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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MICK WHELAN explains why the TUC demo on October 18 deserves massive support from across the movement
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 next general election, which is now just eight months away, will be the most important to be held in this country for more than 50 years. Since the general elections which led to the great socialist governments of Clement Attlee, in fact, which from 1945-50 and from 1950-51 did so much to transform the fortunes of the people in this country after the Labour landslide at the end of the second world war.
Because the policies of this coalition government — and we should remember that the Liberal Democrats have been as culpable as the Conservatives in all this — are sowing the seeds of a disastrous future for Britain.
They are implementing an ever more brutal “free market” for labour and in housing.
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