Budget Day strikes

The budget has rightly been overshadowed by the strikes and protests of the labour movement, not least because the announcement has elicited comment from the Office of Budget Responsibility that we will see the largest fall in living standards since 1956.

Education Anti-Poverty Coalition adds voice to Free School Meals

Campaigners from the new Education Anti-Poverty Coalition are calling for child benefit to rise by £20 a week and the expansion of free school meals to tackle poverty and ensure all pupils have a fair chance at school. According to newspaper reports the coalition includes the Fair Education Alliance, Child Poverty Action Group and National Education Union.

Members Voice: the history of British-US support for Nazism

We live in frightening times. The war in Ukraine is the latest play in a strategy for the permanent control of the world’s resources by the Fascist, obsessively expansionist Anglo American Empire, in whose imperial history lies the origins of the Neo-Nazism now driving the war in Ukraine