SOLOMON HUGHES recommends Sunjeev Sahota’s recent novel set in a trade union election campaign for its fresh approach to what unites and divides workers, but wishes the union backdrop was truer to life
Wales has an alternative to Labour’s ‘Austerity 2.0’
Labour is abandoning Port Talbot workers and pursuing more austerity — but Wales has an alternative path, one committed to economic justice and sustainability in the face of rising energy bills, writes LUKE FLETCHER MS
LOST INDUSTRY: The Port Talbot steelworks in 2020
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The media present Starmer as staying out of Trump’s war — but we’re already deeply involved in a conflict that sees the US and Israel kill civilians on a huge scale, argues IAN SINCLAIR
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CHRISTOPHE IMMER of the Morning Star’s German sister paper Junge Welt reports on a Berlin conference on the politics of art and the legacy of Marxist critic Hans Hess
LAST weekend, as Plaid Cymru’s economy spokesperson, I stood before delegates at the SNP’s annual conference in Edinburgh with a clear message: a radical vision is essential to counter Labour’s impending programme of “Austerity 2.0.”
Prime Minister Keir Starmer has already warned us that his government’s first Budget in October will be “painful,” but pain is not inevitable — it’s a choice. Labour has chosen to double down on Osbornomics, embracing a failed economic model that has slashed investment and hollowed out our communities.
Labour is signalling a disturbing alignment with the very forces that have perpetuated inequality and economic decline for over a decade.
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