Capitalist crisis / Labour means austerity, racism, repression and war

So where are the trade unions?

Social wage / Why is Manchester in poverty? Workers need socialism!

What is at the root of the spiral of poverty and decay we are experiencing in towns and cities across Britain?

China / How China is developing mass involvement in local governance

The CPC is working at the local level to build social cohesion and stability, deepening its connections with the people.

Capitalist crisis / Is life under capitalism getting you down? Luckily, there’s a cure!

Are you sad and depressed? Lonely? Anxious? Isolated? Worried about the future? You may be suffering from capitalism.

Korea / South Korea: the ‘Land of Morning Calm’ is working itself to death

Capitalist dystopia in action: behind the ‘economic miracle’, the daily grind keeps getting harder.

Education / Burden on students becoming unbearable as fresh rent hikes planned

Students are being milked like cash cows, while the vice-chancellors who facilitate this profiteering enjoy huge salaries and perks.

Pay and conditions / Homeless charity workers on strike for decent wages

St Mungo’s staff have suffered a 30 percent real-terms pay cut in the last ten years.

Trade unions / Model motion: Urgent measures needed to address the cost of living crisis

Why are workers being asked to pay the cost of a crisis that was not of their making? If capitalism cannot provide for its workforce, then capitalism must go.

Housing / Poor housing kills

The death of two-year-old Awaab Ishak has shone new light on a growing problem: the slum conditions being endured by too many in Britain today.

Capitalist crisis / Happy new year?

There is no reform that could enable this profit-hungry system to serve the needs of the working people.

China / Xi Jinping to CPC: The times are calling us, and the people expect us to deliver’

The last five years have indeed been ‘truly momentous and extraordinary’ ones in China’s history and development – and the next five look likely to be even more so.

Capitalist crisis / The cost of living crisis is a capitalist crisis!

The capitalists have shown themselves to be entirely unable to run their own system for the benefit of society.

Capitalist crisis / Cost of living crisis: the fightback is under way

Growing militance among unionised workers and vigorous new campaigns to combat the effects of poverty and inflation signify a change in the workers’ mood.

Housing / London’s great council housing fraud

Politicians talk as if workers are fools, but no-one who has tried to live on a worker’s salary can swallow the London mayor’s lies about an increase in ‘affordable’ homes.

Housing / Ban extended, but evictions continue

Behind the toothless legislation is a government, and parliament, inextricably intertwined with the landlord class.

Housing / Planning reforms won’t fix the housing crisis

Building more homes is not the answer unless they are built for those who need them.

Housing / Grenfell Tower: construction bosses’ contempt for workers’ lives laid bare

Despite its best efforts, the glacial inquiry has let slip a series of unpalatable truths about the practices and motivations of the construction industry.

Social wage / The plight of the homeless after lockdown

‘Business as usual’ as rough sleepers are thrown back onto the streets.

Social wage / Austerity Britain: where the homeless seek shelter in bins

Report reveals shocking rise of bin sleepers as one waste worker recounts finding children as young as nine or ten.

Pay and conditions / Union-busting at St Mungo’s homeless charity

More pressure on workers in the charity sector, where a race to the bottom is well underway.

Venezuela / The successes of the Bolivarian housing mission in Venezuela

Bringing solidarity to a heroic people as they resist imperialist siege.

Housing / Foreign investors head to Birmingham housing market

As London property prices nose-dive, investors are hoping to make a quick buck out of new-build apartments in the country’s second-largest city.

Housing / Council tax becoming the new poll tax says report

Thinktank investigation reveals the huge disparity in rates of payment between the poorest and richest households.

Housing / Right-to-rent and work checks promote racism and victimise the most vulnerable

Forcing landlords and employers to check the immigration status of tenants and employees has led to a surge in homelessness among non-white workers in Britain.

Housing / Grenfell Tower – another long and winding public inquiry

Privatisation, subcontracting and the drive to maximise profits led to the inferno, but the ruling class will be hoping the inquiry can come up with a scapegoat or two on whom to pin the blame for its crimes.

Housing / The housing crisis is lining private landlords’ pockets

Housing benefit is acting as the ‘landlords’ bonus’, while provision of emergency temporary accommodation by private landlords is the ‘icing on the cake’.

Housing / Residents resist social cleansing in Cambridge

The CPGB-ML supports tenants in Montreal Square, who are trying to save their community from redevelopment.

Housing / The housing crisis shows that capitalism is due for demolition

Housing should be a right not a privilege, yet capitalism has proven itself incapable of providing a decent home to every worker.

Ireland / Gangsters employed by the state to assist slum landlords

In Ireland, as in Britain, the housing crisis is deepening while the government backs up the vultures feeding off the misery of poor.

Housing / Property tycoon hikes rent by 10 percent

The decimation of social housing proves once more the inability of the market to provide even for people's most basic needs.

Housing / Housing shortage in the midst of plenty

It is not the right to buy that workers need, but the right to a home.

Pay and conditions / Council workers win skirmish with Manchester outsourcing cowboy

The involvement of Labour councils in the outsourcing racket should make unions think twice about their generous donations to the party's coffers.

Leaflets / Housing: a crisis of capitalism

What must be done in order to provide decent homes to all workers?

Housing / Grenfell Tower: tragedy or crime?

What was behind the devastating fire in north Kensington in June?

Housing / What did the October Revolution do for us? 2. Housing

The second in our series of articles examining the impact of the October Revolution of 1917 on the lives of workers in Britain.

Housing / Labour council pushes ahead with housing segregation in Haringey

The disgrace of social cleansing in London.

Housing / Editorial: The housing crisis

The horrific fire at Grenfell Tower in London, which has killed so many working-class people, demonstrates the terrible reality of housing in Britain today.

British politics / Editorial: Our demands