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What we heard

Blairite Leslie won't be missed: Nottingham's now ex-Labour MP Chris Leslie has been a problem for a while now, writes A Nottingham East Labour Party member.

What we saw

"Socialism is storming back" declares the Economist magazine. It points out that 51% of 'millennials' in the US aged 18-29 have a positive view of socialism

Ten years since Lindsey strike: when militant action stopped the 'race to the bottom'

On the basis of class struggle, workers democratically negotiated solutions to supposedly conflicting interests

To end climate change we need to fight for socialist change!

15 February youth strike for climate: We welcome this youth strike - mass collective action is what is required

Them & us

Fossil fuel subsidies for the bosses... rising sea levels for us

Marx memorial attack shows socialist ideas are on the rise

The real answer to poverty, division and despair is a new society based on public ownership and democratic socialist planning of resources

Universal Credit out - Tories out!

Corbyn should call on Labour councils to set no-cuts budgets now to protect working-class people from the effects of Universal Credit

Corbyn must launch struggle to kick out Blairites and fight for socialist policies

Labour right plotters must go: Getting rid of this rotten Tory government is not the priority for the Blairites

Corbyn must prepare for a general election

Remove the pro-capitalist saboteurs - fight for the socialist alternative!
Talk of a split from the Labour Party by some Blairite Remainer MPs has increased

Cash-starved health service ripped off by big pharma - fund our NHS now!

The NHS has been priced out of buying a life-saving drug by pharmaceutical company Vertex. The cystic fibrosis drug, which can extend the life of children, costs £105,000 a year - a price which the NHS says is "unaffordable".

Them & Us

Lords and the homeless - its one world for the super-rich and another for the rest of us

Struggling unis account for bulk of unconditional offers - end education marketisation!

It has been revealed that 20 universities are responsible for the massive spike in unconditional offers to students.

Tory Brexit farce, Corbyn and unions: Call mass action now

For all those of us living in the real world, the pantomime season is long since over. But, as the Tory Brexit crisis plays itself out daily in parliament, it can just seem like a toffs' slanging match stuck on a loop.

Billionaires avoid paying and even talking about tax! Take the wealth off the 1%

Dutch historian Rutger Bregman went viral by putting the cat among the pigeons at billionaires get together Davos in Switzerland recently

Austerity out, Tories out

"Christmas is only just over and it's already the end of May".
That was the comment of one social media user after the government's historic 15 January defeat in parliament on the Brexit deal.

Liverpool Travelodge digger wrecking

Footage of a disgruntled construction worker, owed £600 by his employer, smashing the reception of a newly built Liverpool Travelodge with his digger has gone around the world. It has attracted humorous comments, condemnation and some sympathy.

Fresh inquest into killer air pollution: nationalise energy and public transport!

The family of nine-year-old Ella Roberta have been allowed to apply for a new inquest into the wrongful death of their daughter.

Tory on homeless: "tear down these tents"

We say: tear down the Tory government!: Cardiff Tory councillor Kathryn Kelloway has sparked outrage by calling on social media for the tents of homeless people in the city to be torn down.

Them & Us

Davos special! The World Economic Forum will see the planet's billionaires gather again

Wales is Europe's prisoner capital: capitalist cutters' crimes to blame

A socialist justice system would have rehabilitation and protection, not profit, as its goal