Extra resources put in to cope halved waits, showing again that NHS crisis is Tory-created Statistics gathered during strike action by paramedics have made a mockery of the Tories’ transparently ideological attack on workers’ right to strike. While Rishi Sunak and his partners in crime claim their plan to force unions to maintain services during […]
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Kevin Higgins, the brilliant socialist poet and political commentator, has died aged only fifty-six. One of the kindest and most generous people and a passionate supporter of human rights for Palestinians. Higgins’s poetry could be subtle or superbly acerbic, as in the case of this brilliant ‘tribute’ to Margaret Hodge, the unpleasant Barking MP who […]
Stark contrast to treatment of Ukrainian refugees News has emerged today that the UK government has not accepted a single refugee under the Afghan Resettlement Scheme in the past twelve months. The scheme is meant to help Afghans and their familes who assisted western forces during the Afghan conflict, yet the complete absence of successful […]
Residents raising funds for memorial park and community hub A Liverpool community is coming together to raise funds to create a local memorial park named after Olivia Pratt-Korbel, who was tragically shot and killed aged nine when a gunman forced his way into her family’s home in the West Derby constituency last August. The planned […]
Skwawkbox will be in London later this month to livestream ‘#FreeTheTruth: Secret Power, Media Freedom and Democracy‘, an event in support of wrongly-jailed Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, featuring leading international journalists. The livestream will run on Skwawkbox and Socialist Telly and will be embedded in the organisers’ pages and feeds. Streaming links will be published […]
Fascist attack on Brazilian Congress, and its financiers, will be punished says new left president Lula da Silva New left-wing Brazilian president Lula da Silva has ordered the National Guard into the country’s capital to quell riots and attacks by fascist supporters of defeated former president Jair Bolsonaro. da Silva, who was only sworn in […]
Yet another promise shredded as Starmer maintains 100% weasel record Keir Starmer has broken yet another promise – maintaining his perfect betrayal record – by abandoning his pledge to scrap the hateful and cruel Universal Credit system through which the Tories have inflicted years of misery and poverty on the UK’s lowest earning and most […]
Labour invites members to ‘Convention on beating independents and smaller parties’ Despite current polling and the associated bluff and bluster of the Labour right, the party regime appears to be worried that the rise of candidates from ‘independent and smaller parties’ threatens its electoral chances – enough to be organising special ‘convention’ events to try […]
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How our conception of how a family "should be" is holding us back from improving the lives of working families.