Our housing system treats homelessness as a lifestyle choice
The rise in the number of ‘intentionally homeless’ passes the buck for a housing crisis driven by policy failure, writes an anonymous housing worker.
Monthly Archives: September 2017
Murdoch’s bid to take over Sky just hit another wall
Culture secretary Karen Bradley has referred the 21st Century Fox bid to buy Sky to the Competition and Markets Authority.
Students call national demo against tuition fees, after Tories lose bid to raise cap
The Conservative Party was forced to abandon plans to hike tuition fees by £250 each year, after the DUP caused them major embarrassment by backing a Labour motion to block the rise.
Young workers deserve a higher minimum wage, unions say
The TUC’s comments coincide with a new report by thinktank Demos, which found 36% percent of young people worry about not being paid enough.
The new £10 note is physically smaller. It’s also worth less because of Brexit
At 15% physically smaller than its paper predecessor, the new tenner is like a physical manifestation of its reduced international purchasing power after the ‘great Brexit devaluation’.
Five reasons we should take Facebook into public ownership
Tech companies increasingly have monopolies over our online lives. It’s time for all of us to own them.
We need unions as much as ever. The challenge is finding new ways to organise
As TUC Congress draws to a close, all of us must find ways to reinvent the movement.
The government will lift 1 per cent pay cap — but their new offer is dismal
Jeremy Corbyn said at the TUC that the Labour Party “totally rejects the Tories’ attempt to divide and rule” by offering pay rises to some and not others.
Unions plan mass recruitment of precarious workers and nationwide action
Unions are looking to copy the successes of Momentum in recruiting young members.
The public sector pay cap is causing poverty and misery but the tide is turning
In the first six years of Tory rule, public sector pay rose by just 4.4%. Yet over the same period the cost of living soared by 22%. It’s time to act.