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Unsafe, unaffordable housing scandal

It is a disgrace for people to be living in unsafe and dangerous housing in the fifth richest country in the world

Universal Credit forces women into prostitution

A Tory minister has been forced to retract an official statement that there was no link between Universal Credit and people being pushed into to the sex trade to survive

How can we build workers' action to support the climate strikes?

The idea of a 'general strike' has caught hold among layers of activists

Them & Us

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

Union action can tackle 58% working poverty rate

Almost two-fifths of those in poverty in the UK are also in work

Charging scandal in Warrington and Halton NHS Trust

The trust recently announced that 71 elective treatments would no longer be available free to patients

No to Boris, No to Hunt: General Election now

We need a general election, not a no-choice coronation of Boris or Hunt.

While Tories elect new leader - prepare action to remove the lot of them

By the end of the week votes by Tory MPs will reduce the field of leadership candidates to two

Welsh government must block NHS privatisation or face workers' action

Two Welsh health boards have announced plans to privatise their hospital pharmacies, writes Beth Webster, nurse.

Council cuts continue while reserves rise

Local authorities in England are sitting on almost £22 billion of financial reserves, £5 billion more than the year before, the Sunday Times reports, writes Dave Walsh, Liverpool council worker and Unite member.

Cancer stats reveal deep inequality

"This year, more than 300,000 people in England will receive the life-changing diagnosis of cancer. And the number of people living with cancer is predicted to rise by 3.2% each year, writes Jon Dale, secretary, Unite Notts NHS branch.

Them & Us

Move along: In a blow to the supposed benefits of privatisation, research by the Office for National Statistics shows that public sector workers are more likely to stay in their jobs

Nationalise Ford to prevent closure

The announcement that Ford Bridgend is to close is the latest in a series of blows to manufacturing workers.

Grenfell two years on - Still fighting for safety and justice

Two years ago, on 14 June 2017, 72 people perished in the Grenfell Tower fire in west London.

Terrible child murders linked to cuts

The terrible murders of two young children in Northamptonshire have been published in reports called 'serious case reviews'.

Widespread condemnation of horrifying, violent, homophobic assaults

Two lesbian women were subjected to a horrifying, violent, homophobic assault on a London night bus on 30 May.

Tory drug hypocrisy

Michael Gove's Tory leadership campaign was tripping to catch up after he admitted taking cocaine on several occasions while working as a journalist

Corbyn must go on the offensive against the Labour right

The Tory party is consumed by a leadership contest that is revealing the fissures along which it could tear itself apart.

Them & Us

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

Laughable research denies low-pay scandal

That's how many young adults will have felt when, sat in their bedsits, back living in childhood bedrooms, or sitting in their single rented room in a shared house, they read that actually they are benefiting from better pay according to the Resolution Foundation.