Budget shortfalls can be solved without major spending cuts, but Labour’s economic strategy is driven by electoral concerns
Labour embraces austerity to outflank the Tories
Tag: Austerity
Fourteen years of suffering
As this Tory government comes to an end, it should be remembered for the torment it has caused.
General strike: Argentina in slow motion
On Thursday, unions held a second general strike against far-right President Javier Milei’s “adjustment policies” and austerity.
Why the abuse of benefit claimants is hurting all workers
“I would have quit this job months ago, but I’d be sanctioned by the Jobcentre”.
Get Boris done in
This text first appeared in the newly released Class War magazine.
Time for artists’ Mutual Aid?
The following is the first text contributed to Freedom’s new Art & Anarchy column.
Domestic murder and migration
In October the UK’s domestic murder rate reached a five-year high.
Review: Skint Estate
Women like me: Carraway’s memoir of poverty, motherhood and survival is “the most important book on the impacts of austerity I have ever read”, writes Rowan Tallis Milligan.
The Tory legacy: a lost decade and over 130,000 deaths through austerity
Since 2001 around 100 people have been killed by terrorists in the UK.
The British general election of 2019 finally begins
As mentioned in a recent column and throughout Brexit, the divisions in the UK on membership of the European Union is a Conservative Party issue that the public was invited to get itself embroiled in.
Recent Articles
Nantes: 4,000 on the streets for Bloquons Tout
French police directed the demonstration with flash grenades and tear gas ~ from Contre Attaque ~ Saturday, 13 September, a rainy day in Nantes.
Facing down the flagshaggers
To resist normalisation, we need enduring groundwork with attacked communities—and spaces for open strategising ~ Blade Runner ~ On Saturday 13 September, between 110,000 and 150,000 turned out in response to Tommy Robinson’s call, a mobilisation framed as a defence of “free speech” but saturated with white nationalist, Islamophobic and anti-migrant rhetoric.
London arms fair disruption: A stark contrast to mass arrests for Palestine
Well-coordinated direct action catches the police off guard, showing the power of secure and strategic organising ~ Kevin Blowe ~ On 9 September, at around 7.30 in the morning, an advance bloc of about 150 protesters, their faces covered, suddenly appeared by London City Hall in east London, near to where Britain’s largest arms fair,
Anarchist prisoner released from Belarus
The regime deported 52 political prisoners in exchange for sanctions relief ~ Nikita Ivansky ~ Anarchist Nikolai (Mikola) Dziadok was among 52 political prisoners released and deported from Belarus to Lithuania on 11 September, following negotiations between dictator Alexander Lukashenko and US envoy John Colae.
