INFLATION HAS reached its highest level since the 1980s. The November rate for the UK was 10.67%. Between September 2021 and September 2022, food prices increased by 14.5 percent. At the same time annual wages rises in the private sector stood at 6.7% and 2.9% in the public sector. The purchasing power of wages has […]
Archive article about the 1982 NHS strike.
7.2 million people are on waiting lists for NHS treatment in England.
The Bill has passed the House of Commons.
Living standards will fall by 7% in the next two years.
Editorial December-January 2022/23, No. 399
Hunt's budget constitutes the organised impoverishment of millions in order to protect the profits of business, banks and speculators.
Editorial November 2022, No. 398
By KD Tait SIX SHORT weeks was all Tory MPs needed to put an end to the Truss experiment. This time they did not make the mistake of consulting their members. Having already installed Jeremy Hunt as Chancellor, the election rules were blatantly rigged in favour of the bankers’ man Rishi Sunak. The forces of […]
CWU leaders have called off strikes after bosses threatened them with court action
Members should boycott this fraudulent selection.
What is the TUC going to do about it?
By a Unison activist THE NATIONAL Education Union has won an impressive mandate to call an official strike ballot for a cost of living pay increase. Not only did over a quarter of a million teachers vote by 86% on a 62% turnout for strike action in support of a fully-funded (i.e. increasing school budgets) […]
By Millie Collins MORE THAN 12,000 people took to the streets across 11 major cities on 29 October to protest the extortionate cost of childcare, demanding much needed reforms to the archaic parental leave system—which Rishi Sunak disgracefully described as a ‘holiday’. The ‘March of the Mummies’ was organised by Pregnant Then Screwed, a charity […]
Official reports chart the complete failure of attempts to solve the climate crisis and serve as a reminder of the urgent need for socialist solutions.
The deep divisions in the Conservative party have their roots in the decline of British capitalism.
Now is the time to press our advantage. The unions must sound the advance across every front of struggle.
Hindu nationalism is promoting anti-Muslim hatred
Editorial October 2022, No. 397
By Rebecca Anderson The 1st October Enough is Enough day of action in Leeds began at 10am when a thousand people joined the picket line at the train station, spilling out into the road as we listened to the RMT speaker explain why they are striking and won’t give up, followed by chants of “Enough […]
If the national campaigns won't unite, we need to build unity from below
By Peter Main At first sight, Kwasi Kwarteng’s “mini-budget” looks like nothing more than pandering to the Tory members who voted for Liz Truss. Anyone who seriously thinks that forcing part-time workers on Universal Credit to find a few more hours of work each week is going to have the slightest effect on the national […]
In death, as in life, the role and significance of Mikhail Gorbachev, who died on August 30 and was buried on September 3, remains disputed.
Labour’s lead has narrowed to just four points.
HOUR AFTER hour of obsequious commentary, constant updating on the progress of the coffin towards London, an uninterrupted procession of has-beens and would-be’s underlining their own importance by recalling their past royal encounters—there is no way of avoiding the passing of Elizabeth II. More importantly, the suspension of strike action by the RMT and by […]
By Jeremy Dewar TWO TO three thousand people turned out in central London on Saturday 10 September to protest the killing of Chris Kaba by the police the previous Monday. The large response clearly surprised the police and organisers, just as it lifted the spirits of the grieving family. Another police murder Chris was the […]
Four of the five candidates of the Centre Left Grassroots Alliance were elected to the NEC.
By R. Banks and Alex Rutherford The growing cost of living crisis and increasing public alarm at what it will mean pose the urgent need for a united front between all those affected by inflation. It needs to bring together union members and those who want to join a fighting union; the unemployed and underemployed; […]
With an ‘electorate’ of 160,000 geriatric Tory party members, 0.3% of the population chose the country’s leader.
Assumptions that damage to the UK economy was inevitable have now been backed up with concrete evidence.