YANA PETTICREW explains what’s behind the strike and how the entire sector rests on super-exploiting an unorganised workforce

WHEN does a crisis stop being a crisis, and when does change start to actually involve changing things?
Those are the questions arising from the round of party conferences just concluded.
The crisis, economically speaking, has been in train since the bankers’ crash of 2008. That epic smash spoke to the instability of global capitalism in a world awash with fictitious capital trying to defy gravity’s pull on the rate of profit.

Corbyn and Sultana commit to launching new socialist party

If Labour MPs who rebelled over the welfare reforms expected to be listened to, they shouldn’t have underestimated the vindictiveness of the Starmer regime. But a new left party that might rehome them is yet to be established, writes ANDREW MURRAY

Starmer doubles down on witch hunt by suspending the whip from Diane Abbott