21 October 2015

Them & Us

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.

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24 June 2015

Why I joined

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.

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24 June 2015

Theatre review: The Red Lion

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.

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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18 March 2015

Going to Hull in a handbasket

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.

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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

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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

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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

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Art & revolution: painting by Juan Pedro Flores Gonzales

7 January 2015

State of the arts

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?

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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

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10 December 2014

The 1914 Christmas truce

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

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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

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15 October 2014

Coventry fans stung by Wasps

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

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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

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4 September 2014

Communities determined to protect remaining leisure facilities

Cardiff council is threatening massive cuts to leisure services

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3 September 2014

Football fans angry at prices

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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