The greatest threat to democracy may no longer come from political parties but from unelected tech oligarchs like Peter Thiel and his powerful Silicon Valley network, argues JOHN GREEN
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Disabled people should not pay for Trump’s war drive
In advance of the Socialism or Barbarism day school on March 29, Arise Festival’s SAM BROWSE writes on why we must oppose the cuts to welfare and the drive to war
ALWAYS MONEY FOR WARFARE, NEVER FOR WELFARE: US President Donald Trump who expects Europe to dance to his tune
Today’s interconnected conflicts are enriching the arms industry while pushing the entire world towards permanent militarisation, argues ROGER McKENZIE
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The government’s Pip review looks like a carefully managed exercise in legitimising future cuts to disability support, argues Dr DYLAN MURPHY
The Tories introduced the 50% strike ballot threshold to make industrial action harder. MATT WRACK argues that a Labour government has no justification for leaving it on the statute book
LAST WEEK saw two linked developments in global and British politics.
On the one hand, the Israeli government formalised an end to the ceasefire in Gaza, which it had been breaking regularly since it was called two months ago. The shelling yesterday saw the deaths of over 400 more Gazans — adding to the official count of nearly 47,000 lives already extinguished in the genocide.
On the other, Secretary of State for Work and Pensions Liz Kendall announced £5 billion cuts to the welfare bill for disabled people — achieved in part by raising the bar on who can claim. We should be totally clear on the brutality of these cuts.
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