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Austerity
Pupils sitting an exam at Lawrence Sheriff school Rugby, Warwickshire, March 2012
Education / 23 July 2025
Tens of thousands of school-leavers to lose out under plans to axe vocational courses, report warns
23 July 2025
MPs, Peers and Disability join (front left-right) actress Liz Carr, Baroness Campbell and Dame Tanni Grey Thompson outside the Houses of Parliament, Westminster, to insist the voices of disabled concerned about assisted dying are considered, March 24, 2025
Disability Rights / 23 July 2025
Toxic welfare debate led to websites inciting attacks on disabled people, House of Lords hears
23 July 2025
cuts and war
Features / 12 July 2025
Starmer’s Labour: cuts to everything except the war machine
12 July 2025

The BBC and OBR claim that failing to cut disability benefits could ‘destabilise the economy’ while ignoring the spendthrift approach to tens of billions on military spending that really spirals out of control, argues DIANE ABBOTT MP

Protesters on Whitehall in London, as Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves delivers her spring statement to MPs in the House of Commons, London, March 26, 2025
Labour Austerity / 24 June 2025
Starmer faces defeat over benefits cuts as more than 100 Labour MPs rebel
24 June 2025

Disability charity Sense applauds rebel MPs for ‘pushing back against this unjust policy’

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer speaks during a visit to BAE Systems in Govan, Glasgow, to launch the Strategic Defence Review, June 2, 2025
War & Austerity / 19 June 2025
Channelling billions into death while public services collapse
19 June 2025

LIZ PAYNE condemns how Labour backs war in Gaza and Ukraine, and massive funding for Trident’s nuclear bombs, when billions are needed just to restore public services

Austerity / 17 June 2025
Labour welfare cuts ‘potentially catastrophic’ for disabled families, a report warns
17 June 2025
House of Commons Handout photo issued by the House of Commons of Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves delivers her Government's spending review to MPs in the House of Commons, London, June 11, 2025
GMB Conference 2025 / 11 June 2025
Unions won't accept benefit cuts on the ‘most vulnerable,’ TUC leader says
11 June 2025
Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves during a visit to the Castlehaven Horticulture hub in Camden, north-west London, June 9, 2025
Economy / 10 June 2025
Grim jobs and pay figures Challenge Reeves' plans
10 June 2025

Britain needs ‘joined-up industrial strategy and ambitious public investment’ to end the cost of living crisis, unions says

Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves delivers a speech during a visit to Mellor Bus in Rochdale, Greater Manchester, to announce a multi-billion-pound boost for city transport in the North and the Midlands, June 4, 2025
Austerity / 9 June 2025
The left’s alternative to never-ending cuts
9 June 2025

Let’s mobilise against the cuts and for a clear alternative economic strategy, writes MATT WILLGRESS

People take part in the People's Assembly Britain is Broken national demonstration in central London, November 5, 2022
Editorial: / 6 June 2025
March against austerity – only pressure from below will force Labour to stop the cuts
6 June 2025
People take part in the People's Assembly Britain is Broken national demonstration in central London, November 5, 2022
Austerity / 4 June 2025
Thousands to protest against 'Austerity 2.0' in London on Saturday
4 June 2025
An elderly woman holding pound coins in her hands, in Poole, Dorset
Winter Fuel Payments / 2 June 2025
Trust broken, say SNP, as Starmer stands by means-test
2 June 2025
DPac activists protesting in Leeds, May 31, 2025 [Pic: Neil Terry]
Picture Story / 1 June 2025
DPac message for ‘missing Rachel, 46’
1 June 2025
LEADING FROM THE FRONT: Daniel Kebede, Fran Heathcote, Holly Turner And Leanne Mohamad
No More Austerity / 31 May 2025
Why we will be marching on June 7
31 May 2025

Here are the voices of DANIEL KEBEDE, FRAN HEATHCOTE, HOLLY TURNER and LEANNE MOHAMAD explaining why they will be taking part in the People’s Assembly No More Austerity demo next weekend 

Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves speaks at a reception for British and EU businesses in Downing Street, London, May 19, 2025
Austerity / 31 May 2025
Only a radical change in policy can halt the crisis of the British economy
31 May 2025

Exempting military expenditure from austerity while slashing welfare represents a fundamental misallocation of resources that guarantees continued decline, argues MICHAEL BURKE

Staff on a NHS hospital ward at Ealing Hospital in London, January 18, 2023
Health Service / 9 May 2025
NHS plans cuts to jobs and services to avoid £6.6bn deficit
9 May 2025
Mental health pic Dev Asangbam / Creative Commons
Austerity / 9 May 2025
Coalition urges Starmer to tackle ‘root causes’ of mental health crisis
9 May 2025
Prime Minister Keir Starmer and US President Donald Trump shake hands at a joint press conference in the East Room at the White House, February 27, 2025
Trump's Tariffs / 8 May 2025
Starmer trumpets US trade deal as MPs rebel on cuts
8 May 2025
Prime Minister Keir Starmer departs 10 Downing Street, London, to attend Prime Minister's Questions at the Houses of Parliament, May 7, 2025
Austerity / 7 May 2025
Starmer deaf to MPs demanding austerity U-Turn
7 May 2025
A dog outside a polling station in St. Annes, Lancashire, as voters go to the polls in 23 council areas across England, and vote in six mayoral contests across devolved regions. Picture date: Thursday May 1, 2025
Austerity / 1 May 2025
Local elections highlight the need for 'positive answers'
1 May 2025
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer, Scottish Labour Leader Anas Sarwar during an event in Edinburgh to welcome new Labour MPs in Scotland, following Labour's victory in the 2024 General Election, July 7, 2024
Austerity / 2 May 2025
Trade unions must challenge political Establishment
2 May 2025

RUBY ALDEN GIBSON believes Scottish parliament has enough powers to curtail Westminster Labour’s savage attack on welfare

