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22 March 2017
'I'm writing this to tell you about the plight of disabled people'
Reader's comment: I'm still here, I'm still fighting for what I rightfully deserve. And I'm writing this to tell you about the plight of disabled people all over the country. We're not on the news separated from you, we're among you
8 March 2017
One million workers on zero-hour contracts
Fight for secure jobs for all: 910,000 workers in Britain are on zero-hour contracts - a six-fold increase since 2008 - according to analysis by the Resolution Foundation think-tank.
22 February 2017
30% of people on inadequate incomes in UK
19 million people in the UK - nearly 30% of the population - live below the 'minimum income standard' (MIS) and "are just about managing at best," according to a recent report by the poverty think-tank Joseph Rowntree Foundation.
22 February 2017
Web series review: Cooked - "How capitalism ruined eating"
The title 'Cooked' doesn't exactly sound like essential political viewing. But in this adaptation of Michael Pollan's 2013 bestselling book of the same title, the author examines the contribution of cooking to human development and progress.
15 February 2017
Foreign aid's not the problem - it's capitalist thieves
Twenty-four times as much money is looted from poor countries in the global south than is sent in aid
8 February 2017
Tense, lively prologue to events which changed the world
Non-fiction review: Lenin on the Train: When the February revolution broke out in Russia in 1917 and the Tsar was overthrown, Vladimir Lenin was living in exile in Switzerland.
7 December 2016
Food banks and the real Daniel Blakes
Hundreds of thousands of people are surviving and feeding themselves by using foodbanks in Britain today
30 November 2016
Hospital admissions for malnutrition rise threefold
Resist Victorian living standards!: Hospitals have come under a new wave of pressure as the number of patients admitted with malnutrition has drastically increased.
23 November 2016
Cash for rich and royals, cuts for the 99%
The Tories' Autumn Statement can find money to give tax breaks to corporations, while ensuring our billionaire queen retains a life of extreme luxury. So why can't it find money to invest in secure jobs, our chronically underfunded NHS, or the desperate housing situation?
16 November 2016
A Street Cat Named Bob: tale of neglect by capitalism
Film review: 'A Street Cat Named Bob' is the heart-warming story of a man trying to beat addiction and homelessness with the support of his pet cat.
14 September 2016
Obesity crisis: government strategy offers no solution
The scale of the obesity crisis in the UK is vast. The 2014 official Health Survey for England showed that 61.7% of adults were overweight or obese. 31.2% of children aged two to 15 were also either overweight or obese.
31 August 2016
It's one world for the super-rich, and another one for the rest of us.
25 July 2016
Food waste - the logic of capitalism
New figures that half of all food produced in the US is thrown away brings the question of the wastefulness of capitalism into sharp relief.
29 June 2016
Protest to demand reinstatement of sacked bakers' union rep
Over a hundred campaigners and trade union activists paid a defiant visit to the headquarters of Samworth Brothers, a bullying penny-pinching company that has sacked BFAWU bakers' union rep Kumaran Bose.
22 June 2016
Convoy to Calais: Outrageous blocking of aid for refugees
A convoy of 250 vehicles set off to deliver solidarity and aid to refugees
22 June 2016
BFAWU conference 2016: "A council of war"
The BFAWU bakers' union conference 12-16 June in Southport felt like a real council of war. This is a union with 20,000 members - that is numerically smaller than others - but huge ambition to defend them at a time when it is under siege from the food employers who want to protect their profits.
1 June 2016
It's one world for the super-rich, and another one for the rest of us.
20 April 2016
Day of action against poverty pay: £10 now!
Chants demanding a £10 an hour minimum wage rang out through Wakefield city centre on 14 April.
30 March 2016
Some workers will be excited for a pay rise in April as the National 'Living' Wage comes into force. But is it really a great deal for workers? Or is it fool's gold?
23 March 2016
BSE crisis - the madness of the profit system
Twenty years ago: The UK's biggest health scandal in living memory was the BSE epidemic known as "mad cow disease".
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