Green Party deputy leader MOTHIN ALI, who will speak at the International Anti-War Conference in London on June 20, says Britain needs to rethink its priorities – and its allies
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The EU is an enemy of fair taxation
ALEX GORDON explains how the union's treaties enshrine rules to let companies dodge their fair share of tax. It must be challenged
From Global Counsel to Arden, SOLOMON HUGHES finds firms linked to discredited politicians are still calling the shots in Britain
KEVIN COURTNEY explains why Reform UK is no friend to workers or trade unions, but just another party of the super-rich
EMMA DENT COAD explains why she is stepping down from the council after 20 years and how the legacy of the fire still haunts the area
While international attention focuses on ceasefire frameworks, Israel is openly advancing plans for a permanent expansion of its control over Gaza, writes RAMZY BAROUD
Researchers PAUL HOLDEN and JESSICA MURRAY are calling for whistleblowers and documentary records to uncover how Labour Together helped build the parliamentary majority that now dominates the Labour Party
It is a fundamental function of states to levy taxes on economic activities within their borders.
Any government that does not control its own tax policy is not sovereign - it's a historical feature of colonised or subjugated nations that they do not control their own taxation.
The struggle for progressive taxation, taxing income rather than sales, was at the root of the democratic revolutionary movements that emerged in the 18th century. The great republican revolutionary Tom Paine developed and popularised the concept of progressive "income tax."
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