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Why we should all be talking about the cost-of-living crisis
Energy price rises and profiteering threaten the quality of life for millions as the result of clear injustice and inequality. The labour movement must point a way out of this debacle, writes GMB leader GARY SMITH
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
IT WASN’T meant to be this way. The promise of monetarism was always the creation of wealth. It stood for an end to inflation; and the fashioning of a truly free market, without any recourse to government, acting as the generator of exponential surpluses and the guarantor of rising living standards.
The privatisation of state assets — literally, the former commonly held wealth of the nation — was championed as removing class barriers and breathing life into a new share-owning democracy, whereby individual citizens could benefit from, and participate in, the acquisition and growth of capital.
The reality was very different. We see its savage harvest in growing inequality: in children going to school hungry; in the creation of an underclass; the gutting of the professions; and the deskilling of the industrial workforce.
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