At least five Reform UK councillors have been members of a Facebook group promoting the far-right Patriot Platform, according to anti-fascist campaigners. The councillors — two from Solihull, two from Gateshead and one from Kent — belonged to the closed…
The threat of coordinated strike action has forced the government to abandon plans that would have made schools fund part of England’s latest teacher pay rise by cutting into their existing budgets. Members of the National Education Union (NEU), the…
Ed Sheeran says he doesn’t use his professional platform for politics. He made that claim after Macklemore was removed from the US leg of his Loop tour for expressing support for Palestine. But Sheeran has repeatedly used his concerts, recordings,…
The attack on the triple lock dresses a class conflict up as a dispute between generations. The full new state pension is expected to rise by £488 next April, taking it to £250.70 a week, or £13,036.40 a year. The…
Private rents across the UK have begun accelerating again after a three-year slowdown, with tenants warned that increases could reach 4 percent or 5 percent by the end of the year. The average rent advertised for a new tenancy was…
Two men and a 16-year-old boy have been arrested as far-right demonstrators returned to Portsmouth for a second weekend to protest against immigration. The mobilisation followed the interception last Sunday of a small boat carrying 140 people seeking asylum. Far-right…
Two cryptocurrency billionaires have poured £72m into Reform UK in just 24 hours, giving Nigel Farage’s party the two largest individual donations ever made to a British political party. Christopher Harborne donated £36m, matching a payment from fellow billionaire Ben…
British communists, socialists and labour organisers don’t operate on neutral ground. They work inside a capitalist state whose institutions exist to preserve bourgeois property and political power. Whatever formal rights the working class possesses are concessions produced by struggle, not…
RNLI volunteers have been advised to stop wearing branded clothing when it could place them in danger, as far-right groups step up their intimidation of lifeboat crews involved in rescuing asylum seekers in the Channel. The charity has also told…
The Scottish government is consulting on plans to cap the prices of up to 50 essential food products, including milk, eggs, cheese and rice. Large supermarkets would have to offer at least one version of each product at the capped…
