Mask-off outbursts by Maga insiders and most strikingly, the destruction and reconstruction of the presidential seat, with a huge new $300m ballroom, means Trump isn’t planning to leave the White House when his term ends, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
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Solidarity with BA workers – their fight affects us all
RICHARD BURGON MP argues that we need to fight to stop BA’s attacks on workers’ pay and conditions becoming a blueprint for the whole economy
BA plans to fire its 42,000 staff and rehire them on inferior contracts
BEN CHACKO speaks with Knesset member OFER CASSIF about rising political violence, the prospects for peace and his continuous ‘silencing by suspension’
The City is leaning on Rachel Reeves to cut welfare spending — when what’s needed is cuts to all the benefits given to the mega rich, corporations and banks to help them not pay or blatantly dodge their fair share of tax, explains BERNIE EVANS
The choice between two Blairites to revamp the tepid centrism of our ruling party doesn’t even come as cold comfort as we wander the city streets suffering from their third decade of austerity and the fifth of wage stagnation, writes MATT KERR
ANN HENDERSON looks at the trailblazers of the Women’s Trade Union League and their successful fight for female factory inspectors — a battle that echoes in today’s workplace campaigns
HENRY FOWLER puts the strike of public-sector workers in New Zealand in the wider context of deteriorating employment conditions throughout the world’s major economies
MAT COWARD looks back at a protest 105 years ago this month, whose reporting by the media bears uncomfortable similarities with demos today
AN economic crisis is on its way that will not only be far greater than the global banking crisis of 2008 but one that many experts fear could be comparable with the Great Depression of the 1930s.
In that context, in the best traditions of the shock doctrine of disaster capitalism, there will be some in the economic and political establishment who see an opportunity to reshape and rebalance things even further in their favour.
In the world of work this will mean attacks on jobs, pay and terms and conditions, hitting working-class living standards hard.
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