Features / 5 April 2025
Cuts to welfare and aid go hand-in-hand with the war drive
5 April 2025
DIANE ABBOTT MP points out the false premises used by Rachel Reeves in the Spring Statement
A retiree rallies calling for higher pensions and against au
Features / 1 April 2025
On the streets in Argentina, the rebellion grows
1 April 2025
After brutal police crackdowns on pensioners and the forced approval of secret IMF deals, trade unions are finally responding to grassroots pressure and fighting back against savage neoliberal reforms, reports BERT SCHOUWENBURG
Protesters show placards as Chancellor Rachel Reeves is abou
Features / 29 March 2025
Labour denies it, but Reeves has brought back austerity
29 March 2025
While slashing welfare and public services, Labour’s spring statement delivers a bonanza for death-dealing bomb merchants. We now see the true and terrible face of austerity 2.0, writes MICHAEL BURKE
Protesters on Whitehall in London, as Chancellor of the Exch
Britain / 28 March 2025
Barrage of bill hikes sees the cost-of-living crisis bite
28 March 2025
Government must take action, union warns: ‘We can’t go on with billionaires getting ever richer whilst working people suffer’
Protesters march towards Parliament Square, London, as Chanc
Britain / 28 March 2025
More than 30 MPs poised to vote against disability benefit cuts
28 March 2025
Protesters outside 11 Downing Street as Chancellor Rachel Re
Britain / 26 March 2025
Chancellor risking ‘austerity doom loop,’ warns Scottish TUC
26 March 2025
Protesters march towards Parliament Square, London, as Chanc
Editorial: / 26 March 2025
Reeves's austerity mark II: we are being robbed, again
26 March 2025
Protesters demonstrate as Chancellor Rachel Reeves is about
Britain / 26 March 2025
Reeves launches ‘cruel attack on disabled people’ instead of taxing the super-rich
26 March 2025
Labour accused of ‘balancing the books off the backs of the poor’ in spring spending statement
Protesters outside the Treasury this evening
Britain / 25 March 2025
‘Tax the Super-Rich’ instead of slashing services, Labour told
25 March 2025
Chancellor Reeves' planned public spending cuts will ‘open the door’ for Reform UK, McDonnell warns as campaigners get set to rally outside the Treasury
A far-right protest in Belfast city centre an anti-racism â€
Britain / 24 March 2025
Public service cuts fuel extremism, TUC warns Labour
24 March 2025
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer during a reception to celebr
Editorial: / 20 March 2025
What is the point of Labour? The key question
20 March 2025
Prime Minister Keir Starmer departs 10 Downing Street, Londo
Editorial: / 19 March 2025
Under Starmer, things can only get worse – we need to wake up
19 March 2025
Work and Pensions Secretary Liz Kendall arrives in Downing S
Britain / 17 March 2025
‘Labour MPs didn’t enter politics to push vulnerable people deeper into poverty’
17 March 2025
Disabled people and MPs mobilising against government's ‘appalling’ welfare cuts
A soccer fan joins retirees protesting for higher pensions a
World / 13 March 2025
Cops clash with pensioners in Argentina after football fans join anti-austerity protest
13 March 2025
Prime Minister Keir Starmer, Deputy Prime Minister Angela Ra
Britain / 12 March 2025
‘Austerity damaged the nation’s health. We must not make Tories' mistake again’
12 March 2025
Tax rich instead of cutting benefits, PM told
Rachael Maskell MP, addresses the Labour Autumn Conference a
Britain / 10 March 2025
Labour MP and disability charities warn against ‘draconian cuts’ in welfare
10 March 2025
Keir Starmer (front centre) hosts European leaders' summit t
Features / 8 March 2025
War, cuts and racism: the toxic trinity facing Britain
8 March 2025
As European leaders compete to increase military spending while threatening welfare cuts, the burden will fall disproportionately on working people and minority communities, warns DIANE ABBOTT MP
Members of Unite, Unison, GMB, and the EIS trade unions stag
Voices of Scotland / 25 February 2025
Time to make politicians pay for attacks on our services
25 February 2025
As we face savage cuts to our pay and conditions while the executive gravy train chugs on, Unite is putting the Scottish government on notice as workers prepare for a massive wave of resistance, writes DEREK THOMSON
Rachel Reeves and her Treasury team prepare to leave 11 Down
Features / 22 February 2025
Labour's austerity is an economic blind alley
22 February 2025
In his first of a new monthly economics column MICHAEL BURKE argues that public-sector investment is more effective, more productive than private-sector investment
A firefighter runs through a practice drill during a London
Editorial: / 10 February 2025
Further fire service cuts expose a government in denial
10 February 2025
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer meeting Chancellor of the Ex
Editorial: / 12 January 2025
Labour’s billions meant for public services and climate change now hang in the balance
12 January 2025
Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves steps from 11 Down
Editorial: / 9 January 2025
Labour’s cuts spell danger ahead as Starmer's growth fantasy hits the wall
9 January 2025
The Houses of Parliament in London
Britain / 3 January 2025
Scottish government has spent £1.2bn mitigating Westminster's 14 years of austerity, figures show
3 January 2025
Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves speaks to the medi
Britain / 10 December 2024
Reeves orders 5% cuts across all government departments in ‘efficiency drive’
10 December 2024
US President-elect Donald Trump at a meeting with House Repu
Britain / 14 November 2024
Trump shows how racism, austerity, climate and war interlink, CND says
14 November 2024
Britain / 14 November 2024
Charity launches new tools to help people claim PIP benefit
14 November 2024
Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson arrives in Downing St
Britain / 4 November 2024
Labour's university tuition fee hike slammed
4 November 2024
(L to R) Rachel Reeves with the ministerial red box; Songi c
Features / 2 November 2024
Behind the Budget smoke and mirrors, there is only more austerity
2 November 2024
Comparing Budget measures to fictional Tory plans rather than actual spending levels conceals continued austerity, argues DIANE ABBOTT MP, as workers face stealth tax increases to bear the cost of economic stagnation
Features / 29 October 2024
Don’t be fooled: austerity is here to stay under Labour
29 October 2024
Everything we’ve seen so far from Starmer and Reeves indicates that they remain committed to the economic orthodoxy of cuts imposed by the Tories – which is why we need to revitalise the anti-austerity movement, says BEN SELLERS of the People’s Assembly
Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar during First Minister's Q
Britain / 28 October 2024
Scotland needs a Budget to end austerity and ‘deliver investment and growth,’ Sarwar says
28 October 2024
New Plaid Cymru MP Ben Lake poses for photos on College Gree
Britain / 27 October 2024
Wales needs ‘reversal of austerity,’ Plaid says ahead of Budget
27 October 2024
Children enjoying playing on swings
Britain / 23 October 2024
Thousands of children could be lifted out of poverty with ‘lock’ on government spending
23 October 2024
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer addresses a press conference
Britain / 22 October 2024
Labour faces massive drop in popularity if puts balancing the books ahead of public services, study finds
22 October 2024
Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves makes her keynote
Editorial: / 22 October 2024
The public back higher taxes for better services – Reeves must be made to listen
22 October 2024
A new baby holding the finger of its mother
Britain / 13 October 2024
Austerity the ‘principle factor’ behind tumbling fertility rates
13 October 2024
A group of firefighters from Birmingham join other members o
Britain / 8 October 2024
Firefighters issue 10 demands to repair 14 years of austerity at mass rally
8 October 2024
The temperature control of a radiator in a home
Features / 5 October 2024
Why pensioners will rally at Westminster on Monday against winter fuel cuts
5 October 2024
National Pensioners Convention general secretary JAN SHORTT says Rachel Reeves must drop her dangerous attack on Britain's pensioners
Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves speaks during the
Features / 5 October 2024
‘Bidenomics’ to austerity 2.0: what should we expect from the Budget?
5 October 2024
In light of its retreat on green investment, DIANE ABBOTT MP dissects Labour’s economic priorities, questioning whether the promised ‘light at the end of the tunnel’ will materialise amid signs of continued cuts and massive spending on war
Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rachel Reeves takes applause af
Features / 3 October 2024
Labour posturing: tough choices or easy money?
3 October 2024
Labour’s refusal to challenge banking profits or tax the rich exposes its painfully hollow rhetoric of ‘tough choices,’ while the trousering of freebies and schmoozing the gambling industry undermines its basic integrity, argues BERNIE EVANS
Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson, September 25, 2024
Labour Conference 2024 / 25 September 2024
Labour faces calls to drop two-child benefit cap
25 September 2024
Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves, Prime Minister Si
Labour Conference 2024 / 23 September 2024
A break with austerity is needed to tackle the toxic Tory legacy
23 September 2024
RICHARD BURGON MP, who voted against the cut to winter fuel allowance, warns against a return to austerity, introducing his ideas that could raise billions to properly fund public services and boost wages instead
Unite union general secretary Sharon Graham, December 21, 20
Labour Conference 2024 / 23 September 2024
