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Kids, cuts, knives, and crime
The link between the rise in knife crime and austerity is undeniable, writes MEGAN BIRCHALL
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
WITH spending on youth services, mental health services and policing all cut, knife crime has become an epidemic, with people — especially teens — desperately carrying knives for their own protection on unsafe, unpoliced streets.
How many lives have to be lost before we can say austerity doesn’t work? Cuts to schools and youth services are preventing the early intervention for those who might not have fallen into the habit of carrying knives had there been some system in place to support them.
Those aged 10-17 now make up more than 20 per cent of those charged with possession of a knife or offensive weapon. Do we not stop and question how this can possibly be, given how small of an age range this is? What would happen to this number if we raised the age to 21, or 25 even? It’s possible that it could make this group the largest number of offenders.
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