Israel continues to operate with impunity in what seems to be a brutal and protracted experiment, while much of the world looks on, says RAMZY BAROUD
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Why has Westminster government austerity been waved through without dissent?
ADAM JOHANNES, a People’s Assembly Wales activist, poses some difficult questions about the reactions to budget cuts in Wales
Graffiti in Port Talbot, Wales
A new report by Amnesty International pulls no punches in highlighting the Labour government’s human rights violations of those on benefits, says Dr DYLAN MURPHY
With Reform UK surging and Labour determined not to offer anything different from the status quo, a clear opportunity opens for the left, argues CLAUDIA WEBBE
A recent Immigration Summit heard from Lord Alf Dubs, who fled the Nazis to Britain as a child. JAYDEE SEAFORTH reports on his message that we need to increase public empathy with desperate people seeking asylum
By sticking together, working collectively and building the union, we can weather any uncertainty ahead, writes general secretary of Usdaw PADDY LILLIS
The announcement of a Women’s Justice Board should be cautiously welcomed, writes SABINA PRICE, but we need to see a recognition that our prison system is in crisis and disproportionately punishes some of the most vulnerable people in society
Cuba Solidarity Campaign secretary BERNARD REGAN says the inhuman blockade of Cuba not only continues, but the Donald Trump administration is ratcheting up aggression against both Havana and Latin America more widely
WE FACE a crisis of political leadership in Wales. A hurricane has passed through the global economic system following the 2008 crash, the pandemic, and now the cost-of-living crisis, but our politicians failed to organise communities, trade unions, and social movements in mass opposition to austerity.
Wales has the highest rates of poverty and low pay in the UK, yet there are Welsh government ministers and senior councillors in Wales who have never ever supported a single strike or ever stood on a picket line with workers fighting for better wages.
Meanwhile there has been a Tory ideological project to shrink the local state to its bare bones by systematically withholding the funding needed to provide the local services considered normal in post-war Britain, so as to force cuts, privatisation and outsourcing.
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The first Budget of the Labour government falls far short of addressing Wales’s needs, maintaining austerity-era policies while providing inadequate funding for critical services and infrastructure, writes LUKE FLETCHER MS