TUC calls for ‘profit restraint’ as inflation reaches new 40-year high

The great fightback against austerity has begun

So much more is at stake in the rail workers’ dispute than the livelihoods of the RMT's 80,000 members — we may well be witnessing the struggle that will end not only this government, but the austerity era itself, writes DIANE ABBOTT MP

'Levelling up' is doubling down on the impoverishment of Britain

The Conservative government has claimed that ‘levelling up’ is central to their agenda, but even a cursory look at their policies shows they are clearly responsible for instead creating record levels of inequality, writes JON TRICKETT MP

Tory austerity to blame for increase in deaths, study suggests

The misery we face is a political choice

The cost of living is 'now the most important concern' for 76 per cent of people in the north-east, but even now the government is not changing its course of cuts and poverty — we must fight back, argues KATE OSBORNE MP

Editorial: Shrinking real incomes are government policy – and the working class needs to fight back

STORM clouds are gathering over Britain.

Interview: ‘Now we’re only seeing families and adults when it hits a crisis point’

On World Social Work Day, Steve Sweeney talks to JOHN McGOWAN, general secretary of the Social Workers Union, about the challenges facing the sector caused by increasing poverty and why specialised unions have a lot to offer

If not now, then when?

In the run-up to Plaid Cymru conference, Senedd member RHYS AB OWEN argues that the pandemic has been a chance to radically imagine what a future society should be – but we’re already seeing backsliding from the powers that be who have no desire to reorganise society to benefit ordinary people  

Tory laissez-faire approach means more poverty and misery

The government is not even pretending to have an answer to the dire situation most of us face. Workers can’t wait for it to tackle the deepening cost-of-living crisis – we have to take action ourselves, writes KEN LIVINGSTONE

INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY 2022 Women’s rights are not some subsection of the class struggle 

Women have just as big a role to play in the trade unions and in political life as men – every aspect of our day-to-day lives is affected by workplace policies and by the decisions of the politicians in Westminster, argues HELEN O’CONNOR