Households in England and Wales will see their typical annual water bills increase by an average of £86 starting in April, the industry regulator Ofwat has announced. The hike will be most significant in the first year, with smaller increases…
A Texas federal court issued a nationwide preliminary injunction on Tuesday December 3rd, blocking the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) and its associated regulations, which mandate U.S. business entities to report stakeholder information to the Treasury Department. Judge Amos L. Mazzant…
by Harry Haywood, 1978, source: Marxist Internet Archive Apart from our academic courses, we received our first tutelage in Leninism and the history of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in the heat of the inner-party struggle then raging…
If you hang around socialist spaces online, you’ll regularly see someone make a very earnest post asking for ideas about how to stop leftist infighting. This isn’t surprising. Seeing how divided the left is can feel troubling when we’re so…
The US senate has approved a bill that will see TikTok banned in the US, unless its Chinese owner ByteDance sells its stake in the US arm of the company. The bill has widespread support in the senate, with 79…
From Monday the 8th of April, 5,000 nail technicians across the UK are set to raise their prices simultaneously. But this isn’t the usual coordinated industry price rise designed to fleece consumers. Nail technicians in the UK have been working…
McDonald’s has a Middle East problem. Revenues are down at stores across the region due to the ongoing boycott of the brand. The reason? The owner of the Israeli franchises responded to Israel’s genocidal attacks on Palestine by offering free…
Property prices are up 1.6 percent since March of last year, despite having fallen by 0.2 percent in the last month. Buying a typical home on an average salary of £35,000 today would mean that you pay out 40 percent…
This week, Thames Water has said that it needs to increase customer bills by 40 percent to pay for the necessary upgrades to its infrastructure. Thames Water, like other water companies in Britain, has been under the spotlight recently for…
The former president of the Chinese Football Association (CFA), Chen Xuyuan, has been sentenced to life in prison for bribery. Earlier this year, he pleaded guilty to taking bribes worth a total of 81 million yuan (£8.9m). Hopefully the funds,…