How to save the planet

It is clear that the Glasgow COP26 summit will not achieve even the goals set for it at the 2015 Paris climate talks.

People's Budgets - a socialist answer to cruel cuts

The Tories are planning £2bn more austerity cuts in the autumn budget.

COP26: Trade unions must fight for a socialist transition to renewables

Capitalism won't deliver the necessary action in the timescale and scope required

Fight for a socialist recovery

For higher wages, permanent jobs, fully funded services. Boris Johnson and the Tories' talk of a 'high-wage economy' will stick in the throats of workers at Weetabix, Clarks and elsewhere.

Tories to blame for GP crisis

The UK's Covid hospitalisation rate is currently six times higher than other large European countries

Container delay carnage makes the case for socialist planning

Recent reports of delays at Felixstowe Port, which has prompted warnings about shortages of toys and clothes at Christmas, are yet another example of the chaotic and anarchic nature of capitalism.

Fight to defend homelessness services

Councils in England have warned that the cost of homelessness services will increase by 27.2% in the next three years

Socialist nationalisation not bailouts for the bosses

Bosses of energy-intensive industries are clamouring for government bailouts. Soaring gas prices internationally are hiking the cost of energy and threatening the profits of industry. With the threat of

Save the planet from capitalist climate catastrophe

The world leaders, including Boris Johnson and Joe Biden, will arrive at the COP26 climate conference starting on 31 October in their polluting private jets, to talk about how we must do more to prevent climate change

Cynical Johnson government no friend of workers

In September the Tories briefly dipped below Labour in polls, as workers face pay restraint, soaring prices, tax hikes and shortages

Workers need a pay rise

Prepare for coordinated trade union action: After a decade of austerity, followed by a devastating pandemic and with prices rising - workers are ready to struggle for a pay rise. Health unions Unison, RCN, Unite and GMB ran ballots on the 3% NHS pay offer over the summer, and all came back with a resounding rejection and a willingness to fight.

Fight for the pay rise we deserve

Saviour Boris is at it again! At the Tory party conference, he criticised bosses for shortages due to failure to invest in people and pay. A sentiment that, if it stood alone, we could agree with. But

News in brief

MPs list Covid failings: Workers' inquiry needed: A slow move into lockdown restrictions at the start of the pandemic, a decision to halt testing in March 2020, the disastrous privatised test-and-trace, and sending thousands of Covid-positive patients into care homes - all among the government's "big mistakes" in handling the Covid pandemic in E

Social care funding needed now

The news media are keen to talk about shortages of petrol, HGV drivers, fruit pickers, etc, but they are not talking about the social care crisis caused by the shortage of carers.

Build a mass working-class climate movement with socialist policies

The COP26 UN climate summit in Glasgow is now only weeks away.

Socialism 2021 event: 19-21 November 2021

In a world facing crisis on every front, discussion on how socialist ideas can change the world is more necessary than ever.

Tories plunge millions further into poverty

£6 billion has been ripped from the hands of working-class people through the removal of the £20 Universal Credit uplift

Sarah Everard trial reveals police abuse of power

While the Tories talk about how murders like Sarah's should never happen again, their actions speak otherwise.

Bakers' union disaffiliates from Labour

Now step up the fight for a new workers' politics

Railway bosses cook the books in another capitalist market failure

In an episode of the classic Channel 4 sitcom, Father Ted claimed the money was "just 'resting' in my account" when desperately trying to explain away some financial irregularities.