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 boot out the privateers
Labour must call it a day on the privatised rail gravy train, says 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
The privateers are really up in arms. Stagecoach boss Martin Griffiths, who must be something of a clairvoyant, managed to dismiss Labour’s new rail policy in mid-July as “unworkable” because it would recreate the so-called failures of nationalisation.
And that was six days before the issue had even been discussed at the party’s policy forum.
Since Labour announced its new rail policy, a stream of rail bosses have come out to denounce it. They’ve had the temerity to claim that the creation of a public-sector train operator is “unfair.”
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