The basis for 20th-century social democracy in Britain is gone, argues ANDREW MURRAY – but there are measures a Burnham government could take that would break with neoliberalism
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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.
TONY BURKE pays tribute to a dedicated trade unionist and true internationalist who helped organise workers from Britain to Bangladesh
NASUWT leader MATT WRACK says schools are crying out for serious investment — and there are other immediate changes a new prime minister could and should enact
Keir Starmer’s resignation speech seemed to be coming from a different universe, or maybe it was just a fanfaronade of falsehoods, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
Starmer will be judged on his record, but it would be wrong to view him in isolation from the crisis of the British political establishment, says the COMMUNIST PARTY in its official statement on the PM’s resignation
Over 1,000 hostile US sanctions remain in place on Venezuela, while Britain continues its colonial theft of gold, writes MATT WILLGRESS
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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