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Blood transfusion scandal

Over 25,000 people have been infected with contaminated blood products the NHS bought from profit-making pharmaceutical companies. Nearly 3,000 have died so far

Fighting for socialism amid capitalist chaos

No-deal Brexit, establishment splits, threat of renewed downturn ... : Edited extracts of a speech given by Peter Taaffe, Socialist Party general secretary.

Fight for a democratic, socialist Labour Party

Has the Labour Party conference - taking place in Liverpool - made changes to the party that have equipped it to be fully capable of leading the fight against austerity?

Them & Us

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

Labour civil war rages in Enfield

Following a no-confidence vote in Enfield North constituency Labour Party (CLP), right-wing MP Joan Ryan has responded with insults to members in the local press.

Private firms and toothless regulator to blame for trains chaos - nationalise rail now!

Britain's rail regulator admits it was asleep at the wheel in the run up to the May 2018 timetable change which resulted in chaos on vast swathes of Britain's railways.

Fight plans for A&E appointment system - fight to save our NHS

NHS England could introduce an "appointment system" in A&E departments as part of its proposed "NHS targets shake up". This makes me very angry, but it is not with disbelief that I read this latest preposterous idea.

Militant was right - councils can fight cuts

"Conference, we are in Liverpool where over 30 years ago the council stood up to Thatcher and said: better to break the law than break the poor", said shadow equalities minister Dawn Butler at Labour Party conference

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.