IAN LAVERY MP says an immediate focus on raising wages and reducing costs must be part of a strategy to show Labour can deliver for workers again
Broken Britain – what happens when everything falls apart?
The self-rewarding rich fear any notion of radical change in the way that politics, government and economics works, but this is our only lifeline, warns ALAN SIMPSON
Damage inside Parks Primary School in Leicester which has been affected with sub standard reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete (Raac).
Friedrich Merz’s call for a new Plaza Accord ignores how Washington’s 1985 currency ambush destroyed Japan without fixing US deficits — China, a sovereign socialist state with 1.4 billion consumers, cannot be bullied the same way, writes CARLOS MARTINEZ
World Peace Council president PALLAB SENGUPTA assesses the challenges facing the international peace movement and sends greetings to the Liberation AGM
KIERA MARSHALL says there is a gulf between the privileged circles in which most politicians move and the lives of working-class youth in left-behind estates – and as a newly elected Senedd member she’s determined to do something about it
ANGUS REID and ANDREW JOHNSTONE report on an initiative that we must take this summer
At last weekend’s International Conference Against War, LINDA PENTZ GUNTER talks to the Palestinian physician and politician about the struggles ahead to achieve a truly free Palestine
THE roof is falling in on the British economy. For over 150 schools in England this is a literal as well as a figurative truth.
On the eve of the autumn term, schools were notified they couldn’t reopen because defective concrete in their roofs put them at risk of imminent collapse.
They were thrown into a frantic replanning of where and how teaching might take place. Parents hadn’t a clue what this might mean.
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