While international actors discuss governance and reconstruction, Netanyahu has made it clear that Israel has no intention of ending its military occupation, says RAMZY BAROUD
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Driving down living standards is official policy, along with preaching to workers they must not demand better. In fact, only strikes and resistance will restore economic balance, writes MICHAEL BURKE
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Treating the Clacton by-election as a joke risks reinforcing the Reform leader’s claim to be the victim of an out-of-touch Establishment, argues JOHN McINALLY
MPs and others called for the urgent release of tortured Palestinian doctor, Hussam Abu Safiya, held hostage by Israel and reportedly near death, reports LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
THE chief economist for the Bank of England has let the cat out of the bag. Huw Pill (estimated salary £190,000) has told us that we should all accept we are poorer and stop trying to fight for wages that at least match inflation.
This is the official policy, from the government and the central bank — workers and the poor should pay the price for getting the economy out of its crisis. This is their strategy.
In Pill’s words, “What we’re facing now is that reluctance to accept that, yes, we’re all worse off and we all have to take our share; to try and pass that cost onto one of our compatriots and saying: ‘We’ll be all right, but they will have to take our share too’.”
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