3+ day, 15+ hour ago   (738+ words) You could hear them long before you could see them. Scores of striking low paid NHS workers were shouting their defiance on megaphones outside Guy’s hospital in central London on Thursday. “Band two, no way… we want decent pay,” they…...

5+ day, 22+ hour ago   (1693+ words) Peter Thiel, the ­billionaire founder of US spy tech firm Palantir has his sights set on the NHS—and that should terrify us all. Thiel is up to his neck in providing surveillance equipment for the genocidal Israeli military and…...

6+ day, 1+ hour ago   (560+ words) ICR strikers rally on Friday I don’t often get moved to tears when reading Socialist Worker. But a paragraph in the report from the Institute of Cancer Research picket line did it for me last week (SW, 2 September). I had…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (786+ words) A Republic protest against the ‘trooping of the colour’ last year (Picture: Guy Smallman) We all fund the monarchy’s lavish lifestyles—and next year we will be spending nearly £100 million. The Treasury announced on Wednesday that the “Sovereign Grant”, the…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (1219+ words) Workers at Kimpton Clocktower Hotel are taking action over union recognition (Pic: Wikimedia commons) Workers at the Kimpton Clocktower Hotel in Manchester walked out on Saturday during the city’s annual Pride event. This is historically the most lucrative day of…...

2+ week, 20+ hour ago   (1363+ words) Trade unions are hugely important for building resistance to oppression, climate change and inequality. But the British labour movement sometimes seems to spend more time commemorating the glorious defeats of the past than supporting the struggles of today. Workers in…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (730+ words) Andy Burnham walked into Number 10 North with a promise to “put more money in people’s pockets and bring back hope”. This was thrown into doubt on Wednesday by the rise in energy bills. The Ofgem energy regulator confirmed that the…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (465+ words) Andy Burnham’s government is planning to tell us to stock up on tinned food and bottled water to prepare for extreme weather or cyber-attacks. The Cabinet Office wants to boost “national resilience” in the wake of both threats from Russia…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (480+ words) Estate workers at the South London and Maudsley (Slam) NHS Foundation Trust walked out this week for a second round of strikes in a dispute over pay and conditions. The workers are paid at bands 3 or 4 on the NHS pay…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (716+ words) Strikers met with a group of Palestinian students and their teachers Strikers from the Institute of Cancer Research were invited by Manchester and Trafford Trades Councils for a bumper meeting last week, bringing together strikers from across the city. We…...