Helen Udoaka and her three week old daughter, Michelle; Catherine Hickman; Dayana Francisquini and her three year old son Filipe and six year old daughter Thais are all dead. They died because they were poor.
Disgraced bankers, corrupt politicians, unelected officials and bosses want ordinary people to suffer even more to help get them out of their crisis.
New figures out this week prove that it is an "urban myth" that public sector workers are having an easy ride compared to those in the private sector.
The National Express East Coast (NXEC) rail line became the latest failure of privatisation last week when the company admitted that it could not meet the £1.4 billion payments for the franchise.
A projected rise in the number of people with swine flu to 100,000 a day by late August could cause a crisis for the NHS, a Newcastle-based GP told Socialist Worker.
The government says it plans to create a million "green jobs". Meanwhile, in the real world, Britain’s only wind turbine factory is being closed down.
The row over the 10p tax rate was revived on Tuesday when Labour backbenchers threatened to block Gordon Brown’s entire budget over the issue.
Many university leavers are facing a bleak future with the number of graduate jobs on offer down by almost 30 percent on last year.
The recession is disproportionately hitting older people as well as the young, with the number of pensioners going bankrupt almost tripling in the last five years.
Over a thousand people filled Friends House in central London last night for a packed opening rally of the Marxism 2009 festival.
Militant mass pickets gathered outside Norlington boys' school in Leyton, east London, this morning as teachers took part in their first day of strike action against plans to merge the school with two others to create a Trust school.
The Socialist Workers Party produced an open letter to all those on the left in the aftermath of last month’s European elections.