Labour must not be allowed to deliver Austerity Mark II
23 September 2024
‘The fiscal rules are a noose around our neck,’ Unite's SHARON GRAHAM tells the Morning Star – it's time to tax the rich
Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Chancellor of the Exchequer
Editorial: / 22 September 2024
Labour can, and must, make different choices
22 September 2024
A People's Assembly rally outside the ACC Arena, Liverpool,
Labour Conference 2024 / 22 September 2024
Labour set for ‘austerity 2.0’ showdown
22 September 2024
Delegates to vote on government’s cruel cut to winter fuel allowance for 10 million pensioners
The temperature control of a radiator in a home
Britain / 17 September 2024
‘Let there be no doubt, lives will be lost’
17 September 2024
More than 1.7 million households plan on keeping their heating off this year, survey reveals
A preschool age child playing with plastic building blocks
17 September 2024
Tens of thousands more households with children impacted by benefit cap
17 September 2024
A demonstrator holds a banner that reads in Spanish ‘The 2
World / 16 September 2024
Milei doubles down on austerity in proposed new Argentinian budget
16 September 2024
Sri Lanka's opposition leader and presidential candidate Saj
World / 13 September 2024
Sri Lankan opposition leader says he will renegotiate IMF reforms if he wins presidency
13 September 2024
Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves during a press con
Editorial: / 10 September 2024
The labour movement should call out Chancellor Reeves’ economy con
10 September 2024
An elderly woman holding pound coins in her hands
TUC 2024 / 8 September 2024
Labour accused of pitting workers against pensioners
8 September 2024
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer at the National Crime Agency
Britain / 8 September 2024
Government scrambling to defend winter fuel allowance cuts
8 September 2024
TREASURY MIND: Rachel Reeves
Features / 5 September 2024
Rachel Reeves channels Philip Snowden: Labour’s 100-year love affair with austerity
5 September 2024
The Chancellor is rehashing discredited Victorian economics, showing the party has learned nothing from a century of failed Gladstonian economics, ignoring Keynes and betraying workers, writes KEITH FLETT
A taped off section inside a school which has been affected
Britain / 5 September 2024
TUC calls for new commission to help fix Britain's crumbling public services
5 September 2024
First Minister John Swinney delivers his address at the SNP
Britain / 1 September 2024
Scottish FM says government must work ‘harder and smarter’ against Westminster cuts
1 September 2024
Plaid Cymru's Luke Fletcher speaks with delegates during the
Britain / 1 September 2024
Plaid Cymru calls for radical vision against Labour cuts at SNP Conference
1 September 2024
Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves during her visit t
Britain / 28 August 2024
Chancellor pledges to press on with winter fuel squeeze despite risk of public health crisis
28 August 2024
Age UK warns that two million pensioners could be in serious trouble this winter
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer during his speech and press
Britain / 27 August 2024
‘A bleak vision of Britain’
27 August 2024
Left MPs and trade unionists accuse Sir Keir of choosing austerity, pain and poverty instead of taxing the super-rich
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer during a meeting with the Cr
Editorial: / 27 August 2024
Downing Street speech: Starmer offers no hope of real change
27 August 2024
Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves during a press con
Editorial: / 22 August 2024
Challenge Labour's new austerity plans
22 August 2024
Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves during a press con
Britain / 21 August 2024
Reeves plans new austerity as government debt rises
21 August 2024
Unite general secretary Sharon Graham calls for wealth tax
Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves in her office at n
Editorial: / 30 July 2024
Despite positives on pay, Labour is trapped in an economic cul-de-sac
30 July 2024
Labour MP Ian Murray leaves 10 Downing Street, London, after
Britain / 30 July 2024
Scottish Secretary's election claim of no return to austerity has ‘been proved wrong,’ SNP charges
30 July 2024
Chancellor Rachel Reeves giving a speech at the Treasury in
Britain / 29 July 2024
‘The wealthy will be supported by Labour. The vulnerable will not’
29 July 2024
Campaigners accuse Chancellor Rachael Reeves of prolonging the era of austerity after heralding in a new raft of cuts
Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar, June 18, 2024
Britain / 27 July 2024
Sarwar's election pledge of ‘no austerity under Labour’ backfires amid £20bn black hole
27 July 2024
Chancellor Rachel Reeves giving a speech at the Treasury in
Britain / 26 July 2024
‘Austerity is not the answer’ as Reeves to announce £20bn black hole in public finances
26 July 2024
Children enjoying playing on swings in a park near Ashford,
Britain / 22 July 2024
Labour urged to drop two-child benefit cap
22 July 2024
Unacceptable for one of world’s wealthiest nations to fuel child poverty, campaigners charge
The hand of a patient grips the rail of a hospital bed in th
Britain / 16 July 2024
Hospices ‘in their worst state for 20 years’ as bed numbers for the terminally ill are cut and staff sacked
16 July 2024
Features / 14 July 2024
Labour in power and the unions: abandon concessions and get ready to fight
14 July 2024
JOHN McINALLY calls for militant trade unionism and overt socialist politics to counter the new government’s pro-capitalist agenda and a looming authoritarian turn that threatens to muzzle working-class resistance
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak makes a speech at The Meeting Cen
Editorial: / 3 July 2024
No room for complacency – vote to reject the politics of austerity and hate
3 July 2024
Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar speaking during the party
Features / 28 June 2024
Mobilising against council cuts in Scotland
28 June 2024
With local authorities and services in a dire state, what should be the strategy of the left? DREW GILCHRIST argues that building support for no-cuts budgets can be a powerful way of defending our communities
Then Prime Minister David Cameron (right) and then Deputy Pr
Features / 22 June 2024
Austerity was never anything more than a big lie
22 June 2024
The last 14 years have completely disproven the economic myths the Tories used to set us on the path of cuts and devastation – we need massive direct investment to rebuild the post-industrial communities, writes JON TRICKETT
Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne carrying the famo
Britain / 22 June 2024
Unions call for measures to end austerity on 14th anniversary of 2010 budget
22 June 2024
Scottish First Minister and SNP leader John Swinney during a
Britain / 13 June 2024
SNP leader Swinney denies Scottish independence would lead to austerity
13 June 2024
First Minister John Swinney delivers a speech in Glasgow, wh
Britain / 7 June 2024
Swinney accuses Labour and Tories of ‘concealing’ cuts
7 June 2024
The architects of austerity, then Prime Minister David Camer
Britain / 31 May 2024
Unions call for Equality Act update to make ‘socio-economic duty’ to tackle austerity
31 May 2024
Homeless people rough sleeping
Britain / 15 April 2024
Councils turning young homeless people away due to funding shortfall, charity warns
15 April 2024
Laura Smith MP, then Labour MP for Crewe and Nantwich, with
Britain / 15 March 2024
Former left Labour MP Laura Smith resigns from party after suspension for not backing austerity budget
15 March 2024
People walk through Chamberlain Square by Birmingham Town Ha
Britain / 6 March 2024
Council workers ‘must not pay the price’ as Birmingham approves largest-ever council cuts
6 March 2024
Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer with Kingswood by-election ca
Britain / 9 February 2024
Pressure growing on Sir Keir to scrap two-child limit under Labour government
9 February 2024
A preschool age child playing with plastic building blocks,
Britain / 29 January 2024
Family courts president blames austerity for record levels of children being taken into care
29 January 2024
Solicitor Aamer Anwar with members of the Scottish Covid Ber
Britain / 18 January 2024
Austerity and poor guidance killed during pandemic, inquiry hears
18 January 2024
Protestors hold flags and gather during a demonstration agai
World / 12 December 2023
Trade unionists demand EU puts ‘the wellbeing of people and planet before arbitrary’ austerity
12 December 2023
Features / 28 November 2023
A winter of pain for those with spinal cord injuries
28 November 2023
Patients and professional bodies are united in calling for action to support those with spinal injuries who are facing unique challenges over heating bills, reports RUTH HUNT
Tory Chancellor Jeremy Hunt walks to his car holding the Aut
Britain / 23 November 2023
Austerity and cuts on the way, experts warn following Autumn Statement
23 November 2023
Features / 21 November 2023
The Tories’ poverty Budget: will Labour do better?
21 November 2023
We know the Conservatives stand for cuts, destitution, and hungry children – it’s time for Labour to announce the policies that will do the opposite, writes KIM JOHNSON MP
Foreign Secretary Lord David Cameron during a meeting of the
Britain / 17 November 2023
Disability groups hit out at government's austerity age plans to dock benefits
17 November 2023
NHS junior doctors taking part in a march and rally in the c
Labour Party Conference 2023 / 9 October 2023
Labour’s task is to seize this moment
9 October 2023
Britain is crying out for change and investment in our crumbling infrastructure – will Labour have the courage to commit to the investment so desperately needed, asks JON TRICKETT MP
