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De-banking - a new form of censorship A NEW and insidious form of censorship and infringement of democratic rights is happening before our eyes, but few will have heard about it. It’s called “de-banking.” It involves the closure of bank a...

De-banking - a new form of censorship - JOHN GREEN argues that the spreading practice of closing bank account without proof of criminality is an infringement of an elementary human right
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Mobilise and protest against war on Iran! IT IS now the time to mobilise and protest, demanding the end of the massacre and bloodshed!While the imperialist aggression of the USA and Israel is completing one week of heavy bombing against Iran,...

Mobilise and protest against war on Iran! - A call from the World Peace Council to the peace movements of the world
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Minab’s 165 murdered schoolgirls: the silence that exposes Western moral selectivity IN AN era when images can circle the globe in seconds, and newsrooms claim to uphold universal humanitarian principles, one might expect the killing of 165 children inside a primary school to dominate...

Minab’s 165 murdered schoolgirls: the silence that exposes Western moral selectivity - DR HANA SAADA asks why a war crime against innocent children on this scale does not dominate the world’s coverage of the US-Israeli war on Iran
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Energy prices set to soar AS OIL and gas prices soar in Britain as a result of the illegal attacks on Iran by the US and Israel, two domestic energy projects are stumbling forward with new delays and ever-escalating costs.The ...

Energy prices set to soar - Oil and gas prices are rising due to the illegal war against Iran, but new nuclear power plants will only make things worse as their costs also escalate, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
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‘We're here to make politics bolder’ WELSH GREEN leader Anthony Slaughter is an unusual politician because he has not studied a politics degree, been a political researcher, nor is he a lawyer.Slaughter used to work as a gardener until r...

‘We're here to make politics bolder’ - In the second of a series of interviews with leaders of progressive parties in Wales ahead of the May 7 Senedd election DAVID NICHOLSON talks to Welsh Green Party leader Anthony Slaughter
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Global Counsel fallout: Labour ministers caught in influence web WHAT did Labour ministers and advisers talk about with Global Counsel, before Peter Mandelson’s lobbying firm collapsed in scandal? I have some answers shown in recently released government documents.

SOLOMON HUGHES uncovers government documents showing hidden dinners and meetings between Labour figures and disgraced Peter Mandelson’s lobbying firm, which collapsed after links to Epstein and sleazy influence operations came to light
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We already have inertia. The Chancellor should not add to it THERE should be the equivalent of the Hippocratic oath for chancellors. It might have saved a lot of pain over the last 15 years, given the damage that austerity has done over the period.This seems to...

We already have inertia. The Chancellor should not add to it - With private investment weak and public infrastructure crumbling, the Spring Statement offered little to revive a stagnating economy, writes MICHAEL BURKE
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Diversion, destruction and the drift to war WE ARE in a time of Wag the Dog on super-strong steroids.Wag the Dog is a film from 1997 starring Robert De Niro, Dustin Hoffman and Woody Harrelson, among others. I don’t remember actually ever seein...

Diversion, destruction and the drift to war - Like the president in Wag the Dog, Donald Trump faces scandal at home and turns to conflict abroad. But the conflict with Iran risks igniting a regional inferno with global consequences, warns ROGER McKENZIE
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Refounding the BBC as a genuinely public institution IN DECEMBER last year, a supposedly public consultation began with a curious lack of publicity. This was government’s launch of the review of the BBC’s Royal Charter. The Charter is renewed on a perio...

Refounding the BBC as a genuinely public institution - As the government quietly begins reviewing the BBC’s Royal Charter, the moment should be seized to refound the corporation as a truly democratic, regionally rooted public service, writes PAUL W FLEMING
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Women workers won’t settle for less INTERNATIONAL Women’s Day and the TUC Women’s Conference are opportunities for women in the labour movement to come together and discuss the challenges ahead for working-class women. Women make u...

