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Fat cats rake it in—make them pay out

Some newspapers last week reported that Britain’s top bosses have suffered a 17 percent pay cut. The real news is that the gap between bosses’ and workers’ wages is growing.

Do workers need a new strike ballot after 12 weeks?

Groups of workers who’ve led impressive strikes this year have then halted their action to run a second ballot once 12 weeks have passed.

Who really tolerates tyrants?

Politicians and pundits have whipped themselves up into moral outrage over Venezuelan “dictator”—or rather, elected president—Nicolas Maduro.

It's anger that fuels votes for an alternative

Is it really any wonder that people backed a manifesto that sought to reverse some of the worst effects of that crusade for the richest in society?

Courts protect warmonger Tony Blair

British newspapers were furious at a bomb maker who was jailed on terror charges last week.

Seize our rulers’ crisis to win real change

The people at the top of society are in trouble. We need to be organised to exploit their vulnerability and force them out, and fight for a better society in the process

The logic behind the crossover between Holocaust deniers and Israel’s allies

If you keep crying “Wolf!” don’t be surprised when the real beast enters the room.

Why we won’t get an anti-racist police force

Police officers in England have killed three black men in a month. Edson Da Costa died after being stopped by police in Newham, east London, on 15 June. His life support was switched off on 21 June.

Corbyn can’t afford a muddle on Brexit

Politicians who tied themselves in knots over whether to leave the European Union (EU) are finding the question of how to leave just as uncomfortable.

The Tories are the living dead - end the zombie regime

A letter of no confidence in Theresa May is already circulating among Conservative MPs.

Warmongers throw good money after bad

How much bang for your buck do you think you’d get for a £100 million fighter jet?

Time ticks away on the Tories’ collapsing cabinet

Tony Blair's latest intervention in the Brexit debate shows him to be unusually self-deluding even by his standards. He still doesn’t seem to understand that every time he opens his mouth he damages whatever cause he’s supporting.

‘Worker status’ is not good enough

The Taylor Review was brought about by challenges by workers in bogus self-employment. But there’s a danger that the result will serve the bosses.

No victory for West in Iraq

Even from their own viewpoint, warmongers’ celebrations of “victory” over Isis in Iraq sound hollow.

As Theresa May begs for help—don’t let her hang on

First Theresa May threw a bung to the reactionary Democratic Unionist Party. Then she called on the slippery Lib Dems to vote with her government. Now May is reaching out to Labour.

How can we fight under new strike laws?

Offshore workers in the Unite union are the latest to have their legal right to strike blocked by the Trade Union Act. But it is possible to fight as Royal Mail have shown.