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Solidarity with health workers

Tax the 1%

Bedroom Tax ruling: The fight to scrap it must continue

Words alone won’t get rid of the bedroom tax. “I’m registered disabled – will I still have to pay bedroom tax?… Is the bedroom tax illegal, now?”… “Has the bedroom tax been stopped?”, writes Cathy Meadows, Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Scrap the Bedroom Tax, Defend Council Tax Benefits campaign.

Air pollution destroys more lives and homes

Have you noticed the buds on the trees? The sweet smell of cherry blossom in the air? The rush of colour in the fields? If so, you’re not the only one to notice a worrying trend of ever-earlier spring

Conservatives have no interest in collecting corporation taxes

Them & Us

Lording it up…: Spare a thought for stricken peers who can’t survive on their pitiful £300 a day allowance. Baron Farmer of Bishopsgate has spoken up for insolvent lordly colleagues.

Private renting: Unfit homes and couch surfing

It fills me with disgust, but not much surprise, that the Tories voted against a rule requiring landlords to keep their properties ‘fit to live in’, writes Lily Levin, Private tenant, London.

Witty take on credit crunch misses problems at heart of capitalism

Film review: ‘The Big Short’ is a story about the 2008 world economic crash. You won’t find the unemployed or the homeless in it. But what you will see is the fraud, corruption and greed of finance capital.

Arrested ‘Heathrow 13’ climate activist speaks

Letters

Renter’s rant: Beth Sutcliffe is spot on when she comments on the conditions private sector tenants have to live in.

Fight to save Huddersfield A&E

The campaign to stop the closure of Huddersfield A&E has continued to attract huge support and mobilise mass opposition, writes Mike Forster, Huddersfield Socialist Party.

Angry south Londoners march against the housing bill

“David Cameron, hear us shout! We know what you’re all about: evictions, home losses, mansions for the bosses!”

Newham Labour disunited against austerity

Councillor suspended after cuts query: activists seek joint work

A north London Labour group has suspended one of its councillors for questioning cuts to adult care.

Wakefield tells big business to frack-off!

Celebrating the revolutionary life of Robert Burns

Spare a thought for the poor members of Carlisle Socialist party. With the post-floods mood and ongoing rain dampening down outside activities, we were forced into the Milbourne Arms.

Fighting to save the last two play centres

World economy heading into a storm

Every year the global capitalist elite meet at the World Economic Forum held at Davos, a posh Swiss ski resort, writes Lynn Walsh.

Zika virus: Another healthcare system failure

Symptom of a sick political system: On 28 October 2015 the Ministry of Health in Brazil confirmed a causal relationship between Zika and microcephaly

Fight to save 1,550 finance jobs in Surrey

Members of Unite the Union’s finance sector have taken to picket lines for the first time since the 1970s to fight back against the closure of Legal & General’s flagship site in Kingswood, Surrey.

Tories axe 310 jobs in Northern powerhouse

London Transport workers braced for huge cuts in spending

Tories are taking London taxi drivers for a ride

Crane drivers’ strike for pay rise

Tesco slashes pay for thousands of workers

Workplace news in brief

Japan: The failure of ‘Abenomics’

Building of working class left opposition urgent: Shinzo Abe recently became the longest serving Japanese prime minister in nearly four decades. His Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) government has regained its lead position in the opinion polls.

CWI world congress success