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Tories keep bailing out bosses, while piling the pain on workers and public services

Sunak's 2021 budget was a budget for the bosses. The working class has no alternative but to organise and fight back.

Not a budget for the working class!

A social tsunami threatens Britain. Two million workers are already on the dole and five million more on furlough, facing an uncertain future when the scheme ends. But the Tories are intent on bailing out the rich.

Women's health matters

Working-class women have suffered enormously during the pandemic. We've been disproportionately hit by job losses, pay cuts, and the additional burden of home schooling and childcare.

Public sector workers respond to the budget

"The financial outlook is volatile." This (under)statement, in Essex County Council's budget document for 2021, could be the strapline for the future of all local government services.

Liverpool Labour meltdown

Thirty five years ago Liverpool's council was leading a mass movement against Thatcher's Tory government.

Johnson's 'road map' for schools: Act together to protect safety

- For a phased return based on infection rates not politicians' dates.

Drivers win case - they are workers

Uber drivers have won their rights case.

Where's the road map to jobs and wages Boris?

Trade unions must fight for lives and livelihoods
Johnson's 'cautious' road map to reopen society from lockdown in England - after over 120,000 Covid deaths and a massive hit to incomes - won't lead to the needed restoration and improvement in living standards.

Starmer's speech a return to New Labour

Keir Starmer's speech contained virtually no policy proposals. But it hammered home his message that the Corbyn era is over.

Garment workers and Covid: Dying for less than minimum wage

Garment workers have among the highest rate of coronavirus deaths for working women in the UK, the Office for National Statistics has revealed

Social care: End privatisation and let workers decide how it's run

When Boris Johnson became prime minister in July 2019, he promised to "fix the crisis in social care once and for all"

Vaccine algorithm can't solve capitalist inequality

Eleven months after coronavirus restrictions came into force in England, another 800,000 people are being informed by the government that they need to 'shield' as they are at an increased risk of dying from the effects of the virus

The struggle needs an electoral arm

Hannah Sell looks at the vital question of the struggle for working-class political representation and the approaches currently been taken.

NHS white paper: no solution to failed Tory policies

The publication of the white paper was met with headlines about the government 'taking back control' of the NHS.

Covid workplace safety

Workplace safety. Something this government knows little about nor cares about. That's why there have been over 3,500 reported Covid outbreaks in workplaces since the start of the pandemic

SNP's independence referendum 2 'roadmap'

The SNP-led Scottish government's latest road map towards a second independence referendum (indyref2) has been unveiled

Strike back for free education

This year, students have been shafted. We've been used as scapegoats by the government, treated as the personal piggy banks of the higher education sector, and many of us have been completely isolated

Tory consultation on home-use abortion pills

One in three women will have an abortion before the age of 45. The abortion pill is a safe and uncomplicated medical procedure carried out in the first ten weeks of pregnancy.

Tory cladding money will not make us safe

Despite the horrific scenes at Grenfell almost four years ago, around 700,000 people in the UK are still living in buildings fitted with combustible cladding

Cryptocurrency bubble: Insanity of capitalism

Low interest rates and the declining profit margins of capitalist production have pushed speculators to find new areas to invest their capital. This has created a massive bubble in cryptocurrencies.