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NHS: Mass fightback is needed

NHS services are showing the strain of cuts, privatisation and insufficient funding.

Bosses' pay up a fifth while workers' pay falls ...

The average worker would take four lifetimes to earn what the average FTSE 100 chief executive makes in one year.

Prison crisis: a catastrophe of cuts and privatisation

Birmingham Prison has become the latest in a long line of catastrophic failures of privatisation

Tories fear housing anger... but offer no solutions

The government's latest policy document on housing is a much-delayed response to mounting anger at the Grenfell Tower fire and the deep housing crisis, with unaffordable homes and increasing number sleeping rough.

Johnson's burqa outburst highlights racist Tory hypocrisy

Corbyn and unions can halt right populism by leading fight: Boris Johnson's attack on Muslim women who wear the burqa - comparing them to "letterboxes" and "bank robbers" - is a sexist, dehumanising comment, with racism at its root.

Nationalise rail! Tories out!

Staff and passengers are on same side: Beleaguered commuters learnt on 15 August that they will face yet another increase in rail fares from January.

Blairites go on saving Tories - boot them all out!

The Tory party's painful breakdown continues, as hardcore neoliberal Remainers like Anna Soubry pull in one direction, and right-wing populists like Boris Johnson and Jacob Rees-Mogg pull in the other.

Antisemitism smears against Corbyn are battering ram of the right

Accusations of antisemitism directed at Corbyn have resurged to a fever pitch

PCS: the real issues at stake

The dispute within the left of Britain's largest civil service union raises key issues for the whole labour movement. Above all, the need for democratic, lay-member control of fighting trade unions.

Antisemitism slanders against Corbyn

Further comment on the latest attacks on Corbyn will be posted on our website soon; meanwhile here are some links to previous articles

The fight against Labour's Blairites and TUSC's role now

The Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition could still play an important role if it is recast for the period ahead

Them & us

It's one world for the super-rich, and another for the rest of us. Branson's NHS billions v working while sick; principal's money for nothing v massive benefits underpayment; pubs too expensive

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.