By Reginald Banks The Tories have fired an initial salvo at the working class in the battle over who is to pay for the pandemic. The new ‘health and social care levy’, which cleared all of its Commons stages in a single day, will raise national insurance rates by 1.25% to their highest level ever […]

Despite a career of abuse, cover-up and racism, Cressida Dick will be reappointed as Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police.

Remember the old slogan - "with the union leaders where possible, without them where necessary".

The pandemic revealed just how much British capitalism relies upon transport workers

Editorial October 2021, No. 387

Two trade unions have called on Uber drivers to stop work.

Afghan women are leading the way in organising anti-Taliban protests in Kabul and other parts of Afghanistan. They are doing what US and allied occupying forces failed to do: stand up to the Taliban.

Despite its talk of helping Afghan refugees, the government is passing new laws to harass migrants

Mass unemployment and the scourge of long-term joblessness have returned.

Brexit and pandemic-induced shortages fuel demands for action on pay and conditions

NEC purge signals end of left's attempt to wrest control of the party

This year's annual conference presents a last chance for the Labour left to regroup and reassess its priorities

The Tories are pressing ahead with plans to ban the BDS campaign in public institutions

Profiteers are cherry-picking the most profitable parts of our health service

The pandemic has exposed that the NHS is not so much at breaking point, but beyond it.

Defeat for the Nato alliance opens new chapter in Afghan war

An explosion of student activism needs national coordination and a common strategy

We need to campaign between now and the COP26 to build a movement to stop climate catastrophe.

Members deliver surprise result in blow for right and official left

RF Political Committee Right wing members of Labour’s National Executive Committee (NEC) are proposing a motion to expel members of four leftwing organisations who have opposed Keir Starmer’s leadership and the witch-hunt of anti-Zionists and Marxists. While the total number of members is small, the proposal to ‘proscribe’ (i.e. ban) Socialist Appeal is a reference […]

The police do not exist to ‘protect and serve’ the population at large.

Only 43 of 800 accused officers have been prosecuted.

The government is actively undermining its own climate targets.

If our “leaders'' won't lead, then grassroots activists need to take initiative and organise.

A number of schools have seen students walk-out in protest.

Inquiry has exposed a pattern of corruption among some of the country's top coppers.

The centerpiece of Castillo’s campaign was to call a constituent assembly.

Momentum's biggest problem is not structural but political.

Coronavirus cases are surging once again.

Four candidates will be on the ballot paper.