Attention has rightly focused on the budget this week. But in the background the Tories are steadily dismantling state education.
Tory prime minister David Cameron says the government’s austerity budget will "change our way of life". It won’t change the life of a millionaire like him in the slightest, of course, but for millions of workers it means a swathe of attacks.
Labour MPs, bullied and intimidated by the bureaucracy, have succeeded in keeping John McDonnell off the ballot paper for the Labour leadership contest.
Bloody Sunday exposes the brutality at the heart of the British state. And if also shows that if anything critical of the state emerges, our rulers will try to convince us that it was an aberration.
THE TORIES and the media peddle a great lie. Cuts are inevitable, they say. The only debate should be about precisely which services get slashed and how many hundreds of thousands of jobs go into the mincer.
It’s a disgrace that so many of the Labour leadership candidates are lining up to attack immigrants.
The Tory/Lib Dem coalition is trying to push through massive cuts, but has a weak political base.
The Israeli state carefully planned its latest butchery—then produced a predictable, if farcical, level of lies to justify its murderous assault on the Freedom Flotilla. The brutality is not surprising.
The crisis that nearly led to the collapse of the Euro underlines the fragility of the economic system. The eurozone states have put up 500 billion euros to bail out crisis-ridden economies.
Two boys, aged just 10 and 11, were found guilty of attempted rape last week.
The pretence is over. All the main parties spent the election campaign carefully avoiding any talk of their plans for massive cuts to public spending.
The British working class has repeatedly faced attempts to smother effective trade union action—and we seeing another now.
