Sam Ord News Today

Staff cuts and the closure of ticket offices will make rail networks—which are already almost inaccessible—even harder to navigate

Author Sukhdev Johal explains how capitalist economics has left working class people in a crisis with lower incomes

Around 100 police officers raided and evicted people who sought safety in an occupied, “unofficial” homeless shelter, in Tower Hamlets

Battles over pay, pensions, casualisation and equality are reaching a crucial stage in schools and universities

Delegates at the NEU conference in Harrogate debated a timetable for more teachers’ strikes in the coming weeks

Having presided over a long list of rotten deals against drivers, General Secretary Sharon Graham and other lead officials seized on the Abellio dispute to try to revive Unite’s tattered reputation

There is nothing militant, let alone socialist about these tendencies. They are the most conservative political force imaginable, dedicated to preventing the very break with the trade union apparatus on which any successful fightback depends.

Unlike others on the left, the SWP at least tries to draw lessons from the failure of Spain’s Podemos. The problem is, Paul Demarty explains, the lessons it draws are hopelessly wrong