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Inequality

Sunak budget climate change

Diane Abbott MP: ‘Sunak is another Tory chancellor playing the role of Robin Hood in reverse’

Diane Abbott
28 October, 2021

‘The Resolution Foundation put it succinctly, ‘On taxes, by 2027 average households will be paying £3,000 more in taxes than when Boris Johnson became Prime Minister.’

Radical Roundup

Radical Roundup: 10 stories that have got buried – Week 4, October 2021

Basit Mahmood
27 October, 2021

The news you didn’t see this week…

Jon Trickett Covid vaccinations

Jon Trickett: A Wealth Tax is a bold policy but our times call for nothing less

Jon Trickett
27 October, 2021

‘In Britain we tax income rather than wealth. This no longer makes sense in our day and age, if it ever did’. 

Jeremy Corbyn speaking on climate change

Jeremy Corbyn: We need radical change to fix our destructive political and economic system before it’s too late

Jeremy Corbyn
22 October, 2021

‘Our crises of climate, inequality, the Covid 19 pandemic and democracy are all linked, and all require radical solutions that put people and planet before the interests of the multinational profiteers’

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Radical Roundup: 10 stories that have got buried – Week 3, October 2021

Basit Mahmood
20 October, 2021

The news you didn’t see this week…

Prof Prem Sikka: The government’s claims of not being able to lift retirees out of poverty are not credible

Prem Sikka
15 October, 2021

‘Even before the proposed suspension of the triple-lock, 2.1 million retirees (18%), including 1.25 million women, live in poverty compared to 1.6 million (13%) in 2012-13.’

Radical Roundup

Radical Roundup: 10 stories that have got buried – Week 2, October 2021

Basit Mahmood
13 October, 2021

The news you didn’t see this week…

Boris Johnson Tory corruption

5 major crises facing the UK as Boris Johnson jets off to holiday in Spain

Basit Mahmood
11 October, 2021

Industry leaders have warned that factories face closure within days without government help.

Levelling up

Prof Prem Sikka: The government’s obsession with neoliberalism isn’t creating prosperity or happiness

Prem Sikka
8 October, 2021

‘The government could help households by freezing rents, energy and train fare prices. It could eliminate profiteering by bringing vital industries such as gas, water, electricity and railways into public ownership, but that is not on its agenda.’

‘Completely out of touch’: Edwina Currie’s levelling up ‘is working’ comments evoke outcry

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
7 October, 2021

The former Conservative MP’s clash with Gary Neville on GMB went viral, with people rejoicing as Neville ‘destroyed’ Currie in a row on Universal Credit that proves how out of touch the Tories are.

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