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…
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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…
Water companies have been invited to advise on the design of new panels that are supposed to hold them accountable to the public. It’s a neat summary of Labour’s approach to the privatised water industry: let the monopolies keep control…
The Green Party of England and Wales has suspended Eleanora Sophie Folan, a trans communist elected by party members to its governing council, following a coordinated barrage of complaints and hostile press coverage. Folan, better known as the founder of…
Hundreds of far-right activists descended on Portsmouth on Sunday night after a boat carrying 140 asylum seekers was intercepted near the Hampshire coast. The vessel’s arrival prompted a major rescue operation involving lifeboats, a helicopter, an aeroplane, Border Force, police…
Labour has accused Reform UK’s Zia Yusuf of “straightforward racism” after he used the Somali birthplace of a prospective Labour candidate to question whether she belonged in the British parliament. Sagal Abdi-Wali, the leader of Camden council, is considered an…