Unite members at Gatwick Airport took strike action over the Easter weekend after their employer, Red Handling, routinely failed to make correct payments into their pensions, as well as implementing ...

A climate catastrophe far worse than any yet seen is much closer now than when the first edition of Planning for the Planet was written in 2011. January 2025 was Earth’s hottest month ever, which ...

Swindon Socialist Party has achieved a milestone – holding two campaign stalls across two towns. For a relatively young and small Socialist Party branch, we were encouraged to act decisively on our ...

The Supreme Court ruling on Wednesday 16 April 2025 proves yet again that minority rights are not secure in a society in which a capitalist elite relies on scapegoating to preserve their rule. This is ...

Jay Coward and James Ivens, Equity members Delayed trade union rights, renewed arts austerity, lack of political voice – London members of Equity have urged the performing arts union to step up these ...

National union conferences are important: they bring together reps and activists to discuss what needs to be done. They are made up of a range of people – from hard-working reps to officials defending ...

The Labour government’s latest plans to reduce NHS waiting lists and the huge pressures on hospital consultants are encouraging GPs not to send patients to hospital. GPs will receive £20 every time a ...

One third of teachers are seeing physical underdevelopment in poorer pupils – this rising to more than half in deprived areas, the results of a recent National Education Union survey found. Many ...

In 2024, nearly half the world’s population was called to the ballot box. But beyond the global spotlight of the US election, a quieter yet significant development took place in the Gulf state of ...

After 14 years of Tory austerity, many hoped that a Labour government would pose a positive alternative and mark a shift in policies towards those that support ordinary people. It is evident that the ...

Bin workers in Birmingham continue their courageous strike, now into its seventh week of all-out action, against attacks which would slash the pay of a whole section of the workforce. The Labour-led ...

Some years ago, I worked for nine months at a packaging factory. There was an oversupply of workers and not always enough jobs. This was obvious every morning when the agency would send two ...