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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Old arguments and stale ideas: So who’s the throwback?
Those offended by Dave Ward’s words have been throwing jibes of their own, JOHN HAYLETT finds
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
COMMUNICATION Workers Union (CWU) general secretary Dave Ward set the cat among the pigeons recently when he announced that the CWU was backing Jeremy Corbyn as an antidote to the “virus within the Labour Party.”
Ward said: “We reject the notion that Labour needs to move to the centre ground of British politics. The centre ground has moved significantly to the right in recent years.”
He insisted that “the grip of the Blairites” on Labour must be “loosened once and for all.”
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