Rolls-Royce and BAE Systems have raised their profit forecasts as governments across the capitalist world prepare to pour even more public money into weapons, surveillance systems and nuclear submarines. Rolls-Royce now expects to make an underlying operating profit of between…
The British government is preparing to use AI-powered facial analysis at the border, despite warnings that the technology is racially biased and could condemn refugee children to detention, removal and unsafe accommodation alongside adults. Under the plans, facial age-estimation software…
The BBC has published another lesson in how bourgeois propaganda works: not by openly demanding that workers be made poorer, but by presenting attacks on living standards as the unavoidable conclusions of serious economic analysis. The article reports warnings from…
Campaign group Led By Donkeys has received £27,216 in compensation after Greater London Authority officials seized and destroyed a giant banner declaring “Yes It’s A Genocide” in Parliament Square. The 40-metre by 40-metre banner was unfurled on 4 December 2024,…
The Home Office is preventing dozens of women and children from leaving Gaza to reunite with relatives in Britain, even though the Foreign Office says it’s ready to evacuate them. Families with applications already in progress remain trapped under bombardment…
Capitalism doesn’t only control what we produce and who owns it. It also shapes how we understand ourselves. Its preferred image of society is a collection of separate individuals, each pursuing their own interests and responsible for their own fate….
Britain’s inflation rate fell to 2.6 percent in the year to June, helped by lower food and fuel costs. Ministers will present the figure as evidence that the cost-of-living crisis is easing. But slower inflation doesn’t mean prices have returned…
As the United States endures another summer of dangerous heat, drought and flooding, more and more working people are recognising what they’re experiencing isn’t just bad luck. According to new polling by Data for Progress, 61% of likely voters believe…
Four years into Britain’s cost-of-living crisis, the reality facing the working class is getting worse, not better. New figures from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) show that 62 percent of low-income families couldn’t afford at least one essential item during…
For millions of working-class families, the school holidays don’t mean rest. They mean another six weeks of worrying how to put food on the table. A charity in Sussex and Surrey has warned that families are skipping meals to make…
