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Hancock's half-cocked response to crisis in mental health

Tory health secretary Matt Hancock offered warm words in the run-up to World Mental Health Day on Wednesday.

We need system change to save the planet

If the disaster that climate scientists warned of this week is to be avoided, there needs to be radical action.

Will the rich flee before a Corbyn government?

While Brexit obsesses politicians and commentators, the super-rich apparently are more worried about Jeremy Corbyn.

Don’t fall for right wing lies over abuse perpetrators

The left should give no ground to argument that Asian men are more likely to be child abusers, argues Sadie Robinson

The rich are the real looters in Indonesia

People in flood-hit towns and cities in Indonesia have resorted to taking supplies from shops without paying.

Don’t give in to myths about asylum seekers

A Tory deal has banned asylum seekers from being housed in the north east of England following far right protests.

The truth about food that makes us sick

Pret A Manger killed a teenage girl.

Andrew Murray is right - the spooks and the state are trying to undermine Corbyn

Labour’s deputy leader Tom Watson tried to belittle claims that the spooks were out to undermine Jeremy Corbyn as a “bit John le Carre”.

After John McDonnell’s pledges - how do we get real workers’ democracy?

Shadow chancellor John McDonnell has enraged the Tories and the right wing press by announcing plans to nationalise the water industry, rail and other utilities.

Go beyond the false ‘choices’ over Brexit

The Daily Express newspaper declared it was Theresa May’s “finest hour” as she defended her Chequers deal on Brexit last weekend.

Brexit didn’t drive Jaguar cuts

One thousand Jaguar car workers in the West Midlands are to be put on a three-day week

Liberals do not have any answers to crisis

Ten years after the collapse of Lehman Brothers, it’s a matter of controversy whether the global economic crisis it helped to precipitate is over.

Survey shows we have to fight for our anti-racist ideas

Despite the racist onslaught from the politicians and the press, a majority of people think immigration has had an overall positive impact on Britain

Bold strikes mean cleaners are winning big

Cleaners across London have got bosses running scared.

Why battles over working hours are key to capitalism

Bosses won’t let us benefit from advances in technology unless we fight them, argues Tomáš Tengely-Evans

Union leaders aren’t doing enough to unite workers in action

If the ambitions of the trade union movement are going to be realised then we need to go beyond sectional battles

Health is a class issue

Women in Britain die earlier than women living in most other European countries, according to Public Health England (PHE).

EU border force Frontex - now with guns to use on migrants

When the Syrian regime begins its latest bloody assault on its own people, politicians in Europe will be ready to feign sorrow for the victims.

The Labour right are attacking the real anti-racists

Something remarkable is happening in the Labour Party. The right is trying to seize the mantle of anti-racism.

‘Community’ is no way to fight against oppression

Sharing a religion or ethnicity doesn’t mean everyone has the same interests, argues Sadie Robinson

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