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
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The secret state is the real threat to democracy
DAVE SMITH asks if anyone believes the anti-democratic political policing units will be impartial when Labour wins the next election
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
National co-ordinator for General Strike 100, HENRY FOWLER, continues his nationwide tour of partner organisations by visiting the Modern Records Centre at Warwick University
GEOFF BOTTOMS recalls meeting Fidel Castro in the ’90s after joining a Pastors for Peace caravan to Cuba, and reflects on how international support is still vital to help the island withstand economic warfare
The Ivors Academy’s hike in entry fees could turn this respected peer-assessed event into an exclusive preserve for those wealthy enough to compete, warns BEN LUNN
Peter Murrell’s weakness for the allure of prestige goods is symptomatic of modern consumer culture, says MATT KERR
Anyone attending tonight’s Labour Party fringe meeting on political policing is likely to leave angry after what they hear.
The Special Demonstration Squad (SDS) and National Public Order Intelligence Unit (NPOIU) were not set up to detect crime but to gather intelligence on political activists that the state considers to be undesirable “domestic extremists.”
Undercover officers from these political policing units used the identities of dead babies to create false personas when spying on three generations of campaigners.
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