Social wage / Budget 2016: attacking the poor will not fix the economy

Chancellor Osborne is finding that there is no escape from the world capitalist economic crisis.

Health / Public health: a matter of private profit

The proposed junior doctors’ contracts and cuts to student nurse bursaries are part of the drive to turn our hospitals into profit-taking enterprises.

Climate change / Sea levels are rising faster than previously thought

Capitalism has no answer to its destruction of the environment.

Korea / Socialist Korea refuses to be intimidated by imperialist sanctions

The DPRK will not be denied the right to develop the necessary technology to defend itself and to improve its people’s lives.

Industry / Industry matters: TUC touts for the EU

Society / Letter: We need a council tax rebellion

Ukraine / Deeper into the quagmire

Into which the siren song of the EU has lured it.

USA / The rise of Donald Trump: a revolt against the establishment

The anger of poor white workers in the US may be misdirected for now, but it is real and it is growing.

Society / Joint enterprise murder convictions judged unsound

All those who have been unjustly jailed should be freed, and should be compensated for their lost years.

British politics / Letter: Brexit – a historian’s view

The EU is an undemocratic institution created in order to oppress, exploit and wage war.

Capitalist crisis / The rich are getting richer but fewer

As the gap between the rich and poor widens, some of the rich find themselves being kicked downstairs.

Working-class history / The 1916 Easter Rising remembered

Irish revolutionary nationalists rose up against British rule a hundred years ago, in an event of world-historic significance.