Blairites must go

The Labour Party conference opens in Liverpool on 23 September. Local parties must be enabled to oust the Blairites through the basic democratic process of mandatory reselection; and other democratising measures need to be taken to restore the party as a party for workers

Mobilise mass student fightback

Fight for education, Tories out now: The Tories - the politicians responsible for trebling students' tuition fees, decimating our public services, and presiding over a generation-defining housing crisis - are in chaos

250,000 families in "non-decent" homes

A quarter of a million families are bringing up children under the age of four in "non-decent" homes according to a recent report

The fog of Brexit

The UK is scheduled to formally withdraw from the structures and treaties of the EU on 29 March 2019, less than six months' time

What we saw

Young Socialists out in Birmingham

Rail rip-off reversal

Rail firm Arriva Trains Wales has reversed a policy of charging customers 'commission' for returning lost property

Momentum's 'The World Transformed' blocks discussion on Liverpool council struggle

The legacy of the socialist Labour councillors who defied Thatcher, refusing to pass on cuts, is not important enough for Momentum's bureaucratic leadership

The struggle to transform Labour

Correspondence between Socialist Party general secretary Peter Taaffe and Labour general secretary Jennie Formby: It is urgent that the Labour Party is transformed so it can bring together all those who want to fight in the interests of the working and middle class majority

Big drugs companies dodge £3 billion pounds in tax

Big pharmaceutical companies may be dodging up to £3 billon in tax, contributing to crises in health systems worldwide, including our NHS

PCS: the real issues at stake - a reply to Socialist View

Socialist View published an article on their support for Janice Godrich's campaign to be elected PCS assistant general secretary

Corbyn must lead in fight against the Blairites

After the Labour right's summer of slander, as parliament reopens and the party's conference approaches, the Blairites are preparing the next phase in their anti-Corbyn campaign.

Fearful bosses call for 'fairer capitalism'...

City banker Dame Helena Morrissey has called for "a more responsible and fairer form of capitalism" as part of a new report by the Blairite IPPR thinktank.

4m children in homes that can't afford fruit and veg

£10 an hour now Scrap benefit cuts: Four million children in the UK live in households unable to afford enough fruit, vegetables, fish and other essential food groups to meet government nutrition guidelines, says the Food Foundation.

Them & Us

It's one world for the super-rich, and another one for the rest of us.

School students in solitary: for full funding, not exclusion!

'Isolation booths' - solitary confinement in all but name - are an increasingly common feature of 'zero-tolerance' school behaviour policies.

Tories in chaos - general election now!

Corbyn and unions must call mass action: The divide in the Tory party over Brexit is now wider than the Grand Canyon.

Theresa May's 'Chequers deal' mauled by Johnson and EU

Not even Theresa May's 'dancing' on her African travels could distract from the crisis her government faces

Unions must lead in fight to kick Tories out

TUC congress 2018: It's vital the unions mobilise their members now to lead the fight against the Tories

Labour: Blairite wreckers must be given the boot

The Tory government is back from its holidays and once again in meltdown. The millions suffering pay restraint, benefit cuts and poverty will be hoping that we are about to see the back of it. Meanwhile the Blairite saboteurs in the Labour Party have spent the summer cranking up their false allegations of antisemitism

What we heard

Hark at this! May's Mandela mess; farewell, Frank Field!