Pandemic
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 […]
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 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 […]
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.
