By KD Tait As the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rachel Reeves, unveiled her spring statement, the echoes of austerity reverberated across the nation. Although wrapped in rhetoric about investment and growth, the proposals unveiled are far from the transformative change this country desperately needs. Instead, they are a continuation of policies that prioritise the wealthiest […]

Living standards will fall by 7% in the next two years.

Editorial December-January 2022/23, No. 399

The government has picked a fight with nurses to hold public sector pay down and continue NHS privatisation.

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 […]

By Dave Stockton Dockers in Southampton have refused to unload containers diverted from Liverpool, in defiance of shipping companies and government ministers attempts to undermine the Liverpool strike. This act of solidarity shows both the possibility and necessity of defying the anti-union laws, which outlaw secondary action and allow bosses to divert work to non-striking […]

Will this strike wave, the biggest for 30 years, end in victory?

Editorial September 2022, No. 396

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; […]

Five hundred Liverpool dockers at England’s fourth-largest port, employed by MDHC Container Services, are to strike from 19 September to 3 October

With an ‘electorate’ of 160,000 geriatric Tory party members, 0.3% of the population chose the country’s leader.

Editorial July-August 2022, No. 395

By Rebecca Anderson A hundred Unison members picketed Leeds University this morning, an impressive turnout to kick off their week of strike action. Libraries were closed and campus was encircled by a young, angry workforce demanding the university increase its pay offer to meet the spiralling cost of living. Earlier this year, Unison members at […]

By KD Tait ON SATURDAY 18 June, tens of thousands of people marched through central London to demand action to fight the growing cost of living crisis. Protesters gathered from across the country in the first national demonstration called by the TUC since 2018, calling for pay rises to beat inflation, better working conditions, and […]

Our pamphlet analysing the causes of the cost of living crisis in Britain and putting forward a programme of action to defend living standards and make the capitalists pay.

Political bulletin for 1 May 2022

The base rate of pay for deliveries has been reduced by 24%.

Post Office workers are preparing to strike on 3 May after a massive 97.3% vote for industrial action over pay.

Editorial May 2022, No. 393

The chancellor’s response to the cost of living crisis has been lackluster to say the least.

PCS is deciding whether to ballot its members for strike action.

Instead of waiting for the leaders, rank and file activists and reps need to make the start.

The fight at Chep is an example of how attacks on the cost of living are eroding workers’ pay.

Unite continues to roll out its campaign

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.

Editorial March 2022, No. 391

Workers face the biggest cost of living squeeze for a generation

Political bulletin for 12 February 2022