Women workers won’t settle for less - As women dominate public services yet face pay gaps, unsafe workloads and rising misogyny, this International Women’s Day and TUC Women’s Conference must be a rallying point, says ANDREA EGAN
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Manufacturing war, paying the price THE illegal attack by Israel and the United States on Iran on Saturday February 28, while the country was engaged in diplomatic talks with Washington, was absolutely and utterly shocking.Not merely be...

Manufacturing war, paying the price - History shows from Iraq to Libya, and now Iran, that regime-change fantasies rarely deliver stability — but they always deliver human and economic cost, says MARYAM ESLAMDOUST
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A matter of life and death AS THE political parties put the finishing touches to their manifestos there has never been a time when Scotland’s communities have been so desperate for radical change.In every area of public policy ...

A matter of life and death - Scotland’s deepening crises expose the human cost of political complacency — and the toll it is taking on working-class communities, says NEIL FINDLAY
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A war that cannot be won HAVING just formed the “Board of Peace,” the United States and Israel have begun the board’s first war, this time on Iran. The US-Israel attack launched early on February 28, on sites in Iran has alre...

A war that cannot be won - The US-Israeli strikes against Iran are part of a decades-long war against the Islamic Republic which has refused to bow to US demands that it surrender its sovereignty, argues VIJAY PRASHAD
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Challenging Liverpool cuts with a radical alternative budget AMID Liverpool City Council’s plans for over £56 million in spending cuts and another 4.99 per cent council tax rise (Liverpool Echo, February 22) the Liverpool Trade Union Council (LTUC) on Saturday ...

Challenging Liverpool cuts with a radical alternative budget - Liverpool Trades Council has unveiled a ‘People’s Budget’ to fight £56m cuts and council tax rises. DEAN YOUNG reports
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General Strike 100 – March overview General Strike 100 is a national partnership of museums, libraries, archives and local history groups to commemorate the 1926 General Strike. Search the interactive website here: generalstrike100.com....

General Strike 100 – March overview
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Remembering the first ever Labour PM anywhere ASK who was the first Scottish Labour prime minister and many will name the disgraced Ramsay Macdonald. But the first Scot to serve as a Labour prime minister was Andrew Fisher from Crosshouse, near K...

Remembering the first ever Labour PM anywhere - KENNY MacASKILL reminds us of the unprecedented political career of a Scottish miner’s militant son who stayed the course and true to his roots
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Smear, fear and the myth of ‘nowhere else to go’ THERE’S a long drive ahead tonight, but it’ll be worth it. At the other end of the road is Manchester and my daughter who upped sticks when the first opportunity arose — not that I blame her.Still, sh...

Labour’s by-election defeat tells a story Scotland has known since 2008. A party that assumes loyalty while offering little more than managed decline will eventually discover that voters always have somewhere else to turn, says MATT KERR
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Plaid Cymru works with workers and their unions, not around them MANY will remember the strike waves of 2023. Across Britain, hundreds of thousands of workers took co-ordinated industrial action on a scale not seen for decades.Teachers, nurses, ambulance staff, civ...

Plaid Cymru works with workers and their unions, not around them - LUKE FLETCHER outlines Plaid Cymru bold plans for wide-ranging policy consultations with trade unions in Wales
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An example that will last forevermore ON SATURDAY February 14 2026, in Stockton, in collaboration with our colleagues in Germany, Italy and Spain, and with the support of The Olive Branch pub in Stockton-on-Tees, we marked the anniversary...

An example that will last forevermore - TONY FOX reports from a commemoration of the legendary Battle of Jarama in which four Stockton-on-Tees volunteers fell
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Britain’s unstable political order AS WE celebrate the publication this week in 1848 of the Manifesto of the Communist Party, we can imagine that Peter Mandelson, Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor and Morgan McSweeney are contemplating the li...

