Privatisation is not the answer We need a proper strategy to revitalise our public services – expecting privateers to rush to the rescue is no answer to the problems in the NHS and elsewhere, warns DIANE ABBOTT MP
Monday 08th Apr 2024 Crap politics: from the rivers to the sea When it comes to the water industry, we need to put the interests of society before those of speculators. ALAN SIMPSON has some ideas about how to bring about the change we need
Saturday 06th Apr 2024 US auto unions take on Mercedes In an organising rampage, the UAW has spread to new plants and supply chain workplaces, signing up huge numbers of new members and taking on the German car giant, reports TONY BURKE
Saturday 06th Apr 2024 Teachers are shaping the political narrative NEU president EMMA ROSE addressed the union's conference at Bournemouth International Centre this week
Saturday 06th Apr 2024 The murder of aid workers should be a turning point These deliberate and cold-blooded killings demand a global response: with over 30,000 Palestinian deaths, it's time for decisive action to end the bloodshed and hold Israel accountable for war crimes, writes DIANE ABBOTT MP
Saturday 06th Apr 2024 Harry Pollitt School 2024: to go green, see red RICHARD HEBBERT and NATHAN HENNEBRY reflect on the Marxist answers to the climate crisis ahead of this weekend’s discussions and debates at the annual communist weekend school in Manchester
Saturday 06th Apr 2024 The New Deal for Working People must be defended Labour's New Deal for Working People is central to combating in-work poverty and ensuring fair treatment for all — it’s a flagship policy that has the potential to be transformative to workers' lives, writes ANDY McDONALD MP
Saturday 06th Apr 2024 New solutions to old problems: economic imperatives for the new Welsh cabinet The Cabinet Secretary for Economy, Energy and Welsh Language inherits significant challenges from his predecessor — Wales needs new approaches and solutions to the longstanding challenges it faces, writes LUKE FLETCHER MS
Saturday 06th Apr 2024 Reflections on our NASUWT conference and political campaign Sending solidarity to sister teaching union the NEU, MATT FLAMENCO sums up his union’s conference and its choices on campaigning activity and industrial action
Friday 05th Apr 2024 A ‘plausible genocide’ that could be ended easily The US and even Britain could force a ceasefire by halting arms sales to Israel, writes KEVIN OVENDEN, and now the staggering failure to take any meaningful action is weighing heavily on both country’s political establishment
Friday 05th Apr 2024 Back to the failed future VINCE MILLS takes issue with the New Labour-inspired plans of shadow work and pensions secretary Liz Kendall for so-called Neets – people not in education, employment or training