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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The stunning political events of recent weeks have the cruel and complacent ‘elites’ running scared, believes MANUEL CORTES
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
THEY say that a week is a long time in politics, but often this phrase is used merely to imply the reshuffling of a few faces or some minor policy change. However it finds its perfect example in the seismic change that Labour is undergoing as the result of the election of Jeremy Corbyn.
As another saying goes, a picture paints a thousand words. On Tuesday September 15, during the second reading of the vindictive Trade Union Bill, the TV showed Jeremy and our shadow chancellor, John McDonnell, sitting on the front bench after years of swimming against the stream. Angela Eagle, our new shadow business secretary, brilliantly led the charge.
She got stuck in and managed to tear the guts out of the Tories.
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We cannot refuse to abolish the unjustifiable two-child benefit cap that pushes children into poverty while finding billions of pounds for defence spending — the membership and the public expect better from Labour, writes JON TRICKETT MP
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