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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.

4m children in homes that can't afford fruit and veg

£10 an hour now Scrap benefit cuts: Four million children in the UK live in households unable to afford enough fruit, vegetables, fish and other essential food groups to meet government nutrition guidelines, says the Food Foundation.

Them & Us

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

School students in solitary: for full funding, not exclusion!

'Isolation booths' - solitary confinement in all but name - are an increasingly common feature of 'zero-tolerance' school behaviour policies.

Tories in chaos - general election now!

Corbyn and unions must call mass action: The divide in the Tory party over Brexit is now wider than the Grand Canyon.

Theresa May's 'Chequers deal' mauled by Johnson and EU

Not even Theresa May's 'dancing' on her African travels could distract from the crisis her government faces

Unions must lead in fight to kick Tories out

TUC congress 2018: It's vital the unions mobilise their members now to lead the fight against the Tories

Labour: Blairite wreckers must be given the boot

The Tory government is back from its holidays and once again in meltdown. The millions suffering pay restraint, benefit cuts and poverty will be hoping that we are about to see the back of it. Meanwhile the Blairite saboteurs in the Labour Party have spent the summer cranking up their false allegations of antisemitism

What we heard

Hark at this! May's Mandela mess; farewell, Frank Field!

Capitalism in crisis: news in brief

Short news reports. Bezos wants workers "terrified"; Izzard booted off Labour NEC.

Tory and Blairite racist policy is behind Windrush fatality

Unions must lead fight against racism: The inquest into the death of Dexter Bristol, a victim of the Windrush generation scandal, has revealed another sorry face of the 'hostile environment' that faces migrant workers

Them & Us

It's one world for the super-rich, and another for the rest of us. Lehman Brothers blow-out v workers' debt pile-up; golden chicken wings v McDonald's ads for kids

Self-harm soars among young: fight the mental health crisis

22% of 14-year-old girls are self-harming. They are more than twice as likely as boys - themselves at an unacceptable 9%

Trump ally prosecutions

Trump and his government are facing a fresh crisis. First his election campaign manager, Paul Manafort, was found guilty of financial crimes including tax and bank fraud. Then his former lawyer, Michael Cohen, pleaded guilty to breaking election campaign funding laws.

Working families £50 a week short of paying for kids

Feed your child or heat the house; buy a school uniform or pay the electricity bill - these are the kinds of impossible choices faced by more and more working parents every day

Nationalise the energy giants to combat global warming

The oldest, thickest, most frozen sea ice in the arctic, to the north of Greenland, remains frozen all year. But this year it has broken away - twice! This has never been seen before.

Capitalism is a chaotic, irrational system - we need socialist change

On all fronts - from the environment and infrastructure, to jobs and services, to health and wellbeing - this system is failing us. It's no wonder that people are looking for an alternative.