Graffiti in Port Talbot, Wales
Features / 6 October 2023
Why has Westminster government austerity been waved through without dissent?
6 October 2023
ADAM JOHANNES, a People’s Assembly Wales activist, poses some difficult questions about the reactions to budget cuts in Wales
Chancellor of the Exchequer Jeremy Hunt delivers a speech du
Editorial: / 3 October 2023
Hunt's ‘strivers versus shirkers’ reprise would repeat the crimes of Cameron and Osborne
3 October 2023
Chancellor of the Exchequer Jeremy Hunt speaks to the media
Britain / 3 October 2023
Britain on course for lowest benefits rates in history
3 October 2023
Tory Chancellor Jeremy Hunt condemned after announcing harsher welfare sanctions in an ugly resurgence of its austerity-era ‘shirker’ rhetoric
The Prime Minister David Cameron (right) and then Deputy Pri
Britain / 21 September 2023
Councils have sold off £15bn worth of public assets since 2010, report finds
21 September 2023
A general view of staff on a NHS hospital ward
Britain / 14 September 2023
Doctors and nurses hit back at PM as NHS waiting lists rise to new record high
14 September 2023
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak (centre) and Health and Social Ca
Editorial: / 13 September 2023
Time to burst the bubble of the Westminster ‘consensus’
13 September 2023
Graffiti on the side of a building in Port Talbot, South Wal
Features / 8 September 2023
Moving beyond the crisis of everyday liveability
8 September 2023
Gloomy prognoses concerning Wales’s challenges can be confronted if we move away from our fixation with the GDP, and look at the lives of normal people, writes LUKE FLETCHER MS
Then-prime minister Boris Johnson visits a laboratory at the
Editorial: / 25 August 2023
Covid court case can shed light on Britain's broken politics
25 August 2023
Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer and deputy leader Angela Rayn
Britain / 21 August 2023
Labour urged to back local services as town hall deficits top £5bn
21 August 2023
Britain / 16 July 2023
Kirklees District Council to shed 750 jobs to balance budget
16 July 2023
Britain / 4 July 2023
Councils face £3bn funding gap just to maintain existing levels of services, local authority chiefs warn
4 July 2023
School girls walking to school
Britain / 28 June 2023
Thousands of kids attending schools that require major repairs following years of government underfunding, report finds
28 June 2023
Former prime minister David Cameron leaving after giving evi
Editorial: / 19 June 2023
Austerity paved the way to pandemic disaster – yet both Tories and Labour want more of it
19 June 2023
Then Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne and then Pr
Britain / 19 June 2023
Austerity architects Cameron and Osborne left Britain ‘hugely exposed to the pandemic’
19 June 2023
‘Their policies weakened the foundations of our society by hollowing out our public services and shredding our safety net,’ TUC says
Members of the National Education Union (NEU) during a rally
Britain / 3 April 2023
Students ‘failed by Tory lies’ as budgets slashed
3 April 2023
Chancellor of the Exchequer Jeremy Hunt leaves 11 Downing St
Britain / 30 March 2023
Years of weak public investment has undermined economic growth, Resolution Foundation says
30 March 2023
Britain / 20 March 2023
Workers £11,000 worse off per year due to 15 years of wage stagnation
20 March 2023
Riot police take their positions next to flames from Molotov
Editorial: / 17 March 2023
Public spending, war and a Europe in revolt: political choices
17 March 2023
A British Gas worker outside the headquarters of Centrica in
Editorial: / 17 February 2023
Bumper profits and falling pay show this is no time to fall for the ‘austerity’ con again
17 February 2023
Shoppers walk past a ‘Powered By Levelling Up’ sign rece
Britain / 2 February 2023
Britain's economy has missed out on £400bn of growth under Tory government since 2010, figures show
2 February 2023
People take part in the People's Assembly Britain is Broken
Features / 13 January 2023
People’s Assembly is ready to take on the challenges of today
13 January 2023
ANDY BAIN previews today’s conference taking place at Friends House in London
Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer
Editorial: / 6 January 2023
Working people deserve better than Austerity 2.0 from Labour
6 January 2023
Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer speaks during a visit to UCL
Britain / 5 January 2023
Sir Keir urged to confirm that future Labour government would not launch ‘another round of austerity’
5 January 2023
‘We now need a government that is committed to making different choices,’ Unite leader Sharon Graham says following Starmer's speech
Members of the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) on the picket
Editorial: / 4 January 2023
The NHS crisis narrative is obscuring that crisis's causes
4 January 2023
Lynda Yu, who has complex care needs
Features / 27 December 2022
Social care in crisis
27 December 2022
The government is ignoring key advice on further deterioration in social care provision, writes RUTH HUNT
14.5 million people are currently living in poverty across B
Features / 22 December 2022
The Tories have declared war on society: it is high time society declared war on them
22 December 2022
It has been over a decade since 'austerity measures' were unleashed on our nation, and four years since the UN special rapporteur on extreme poverty condemned the inevitable results — but where is our justified rage, asks JOHN WIGHT
School children during a Year 5 class at a primary school
Britain / 12 December 2022
Austerity 2.0: Cash-starved education ‘on the ropes’
12 December 2022
Tories' funding attacks hit kids and college students the most
People take part in the People's Assembly Britain is Broken
Features / 2 December 2022
Tory austerity is still devastating Britain
2 December 2022
Reports from Crisis, the Trussell Trust and the Joseph Rowntree Foundation show that the inhumane Tories are leading us deeper into a social emergency, writes KEN LIVINGSTONE
Children eating a school meal
Britain / 2 December 2022
Teachers report growing numbers of ‘hungry, cold and tired’ pupils unable to concentrate as cost-of-living crisis soars
2 December 2022
An objector to assisted suicide holds up placards outside th
Features / 30 November 2022
Austerity, abandonment and assisted dying in Canada 
30 November 2022
The right to ‘die with dignity’ is warped by austerity and social exclusion, argues JOHN CLARKE
Features / 25 November 2022
The alternatives to austerity are obvious
25 November 2022
You face austerity because banks are being feather-bedded, not because the state is 'running out of money.' It doesn’t have to be this way, writes DIANE ABBOTT MP
Features / 22 November 2022
They are coming for us – we’d better have a plan
22 November 2022
As living standards tumble, we mustn’t be fooled into thinking this is the natural order of things. By getting together we can fight back, writes BEN SELLERS
LOUD AND CLEAR: People’s Assembly Britain is Broken nation
Features / 18 November 2022
We need wealth taxes on the rich, not Tory austerity 2.0
18 November 2022
RICHARD BURGON MP argues the labour movement must put wealth taxes at the heart of its alternative to Tory cuts
Britain / 23 October 2022
90% of schools will run out of money by the next academic year, headteachers warn
23 October 2022
Chancellor Jeremy Hunt
Editorial / 18 October 2022
Only by building the strike wave can we defeat Hunt's austerity reprise
18 October 2022
Prime Minister Liz Truss after delivering her keynote speech
Editorial: / 9 October 2022
With the Tories on the run, the labour movement must redouble its efforts
9 October 2022
Prime Minister Liz Truss delivers her keynote speech at the
Britain / 9 October 2022
Tory MPs reach out to Labour about blocking Truss's moves to make further benefit cuts
9 October 2022
A care home resident holding hands with her daughter
Britain / 9 October 2022
Millions of unpaid carers receiving ‘diminishing help’ from councils and government
9 October 2022
Prime Minister Liz Truss and Chancellor of the Exchequer Kwa
Britain / 6 October 2022
Households will lose money from ‘opaque and stealthy’ tax freezes
6 October 2022
10 Downing Street in London
Britain / 5 October 2022
‘The true human cost of austerity:’ Tory economic policies linked to 350,000 excess deaths in the UK
5 October 2022
Prime Minister Liz Truss in Westminster Hall, London
Britain / 16 September 2022
Child poverty campaigners call for scrapping of ‘truly catastrophic’ benefit cap
16 September 2022
People’s Assembly member Lindsey German, Former Labour l
Britain / 15 September 2022
Anti-austerity campaigners call for coordinated fightback against cost-of-living crisis
15 September 2022
Britain / 9 September 2022
Doctors facing ‘unimaginable mental health pressures’ and risk of suicide after a decade of Tory austerity
9 September 2022
Britain / 19 August 2022
NHS bosses make ‘unprecedented’ plea for government action on rising energy prices
19 August 2022
People in Newcastle take part in the People's Assembly natio
Features / 19 August 2022
Barbarism or socialism? The future of society rests on the working class
19 August 2022
We must build a united front industrially and politically, with clear, relevant demands and a co-ordinated campaign to deliver them or the Tories will crush us, argues HELEN O’CONNOR
A protester dressed as Liz Truss outside the All Nations Cen
Britain / 7 August 2022
Truss's proposed ‘immediate’ tax cuts will make things worse, equality campaigners warn
7 August 2022
New London Fire Brigade recruits go through their paces duri
Britain / 27 July 2022
Savage fire service cuts have put lives at risk, inspectors find
27 July 2022
DECENT PAY: An anti-austerity march in London in April
Britain / 20 July 2022
TUC calls for ‘profit restraint’ as inflation reaches new 40-year high
20 July 2022
