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‘Osborne’s recovery is built on sand’
Shadow chancellor JOHN MCDONNELL writes exclusively for the Star as Britain braces itself for another year of austerity
ANGUS REID explains the significance of Cuba’s egalitarian in letter and spirit Family Code and the pertinent lessons it holds for democracies anywhere in the world
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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
GEORGE OSBORNE will today unveil another package of cuts. Unless he changes direction from everything he’s done before, they will fall heavily on women, who have so far borne 81 per cent of spending cuts. They will fall on people with disabilities. Disgracefully, 640,000 people face losses of up to £150 a week as a result of changes to the Personal Independence Payment (PIP).
Labour will oppose these Tory cuts. We will oppose them today, and we will oppose them every step of the way in Parliament. We will not allow the failures of Osborne’s economic programme to be carried by those least able to bear them.
He has failed every test he set himself. The fiscal deficit is not closed. Government debt has skyrocketed under his watch. Business investment slumped at the end of last year, whilst government investment is scheduled to dwindle over the course of the Parliament.
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