This hasn’t been a good week for the working class. The Tories are set to pass their healthcare bill and have started on the road to privatising the NHS. They are stealing people’s pensions and cutting jobs and services.
The Tories are waging war on the working class. From selling off the health service to attacking pensions and benefits, they are determined to drive down our living standards.
Tensions in Afghanistan were already running high before the massacre of 16 Afghans, mostly women and children, as they slept in their beds last week.
The Tories are reeling from public anger at their attacks on the welfare state. They have been forced into humiliating U-turns over their "workfare" scheme that compels the unemployed to work for free.
You might expect Labour leader Ed Miliband to be revelling in the Tories’ difficulties—and building support out of their pain.
The Socialist Workers Party found itself at the centre of a political storm this week after being denounced by various Tory government ministers.
It’s a sign of a government in trouble when a single, brief confrontation with a member of the public can spiral into a political crisis.
The electricians’ victory is a simple answer to those that say the working class isn’t a force or that unions are too weak to win.
Tory foreign minister William Hague says the world faces "the most serious round of nuclear proliferation since nuclear weapons were invented".
For the ruling class, the economic crisis is an opportunity. Politicians may talk a lot about the debt—but their austerity policies are not really driven by a burning desire to bring down the deficit.
The footage of Liverpool’s Luis Suarez refusing to shake hands with Patrice Evra, the black player he had previously racially abused, has reignited the row about racism in football.
All eyes are on Greece. The ruling classes of Europe plan to save their system and their banks by driving through devastating austerity across the eurozone.
