The Milburn review presents itself as a plan to help young people into work, but Dr DYLAN MURPHY argues it is laying the groundwork for a harsher benefits regime
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Time to revise the Iceland lesson
As unelected EU apparatchiks sanction the pillage of Greece and Ukraine BRIAN DENNY points to a striking alternative
Campaigners from across the continent will gather in Brussels on June 14 to oppose Europe’s accelerating militarisation and cuts to public services, write MAGGIE SIMPSON and BOB ORAM of No Cold War Britain
National co-ordinator for General Strike 100, HENRY FOWLER, continues his nationwide tour of partner organisations by visiting the Modern Records Centre at Warwick University
GEOFF BOTTOMS recalls meeting Fidel Castro in the ’90s after joining a Pastors for Peace caravan to Cuba, and reflects on how international support is still vital to help the island withstand economic warfare
The Ivors Academy’s hike in entry fees could turn this respected peer-assessed event into an exclusive preserve for those wealthy enough to compete, warns BEN LUNN
Peter Murrell’s weakness for the allure of prestige goods is symptomatic of modern consumer culture, says MATT KERR
Anti-austerity campaigners often call for banking controls, long-term public investment, the creation and protection of jobs and taking control of interest rates and monetary policy back from the Bank of England.
All these demands are, of course, illegal within the European Union (EU) and its neoliberal treaties, which demand the free movement of capital and outlaw all forms of protectionism and any real democratic control over the economy.
The reality is that European bankers and their institutions — the European Commission, European Central Bank, IMF, and European Stability Mechanism (ESM) — are turning themselves into virtual feudal dictators on behalf of monopoly finance capital.
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