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Workers’ living standards have taken another hammering after inflation rose at its fastest recorded rate last month.

The reduction in Universal Credit (UC) by £20 a week will force 1.2 million people to skip meals according to a survey conducted by YouGov.

The Tories’ class war has escalated further, and it isn’t set to slow down. This week Tory Work and Pension Secretary Therese Coffey unveiled her solution to the scrapping of the Universal Credit £20 uplift.

A survey of more than 20,000 working parents has concluded that the government’s childcare policies are grossly inadequate.

A few days after parliament overwhelmingly passed the first round of the government’s social care bill, Tory MPs are already having jitters.

Boris Johnson was expected this week to throw away virtually any protection against Covid-19.

Johnson dominates British politics to an extent that no one has since Margaret Thatcher and Tony Blair. The fundamental reason for this is Johnson’s willingness to challenge establishment neoliberalism.

The US military lied about the ­murderous drone strike that killed ten people in the last days of its retreat from Afghanistan.

France has warned the Tories not to do anything that breaches international law to avoid a “serious loss” of confidence and cooperation.

Long hours and low pay, services collapsing after years of cuts, thousands of unfilled vacancies, needs of the cared for ignored. Socialist Worker talks to frontline care workers about what’s gone wrong

The lives of around a million people are set to be thrown into chaos when the Tories close the furlough scheme at the end of the month.

British border guards could gain the power to stop, board and instantly send back refugee boats in the English Channel.