up the “moral duty” of it all, to plant the seeds in our consciousness that this was a just fight.
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