With our ruling class struggling to secure a new vehicle for power and the disintegration of the traditional party system, a volatile new chapter is opening, sharpened by war, austerity and electoral distortion, argues NICK WRIGHT
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The decapitation that failed: Venezuela after the abduction of Maduro THE kidnapping of a sitting head of state marks a grave escalation in US-Venezuela relations. By seizing Venezuela’s constitutional president, Washington signalled both its disregard for international...

Washington’s unprecedented capture of the Venezuelan president was meant to demonstrate US power — but instead it has galvanised the Bolivarian movement and exposed the limits of the regime change agenda, argue ROGER D HARRIS and JOHN PERRY
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Exposing the rot in Britain’s water industry THE Channel 4 drama Dirty Business lays out for all to see the disgraceful state of our waterways, courtesy of the privately run water companies.The drama charts the struggle of two men, Peter Hammond...

Exposing the rot in Britain’s water industry - Channel 4’s Dirty Business shows why private companies cannot be trusted with vital services like water, says PAUL DONOVAN
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Mandelson and New Labour: the end of the affair CHANNEL 4 aired a three-part documentary, The Tony Blair Story, in mid-February. It was a history of the present back to the 1980s, albeit other histories are available.One person, close to Blair, who...

Mandelson and New Labour: the end of the affair - KEITH FLETT highlights the inimical role of the strategist who helped shape Tony Blair’s ascent and whose political blueprint continues to echo in the era of Keir Starmer
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Codir warns against imperialist war and calls for solidarity with the people of Iran THE Committee for the Defence of Iranian People’s Rights (Codir) reiterates its call for solidarity with the people of Iran and warns of the consequences of failure in current talks in Geneva between ...

Codir warns against imperialist war and calls for solidarity with the people of Iran
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India’s workers made industrial history. So where was the noise? THERE is an old trade union proverb, forged in the coalfields of Bengal and borrowed by every liberation movement since: the boss needs the worker, but the worker does not need the boss. On February 1...

India’s workers made industrial history. So where was the noise? - The biggest strike in global history is a template for our future. The silence tells you all you need to know, writes CLAUDIA WEBBE
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What does generative AI mean for science? IN FEBRUARY 2026, a team of four theoretical physicists published a paper on the non-peer-reviewed repository site arxiv, along with a co-author Kevin Weil.Weil is a product manager at OpenAI and was ...

What does generative AI mean for science? - Does widespread and uncontrolled use of AI change our relationship with scientific meaning? Or with each other? ask ROX MIDDLETON, LIAM SHAW and MIRIAM GAUNTLETT
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Spain’s Popular Front at 90: The anti-fascist struggle that changed the world NINETY years ago, the people of Spain delivered a forceful rebuke to right-wing extremism and opened one of the most dramatic chapters in working-class history. The election victory on February 16 193...

Spain’s Popular Front at 90: The anti-fascist struggle that changed the world - CJ ATKINS commemorates one of the most dramatic moments in working-class history
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What lies in store for Scotland? IN THIS increasingly uncertain political landscape, many eyes are looking over the horizon to the May elections in Scotland, and of course to Wales and some English councils.Before the horizon appears...

What lies in store for Scotland? - Uninspiring politics, weak leaders and party infighting could leave Scottish voters out in the cold come May, warns LYNN HENDERSON
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The US is clear - it wants to make empire great again WELL at least they are honest about it! Colonialism is back but this time on steroids.The truth is, of course, that colonialism never disappeared. There was simply a change of costume — an only half-h...

The US is clear - it wants to make empire great again - Rubio's disturbing speech in Munich exposed the West's brutal plans — more imperialism, more colonialism, more white supremacy, says ROGER McKENZIE
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Drive to war aims to restore US global hegemony BRITISH prime minister Winston Churchill commissioned the development of “Operation Unthinkable” as early as May 1945. The British General Staff was instructed to devise a plan for an attack on the So...

Drive to war aims to restore US global hegemony - Marco Rubio views 1945 as a defeat for the West, wants to revise the post-war order, while German ministers lead the standing ovation. SEVIM DAGDELEN reports
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