CATEGORIES

Fight For Free education!

Kick Out the Tories 

NHS Boost To Chatsworth Campaign

Campaigners fighting to save Chatsworth neuro-rehabilitation ward in Mansfield have been encouraged by two recent developments.

Retail Sector Crunch: Nationalise To Save Jobs

Retail Sector Crunch: Nationalise To Save Jobs

Two In Five 'Right To Buy' Homes Now For Let

- Scrap Thatcher’s right to buy- Build council homes now

Trump Reignites Israel-palestine Conflict

Capitalism incapable of solving the national question

Strikers Rally In Liverpool

Strikers Rally In Liverpool

Fight Like Poplar's Women Councillors To Change The Lives Of Family Carers

Looking at the history of the Poplar councillors, imprisoned in 1921 for fighting the Tory government’s appalling conditions, it struck me that I have only come across two real-life “Minnies”.

Debates On Building The Anti-trump Movement

Protest has been a major feature of the first months of 2017. On 21 January, the day after Donald Trump’s inauguration, a five million-strong surge of resistance exploded on to the streets of 673 cities and towns worldwide. And thousands have marched and protested since.

‘Anti-union Law' Charges Against Sheffield Trees Protesters Dropped

Labour-run  Sheffield  coun-cil is almost five years into a 25-year, £2.2 billion, Private Finance Initiative (PFI) contract with a multinational company called Amey, to maintain our streets and pavements. 

Struggling to Care Against a Backcloth of Cuts

The following is an account of years of struggle by parents of a disabled child to secure the proper resources to meet their daughter’s needs. A situation made more difficult by draconian cuts in funding local services.

Historic Demonstration in Barcelona in Support of Refugees

On 18 February, Barcelona held the biggest demonstration in Europe in support of refugees under the slogan “Volem acollir” (we want to welcome them). 

No More Excuses: Fit Sprinklers Now!

BILL THE GOVERNMENT, NOT THE RESIDENTSPUBLISH ALL BLOCK SAFETY ASSESSMENTS

Gentrification On The Terraces: Fans Say Twenty's Plenty

Football ticket prices still remain prohibitive, especially for young fans, according to the BBC’s annual Price of Football report.

BIFAB Workers' Occupation And March Secures Jobs And Pay Guarantee

Workers at the three threatened Burntisland Fabrications - BiFab - yards in Fife have won a guarantee that their jobs and wages will be secured, at least until April 2018. Action by workers and the GMB and Unite trade unions has delivered this important breakthrough.

After The Budget - Unions Must Launch Pay Fight

After The Budget - Unions Must Launch Pay Fight

Tory Housing Policy: Build Zilch, Hike Prices

Tory Housing Policy: Build Zilch, Hike Prices

North West: Drivers' And Housing Workers' Strike Wave Escalates

North West: Drivers' And Housing Workers' Strike Wave Escalates

Failing Academy Chain Strips School Assets End Academisation!

In businesses when cuts are made, they sell off their facilities and equipment in the interest of maintaining profits. Now that’s what’s happening with our schools.

Royal Mail Forced Back Under Threat Of Action But Keep The Pressure On

Secretary CWU Scotland No.2 branch

Mcdonnell Says Labour Would Put Services 'Irreversibly' In Workers' Hands

Ted Mooney Liverpool Socialist Party

Corbyn's Positive Measures Blanked By Labour's Right

A standing ovation greeted Jeremy Corbin’s pledges on housing at Labour’s conference: to stop ‘social cleansing’ regeneration schemes and give residents a vote on regeneration proposals; to build more council homes and to control rents.

Robber Bosses Own $6TRN

Salford Socialist Party

300,000 A Year Forced To Leave Work

Unions must fight workplace mental health crisis

Theatre: The Cherry Orchard Welsh Update Of Chekhov An Engrossing Tale Of 1980s Class Conflict

The Cherry Orchard is set in Pembrokeshire, Wales, in 1982. Yes, that’s right. It’s a modern retelling of the original written by Anton Chekhov just before the first Russian revolution in 1905. And it’s brilliant.

Resist Trump and His Rotten Policies

Why I’m walking out on ‘Day X’

Council Cuts Can Be Fought and They Must Be

Councils set budgets amid 40% cut.

Non-fiction Review: Lenin On The Train

Tense, lively prologue to events which changed the world.

Syria: Is An End To The War In Sight?

The military victory in Aleppo by Assad’s regime and its foreign backers was a turning point in the war in Syria. It has put the Syrian government once more in formal control of the country’s main urban centres. Serge Jordan of the Committee for a Workers’ International (CWI) examines if this is the prelude to a broader peace settlement that could end the horrors inflicted on the Syrian people.

GIG Economy Exploiter Uber Loses London Licence

GIG Economy Exploiter Uber Loses London Licence

Usdaw Elections Announced

Fight For A Left LeadershipVote For Amy Murphy