Conservative party
Will Farage reform the Tories?
The Tory party has descended into internecine warfare.
Fourteen years of Tory rule: a balance sheet
The Lords of Misrule prepare to depart the stage
Tories take aim at migrant workers as Brexit drives immigration to record high
Keir Starmer and Shadow Home Secretary Yvette Cooper are desperate not to be viewed as ‘soft on migrants’.
Criminal Justice Bill 2023: Criminalising poverty
Another vile bill from the 'Nasty Party'.
Labour commits to Tory spending plans
Tories and Labour have moved into election mode.
Resist the Tories’ carnival of reaction
It’s time for them to go.
Concrete Crisis Raacs Greater Manchester
The hospitals affected are two of seven hospital buildings across the north west dubbed ‘the worst region in the country’ for roofs built with collapse-prone concrete
Resist the Tories’ assault on our democratic rights!
In a climate of heightened police repression Alex Rutherford discusses the way forward for militants and activists.
Smash the Tory anti-union drive
The unions must demand Labour commit to repealing every anti-union law.
Resist Jeremy Hunt’s class war budget
Living standards will fall by 7% in the next two years.
Trouble at the top: the social roots of the Tory crisis
The deep divisions in the Conservative party have their roots in the decline of British capitalism.
Mini-budget: This was what Brexit was really about
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 […]
Liz Truss PM: Fight fire with fire
With an ‘electorate’ of 160,000 geriatric Tory party members, 0.3% of the population chose the country’s leader.
Stagflation crisis looms, and we must make the rich pay
It will be up to the rank and file to lead the resistance.
Sunak: The embodiment of unashamed wealth and privilege
The chancellor’s response to the cost of living crisis has been lackluster to say the least.
Austerity is back as Sunak makes poor pay for the crisis
The Spring Statement signalled the return of austerity and the steepest slide in living standards since records began in the 1950s.
We can live with an endemic Covid-19, but we don’t have to
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 […]
Tory crisis: An opportunity for resistance
The Tory crisis won't last forever.
Omicron: Boris Johnson is choosing profits over public health, again
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 […]
Workers Expected to Pay for Worst Economic Crisis since 2008
By Tim Nailsea BRITAIN’S ECONOMIC growth has almost stalled because of shortages of labour in parts of industry and of material inputs, due to disruptions in the supply chain, coupled with the effects of Brexit. GDP grew by 0.4% in August but is still 0.8% below where it was in February 2020, before the country […]
A living wage for all
By Jeremy Dewar Workers in Britain are being hit by a triple whammy this month: inflation heading towards 5%; a £20 cut to Universal Credit, hitting the unemployed and worst paid workers; and the ending of furlough for 1 million workers, throwing hundreds of thousands out the door. These are not ‘temporary blips’ that will […]
