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Hospitals are likely to turn patients away in the coming weeks, as the NHS faces a Christmas crisis. 

Peers moaned that they couldn’t possibly cope with a cut in the quality of champagne available in the Lords, while millions queue for food banks.

Millions of workers hate Ukip and the Tories, but don’t see Labour standing up to them. Socialist Worker has argued that the left should present a united challenge at the election. We asked activists what they think

The right wing crowed when Gordon Brown announced his plan to quit parliament. And Labour’s left mourned—not least those trying to “reclaim” it from New Labour.

If you want to get a sense of how Ukip’s rise is debasing political debate, you need look no further than the absurd martyrdom of “White Van Man”.

Newly-elected ukip MP Mark Reckless let the cat out of the bag last week when he revealed Ukip policy to repatriate migrants.

Alex Callinicos looks at the reasons for the electoral crisis Labour and the other main parties have found themselves in

The political establishment is still reeling from the turmoil created by the Yes campaign in Scotland.

Up to 500 people protested outside Glasgow City Council on Wednesday of last week to defend the Glasgow Association of Mental Health (GAMH).

David Cameron is on the brink of losing another by-election. He’s lost two MPs to the hard right Ukip and more than 20 think he should step down—but his leadership is not in question. Yet Labour Party leader Ed Miliband is the one staring down the barrel of a gun.

That sound you can hear is a bandwagon starting to roll. Four years after everyone else it has finally dawned on the Labour Party that their leader is inept. Step forward Alan Johnson. Johnson has long been a pin-up boy for Blue Labour, but there are some signs that the quinoa-munching section of the party...

Around 500 people attended the Class think tank’s 2014 conference What Britain Needs last Saturday at the TUC in London.