On 25 February, the government website proclaimed ‘Prime Minister sets out biggest sustained increase in defence spending since the Cold War.’

By Dara O’Cogaidhin Young people’s mental health has been deteriorating across Britain, compounded by the cost of living crisis, public spending cuts, and rising inequality. According to the Centre for Mental Health, one in five children and young people aged 8-25 experience mental health difficulties. Today’s young people have the poorest mental health of any […]

By Jeremy Dewar Austerity returned to Lambeth, South London in a big way last month. The right wing clique that has dominated the local Labour Party for decades passed a budget threatening £99 million of cuts by 2029, frontloaded with £50 million coming in the first year. Details have not been fully revealed, but we […]

By KD Tait As the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rachel Reeves, unveiled her spring statement, the echoes of austerity reverberated across the nation. Although wrapped in rhetoric about investment and growth, the proposals unveiled are far from the transformative change this country desperately needs. Instead, they are a continuation of policies that prioritise the wealthiest […]

By Tim Nailsea In her Spring Statement on Wednesday 26 March, Chancellor Rachael Reeves announced a round of vicious cuts to disability benefits. The government is altering the points system for PIP to make it harder for people to claim the benefit. Claimants will have to display ‘greater difficulty’ in completing tasks, with a requirement […]

By Dara O’Cogaidhin Recent polls showing Reform UK ahead of both the Labour government and the Conservative opposition have sent shockwaves through the political establishment. In the general election campaign Reform took most of its votes from disillusioned Tories. But its voting base is now shifting, as it picks up support from disgruntled Labour pundits. […]

Racist myth-making obscures real causes of violence against women and girls.

MPs and activists targeted in major attack on democratic rights.

Trade unions must fight for a planned, universal system, free for all and funded by progressive taxation

Workers Power proposed local organisation and a clear position on radical democratisation of the unions.

Left campaign needs democratic control.

Labour's insistence that fiscal rules are rules is a warning to workers and unions that it plans to put profit first.

The markets demand public spending cuts, and Rachel Reeves is happy to oblige.

Special pleading by landed interests won't solve real problems with British farming.

The Archbishop of Canterbury has resigned for his part in covering up a long-running child abuse scandal.

The bosses are threatening to pay for takes hikes by cutting jobs and hours.

A review of Ecosocialist Revolution: A Manifesto, Anti*Capitalist Resistance, July 2024.

Shareholders are lining their pockets while public health services are starved of the resources they need

Labour are continuing the Tories' clampdown on the right to protest

The acquittal of Martyn Blake has been seized on by police chiefs to demand immunity for killings

Rachel Reeves' first budget does nothing to fundamentally challenge the Tory legacy of a shrinking welfare state and profiteering from public services

Real reparations for the injustice of slavery and colonialism requires breaking the bonds of imperialist domination

Rank and file activists build on success of first conference

The TUC hailed a 'major boost to workers rights' that failed to abolish zero-hours contracts, fire and rehire, or deliver full rights from day one.

The Tories' anti-union laws have blocked local government workers taking legal strike action to improve a pathetic 3% pay offer

Hope Not Hate go undercover to expose the changing dynamics of the international far right mixing racism, violence and conspiracy theories

By KD Tait This recent Panorama documentary examining the sexual assault allegations against Mohamed Al-Fayed, former owner of the Harrods department store, sheds critical light on the intersection of wealth, power and the systemic neglect of survivors of sexual violence.  In an era where accountability is urgently demanded, this film provides a necessary exploration of […]

Troublemakers at Work are holding their second conference at an opportune time. The Manchester gathering on 5 October offers trade union activists a chance to reflect on the tasks posed by the arrival of a Labour government, a stagnant capitalist economy and the ongoing war in Gaza and Lebanon. The first conference, in July 2023, […]

Israel stands on the brink of invading Lebanon, having doubled its war aims and placed a ceasefire way beyond the horizon. Reducing whole neighbourhoods to rubble, killing hundreds in pursuit of a single individual is another war crime – in Gaza and in Lebanon. But it is one Labour Britain persists in supporting under the […]

Despite learning how to smile, Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves painted a grim picture of the ‘change’ workers can expect to receive in the coming months and years. Resurrecting Theresa May’s plan to means-test winter fuel payments and maintaining the Tories’ vindictive two-child benefit cap are just two of the headline austerity measures Reeves is […]