Members of the RMT picket at the entrance to Waverley Statio
Features / 24 June 2022
The great fightback against austerity has begun
24 June 2022
So much more is at stake in the rail workers’ dispute than the livelihoods of the RMT's 80,000 members — we may well be witnessing the struggle that will end not only this government, but the austerity era itself, writes DIANE ABBOTT MP
Features / 8 June 2022
'Levelling up' is doubling down on the impoverishment of Britain
8 June 2022
The Conservative government has claimed that ‘levelling up’ is central to their agenda, but even a cursory look at their policies shows they are clearly responsible for instead creating record levels of inequality, writes JON TRICKETT MP
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Britain / 31 May 2022
Tory austerity to blame for increase in deaths, study suggests
31 May 2022
Worrisome parallels to the economic depression in the 1930s
Features / 19 May 2022
The misery we face is a political choice
19 May 2022
The cost of living is 'now the most important concern' for 76 per cent of people in the north-east, but even now the government is not changing its course of cuts and poverty — we must fight back, argues KATE OSBORNE MP
Editorial: / 22 April 2022
Shrinking real incomes are government policy – and the working class needs to fight back
22 April 2022
The Social Workers Union’s first elected general secretary
Interview: / 15 March 2022
‘Now we’re only seeing families and adults when it hits a crisis point’
15 March 2022
On World Social Work Day, Steve Sweeney talks to JOHN McGOWAN, general secretary of the Social Workers Union, about the challenges facing the sector caused by increasing poverty and why specialised unions have a lot to offer
The Senedd building in Cardiff
Features / 14 March 2022
If not now, then when?
14 March 2022
In the run-up to Plaid Cymru conference, Senedd member RHYS AB OWEN argues that the pandemic has been a chance to radically imagine what a future society should be – but we’re already seeing backsliding from the powers that be who have no desire to reorganise society to benefit ordinary people  
Resisting the new cost-of-living crisis will mean supporting
Features / 11 March 2022
Tory laissez-faire approach means more poverty and misery
11 March 2022
The government is not even pretending to have an answer to the dire situation most of us face. Workers can’t wait for it to tackle the deepening cost-of-living crisis – we have to take action ourselves, writes KEN LIVINGSTONE
INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY 2022 / 8 March 2022
Women’s rights are not some subsection of the class struggle 
8 March 2022
Women have just as big a role to play in the trade unions and in political life as men – every aspect of our day-to-day lives is affected by workplace policies and by the decisions of the politicians in Westminster, argues HELEN O’CONNOR
A general View of Liverpool Town Hall, Castle Street, Liverp
Britain / 1 March 2022
Six Labour Councillors in Liverpool suspended for opposing spending cuts
1 March 2022
UK sick pay nearly worst in Europe and in breach of internat
Features / 25 February 2022
Tories will always put corporate greed before public need
25 February 2022
Don’t let Boris Johnson off the hook over sick pay, writes KEN LIVINGSTONE
A Universal Credit sign on a door of a job centre plus in ea
Britain / 27 January 2022
Jobseekers expected to widen search after one month or face benefits sanctions
27 January 2022
Campaigners warn the Tories' ‘grim’ new policy could force people into jobs they cannot do
A cabinet meeting of Boris Johnson's government
Editorial: / 27 January 2022
Way to Work – a mask for benefit sanctions aimed at forcing us to work longer for less
27 January 2022
Features / 7 January 2022
Government policy is driving the Covid crisis 
7 January 2022
The Tories are using the pandemic as cover to push though their austerity agenda, which falls hardest on workers, the poor and the oppressed, writes DIANE ABBOTT MP
Firefighters in action in Dartford, Kent, October 2018
Britain / 15 December 2021
A decade of Tory austerity has left fire and rescue services ‘struggling to provide basic functions,’ inspectors find
15 December 2021
Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak leaving 11 Downing S
Features / 29 October 2021
A Budget roundly condemned and beneath contempt
29 October 2021
As Sunak signals his allegiance to the heartless business elite he hopes will soon back his bid for the top seat, this was a good Budget for polluters, arms manufacturers and bankers — but terrible for ordinary people, writes DIANE ABBOTT
Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak
Editorial: / 24 October 2021
The labour movement must be ready to respond to Sunak's Budget
24 October 2021
Prime Minister Boris Johnson
Britain / 5 October 2021
Johnson condemned for ignoring warnings against the £20-a-week cut to universal credit
5 October 2021
Keir Starmer waves at Labour conference in Brighton earlier
Features / 1 October 2021
Today's political realities must be the left’s priority
1 October 2021
Regardless of what politicians say does or does not come up ‘on the doorstep,’ our movement needs to engage in real, practical and mass agitation that’s rooted in working people’s lives, argues KEVIN OVENDEN
Has Starmer got answers to the energy crisis?
Features / 29 September 2021
A hard winter — but will there be discontent?
29 September 2021
People are facing a triple whammy of rising energy costs, a national insurance hike and a cut to universal credit — but with Starmer’s failure to step up, it’s now up to the unions to fight back, writes STEVEN WALKER
Britain / 22 September 2021
Tory ministers have no plan to tackle child poverty as rates expected to rise, MPs say
22 September 2021
Joy Dove outside the High Court in London following a hearin
Britain / 17 September 2021
Mother of disabled woman who killed herself after her benefits were cut loses bid for fresh inquest
17 September 2021
TUC CONGRESS 2021 / 12 September 2021
TUC delegates back calls for new investment in public services after more than a decade of austerity
12 September 2021
Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak, during a media brie
Britain / 9 September 2021
Sunak told to publish government's impact analysis of the planned cuts to universal credit
9 September 2021
Features / 9 September 2021
Join the People's Assembly's pre-Congress TUC rally for unity in action
9 September 2021
Fighting separately has allowed the Tories to divide and isolate us – we need to build up union strength and co-ordinate effectively, warns FRAN HEATHCOTE of PCS
Britain / 26 August 2021
Years of falling wages under the Conservatives leaves workers over £1,000 worse off, finds Labour
26 August 2021
Britain / 14 August 2021
New figures show cuts to drug and alcohol treatment services is causing deaths
14 August 2021
Then London mayor Boris Johnson is confronted by local resid
Features / 9 August 2021
Tottenham ten years on from the riots: writing a provisional history of the present
9 August 2021
Socialist historian and local KEITH FLETT looks at what has changed and what has not for the famous working-class area in North London, from racism to gentrification
Steve Baker (centre) with fellow Tory MPs Stephen Crabb (lef
Britain / 2 August 2021
Tory hunger hypocrisy
2 August 2021
MP who voted for social security cuts and against free school meals complains of ‘intolerable hunger’ in the home counties
Features / 30 July 2021
Negligence payouts: the cost of NHS cuts
30 July 2021
There has been a 30 per cent increase in claims against our health service in the past decade, costing our health service £2.4bn in 2019 alone, writes STEVEN WALKER
Britain / 22 July 2021
Austerity cuts have fuelled dramatic rise in prison suicides, says union
22 July 2021
Britain / 15 July 2021
Benefits cut for nearly 18,000 families in Scotland because they have more than two children
15 July 2021
Scottish Greens called on Holyrood to protect families from two-child limit and calls on Westminster to ‘end these cruel policies now’
Britain / 14 July 2021
Scottish ministers urged to double payments for parents in need
14 July 2021
Britain / 7 July 2021
Government urged to reverse ‘shameful’ plans to phase out £20 universal credit ‘uplift’
7 July 2021
Features / 26 June 2021
Now is the time for working people and the youth to seize the initiative
26 June 2021
The strength of our movement is to be found in all of the thousands of struggles, big and small, which are taking place up and down this country, says YCL leader JOHNNIE HUNTER
A dentist at work
Features / 26 June 2021
It’s 2021 and people can’t get a dentist
26 June 2021
People's Assembly Against Austerity march through central Lo
Features / 26 June 2021
Whatever you’re angry about, campaigning for, demanding action on – join the People’s Assembly on the streets today
26 June 2021
We must send a strong message that as we emerge from Covid, there must be no going back to business as usual, says STEVE TURNER of Unite
People's Assembly Against Austerity stage a
Britain / 25 June 2021
Thousands across Britain to say Tories are not fit to govern in People’s Assembly protest
25 June 2021
George Osborne arrives at a party at the home of Mick Jagger
Britain / 24 June 2021
Osborne's appointment as British Museum chairman met with outrage
24 June 2021
As chancellor, he ‘was the architect of devastating cuts to the arts and to culture,’ Labour's Angela Rayner says. ‘He is in no way an appropriate choice’
A People's Assembly march in London, 2016
Features / 23 June 2021
Out of this crisis, we need to fight for a new normal 
23 June 2021
RICHARD BURGON MP argues that the government will only deliver the change we need if we build the movements that demand it
A pensioner walks past a sign that reads
Britain / 23 June 2021
New research warns of a ‘ticking time bomb’ of pensioner poverty
