They say cutback, we say… what?
12 September 2015Posted by AFed
It’s now six years since David Cameron said that a new Tory government would usher in “a new age of austerity.” This article looks at what this means and how groups and communities are fighting back against austerity in ways both more imaginative and more fruitful than a Saturday afternoon march with a speech by Jeremy Corbyn at the end.
The Budget: We Pay for Their Crisis
12 May 2009Posted by AFed
Like the one before it, April’s budget has had the right-wing media seeing ‘socialism’ coming out of the walls. For the Economist (25/4/09), it’s “bash the rich” populism, with “soak the rich tax increases” punishing not just the 1-2% of the population affected by them, but everyone else who “aspires” to wealth (but will never see it).
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