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Freeports are a neoliberal nightmare
The proposals to build deregulated free-trade zones – where workers’ rights and the taxman are kept out – are completely unacceptable, writes Plaid Cymru economy spokesperson LUKE FLETCHER MS
A view of the construction site of Teeside Freeport
LYNNE WALSH previews the Bristol Radical History Conference this weekend
Keir Starmer’s £120 million to Sudan cannot cover the government’s complicity in the RSF genocide or atone for the long shadow of British colonialism and imperialism, writes CLAUDIA WEBBE
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Mountains of research show that hardcore material harms children, yet there are still no simple measures in place
We face austerity, privatisation, and toxic influence. But we are growing, and cannot be beaten
IN the 1980s, it was Coal not Dole — today it’s Enough is Enough. The story of managed decline experienced by working-class communities in Wales hardly needs retelling.
Since Thatcherism wove this fabric of decline into our communities, the term regeneration has cast a very large shadow over Welsh life.
It has by now become part of everyday speech among policy-makers, local councillors, trade unions and social activists, filling pages in newspapers and mouths in conversations.
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