After 14 years of Tory austerity, many hoped that a Labour government would pose a positive alternative and mark a shift in ...

Many people voted Labour at the general election because they were sick and tired of the Tories, and austerity that left services crumbling and our standards of living falling. Any hopes in Labour ...

May Day is an annual celebration of workers’ struggle against capitalism. And workers have been doing just that in the fantastic strike waves of the last few years, with millions of workers taking ...

As the Socialist goes to press, it has been reported that government pay review bodies will recommend that teachers and NHS staff should be given pay rises of about 4% and 3% respectively, up from the ...

Retail and distribution union Usdaw’s Annual Delegate Meeting (ADM) in Blackpool this year takes place ten months since the fall of 14 years of Tory rule, with a Labour government which many Usdaw ...

Socialist Party Wales campaign stalls were swamped at the Welsh independence march in Barry on 26 April. This was the first Welsh independence march in a few years, full of angry people against the ...

Robbie Davidson, Manchester Socialist Students Manchester and Salford Socialist Students travelled to the office of Labour MP ...

Thousands demonstrated against the Supreme Court ruling that disgracefully attacks trans rights. We haven’t seen a demo this big since Donald Trump’s first state visit. The sense of solidarity was ...

The strike by Veolia bin workers in Sheffield, members of Unite, fighting for union recognition, is now entering its tenth month. Resolve remains firm among the strikers, whose morale has been boosted ...

The Unison National Executive Council (NEC) April meeting was the first since the Labour government announced £5 billion cuts to disability benefits. There was little time to discuss this brutal ...

After the announcement that inflation in March fell to 2.6%, chancellor Rachel Reeves described it as “encouraging” and showing that Labour’s economic plans are working. But, as BBC news put it, “it ...