The social base of the old Tory Party has disappeared as surely as that of Labour, argues ANDREW MURRAY – today’s right are the debased offspring of a capitalism that speculates without investing and profits without producing
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Heart and street politics keep privatisation at bay in Stroud
SKEENA RATHOR, RICHARD HOUSE and DAVID LAMBERT describe how the privatisation juggernaut was halted in Stroud through committed street activism and the politics of the heart.
SEVIM DAGDELEN says European Nato states are escalating ever closer to direct conflict with a nuclear power, and sacrificing welfare states built up over a century to finance it
KENNY MacASKILL says the lines between party, government and Civil Service in Scotland have been blurred and we need a thorough investigation into how
IAN SINCLAIR examines the curious memory lapses across liberal media when it comes to British government crimes
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ENRIQUE SANTIAGO ROMERO says the Colombian far-right’s election victory is deeply suspect — and the United States has its fingerprints all over it
History suggests apartheid ends not through appeals to conscience alone but through sustained economic and political pressure, says HUGH LANNING
STANDING proudly at the heart of the far-from-sleepy Cotswold town of Stroud in Gloucestershire is a very beautiful building with an auspicious history reaching right back to the 1830s, a building in which people have collectively danced, sung, laughed and cried, where concerts have moved people to tears, where actors have come alive to their skills, where some of the nations’s most iconic bands have performed, where Stroudies have met the love of their lives and where others have nursed a broken heart. It’s a building which very much belongs (both literally and emotionally) to the people of Stroud — our Subscription Rooms, or Subs Rooms.
Sadly in this age of austere suffering, it was deemed “too expensive” to keep in community hands earlier this year.
In an age of the new Dickensian poverty for so many in our society, it is apparently unnecessary for a council to fund a centre of merriment, entertainment and education.
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