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Welsh Labour reprivatises rail lines: reverse Tory sell-offs!

The Welsh government has announced, with great fanfare, handing the new £5 billion Wales and Borders rail franchise to multinational corporation KeolisAmey.

Them & Us

It's one world for the super-rich, and another one for the rest of us including medicine rip-offs, GPs, Trump and flush universities

England facing water shortage due to underinvestment

Nationalise water and utilities!: Serious leaks, rising domestic use, and massive consumption by an unsustainable energy sector, mean much of England could see water shortages in the coming decades, says the Environment Agency.

Toxic air hits schools as EU ponders slap on wrist years late

Toxic air is so bad in London that school students are exposed to higher levels inside their lessons than outside on the street or in the playground, according to a study for the mayor of London.

Capitalism's Grenfell shame

The Grenfell inquiry opened with heartrending tributes to the people who perished

Government continues to back failed private rail

The companies running the East Coast Main Line (ECML) rail franchise from London to Scotland - Virgin and Stagecoach - are to lose it because they "got their sums wrong" according to Chris Grayling, the transport secretary

New Ebola threat

A new outbreak of Ebola has begun in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). In 2014-16 some 28,000 people were infected in West Africa. 11,600 of them died.

Homeless charity colluding to deport homeless!

Lawyers from the Public Interest Law Unit (PILU) have submitted a formal complaint against St Mungo's, one of the leading homelessness charities in the UK, for its work in colluding with the Home Office to illegally deport homeless EEA (European Economic Area) nationals

Tories prepare for possible snap election

Jeremy Corbyn needs to do the same by standing up to Blairite saboteurs.
As the deadlock at the top of the Tory Party continues, Tory MPs are reported to be telling their constituency parties to prepare for another snap general election

Youthful enthusiasm to break with repression of past

The historic referendum to repeal the eighth amendment to the Irish constitution, which equates to an almost complete ban on abortion, takes place on 25 May

Support refugees rights

A recent Refugee Action report (bit.ly/2GFCd1y188/) reveals how those who flee persecution or war are systematically mistreated by the Home Office, notorious for implementing Theresa May's "hostile environment" for migrants

Antisemitism, Israel-Palestine, & the left

The Labour right wing and capitalist establishment are waging a colossal campaign to undermine Jeremy Corbyn's leadership of the Labour Party and his anti-austerity policies

Threat to unity of PCS left

Support Chris Baugh's re-election as AGS: PCS members will be shocked and disappointed that Janice Godrich intends to stand against fellow Socialist Party member Chris

Richest worth £724bn... as 100,000 kids fall into poverty

Sunday Times Rich List 2018: £724 billion. This is the combined wealth of Britain's 1,000 richest.

Royal wedding opulence... during longest pay squeeze in 200 years

The cost of Harry and Meghan's marriage will be 110 times that of the average couple - 1,785 times including security - according to estimates by wedding planner Bridebook.

Tories' continuing EU quagmire is Corbyn's opportunity

No-one is at the helm of the government's plan for Brexit. There is chaos at every level of the capitalist state as it threatens to crash out of the EU.

Stop the Israeli state slaughter!

While the move of the US embassy to Jerusalem was celebrated in that city by Trump's daughter and other super-wealthy US representatives, a terrible massacre was taking place in Gaza

Middle East in crisis

Around the world people have watched in horror at Trump's rejection of the deal with Iran and the unfolding violence perpetrated by the Israeli state forces against Palestinian protesters in Gaza - 60 were killed there on Monday 14th May alone, during protests against the moving of the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.

PCS conference 2018: building on the union's militant record

An interview with Socialist Party member Chris Baugh - three times elected PCS assistant general secretary - who will again be seeking the support of Left Unity to be its candidate in next year's election.

Breast cancer screening scandal

Tory ministers seldom apologise. Women over 70 - the most likely to die of breast cancer - are still not routinely screened, just as young women are not screened for cervical cancer.