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Right wing rags attacked the Royal College of Midwives (RCM) over abortion this week.

Refuse workers at Tory-run South Ayrshire council walked out on Thursday of last week. 

As robots begin to do more of the jobs traditionally done by people, Tomáš Tengely-Evans asks if the relationship between worker and machine has fundamentally changed

Dave Sewell begins a series on issues raised by the European Union referendum, which will take place on Thursday 23 June

“Tories in meltdown” ran a headline in the Sunday Times newspaper last week. The story said, “As party unity crumbles, Boris Johnson may be back to seize Cameron’s job”.

I’ve been in Istanbul participating in the Marxism 2016 festival organised by the Revolutionary Socialist Workers Party (DSIP). Turkey's politics has undergone an astonishing reversal over the past year.

Schools in England could be hit by strikes in July if teachers vote for action over the education white paper. The NUT union was set to begin a strike ballot next Monday.

Britain’s draconian immigration controls were tightened last week with the passage of the Tories’ Immigration Act 2016.

Around 60,000 UCU union members in universities were set to begin a two-day strike on Wednesday of next week. Workers want a decent pay rise and an end to inequality in pay – particularly for women and casualised staff.