23 June 2021
Independent Age finds almost a fifth of pensioners are now living in poverty, a 5 per cent since 2012
Britain / 15 June 2021
New data shows ministers knew early years was underfunded
15 June 2021
Features / 8 June 2021
Millions going hungry in Covid Britain
8 June 2021
Academics HARTWIG PAUTZ and DAMIAN DEMPSEY reveal their findings on rising food insecurity faced by the most vulnerable in society
A London Underground sign
Britain / 27 May 2021
Unions warn of new ‘dark age’ for capital’s transport
27 May 2021
Alitalia workers with 'Hostages' banner at the Rome Leonardo
Features / 1 May 2021
Make solidarity permanent to create a fairer Europe
1 May 2021
LUCA VISENTINI believes recent legal gains by trade unions in various EU countries point to the potential for collective struggle that must not go to waste
Features / 16 April 2021
With its 37p increase the government is punishing disabled people
16 April 2021
Disabled people have been hit especially hard by this pandemic, yet the government is refusing to increase benefits, writes RICHARD BURGON MP
Features / 14 April 2021
The lifelong learning house has been pulled down
14 April 2021
DOUG NICHOLLS argues that the current cuts to adult residential learning represent the coup de grace for lifelong education opportunities
Food laid out in crates at a food bank in north London
Britain / 25 March 2021
Child poverty hit a record high before pandemic hit
25 March 2021
New data shows 14.5 million people were living in ‘relative poverty’ prior to the first lockdown. Campaigners warn Covid-19 will have made matters much worse
Yvonne Williams (left) and Simone Daley at a rally outside D
Britain / 15 March 2021
Fundraiser appeal for Windrush descendant facing council tax debt during Covid
15 March 2021
Britain / 8 March 2021
Welfare minister faces rare joint Lords and Commons select committee questions on failure to reform Universal Credit
8 March 2021
NHS workers from hospitals across the capital during a socia
Features / 3 March 2021
NHS staff deserve much better
3 March 2021
The government’s shoddy treatment of heroic health workers is disgraceful – and trade unionists will be fighting hard to ensure their vital work is fairly rewarded, says HELEN O’CONNOR
Kitchen staff at a pub preparing free packed lunches for kid
Britain / 4 February 2021
Nearly 250,000 parents fear being unable to feed their children if UC cut goes ahead
4 February 2021
Philippa Day
Britain / 28 January 2021
Government condemned for failing mother who took her own life after her benefits were taken away
28 January 2021
A hospital cleaner at Great Ormond Street Children's Hospita
Britain / 11 January 2021
NHS cleaning posts cut by 1,000 in the last 10 years
11 January 2021
Britain / 3 January 2021
Almost 20,000 childcare providers could shut down within six months, Labour warns
3 January 2021
Transport Secretary Grant Shapps
Exclusive: / 23 December 2020
Scrooge Tories travel for free at Xmas
23 December 2020
In the austerity era, MPs claim £100s for festive journeys
Britain / 16 December 2020
Unicef to feed Britain's children for first time in history
16 December 2020
Labour MPs say situation is a ‘disgrace’ for one of the world's richest countries
Britain / 6 December 2020
Leeds launches fightback against years of austerity
6 December 2020
Features / 6 December 2020
‘We need radicalism to knit our humanity back together again:’ The case for a universal basic income
6 December 2020
ALEX CULVIN, member of UBI Lab Network, tells Georgina Trace how a Universal Basic Income in the UK could emancipate women and provide financial security during the coronavirus pandemic
Britain / 11 November 2020
‘Political bias’ suspected after ministers pay funds to towns in ‘opaque’ process
11 November 2020
NHS workers outside Downing Street in August protest against
Exclusive: / 30 October 2020
Hospital workers forced to pay hefty bills after accommodation funds dry up despite second Covid wave
30 October 2020
Government urged to continue to fund hotel beds for frontline staff
Britain / 14 October 2020
30% of Britain's kids living below the poverty line
14 October 2020
Charities and unions demand urgent government action
Britain / 13 October 2020
A decade of austerity has devastated families in Scotland, charities warn
13 October 2020
Prime Minister Boris Johnson during a visit to the Mologic L
Features / 3 October 2020
We have to crush the virus. There can be no return to normal without it
3 October 2020
Without a zero-Covid approach, the outlook is for a rising death toll, further economic damage and terrible knock-on effects on public health and education, argues DIANE ABBOTT MP
Features / 23 September 2020
Teachers’ goodwill hangs by a thread
23 September 2020
With Covid-19 cases rising in schools and the testing system buckling, educators are under increasing strain. Now is time for a fair reward for teachers writes ROBERT POOLE
Features / 17 August 2020
Claimants must be central to development of a new social security system
17 August 2020
ELLEN CLIFFORD introduces the new ‘user-led’ approach of the Experts by Experience Commission on Social Security fighting to give claimants a say in the benefits system
Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Chancellor of the Exchequer
Britain / 12 August 2020
The sick man of Europe
12 August 2020
Britain falls into the worst recession since 1950s while holding record for most coronavirus related deaths in Europe
Britain / 10 July 2020
Universal Credit claimants waiting up to 11 weeks for payment even before the coronavirus surge
10 July 2020
Britain / 29 June 2020
Disabled rights campaigners urge government to extend pause on benefit sanctions
29 June 2020
Removing people’s benefits during the pandemic will have devastating effects on families and children, Disabled People Against Cuts warn
A pink supermoon is seen over The Royal Liverbuilding, Liver
Britain / 25 May 2020
Government called to act over ‘financial devastation’ wrought by Covid-19 on Merseyside
25 May 2020
VOICES OF SCOTLAND / 25 May 2020
The picture has become clear for all to see. The Tories want to save money not lives
25 May 2020
The Tories would have us paying for this crisis to claw back normality for the most wealthy – we can’t allow that to happen, says JAMIE CALDWELL
A woman wearing a face mask walks past Piccadilly Circus Und
Britain / 24 May 2020
Khan calls for benefit cap to be lifted to help low-income Londoners access coronavirus support
24 May 2020
Homeless people's tents erected outside a furniture store in
Britain / 21 May 2020
Labour urges government to support councils to help homeless people get off the streets permanently
21 May 2020
A TUC rally in central London on May 12 2018
Britain / 20 May 2020
TUC unveils blueprint for ‘greener and fairer’ post-Covid economy
20 May 2020
Mahrous Mahmoud hold up his Egyptian national team shirt in
Sport / 20 May 2020
Pandemic turns Egyptian footballer into a street vendor
20 May 2020
Britain / 15 May 2020
RMT threatens strike action over TfL bailout tied to fare hikes and ‘austerity imposed by Whitehall’
15 May 2020
Tory Chancellor Rishi Sunak
Britain / 13 May 2020
Unions furious with leaked Treasury document that suggests two-year pay freeze for public-sector workers
13 May 2020
People's Assembly Against Austerity
Britain / 8 May 2020
Thousands gather in front of screens for biggest online rally of lockdown
8 May 2020
Fire fighters at the scene after a fire on the top floors of
Britain / 27 April 2020
Fire service bosses accused of making cuts under cover of coronavirus
27 April 2020
Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab (left) and Chancellor of the
Britain / 17 April 2020
Thousands of self-employed may not be eligible for government support, ONS figures suggest
17 April 2020
Two actors wearing Nick Clegg (right)and David Cameron masks
Features / 16 April 2020
When you clap on your doorstep for the NHS, please remember the Tories’ decade of cuts
16 April 2020
JON TAIT’s wife was a nurse for 22 years and feels the pressure to go back – but, without adequate PPE thanks to chronic underfunding, it’s a dangerous step to take
Features / 15 April 2020
Will the pandemic lead us all to be able to work from home?
15 April 2020
SOPHIE WALTERS of Disabled People Against Cuts, asks — why were disabled people not given this option many years ago?
Britain / 2 April 2020
Almost a million new universal credit applicants putting massive strain on staff, warns PCS
2 April 2020
Britain / 29 March 2020
Labour demands stronger measures on panic buying
29 March 2020
The NHS 24 contact centre at the Golden Jubilee National Hos
Britain / 12 March 2020
NHS performance stats show Britain is woefully under-equipped even before coronavirus outbreak
12 March 2020
Britain / 9 March 2020
Sixth-form and college teachers to strike over pay, cuts and conditions
9 March 2020
Living Rent campaigners
Britain / 5 March 2020
Living Rent launches charter against Universal Credit rent-arrears evictions
5 March 2020
Current city mayor of Salford Paul Dennett attending and tak
Britain / 27 February 2020
Unions welcome ‘no-cuts budget’ passed by Salford's left-wing Labour council
27 February 2020
Police investigate an unexplained death after a man's body w
Britain / 24 February 2020
‘Beds not bins for the homeless’
24 February 2020
Waste firms and charities call for urgent action to stop bin sleeping on day a man's body is found in a rubbish lorry
Britain / 24 February 2020
Headteachers forced to choose between repairing leaking roofs or helping vulnerable children
24 February 2020
The sun rises over a cold Glasgow skyline featuring the Morr
Britain / 20 February 2020
Glasgow and Edinburgh councils vote through £100m cuts
20 February 2020
UCU and NUS activists take part in a demonstration over acce
Features / 12 February 2020
Marketisation of universities has led to an education crisis
