“Business as usual, politics as usual is not going to get us out of this horrendous mess. We need system change.”
George Monbiot.
The tragedy of our times is that the gathering collapse of our life support systems has coincided with the age of public disservice. Just as we need to rise above self-interest and short-termism, governments around the world now represent the meanest and dirtiest of special interests. In the United Kingdom, the US, Brazil, Australia and many other nations, pollutocrats rule.
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Is Starmer repeating the mistakes the led to the 2007 financial crash? Labour seeks to cut regulation to encourage growth, but Ruth MacKenzie and Simon Hannah argue that this is a dangerous approach. - ‘Even silence is viewed as dissent’: An interview with Russian trade unionist Pavel Kudyukin
Pavel Kudyukin is co-chair of the University Solidarity trade union and a member of the Council of the Confederation of Labour of Russia (KTR). He also served as Russia’ deputy minister of labour (1991-93). In this extensive interview with Federico Fuentes and Serhii Shlyapnikov for LINKS International Journal of Socialist Renewal, Kudyukin talks about the situation of workers and trade unions in Russia and the territories it occupies, and the debate over whether to expel Russian unions from international bodies. Kudyukin also discusses the differing stances among Russian leftists towards Russia’s war on Ukraine, and the campaigns to free political prisoners held in Russian jails. - Downright Nasty and Dangerous Reforms from the Labour Party
On Tuesday 18 March, the government announced its well -trailed attacks on disabled people. If they hoped that the fact they dropped the suggestion of freezing PIP levels would placate disabled campaigners they were very mistaken. Gail Ward looks at the main elements of the Green Paper.