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The misery we face is a political choice
The cost of living is 'now the most important concern' for 76 per cent of people in the north-east, but even now the government is not changing its course of cuts and poverty — we must fight back, argues KATE OSBORNE MP
Worrisome parallels to the economic depression in the 1930s persist. Photo shows the Jarrow marchers passing through Lavendon on their way to protest in London.
NICK WRIGHT considers how the isolation of Israel and a new film on the controversial Italian communist leader are creating new reference points for Italy’s left
CARLOS MARTINEZ says Cuba’s achievements in the face of a criminal blockade are startling, but the island’s future if the United States succeeds in crushing it looks bleak
AMNON BROWNFIELD STEIN reports that far-right MPs who mobbed the event organised by Hadash may have helped raise awareness of the brutality of the Israeli right
Born on this day in 1931, the heroic revolutionary faces a dangerous new wave of White House aggression. We must treat his birthday as a rallying cry to resist the illegal siege of Cuba, writes ROGER McKENZIE
RAMZY BAROUD decries the rats of Gaza, the rodent and human type. Both abound as profiteering from tragedy reaches obscene levels
THIS week inflation rose 9 per cent to a 40 year high — and working families and pensioners are paying the price. The cost-of-living crisis deepens week on week and is the biggest threat in a generation to the living standards of the working class in this country.
Yet this government offers no solution — instead their policies will cement inequality across our communities for generations.
Over the last 12 years of Tory rule, we have seen cuts to welfare and public services on top of rhetoric that demonises the poor, divide and rule being the go-to motto of this government, harking back to the idea of a “deserving and undeserving poor.” Just look at the recent rhetoric around hard-working families, people not being able to budget, people not knowing how to cook — anything to put the blame on people rather than accept any responsibility themselves.
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