In Britain today, one child in three grows up in poverty, in a household with less than half the average income. In 1968, the figure was only one in 10. Thousands are homeless on the streets, while ...

Tubeworker: a platform for rank-and-file London Underground workers, telling you what the bosses and bureaucrats won't. Tubeworker reports on workplace issues, puts forward strategies that we think ...

The latest edition of our bulletin, collating stories from the blog plus additional content, is now online. This edition discusses the implications of the Trump presidency in the USA. Plus stories on ...

The BSW (Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance) has published its manifesto for the German parliamentary election on 23 February. The concluding section focuses on cutting asylum rights and immigration, and ...

Workers at Solace Women’s Aid will vote on whether to strike to save domestic abuse support services in Tower Hamlets (East ...

Fire Brigades Union Vice-President and Oxfordshire firefighter Steve Wright has beaten incumbent Matt Wrack to be elected as ...

In any bitterly fought dispute, there comes a time when either the union accelerates the action or effectively gives up. We have reached that stage in the PCS Facility Management (FM) disputes. These ...

Donald Trump has said he wants to see population transfers of Gazans into Egypt and Jordan, in a move that could either be “temporary” or “long-term”. It seems unlikely he can make it happen. Gazans ...

The ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah, the Shia-Islamist paramilitary party based in Lebanon, appears more fragile than ...

Norway’s small but excellent film industry deserves to be better known. Two films set in World War Two illustrate my point. Max Manus: Man of War, directed by Joachim Rønning and Espen Sandberg (2008) ...