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In Dave Kellaway’s analysis, the Tory government’s budget aims to address the cost of living crisis, but falls short in providing significant support for public sector workers, housing, or the NHS, while offering tax breaks for the wealthy and businesses; Labour’s response highlights the need for (...)
The article by Susan Pashkoff discusses the impact of high childcare costs and lack of access to childcare on women’s ability to work and their financial security, as well as the broader issue of women’s lower wages and dependence on benefits.
On March 6 2023, while watching Sky News, they (...)
Simon Pearson says it’s a classic case of power versus principle, and the stakes have never been higher. In the end, it’s not just about football - it’s about the very soul of our democracy.
The BBC. It’s a monolithic, behemoth of an institution that looms over the British media landscape like a (...)
Introduction
Soaring prices of energy, food, other essentials and rent in 2022, caused by multiple supply chain disruptions after Brexit and the pandemic, followed by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, brought an intensive cost of living crisis, exacerbated by inequalities in class, race, gender, as (...)
It has been another mixed week for the industrial struggle in Britain, writes Terry Conway.
After the university lecturers’ union, the UCU, called off strike action for ‘intensive negotiations’ there has been very little information about the content of those talks. It is certainly the case that (...)
This flagship Western investment, backed strongly by the UK, will receive funds from a bank 44% owned by Russia
A Russian-backed development bank is set to finance a controversial mining project in Armenia which has been lobbied for heavily by the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development (...)
John McDonnell among former shadow cabinet members contradicting pacifist message
Senior Labour MPs on the left of the party are putting themselves at odds with former leader Jeremy Corbyn over the war in Ukraine by calling on the Ministry of Defence to do more to arm Kyiv against the (...)
Sometimes, calling for peace at all costs means siding with the oppressor.
It’s been a year since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine. What Vladimir Putin hoped would be a three-day conquest has turned into a prolonged stalemate. As fighting rages on, so too do debates about the (...)
On the question of Ukraine, we all come to it with a bit of history.
For me, I have a history of opposing, speaking against and voting against illegal invasions of countries from Iraq to the sending of troops into Afghanistan and the bombing of Libya and Syria.
So, with such a consistent (...)
It has been a contradictory time for strikes in Britain.
Some ballots for strike action have been won. Postal workers needed to reballot after their six-month mandate ran out; 95.9% of those voting said yes to further strike action with a turnout of 77.3%. The latter is down on the first (...)
As Russia’s barbaric invasion of Ukraine approaches its one-year anniversary, Fred Leplat writes about the ongoing battle and why Western leftists should continue to support the Ukrainian resistance.
Friday 24 February 2023 will mark one year since the Russian army invaded Ukraine on the (...)
The British Labour Party’s Clive Lewis has a list of tanks, jets, helicopters, and weapons that he says could be sent to Kyiv but is instead being sold off for financial gain.
British member of parliament (MP) Clive Lewis, of the Labour Party, nailed his credentials to a coalition of British (...)
Writing post-mortems of Corbynism is something of a cottage industry. In 2022 alone, Oliver Eagleton, James Schneider, and Andrew Murray have all published books offering an “insider perspective” on the left-wing resurgence in and around the U.K. Labour Party under Jeremy Corbyn from 2015 to (...)
Around half a million workers took strike action across Britain on 1 February in the biggest wave of strikes for over a decade.
This not only involved people withdrawing their labour and mounting picket lines at their own place of work, but often participating in vibrant demonstrations and (...)
Playwright Sonali Bhattacharyya may be known to some readers as a member of Momentum’s national coordinating group (elected as part of the Forward Momentum grouping). Judging by her Two Billion Beats, which has just finished a second run at the Orange Tree Theatre in SW London, her generally (...)
The pending anniversary of Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine is a good occasion for working people around the world to signal full support to the inspiring Ukrainian resistance in defence of their sovereignty. This is not what is offered by the Stop the War Coalition demonstration scheduled for (...)
On 1 February more trade unionists in Britain will be on strike than have done so on any single day for many decades.
The civil service union, PCS, was the first to call out over 100,000 members across 124 government departments – all those members in departments who had met the ridiculously (...)
Nearly 170 years ago, Britain was at war with Russia and Karl Marx was convinced that the Prime Minister, Lord Palmerston, was colluding secretly with the enemy.
During his research in the British Museum Marx examined hundreds of British diplomatic documents. His conclusion, according to his (...)
Rishi Sunak’s attempted introduction of new anti-strike laws isn’t the first time we’ve seen a Conservative government seek to limit workers’ rights to take industrial action. This timeline of the past five decades explains how the UK got to where it is today. Workers have gradually lost all powers (...)
I only made the second half of the Stop the War Coalition (STWC) trade union conference on 21 January, but I think I got a pretty good sense of the event’s politics. It was broadly what I expected.
What was said about opposing war and militarism in general, and increased militarisation and (...)
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