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21 October 2015
It's one world for the super-rich, and another one for the rest of us. Housing crisis versus landlords' profits, extortionate cost of football.
24 June 2015
A new member of the Socialist Party explains that he felt he needed to join the fightback - after years of being faced by a political choice between different shades of blue.
24 June 2015
Writer Patrick Marber returns to the National Theatre after a long absence with a beautiful three-man show set in the desperate, passionate and quasi-religious world of a non-league football club.
10 June 2015
Fifa scandals - a rottenness based on corporate greed
Fifa, football's most powerful body, has hit the rocks and is sinking fast. Its high-ranking members, looking to save their skins, have begun to spill the beans on decades' long institutional corruption
3 June 2015
Bruised and Blattered - Fifa's boss eventually resigns
Reclaim football from corrupting big business: Fifa president Sepp Blatter has finally succumbed to widespread pressure and resigned
27 May 2015
Toon and TUSC slam 'cash cow' boss
Activists and football fans came together to protest against the billionaire owner of Newcastle United and Sports Direct on 25 April
13 May 2015
Bradford Fire: victims demand independent inquiry
Thirty years ago, on 11 May, 56 people died and 256 were injured in a devastating fire which gutted Valley Parade, the home ground of Bradford City football club
8 April 2015
Hillsborough inquests: Heartbreak, disbelief and anger
The 26th anniversary of the Hillsborough stadium disaster in Sheffield, when 96 Liverpool football supporters were crushed to death, takes place on 15 April
18 March 2015
Assem Allam, multi-millionaire owner of Hull City AFC, has issued eviction notices to community sporting organisations which use City's facilities, writes Eric Kelly and Phil Culshaw.
25 February 2015
TV football deal: Reclaim the game for the fans
The football Premier League's new TV deal with Sky and BT broadcasters offers mega-riches to the 20 Premier League teams, but little reward to the lower leagues
21 January 2015
5,000 residents force council debate on pool closure
Derby TUSC is fighting Derby council's closure of Moorways sports complex, including two swimming pools
21 January 2015
Cardiff happy to get the blues
Cardiff City fans are celebrating their club's return to blue. Billionaire owner Vincent Tan, who changed the strip to red in June 2012, was forced to back down by a mass campaign of supporters
7 January 2015
Art is too often put out of ordinary people's reach by extortionate prices and a snobbish social elite. So why is big art such big business? And what does that mean for working class artists?
10 December 2014
Broadband giants' expensive battle
Paul Callanan's article on football financing (issue 834) was illuminating. The almost complete dominance of big business (often from very shady business people) is only part of the problem
10 December 2014
100 year anniversary: "Here we were laughing and chatting to men who, only hours before, we were trying to kill!" These words from an astonished British soldier in World War One (WW1) sum up the incredible story of the 1914 Christmas truce
19 November 2014
The beautiful game looking ugly
Yet again the world of football finds itself mired in a corruption scandal. This time it is over the Fifa (Fédération Internationale de Football Association) decision to allow Qatar to host the 2022 World Cup
15 October 2014
After spending a year playing in Northampton, 35 miles outside Coventry, the recent return of Coventry City Football Club (CCFC) to Coventry's Ricoh Arena was welcomed by football fans across the country
24 September 2014
Croydon leisure centre strike for decent wages
Unite members working at five leisure centres in Croydon, south London, took strike action on Thursday 18 and Friday 19 September against pay cuts by their private sector employer Fusion Leisure
4 September 2014
Communities determined to protect remaining leisure facilities
Cardiff council is threatening massive cuts to leisure services
3 September 2014
At a pre-season football fans' protest in London, Liverpool FC supporters held a banner saying 'Football is nothing without supporters'
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