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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Mismanaged migration is causing chaos and hurt
Claudia Wrobel of Junge Welt exposes failings in how refugee rights are being handled in Berlin
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
Germany is the richest country in the European Union. Since last summer, however, the German capital has a problem in registering refugees.
For days, sometimes weeks, whole families must wait outdoors, people are languishing in anticipation of the financial support they’ve been promised. Medical care for refugees, which is already limited to a minimum by law, is not guaranteed.
The Berlin State Office of Health and Welfare (Berliner Landesamt fur Gesundheit und Soziales — LaGeSo) is completely overstrained. The shortcomings of this institution are not causing total chaos only because hundreds of volunteers are doing the work in their leisure time — work the state is supposed to be responsible for.
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