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A £1 tourist tax could help mitigate the cuts
Fundamental political change at Holyrood and Westminster is needed to save local services, but a modest proposal from trade unions could help keep the wolf from the door in the meantime, says JOHN STEVENSON
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
DESPITE all the campaigning, it can still be hard to convince people just how savage local government cuts have been in Scotland.
You can try giving them the figures. Nine out of 10 austerity job losses have been in councils. Despite Holyrood getting a £180 million budget increase from Westminster, councils in Scotland will get nothing this year.
Even a 3 per cent increase in the council tax is a £135m real-terms cut, even with the lowest inflation projection. Councils estimate they need an extra £545m to stand still without even starting to repair the damage done by the years of silent slaughter of local services.
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