Pandemic
Why Just Eat couriers are striking, and how you can support them
The base rate of pay for deliveries has been reduced by 24%.
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
National Insurance hike will make workers pay for Tory health and care crisis
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 […]
Fire and rehire signals a growing bosses’ offensive
Even more employers will use this tactic to attack terms and conditions.
The pandemic is dragging working-class women back to 2017
The pay gap is widening.
Serco pays dividends with taxpayer money
£17m paid to shareholders.
Student rent strike is largest since 1973, and it’s spreading
Students at 55 UK universities are on rent strike.
International Women’s Day, 2021
The pandemic has exposed in the starkest terms how capitalism oppresses and exploits women.
