Tory cuts
On Legal Aid, the government’s sums don’t add up
The Tory-led government is planning a major reduction in the scope and availability of Legal Aid, writes shadow justice minister Andy Slaughter MP.
Tory right, obsessed with cuts, still deaf to the lessons of the thirties
The Tory right, obsessed with shrinking the state, appears entirely deaf to the lessons of the US in 1937, or of Greece and Ireland today, writes George Irvin.
Left has a difficult job to create an alternative but is winning the argument
The overwhelming consensus among panellists and delegates at today's Netroots conference is that the Left is winning many of the debates about spending cuts.
New anti-cuts campaign launched
A new anti-cuts campaign website, False Economy, launched today, backed by the TUC.