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‘Socialist governments traditionally do make a financial mess. It’s quite a characteristic of them’

A record of the vibrant march through north London on Saturday 13 April, by Terry McGrath

The votes have been counted in the Unite union's election for its next general secretary, and rank and file challenger Jerry Hicks received his strongest ever vote.

People protested around the country today, Saturday, against the bedroom tax and other benefit cuts. Events were organised in some of the hardest hit areas and on the doorsteps of the millionaire ministers behind the attacks.

Electrician Frank Morris says workers were sidelined or dismissed for raising significant safety issues on the Crossrail scheme. 

Protesters targeted housing associations in the Glasgow region on Wednesday, demanding they stand by tenants who are being hit by the Tories’ bedroom tax.

The day after Margaret Thatcher died the newspapers were remarkably uniform—only one broke the mould

Where do I begin to comment on the blight on the working class that was Margaret Thatcher?

Someone is killing fat cats. Three top Stockholm bankers have been shot in the head in as many nights and there’s no sign it’s going to stop. 

David Cameron declared of Margaret Thatcher, “She didn’t just lead our country, she saved our country

Around two million people in over 650,000 households were hit by the Tories’ tax on social housing tenants’ spare bedrooms last week. Fewer than 1 percent of them have moved into smaller properties. 

The Tories’ welfare cuts have sparked widespread protest.