Britain

The abolition of ‘Clause IV Part IV’ – the socialist clause in the Labour Party’s constitution introduced in the aftermath of the Russian revolution – was carried out by Tony Blair in 1995. It symbolised […]

Outsourcing, PFI, privatisation, as in Carillion, is ‘reverse socialism’. It is nothing other than a highly efficient wealth transfusion system. We need a movement to kick out these profiteers from public services with compensation only […]

Demand action to save jobs and services

Ambulances queued upoutside A&Es. Trolleys carrying people in need of care stacked end-to-end in corridors. Long-awaited operations cancelled. Sick people lying on cold, hard floors because no beds are available. The winter NHS crisis has […]

  “Biggest fall in living standards for a generation.” “Sharp rise in child poverty as cuts bite.” “700,000 young people and pensioners join ranks of Britain’s poor in four years.” “Stoke proposes £1000 fine for […]

“If this Tory parody of a government is so shambolic, so chronically divided, so utterly directionless, then why no astronomical Labour lead in the polls?” Owen Jones askedin the Guardian on 29 November. He then […]

The world’s super-rich own vast sums of wealth and squirrel it away in whatever ways they can find. That’s nothing new.

Symptom of a rotten system