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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Be under no illusions – the EU stands firm behind Tory austerity
The European Union will always be a capitalist big business club – it’s written into its DNA, says MICK COSTELLO
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
SOME major points must be kept in mind to avoid the debate on In or Out of the EU becoming shrouded in myths and secondary clutter.
First, the EU was created from the original cartel of iron and steel companies, through the broadened scope of the common market to promote the biggest business interests in the states of the capitalist part of western — that is, non-socialist — Europe.
Its rules enforce this, and the promise of a “social Europe” made decades ago has proved to be phoney.
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