A political tragedy: Myanmar’s earthquake and the junta With crematoriums overflowing and rescue workers blocked from reaching hardest-hit regions, the junta is prioritising staying in power over human lives by obstructing aid and waging war, reports EWAN CAMERON
Tuesday 01st Apr 2025 Will Chinese pandas be next for deportation? Bizarrely, Trump’s latest attacks now include the National Zoo, but his real and racist agenda is to strip everything black from the country’s cultural institutions, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
Tuesday 01st Apr 2025 On the streets in Argentina, the rebellion grows After brutal police crackdowns on pensioners and the forced approval of secret IMF deals, trade unions are finally responding to grassroots pressure and fighting back against savage neoliberal reforms, reports BERT SCHOUWENBURG
Monday 31st Mar 2025 Iran: pressure mounts from outside and within As tensions rise in the Middle East, the role of Iran in the region’s political balance becomes ever more significant. STEVE BISHOP assesses the current situation
Monday 31st Mar 2025 When Labour chose austerity: the 1976 IMF crisis Facing economic turmoil, Jim Callaghan’s government rejected Tony Benn’s alternative economic strategy in favour of cuts that paved the way for Thatcherism — and the cuts-loving Labour of the present era, writes KEITH FLETT
Monday 31st Mar 2025 False economies in Labour’s Budget The economic value of disability benefits far outweighs their cost, argues Dr DYLAN MURPHY
Saturday 29th Mar 2025 Labour denies it, but Reeves has brought back austerity While slashing welfare and public services, Labour’s spring statement delivers a bonanza for death-dealing bomb merchants. We now see the true and terrible face of austerity 2.0, writes MICHAEL BURKE
Saturday 29th Mar 2025 Women prove their worth In the third extract from her new memoir, former NUM headquarters staffer HILARY CAVE recounts how women throughout the striking coalfields showed their mettle when the going got tough
Saturday 29th Mar 2025 How the media sows ignorance and confusion about the war in Ukraine Detailing the deluge of delusion and dishonesty pushed by the pro-war camp, IAN SINCLAIR identifies four key tactics corporate journalists use to confuse audiences and suppress opposition to the proxy war in the east
Saturday 29th Mar 2025 Aw That Welfare state or warfare state? From ‘moral duty’ to ‘military Keynesianism,’ Labour manipulates language to justify slashing welfare but pouring billions into warfare, condemning communities like Glasgow South West to deeper poverty, writes MATT KERR
Saturday 29th Mar 2025 Deportation as a business model Under Trump, the hunt for migrants has reopened — resulting in a mass deportation of innocent Venezuelans to a notorious mega-prison in El Salvador. MARC VANDEPITTE tells the story of 24-year-old barber Francisco Casique whose tattoos and country of origin were enough to make him disappear behind bars without trial
