The National Emergency Briefing outlines the need for urgent action to address environmental crisis, says PAUL DONOVAN, warning that there’s no time to indulge the arguments of the fossil-fuel-funded climate-change deniers
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Finance capital is a parasite on our economy
The dominance of finance capital has huge implications for the future in terms of jobs, living standards and the very fabric of society itself, says LAURENCE PLATT
Campaigners say criticism of Labour MP Stephen Morgan’s position on Gaza has been met with police intervention and cancelled opportunities for debate. HESTER WOLFE reports
The Committee for the Defence of Iranian People’s Rights warns of escalation danger in Iran war
Claudia Webbe pays tribute tribute to KANYA KING CBE, February 12 1964 to June 3 2026
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
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
FINANCE capital is on the rampage throughout the British economy. Its tentacles have spread through what were formerly parts of the public sector, primary manufacturing such as the steel industry to aviation and more.
It even shares a bed with current Prime Minister Theresa May, whose husband manages a hedge fund. Those with a strong stomach can imagine the pillow talk.
Early December 2017 brought the bleak news that Tata steelworkers at Port Talbot are on the receiving end of a massive pension rip-off.
As part of Tata’s restructuring before the proposed joint venture with Thyssenkrupp, the liabilities in the British Steel Pension Scheme were effectively dumped, with the permission of the government.
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