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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
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
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

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
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
9 June 2025

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

An elderly woman holding pound coins in her hands, in Poole, Dorset
Winter Fuel Payments / 2 June 2025
2 June 2025
DPac activists protesting in Leeds, May 31, 2025 [Pic: Neil Terry]
Picture Story / 1 June 2025
1 June 2025
LEADING FROM THE FRONT: Daniel Kebede, Fran Heathcote, Holly Turner And Leanne Mohamad
No More Austerity / 31 May 2025
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
31 May 2025

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

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
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
7 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
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
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
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
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
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
Editorial: / 26 March 2025
26 March 2025
Protesters demonstrate as Chancellor Rachel Reeves is about
Britain / 26 March 2025
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
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
24 March 2025
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer during a reception to celebr
Editorial: / 20 March 2025
20 March 2025
Work and Pensions Secretary Liz Kendall arrives in Downing S
Britain / 17 March 2025
17 March 2025
Disabled people and MPs mobilising against government's ‘appalling’ welfare cuts
Prime Minister Keir Starmer, Deputy Prime Minister Angela Ra
Britain / 12 March 2025
12 March 2025
Tax rich instead of cutting benefits, PM told
Keir Starmer (front centre) hosts European leaders' summit t
Features / 8 March 2025
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
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
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
10 February 2025
Britain / 14 November 2024
14 November 2024
Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson arrives in Downing St
Britain / 4 November 2024
4 November 2024
(L to R) Rachel Reeves with the ministerial red box; Songi c
Features / 2 November 2024
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
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
The temperature control of a radiator in a home
Features / 5 October 2024
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
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
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
25 September 2024
Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves, Prime Minister Si
Labour Conference 2024 / 23 September 2024
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
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
22 September 2024
A People's Assembly rally outside the ACC Arena, Liverpool,
Labour Conference 2024 / 22 September 2024
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
17 September 2024
More than 1.7 million households plan on keeping their heating off this year, survey reveals
A demonstrator holds a banner that reads in Spanish ‘The 2
World / 16 September 2024
16 September 2024
Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves during a press con
Editorial: / 10 September 2024
10 September 2024
An elderly woman holding pound coins in her hands
TUC 2024 / 8 September 2024
8 September 2024
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer at the National Crime Agency
Britain / 8 September 2024
8 September 2024
TREASURY MIND: Rachel Reeves
Features / 5 September 2024
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
Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves during her visit t
Britain / 28 August 2024
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
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
27 August 2024
Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves during a press con
Editorial: / 22 August 2024
22 August 2024
Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves during a press con
Britain / 21 August 2024
21 August 2024
Unite general secretary Sharon Graham calls for wealth tax
Chancellor Rachel Reeves giving a speech at the Treasury in
Britain / 29 July 2024
29 July 2024
Campaigners accuse Chancellor Rachael Reeves of prolonging the era of austerity after heralding in a new raft of cuts
Children enjoying playing on swings in a park near Ashford,
Britain / 22 July 2024
22 July 2024
Unacceptable for one of world’s wealthiest nations to fuel child poverty, campaigners charge