Israel’s recognition of Somaliland has little to do with self-determination and far more to do with strategy, offering Israel a potential military foothold near Yemen, says JE ROSENBERG
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It’s time to go
Tory failure to address the most pressing needs of the economy and society makes them unfit for office, writes KEN LIVINGSTONE
Statement of the Tudeh Party of Iran
From Chartists and Suffragettes to Irish republicans and today’s Palestine activists, the treatment of hunger strikers exposes a consistent pattern in how the British state represses those it deems political prisoners, says KEITH FLETT
In the aftermath of the illegal US operation against Venezuela, a deliberate misinformation campaign has been waged to sow doubt about the survival of the country’s revolution, warns MANOLO DE LOS SANTOS
A statement from the Parti Communiste Francais
ANSELM ELDERGILL examines our laws concerning the treatment of animals and their rights
BEHIND the bad jokes, gimmicks and rather meagre “giveaways” in this week’s Budget, the main story was a substantial downgrading of growth forecasts in a situation where economic growth is already currently the lowest it has been since the Tories came into office and the slowest of the major economies in the G7.
Forecasts for wages and productivity have also been downgraded as have levels of business investment.
As the economist Larry Elliott put it, “the real story was not the latest attempt to boost home ownership but the news from the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) on the state of the economy. This was little short of calamitous.”
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