Despite the many inadequacies of the UK government’s scheme, its effects in terms of the relatively large number of refugees already allowed in under it cannot be denied.

Labour’s NEC has voted to proscribe three leftwing organisations.

The Spring Statement signalled the return of austerity and the steepest slide in living standards since records began in the 1950s.

We face the worst cost of living crisis in living memory.

Putin has resorted to a war of attrition against civilians.

P&O Ferries have brutally sacked 800 workers without notice and replaced them with scab crews on less than the minimum wage.

Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham has won a court case in defence of his plans to bring the city’s buses back into public control

Coventry’s refuse drivers have voted 94% in favour of continuing their strike as Coventry Labour councillors are suspended from Unite.

We need working class self-organisation to stop police harassment in schools and on the streets

The Tories are desperate to put a positive spin on the teaching of the British Empire

Revolutionary strategy in the epoch of imperialist war

The reputation of the Metropolitan Police is in tatters - again.

Football has a well documented history of both sexual and physical violence.

Workers face the biggest cost of living squeeze for a generation

The PCSC Bill must be defeated.

Day of action on 26 Feb.

Prices rise at record rates.

By Reginald Banks Omicron is just the latest in a long list of variants to devastate the world and is by no means necessarily the last one. First discovered in South Africa, it became the dominant strain around the world with lightning speed. Daily cases in the UK reached a new peak of 160,000 a […]

The Tory crisis won't last forever.

Editorial December-January 2021-22, No. 389

Anti-apartheid activist and liberation theologian Desmond Tutu has died after a long battle with cancer, aged 90.

By Dave Stockton Britain is experiencing yet another damaging outburst of coronavirus, this time the Omicron variant. Once again, leaving aside its apparent origin in South Africa, the UK is already leading the way in the speed of transmission. As a result France and Germany have imposed restrictions on travellers from the UK. Omicron cases […]

The ongoing witch-hunt against socialists and pro-Palestinian activists within the Labour Party has jumped up another gear.

Since the start of the pandemic, trans people have been left in limbo by the NHS, with devastating effects on their physical and mental health.

The recent revelations by Azeem Rafiq have illuminated the deep rooted racism faced by many cricket players.

Students and staff unite - for decent conditions on campus

Horrific scenes of families starving and freezing on the Belarusian border represent a new low for human rights in the recent history of Europe.

Omicron and vaccine mismanagement push pandemic into third year

By Urte March HIGHER EDUCATION workers in the University and College Union (UCU) are on strike from 1–3 December in a dispute over proposed pension cuts, pay and working conditions. Workers were balloted in October over cuts to the USS pension scheme for pre-1992 universities, and a sector-wide campaign over the ‘Four Fights’ – pay, […]

UK racist border controls are killing people