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The Erdington byelection and the fight for a new mass workers' party

Five years on from 13 million people voting for Jeremy Corbyn's anti-austerity manifesto, Corbyn
is not allowed to sit as a Labour MP.

Vote Nellist for a workers' MP in Erdington

"I've already voted for him" said a young mother with a postal vote walking past the railway station

Unite and fight for a decent pay rise

While bad weather batters the country, another storm is raging. A growing number of workers are taking action as the cost of living squeeze tightens. This is the most significant strike wave for over a decade.
With real inflation heading towards 8% and energy costs set to explode on the back of the Tory NI hike, increasingly workers are forced to fight back.

Privatisation and crisis in the NHS

The Tories have used the cover of the Covid pandemic to speed up their agenda of opening up the NHS further to the profiteers in the private sector.

Johnson scraps Covid safety measures

Fight for trade union control of workplace safety: At every stage of the pandemic, Johnson's Tory government has made decisions motivated in large part by the objective to protect bosses' profits.

Tories instruct teachers to wipe Britain's real history

The Tories in the Department for Education (DfE) are issuing guidelines to teachers about impartiality in the classroom

Bus services under threat

Fight for free, green, publicly owned transport: Nearly one in five households do not have access to a car. For those in the bottom 20% of households by income, the figure is one in three.

PCS Elections 2022: Time for new union leadership

It is in the vital interest of PCS members to replace the Democracy Alliance leadership

Britain's economic growth figures mask fragile false recovery

The capitalist media celebrated the announcement that the UK economy grew by 7.5% in 2021.

Covid: Fight for full sick pay

Numbers of Covid cases and hospital admissions are at a similar level to February last year. There are still over 200 deaths per day. But, for political reasons, the Tories are using a drop from the record-high

'Labour by name - Tory by policy'

Solidarity with the Coventry bin lorry drivers
Build a movement to defend living standards
Labour by name, Tory by policy," chanted Coventry's HGV drivers' union convenor as he marched through Coventry along with his striking colleagues.

Tory stealth taxes burden 'packhorse generation'

Young workers are set to shoulder the burden of Covid spending and addressing the crisis in NHS and social care, according to the Intergenerational Foundation think tank

Left Labour MPs under pressure over Erdington

Zarah Sultana, the Labour MP for Coventry South, is under threat of deselection for being one of the small number of Labour MPs who has publicly called for Jeremy Corbyn to be reinstated as a Labour MP

Neither Washington, London nor Moscow

Labour Party leader Keir Starmer has declared his devotion to Nato - the US-led Western powers' military organisation, established during the period of the 'Cold War' with the former Soviet Union.

Met police boss ousted

In September 2021, Cressida Dick was offered a two-year extension to her £230,000-a-year role as Metropolitan Police Commissioner

'Stand together and fight'

Abi is a hospital domestic, working nights at weekends. That's just one of his jobs.

Left Labour MPs under pressure over Erdington

Zarah Sultana, Labour MP for Coventry South, received angry responses to a tweet

Catastrophic energy bill hike - a crisis made by capitalism

Working-class families face a perfect storm. After two lost decades of living standards, stagnating wages, privatisation and cuts, and benefits slashed, now inflation is heading for 7%.

'I'm dreading trying to live on a nurse's salary'

As a student nurse in London, I'm living in an expensive city on a paltry student loan during my three years of training.

Cuts created NHS waiting list crisis

In desperate need of urgent spinal surgery, I am forced to be a patient patient. Due to the long waiting list, I am left bedbound whilst in immense pain.