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A visit with Isabel Crook, lifelong soldier of the revolution
Memories of a life lived in the service of the people.
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Workers in eastern Europe and former Soviet states prefer socialism
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The reactionary nightmare of ‘gender fluidity’
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Buchenwald camp bans memorial for one of its most famous victims
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The origins of World War Two
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Why gay rights is not a class issue
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Will Boris bottle Brexit?
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British workers support Bolivarian government and people of Venezuela
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Hong Kong protests: Ranjeet Brar speaks to George Galloway on RT
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Identity politics are anti-Marxian and a harmful diversion from the class struggle
Social wage highlights
Social wage / ‘We often see grown men in tears – they can’t believe they’re here’
Manchester reporter discovers dismay, rage and defiance in Oldham, a town bruised by universal credit and austerity.
Housing / Council tax becoming the new poll tax says report
Thinktank investigation reveals the huge disparity in rates of payment between the poorest and richest households.
Society / Hunger on the rise in Britain, despite economic ‘recovery’
In-work poverty testifies as to who really paid to bail out the banks in 2008. And while hunger is on the rise, one-third of food produced every year is wasted.
Disputes / Privatisation directors’ fat salaries come from ripping off health service workers
Sodexo and Mitie are the latest hospital outsourcing companies to face industrial action by staff over terrible pay and conditions.
Disputes / Left-Labour-controlled Newham is not such a New Jerusalem
Despite working for a Labour council and a Corbynite mayor, council workers in Newham face pay cuts and bullying.
Social wage / Fire Brigade Inc
Cuts and outsourcing are part of the slow drive towards total privatisation of this essential service.
Lay-offs and closures / Interserve: another outsourcing giant hits the wall
In the pursuit of monopoly profits, another building corporation turned ‘public service provider’ has gone bust – and the public will be picking up the tab.
France / Call from France’s first yellow vest assembly
Even as it sinks out of sight in the British media, France’s popular rebellion is continuing and gaining momentum.
Disputes / Brum bin strike concludes with a payout
A new deal was concluded in March to appease workers’ anger at secret payouts to GMB members during the 2017 strike.
Social wage / Privatisation undermines the probation service
The government has reneged on its promise to step in if the privateers failed to deliver.
Disputes / South Western railworkers win battle to keep the guard on the train
Safe and affordable public transport for all. Support our rail workers!
Disputes / Refuse, resist! Brum rubbish collectors ready to strike as council talks fail
Brummie binmen are days away from an all-out strike, clashing once again with a Labour council that has rewarded scabs and blacklisted strikers.
Health / Newcross Healthcare: rinsing the public coffers
The true face of privatisation in our public services, where greed and abuse are rewarded and people come last.
France / France’s yellow vests fight on, despite concessions
Social unrest in France is being driven by workers’ anger at continuous attacks on jobs, wages and living standards.
Social wage / WH Smith gobbles up another 74 post offices
Another step towards the complete dismemberment and privatisation of the mail service.
Social wage / A third of British children live in poverty
A decade of austerity is taking a heavy toll on Britain’s families.
Housing / Grenfell Tower – another long and winding public inquiry
Privatisation, subcontracting and the drive to maximise profits led to the inferno, but the ruling class will be hoping the inquiry can come up with a scapegoat or two on whom to pin the blame for its crimes.
Housing / The housing crisis is lining private landlords’ pockets
Housing benefit is acting as the ‘landlords’ bonus’, while provision of emergency temporary accommodation by private landlords is the ‘icing on the cake’.
Social wage / Bristol bus protest highlights failing public transport in Britain
Workers must demand renationalisation as the first step towards affordability, planning, and the sanity of a socialist economy.
Social wage / Universal credit: forcing the needy into ever more desperate poverty
The government can look after the interests of the capitalists or the interests of the workers; it cannot do both.
Sweden / Shootings, killings, cars on fire – what’s going on?
All a sign of the irretrievable decadence of bourgeois society.
Pay and conditions / Theft of steelworkers’ pensions
Successful campaigners lose up to half their entitlement, shafted after all by caveats in the small print.
Disputes / Support Birmingham’s homecare workers
Before Labour councillors privatise the service completely.
Social wage / Poverty on the rise as Birmingham’s Labour council freezes burial fees
Rates of child poverty are soaring in Britain’s major cities; Labour councils are as impotent and callous as all the rest.
Industry / Privatised rail industry totters
The resistance of rail workers to safety-cutting measures is bringing the question of renationalisation back onto the political agenda.
Housing / Grenfell Tower: tragedy or crime?
What was behind the devastating fire in north Kensington in June?
Social wage / Budget 2016: attacking the poor will not fix the economy
Chancellor Osborne is finding that there is no escape from the world capitalist economic crisis.
Social wage / Disgraceful neglect of the disabled in Britain
Official government policy: nobody knows you when you’re down and out.
Social wage / New bill could pave the way for the final destruction of social housing
Is this the end of social housing in Britain or the start of a fight-back?
Health / The junior doctors’ contract and the US corporate takeover of the NHS
Dr Bob Gill explains the unreported and sinister drive behind the push for changing junior doctors’ contracts.
Social wage / Benefit cuts: Who are the real parasites in our society?
Stealing from the poor for the benefit of the rich.
Ireland / Sinn Féin stands alone against austerity
Both north and south of the border, Sinn Féin is once again showing that it is the only one of the main parties in Ireland that takes a sincere interest in the welfare of the masses.