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Honda bosses confirm closure: Unite must signal it will fight

Car workers in Swindon are reeling from the confirmation that the Honda plant will close

Bosses fear revolt against capitalism

"There is a real question about whether democratic capitalism is working, when it is only working for part of the population". This was the warning of capitalist economist Angus Deaton launching his review on inequality in Britain.

Profit system rapidly destroying environment

On 6 May, one of the most ambitious reports into climate change ever undertaken - the United Nation's Global Assessment Report on biodiversity - was released.

Them & Us

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

Knife crime tragedy linked to council cuts

In my home city of Birmingham there have been over 270 knife crimes so far this year. West Midlands Police report an 87% increase since 2013-2014.

Workload-related mistakes by GPs on the rise - health unions need to fight back

After nearly a decade of Tory austerity and attacks on the NHS, it comes as no surprise that a Panorama investigation found that GPs are making mistakes due to workload. A majority of GPs admit seeing considerably more patients in a day than is considered safe.

Privatisers sue NHS - kick out the fat cats and fully nationalise our health service!

A private company is taking the NHS to court, because its contract to run Nottingham University Hospital's outpatient-treatment centre was not renewed.

Take the wealth off the super-rich

The top 1,000 wealthiest individuals and families in Britain are sitting on a record £771.3 billion, up £47.8 billion in a year. This astonishing fact is in this year's Sunday Times Rich List.

Unions must back a general election and oppose bosses' EU

Unite and the CWU played a key role in defeating advocates of a 'people's vote' on the Labour NEC

Them & Us

It's one world for the bosses, and another for the rest of us. Fat cat pay; rail deregulation.

Northern Ireland: Socialist wins council seat

"I want to help rebuild the labour movement as a real alternative to the dead end of Green and Orange politics"

Water bosses plan to undermine nationalisation: no compensation for fat cats!

It is urgent that water and all utilities are fully nationalised, under democratic workers' control and management

Young and old, unite and fight!

A new House of Lords report is clearly an attack on pensioner benefits and an attempt to drive a wedge between older and younger people

Local elections: Tory meltdown but Labour loses ground

Editorial of the Socialist: Corbyn must lead fight against council cuts and promote bold socialist policies

Climate change: We need socialist change

Young people and workers need to build for mass action against Trump - and capitalism - this summer

Local elections 2019: Time to stand up and fight the cuts!

Across England, 91% of schools are facing funding cuts. Education is being damaged by Tory austerity. Labour councils could prevent these cuts in their areas by allowing schools to run legal licensed deficits. Instead, Labour councils continue to enforce Tory cuts.

Build student unions and walkouts to fight climate change and Trump!

Trump plans to once again visit Britain - on 3-5 June.

Wirral Tories raise spectre of Militant - but Liverpool's 1983-87 council shows way to fight cuts

"Don't let them do to Wirral what Derek Hatton and Militant did to Liverpool last time" was the warning of the Wirral Conservative Group's outrageous and desperate front page advertising wrap, printed for the Wirral Globe on 20 March.

Fracking mess

The government's fracking tsar, ex-Labour MP Natascha Engel, has quit six months into the job.

Universal Credit disaster behind foodbank rise

Universal Credit is being blamed for the record rise in the use of foodbanks as families required them to provide 14 million meals in the last 12 months.