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The number of NHS operations that are cancelled has hit a 13-year high, reveal new figures from NHS England.

Right wing attacks on Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour leadership bid have created a daily debate about the nature and purpose of the party.

Right wing attacks on Labour Party leadership candidate Jeremy Corbyn and his policies haven’t stopped his support growing.

Some 2,000 people turned out for a rally to elect Jeremy Corbyn leader of the Labour Party in central London on Monday of this week.

Queues of lorries choke the streets of Dover in Kent. They tail back from the port town, through Kent’s roads and onto the M20 motorway.

Selling off services means misery for ordinary people and more wealth for the rich—now the privateers are using cuts to grab more, writes Raymie Kiernan

The Tories are clamping down on trade unionists to eliminate opposition to their austerity agenda. Raymie Kiernan looks at a bill that could make it almost impossible for some workers to strike legally

Christine Buchholz, an MP in German left party Die Linke, says opposition to austerity is growing on Angela Merkel’s own turf

A mood of resistance is building in Manchester ahead of the Tory Party conference, which will be held there in October.

One of the Tories’ most vicious attacks on the poor and the working class passed its second reading in parliament on Monday of this week. 

MPs were set to vote on the second round of austerity measures in Greece’s new bailout package on Wednesday of this week.

Greek prime minister Alexis Tsipras sacked the three ministers of Syriza’s Left Platform who had voted against the first round of austerity measures last week.