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Visteon occupation—giving Ford a bloody nose

Sadie Robinson looks back ten years on from reporting on a workers’ occuption at Visteon car parts factory

Get rid of bonuses, and the whole system - leave the rich nothing

MPs want firms to cut bosses’ bonuses—because they fear the payouts will turn people against capitalism.

Why capitalism can’t solve the climate crisis

This year has seen the birth of a militant new climate movement on the streets.

Labour makes moves to cover its left flank

Until recently the Corbyn-supporting Momentum group hasn’t done much beyond organising canvassing days and online petitions. Now all of a sudden it’s organising protests over climate change.

Oppressed people aren’t always united

Divisions sown by the ruling class can have a devastating effect, writes Simon Basketter

Universal Credit is a Tory threat to women

Tory Britain is ruining lives. MPs have been forced to launch an inquiry into how the rollout of Universal Credit (UC) has pushed some women to work as prostitutes.

Brexit and the sham of capitalist democracy

Votes that aren’t “meaningful”. Votes on the already defeated policies of a government without a majority. And votes blocked by parliamentary conventions from over 400 years ago.

Brexit is not a key cause of the crisis in the car industry

Bad news has been hitting the British car industry since the start of the year. In January Jaguar Land Rover announced 4,500 redundancies, mostly in Britain.

We can be powerful when we fight together

Amid the stifling narrowness of official politics in Britain, there are some very welcome signs of change this week.

Resist racist Trump

Donald Trump is again holding ordinary people in the US to ransom in a bid to get billions in funding for his brutal border wall with Mexico.

Does money make the world go round?

In the past few weeks discussion of the obscure economic school is Modern Monetory Theory has gone viral

The right wants Labour to be party for the bosses

Politicians, the media and TV personalities are gunning for Jeremy Corbyn.

Busting the myths of knife crime

Every death from a knife, gun or other assault is a tragedy. But it’s not true, as the Daily Express newspaper claimed on Tuesday, that there are “war zones on our streets”.

The fantastic fictional life of Jeremy Corbyn

Nick Clark suffers the inaccuracies and smears in a new book about Jeremy Corbyn

Labour rows expose electoralism’s limits

The formation of The Independent Group (TIG) by breakaway Labour and Tory MPs is a sign of the extent to which the two-party system is buckling under the pressures of Brexit.

Chagos Islands shame

Some of the longest-suffering victims of Britain’s colonial past managed to embarrass its rulers in front of the world

The Tories fall apart over Brexit—now break their rule

Cracks in establishment politics are turning into chasms

Why there’s nothing funny about using blackface

Recently the Gucci luxury fashion brand produced a jumper which, when pulled over the wearer’s lower head, looks like blackface.

Antisemitism is a far right ideology

Antisemitic conspiracy theories have nothing to do with the politics of Jeremy Corbyn, with his history of anti-racist and anti-imperialist campaigning, let alone that of the Marxist left