Owen Jones: Austerity kills: this week’s figures show its devastating toll

“We bluster, we threaten, we menace, we sanction, we send the Marines, we bomb,” says Chas Freeman, a veteran U.S. diplomat, “but we don’t ever use the arts of persuasion.” Freeman was principal interpreter for […]

Cleaning workers faced grave uncertainty when a company sued the Maltese government for awarding a public tender based on having a collective bargaining agreement. UNI Europa warns that the threat of legal action is having […]

The Greens have crashed brutally in the European elections. In Germany, their share of the vote has almost halved and in France, at 5 per cent, it has even fallen to almost a third of […]