12 February 2020
Higher education staff are now regarded as ‘throwaway’ and are increasingly overworked and demoralised. RUTH HUNT reports
Britain / 11 February 2020
Thousands of college staff on strike against cuts
11 February 2020
Features / 6 February 2020
Time to break with a Scottish government that doesn't work for us
6 February 2020
We need to consider withdrawing our co-operation and showing the SNP we will no longer accept a regime of cuts and austerity, writes MATT KERR
A PCSO assists at a crime scene
Features / 31 January 2020
Tory austerity hit all our public services and made our streets less safe – and it isn’t over yet
31 January 2020
Due to its ideologically driven commitment to cuts, the government has failed in its fundamental duty, writes DIANE ABBOTT
Errol Graham died of starvation after his benefits were stop
Britain / 29 January 2020
Benefits system ‘not fit for purpose,’ says relative of man who starved to death after being sanctioned
29 January 2020
Errol Graham's employment and support allowance and housing benefits were stopped 2017. When his body was found in June 2018, he weighed just four-and-a-half stone
Terraced houses in Blackpool
Britain / 28 January 2020
More than a million people are stuck on social housing waiting lists, homeless charity says
28 January 2020
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn and MP Laura Pidcock in Geraldin
Britain / 21 January 2020
Pidcock urges people to join the People's Assembly and commit to ‘rebuilding resistance to the Tories’
21 January 2020
Campaigners outside the Royal Courts of Justice in London su
Britain / 21 January 2020
Tories' ‘disastrous’ universal credit scheme to make low-income families worse off
21 January 2020
A study by the Resolution Foundation finds ‘left behind’ parts of Britain will be particularly affected
Britain / 17 January 2020
Firefighters hit out at cuts to services as figures show travel time to fires is increasing
17 January 2020
Features / 16 January 2020
Tory cuts are causing a mental-healthcare crisis
16 January 2020
TONY ROBERTS and RUTH HUNT take a look at how patients are continually being let down by a system that should be there to support them
Britain / 14 January 2020
Concerns raised over private adult social care company Cygnet
14 January 2020
First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has a cup of tea during a vis
Britain / 13 January 2020
SNP accused of ‘turbo-charging’ Tory austerity
13 January 2020
Local government body demands the Scottish government coughs up more cash to protect communities
Austerity architect Iain Duncan Smith
Features / 30 December 2019
Iain Duncan Smith’s knighthood in historical perspective
30 December 2019
The honours system has long been discredited with dodgy and doubtful appointments, says KEITH FLETT
Britain / 27 December 2019
Lady Hale slams Tory cuts to legal aid
27 December 2019
Britain / 16 December 2019
Domestic abuse charity says it needs help to manage expected influx of helpline calls at Christmas
16 December 2019
Supporters await the arrival of Labour Party leader Jeremy C
Editorial: / 11 December 2019
Labour is the only party offering hope of a better future
11 December 2019
Film-maker Ken Loach
Election 2019 / 10 December 2019
Why I'm Voting Labour: Ken Loach, film-maker
10 December 2019
Labour's Charter for the Arts could transform lives
Britain / 10 December 2019
Welsh councils stripped of £1.6bn in fundings after a decade of austerity, Unison study finds
10 December 2019
Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell giving a speech on the econ
Britain / 9 December 2019
Labour would end austerity and kick start national investment within first 100 days, McDonnell says
9 December 2019
Liberal Democrat Leader Jo Swinson meets supports during a v
Britain / 8 December 2019
Swinson urged to apologise for tuition fee hike shame
8 December 2019
Cartoon / 6 December 2019
A map of Tory Britain, 2019
6 December 2019
by Mike Bryson and Coiln Gardner
Features / 5 December 2019
‘Save From Harm’ - social work after a decade of austerity
5 December 2019
JOHN WATSON, a senior social worker, gives his personal view of the survey results of a damning report released this week by Unison
A homeless person on Victoria Street in London
Britain / 4 December 2019
Labour reveals plan to end rough sleeping in five years
4 December 2019
A child during a Year 5 class at a primary school in Yorkshi
Editorial: / 4 December 2019
Schools policy must work to abolish sectional privilege and elitism
4 December 2019
COUNTING ON SHORT MEMORIES: Jo Swinson (centre) and Lib Dems
Features / 1 December 2019
Tory sidekick’s spectacular memory loss
1 December 2019
The Lib Dems were more than willing partners in Tory austerity policies that brought Britain to its knees and their present offer is an attempt to hoodwink the gullible among the electorate
Flowers laid for the victims of a terrorist attack on London
Britain / 1 December 2019
‘You can’t keep people safe on the cheap,’ Corbyn warns after London Bridge attack
1 December 2019
The Labour leader said cuts to public services had led to authorities struggling to effectively tackle terrorism and extremism
Editorial: / 28 November 2019
Labour’s programme is not enough to redress the effect of austerity
28 November 2019
Britain / 25 November 2019
Schools in disrepair due to years of education cuts
25 November 2019
Features / 21 November 2019
The drumbeat goes on: the missing disabled people from the general election campaigns
21 November 2019
Disabled people are often made to feel invisible – yet one in five of the population are disabled. Where is the empathy for them in austerity Britain, asks RUTH HUNT
Chancellor of the Exchequer Sajid Javid (right) and Shadow c
Editorial: / 7 November 2019
Tories make bid to steal Labour’s clothes on public spending
7 November 2019
James Turner Street sign in Birmingham, as residents of the
Editorial / 4 November 2019
Why we cannot dismiss Francesca O'Brien's jibe about ‘putting down’ benefit claimants
4 November 2019
SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon
Britain / 24 October 2019
Sturgeon accused of failing the NHS after report finds potential £1.8bn funding gap
24 October 2019
Kids protest outside their school
Britain / 24 October 2019
350 schools across England protest against devastating education cuts
24 October 2019
Features / 23 October 2019
Down and out on the south coast
23 October 2019
Deprivation and homelessness are rife in Kent. DANIEL ESSON reports
District Judge Claire Gilham leaving the Supreme Court in Pa
Britain / 16 October 2019
Whistleblower judge who raised alarm over austerity wins Supreme Court battle
16 October 2019
Britain / 8 October 2019
MPs slam government over treatment of prison staff
8 October 2019
The Royal Courts of Justice
Britain / 7 October 2019
Three families lose High Court case against government's SEND funding
7 October 2019
A demonstrator is detained by the police during a protest ag
World / 4 October 2019
Ecuadorean left demands early elections after Moreno imposes state of emergency
4 October 2019
Veteran Labour MP Dennis Skinner (centre) with Waspi (Women
Britain / 3 October 2019
Women's rights activists to ‘fight on’ after losing High Court battle against state pension age rises
3 October 2019
A homeless person on Victoria Street in London
Britain / 1 October 2019
Over 700 homeless people died on Britain's streets in one year
1 October 2019
Labour says shocking stats are a direct result of Tory policies
Britain / 30 September 2019
Four in five schools to have less money in 2020 than 2015
30 September 2019
A study by the School Cuts Coalition estimates it would cost £2.5bn to reverse the Tories' education cuts
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster Michael Gove speaking a
Tory Party Conference ’19 / 29 September 2019
Speakers at Tory fringe meeting say government cuts have not gone far enough
29 September 2019
Film-maker Ken Loach
Britain / 29 September 2019
Ken Loach: ‘Mental health, schools, poverty, inequality and climate change are all bigger than Brexit’
29 September 2019
A file image of a People's Assembly demonstration earlier th
Features / 28 September 2019
Why we’re on the march in Manchester
28 September 2019
It’s our responsibility, our duty, to step up in the fight for a new politics and an economy that works for all, writes STEVE TURNER of Unite the Union
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn is joined by the shadow cabinet
Britain / 27 September 2019
Labour pledges to scrap the Tories' ‘inhumane’ universal credit scheme
27 September 2019
Unelected Prime Minister Boris Johnson
Editorial: / 27 September 2019
The Conservatives are split. But they should not be underestimated
27 September 2019
A People's Assembly protest earlier this year
Features / 27 September 2019
Time to put the final nail in the coffin of austerity
27 September 2019
The immediate priority must be a general election and the replacement of the Tories by a genuinely anti-cuts government, says ROBERT GRIFFITHS
Preparations underway ahead of the Conservative Party Confer
Tory Party Conference ’19 / 27 September 2019
Thousands to march against Tory austerity in Manchester on Sunday
27 September 2019
People’s Assembly Against Austerity has organised the protest to coincide with the Conservative Party conference
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn with Sue Hayman, Shadow Secretar
Labour Conference ’19 / 23 September 2019
Queues at foodbanks and hungry children: why we need a ‘Right to Food’
23 September 2019
MATTHEW TURNER of the Labour Campaign for Human Rights explains how they will extend the concept to social as well as legal protections
Prime Minister Boris Johnson
Labour Party Conference ’19 / 21 September 2019
Only Corbyn can bring us together and rid us of this Tory plague
21 September 2019
