£11.3 billion will be cut from total central government grants to councils by 2016 From 2010-2015 council budgets were cut…

Key extracts from the 17 December letter from Jeremy Corbyn, John McDonnell and Jon Trickett to Labour council leaders To…

A local government worker responds to Jeremy Corbyn and John McDonnell’s recent letter setting out their policy in relation to…

There has been no let up in the coordinated smear operation against Corbyn “First they ignore you, then they laugh…

By Bernie McAdam The NHS is heading for annual deficits of £2 billion, with regulators calling it the worst crisis…

The commitment of our union leaders to the new politics is under scrutiny WITH the election of Jeremy Corbyn we…

In yet another fightback against Tory NHS cuts, over a thousand student nurses marched through central London on 9 January…

By Bernie McAdam Labour movement solidarity can stop Hunt imposing unsafe contract AS the Tories continue their slashing of NHS…

LONDON Underground workers are set to open up a second front in defence of workers’ right to a family life,…

THIS year has seen some of the worst floods, with areas from Aberdeenshire down to Lancashire under water. Large swathes…

Jeremy Corbyn has made a U-turn on Trident, agreeing to maintain the orders for the nuclear submarines “to save jobs” under…

Jeremy Corbyn has said that there is no convincing solution to the housing crisis that “does not start with a…

Our aims RED FLAG strongly supports Jeremy Corbyn against the MPs who are daily undermining him in the Tory and…

STEEL When Steel firm Tata announced 1,000 new job cuts including 750 at the Port Talbot steel works in South…

BRANCHES & CLPs Across the country local Labour councils are implementing Tory austerity in the face of resistance from workers, youth…

PLP A clique of right wing MPs have revealed their fears that they could be victims of a “bloodbath” when local…

A 21 year old woman from County Down faces life in prison if she is convicted by a court for…

ISLAMOPHOBIA  David Cameron has smeared Muslim women by suggesting that their supposed failure to learn English and integrate into British…

Cancel multi-billion arms spending and tax the rich to create jobs, save the NHS and build homes THEY can’t have…

At 10pm Parliament will vote on whether to send British planes to join the US-led bombing of Syria. David Cameron’s…

NATIONALISATION. It’s the Labour policy the Tories have always hated. And it’s back in the news. Newly elected Labour leader…

The images of the Black Panthers – black berets and leather jackets, afros, guns, the pouncing panther – and their…

THE BRITISH government rolled out the “reddest of red carpets” for China’s President Xi Jinping’s four day state visit. There…

“ELECTIONS change nothing,” said Wolfgang Schäuble, Germany’s finance minister. He was responding to the election of Syriza in January. Syriza…

The Scottish Nationalist Party is still riding high after its almost total wipe out of Labour in the May general…

IN PORTUGAL’S recent elections, the people voted to chuck out a European Union backed pro-austerity government. The governing coalition between…

IT DOESN’T take long for memories to fade. The picture of drowned three-year-old Alan Kurdi washed up on a beach…

THE TORIES’ response to the biggest refugee crisis since the Second World War is to allow a mere 20,000 Syrians…

IN THE last month Israeli occupation forces have murdered 60 Palestinians, 15 of them under the age of 18. One,…