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Tax-dodging tech bosses make billons ... while 6m workers fear the scrapheap

Nationalise the big tech firms: Every ten seconds, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos makes the median salary of one of his employees: $28,000

Rents soar 60% faster than pay - while spivs plan luxury homes on Green Belt

Cap rents, build council homes, protect green space: A Tory cabinet minister says "the choice is building on more greenfield sites... or losing the election and ending up with Jeremy Corbyn"

Northants Council in total collapse: for a citizens' assembly to draw up a 'needs budget'

The unprecedented financial crisis of Northamptonshire's Tory county council continues. The first council to go technically bankrupt for many years is slashing services even further

Corbyn must end false unity with Labour's right

May's government teeters so close to the edge that - especially if it were faced with a mass movement, headed-up by Jeremy Corbyn along with the trade union and labour movement as a whole - it could be forced out within no time.

Universal credit causes £24m rent arrears

The inept Tory government is yet again in the firing line after further details emerged about the shambolic roll-out of the cruel 'universal credit' welfare system

The case for socialist nationalisation

The Alternative Models of Ownership report, launched in June 2017, was commissioned by shadow chancellor John McDonnell.

Corbyn and unions must act to bring down government in crisis

We need to sweep this rotten lot out! A mass mobilisation is needed to boot out the Tories and demand a election.

Dodgy MP lobbied for genocidal Sri Lankan leader

Ian Paisley Jr, Democratic Unionist Party MP for North Antrim, Northern Ireland, is set to be suspended from the House of Commons for 30 sitting days.

Plastic waste - capitalism's Frankenstein monster

Plastic waste is now penetrating every corner of the globe, from the Arctic to the Antarctic and including the Mariana Trench, the deepest point on Earth.

Them & Us

It's one world for the super-rich, and another one for the rest of us including Boris's millionaire mansion and working homeless.

Blacklisting of Militant supporters by Thatcher government revealed

On 24 July, The Guardian published an article revealing that Thatcher's government worked with MI5 and Special Branch to draw up a blacklist of civil servants deemed to be 'subversives'.

Tory crisis deepens - demand a general election now!

As the Brexit white paper staggered its way through the House of Commons, the crisis in the Tory party has just deepened and deepened

'Vote Leave' fined: For a workers' Brexit

The electoral commission has fined the right-wing, pro-big business 'Vote Leave' campaign £61,000 for breaking the law.

250,000-strong human tide sweeps London against visit of bigoted billionaire Donald Trump

A human tide swept central London on 13 July in an historic mobilisation against US president Donald Trump

Britain bakes as water pipelines leak

June was the driest month on record in south east and central southern England, while Scotland recorded its highest ever temperature of 33.2C in Motherwell.

600 more retail jobs on the line: workers must not pay for the bosses' high street crunch!

Among the latest victims are almost 600 retail workers employed by Calvetron Brands, many in department stores. Hardly a day goes by in 2018 without more news of woes on the high street.

Them & Us

It's one world for the super-rich, and another one for the rest of us including union votes and Lords 'elections', bosses' Brexit ransom and migrant kids.

Minister's benefits lie: sack the Tories - and scrap universal credit

Work and Pensions Secretary Esther McVey arrogantly refuses to step down, after admitting to "inadvertently" misleading MPs about problems with the already unpopular 'universal credit' welfare restructure.

Tories in crisis - Act now to get them out!

Theresa May is clinging to power by a thread. For the first time since 1982 two cabinet ministers have resigned within 24 hours, as the Brexit civil war has ignited into a full scale conflict.

Walk Out against Trump and Tories

Donald Trump - the racist, sexist billionaire who currently occupies the White House - will be in the UK on Friday 13 July.
He is not welcome. He must be met with protest on an unprecedented scale.