Whether you voted Leave or Remain, it’s Labour’s policies that will benefit our class, says TAM KIRBY
Lib Dem leader Jo Swinson
Editorial: / 17 September 2019
The Lib Dems want to turn the clock back – but they're not the only ones
17 September 2019
Homeless people in central London
Britain / 17 September 2019
More older people are seeking help for homelessness, ONS figures reveal
17 September 2019
Lib Dem party leader Jo Swinson (centre) with Lib Dem MPs on
Britain / 17 September 2019
Swinson and Lib Dems have ‘learned nothing’ from austerity backlash
17 September 2019
Britain / 12 September 2019
Rise in homelessness a ‘direct result of cruel’ Tory policies, activists warn
12 September 2019
Government figures show the number of households living in temporary accommodation in England is at its highest level in more than a decade
Features / 21 August 2019
‘Obrador has launched an austerity programme, laying off thousands of public-sector workers’
21 August 2019
Mexican Communist Party leader PAVEL BLANCO talks to Tim Pelzer about how the newly elected social democrat is embracing neoliberal policies
save the libraries
Features / 12 August 2019
The Tories' zombie libraries
12 August 2019
The move to close 25 libraries and remove support for others will come back to haunt the Essex Tories, writes LUCY WOOD
Features / 8 August 2019
Feeling blue? The kids are all red
8 August 2019
Privately, the Tories admit the young do not share their values on the NHS, nationalisation, the welfare state or the British empire. Good, says SOLOMON HUGHES
ONE OF THE MANY: Getting the message across – loud and cle
Features / 2 August 2019
Boris Johnson is for the few – Labour is for the many
2 August 2019
The new PM’s government has already shown it’s only governing in the interest of the 1 per cent, writes DIANE ABBOTT MP
Features / 23 July 2019
The new Prime Minister does not have a mandate from the people
23 July 2019
As Boris Johnson is crowned leader of the Tory Party and our next Prime Minister, we print LAURA PIDCOCK’S speech to the Not My Prime Minister People’s Assembly rally at Downing Street
Features / 16 July 2019
Legal Aid Matters
16 July 2019
A new report reveals the necessity of free legal representation for social justice, writes LIZ DAVIES
Ex-Royal Air Force man Jonathan Williams (second right)
Exclusive: / 7 July 2019
War veteran wins benefit appeal
7 July 2019
Victory for Morning Star campaign as Amber Rudd’s miserly department loses in court
Scottish Labour's Richard Leonard
Britain / 6 July 2019
Leonard: Scotland must have ‘more devolution’ to ditch neoliberalism and austerity
6 July 2019
Jonathan Williams (centre right) serving in Bosnia in 1994
Exclusive: / 2 July 2019
War veteran takes DWP to court over benefit cuts
2 July 2019
Britain / 28 June 2019
72% of staff in further, adult and prison education are struggling to make ends meet, UCU survey finds
28 June 2019
A child being weighed on scales
Sport / 27 June 2019
Government urged to tackle inactivity crisis among English kids
27 June 2019
Ricky Tomlinson joins protestors outside BBC Media City in S
Britain / 21 June 2019
Pensioners take to Britain's streets demanding the government funds free TV licences for the over-75s
21 June 2019
World / 20 June 2019
Police continue strike action over benefits as protests continue in Honduras
20 June 2019
BREAKING NEW GROUND: Corbyn talks to members of a social ent
Features / 18 June 2019
Essex is ready for a Labour revival
18 June 2019
Long the home of the ‘working-class Tory’ stereotype, the recent stagnation of the Thatcherite dream means Essex could soon be a Labour heartland, writes LIAM BARRETT
Football / 2 June 2019
GMB dismayed as figures show council pitches are being closed at an alarming rate
2 June 2019
FBU Conference ’19 / 15 May 2019
Wrack calls on union to take part in the defeat of the ‘zombie government’
15 May 2019
Features / 9 May 2019
Cuts have consequences
9 May 2019
There is mounting evidence that austerity is making us all less safe and tearing apart the fabric of our communities, writes DIANE ABBOTT
Features / 15 April 2019
Prison officers feel overworked, underpaid and undervalued
15 April 2019
POA members are prepared to take action to halt the decline in prison service pay and conditions, says ANDY HOGG
Thousands of teachers from across Scotland stage a march in
Editorial: / 4 April 2019
Britain's schools are at breaking point
4 April 2019
Britain / 28 March 2019
Four million kids living in poverty as earnings fall
28 March 2019
Latest income stats offer a stark assessment of the Tories
Britain / 25 March 2019
New figures show 9 in 10 schools have lost over £5 billion in education spending
25 March 2019
Former prime minister David Cameron is escorted around HMP O
Britain / 20 March 2019
‘Unsafe’ prison blighted by ‘drugs and violence’
20 March 2019
Prison inspector slams lack of improvement in jail where one in six has a drug habit
Britain / 20 March 2019
Austerity is hitting Labour areas hardest, new research shows
20 March 2019
Firefighters tackling a wildfire on Winter Hill near Bolton,
Britain / 18 March 2019
Greater Manchester firefighters urge public to help resist cuts
18 March 2019
The Fire Brigades Union is calling on people to message Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham to demand plans to shut six fire stations is scrapped
US President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with Irish
14 March 2019
Trump's budget cuts aid to Africa to boost spending on military
14 March 2019
Britain / 14 March 2019
NHS waiting times for A&E and cancer treatment continue to rise
14 March 2019
NHS England data shows A&E targets have not been meet since 2015
Chancellor Philip Hammond leaves 11 Downing Street today
Britain / 14 March 2019
Hammond has enough leeway to spend £15bn on ending austerity, economic think tank suggests
14 March 2019
Chancellor Philip Hammond leaves 11 Downing Street
Britain / 13 March 2019
Teaching unions deeply disappointed after Hammond ignores school funding crisis
13 March 2019
Philip Hammond presents his briefcase to the media today
Britain / 13 March 2019
Hammond holds Britain to ransom, McDonnell charges
13 March 2019
The shadow chancellor criticises successive Tory governments’ records of slashing public services
Cartoon / 13 March 2019
A qualified teacher would be nice
13 March 2019
by JAB
Britain / 12 March 2019
Government cuts are contributing to knife crime, new report suggests
12 March 2019
Shadow chancellor John McDonnell makes a speech at Bloomberg
Britain / 11 March 2019
Hammond has ‘utterly abdicated’ Chancellor's responsibilities, McDonnell charges
11 March 2019
Labour's shadow chancellor John McDonnell said Hammond's Spring Statement will do ‘nothing to relieve the suffering of millions’
Britain / 11 March 2019
Hammond urged to scrap 2-kid limit for UC claimants
11 March 2019
Campaign of the Week / 8 March 2019
NHS set to evict Salford homeless squatters
8 March 2019
A derelict former GP surgery has become a well-organised and successful centre offering wide-ranging support for the homeless, writes PETER LAZENBY
International Women's Day / 8 March 2019
Austerity is harming women and leading to a rise in the racist far right
8 March 2019
SABBY DHALU issues a clarion call for unity amid uncertain and dangerous times
Members of the National Pensioners Convention (NPC) protest
Britain / 7 March 2019
Pensioners protest against the Tories' decision to renege on free TV licence manifesto promise
7 March 2019
Editorial / 6 March 2019
May's knife-crime summit will solve nothing while austerity goes on
6 March 2019
International Women's Day / 5 March 2019
The Tory laws we need to overturn for women to reach their full potential
5 March 2019
Almost a decade of right-wing policies have had a devastating impact on services, pay, housing and health. A transformative change is needed for women and our wider communities, says RUTH HAYES
Former Chancellor George Osborne allowed councils in 2016 to
Britain / 4 March 2019
English councils are flogging off public assets to plug financial holes caused by austerity
4 March 2019
An investigation by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism finds 12,000 publicly owned spaces and properties have been sold since 2015-16
Prime Minister Theresa May leaves the Guildhall in Salisbury
Britain / 4 March 2019
May's plans to inject £1.6bn into poor towns ‘smacks of desperation,’ Labour charges
4 March 2019
Former Labour MPs Ann Coffey, Luciana Berger, Chris Leslie,
Features / 27 February 2019
Defections show that only Labour MPs will fight austerity
27 February 2019
Joan Ryan might have left Labour to join the Independent Group, but the battle against universal credit, poverty and homelessness in Enfield will continue without her, writes local councillor KATHERINE CHIBAH
Britain / 20 February 2019
Firefighters accuse Tories of sneaking through severe cuts
20 February 2019
Features / 10 February 2019
Only Labour can tackle the inequality that shames our nation
10 February 2019
A Labour government led by Corbyn will understand grotesque inequality as endemic of a rotten system that needs to be overhauled, says RICHARD BURGON MP
Britain / 6 February 2019
£600,000 fund to support Westminster's homeless a ‘drop in ocean’ compared to Tory cuts
6 February 2019
Labour councillor Adam Hug welcomed the money but says it's ‘dwarfed’ by millions of pounds cuts
Britain / 31 January 2019
Rough sleeping on the rise in most major cities in England
31 January 2019
Shelter chief executive Polly Neate urged the government to build three million more social homes, saying ‘you can’t solve homelessness without homes’
A panoramic view of Middlesbrough looking north-west from Es
Britain / 28 January 2019
Post-Brexit funds should help tackle regional inequality, Labour says
28 January 2019
Britain / 27 January 2019
Firefighters secure victory ‘in face of savage austerity’
27 January 2019