In the wake of his recent humanitarian visit to Cuba, RICHARD BURGON points to the now urgent need to defend the island’s political sovereignty and its right to self-determination
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Britain 2015: welcome to dead-end street
KRYSTYNA BOSWELL lost her home and her health amid the destructive poverty promoted by a remote neoliberal elite. Here she tells her personal story
Thousands of jobs are at risk across higher education, yet government funding appears only when universities can be linked to military objectives, says JO GRADY, in the run-up to the Stop the War International Conference this Saturday
The Wye, Usk, Arrow and Lugg were once treasured for their clean waters – today, pollution and corporate excess are fuelling demands for a return to public ownership, says MARK SEDDON
The new Employment Rights Act is a step forward, but restoring collective bargaining and union power remains essential to tackling insecurity, outsourcing and low pay, says PAUL WHITEHOUSE
Rising support for Farage’s party reflects Labour’s failure to defend working-class living standards or offer a credible alternative to neoliberal decline, says JOSEPH MILLS
Trade unionists are mobilising to support Cuban workers and public services, amid escalating US pressure on the socialist island. RONAN OGILVY explains
THE latest unemployment figures stand at 1.8 million, according to ONS figures revealed on March 18. The naive and privileged may think this is a reason to be cheerful, but the truth is very different. Unemployment figures have been manipulated for years to show what the government of the day wants the people to believe.
While the Tories and their supporters shout loudly about how the economy is in recovery and we are all doing very nicely, thank you, there is a bigger, generally silent and silenced voice that tells the painful truth of Britain in 2015.
The government would have us believe that the British economy is back on its feet and that we are all enjoying regular shopping sprees, second homes and new cars on the drives of our nice suburban mortgaged homes — well, apart from those few idle layabouts who live on the dole and don’t want to work.
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