The top 1,000 wealthiest individuals and families in Britain are sitting on a record £771.3 billion, up £47.8 billion in a year. This astonishing fact is in this year’s Sunday Times Rich List. At the same time millions of children from working families are living in poverty, more than a third of babies are living […]
Author Archive: Lindsey Morgan
Universal Credit Out – Tories Out!
Universal Credit is a disaster for the working class. The difficult-by-design benefit replaces six separate benefits with a single payment, normally paid to a single payee. A recent report produced by the Citizen’s Advice Bureau showed that half of the people that are seeking help from them with Universal Credit claims are in rent arrears. […]
Workers in UK do £1.2trn of Unpaid Housework and Care Each Year
Exhausted and exploited workers are doing an increasing amount of unpaid household work. The amount of unpaid domestic labour has grown every year from 2005 to 2016, according to the Office for National Statistics. It equates to about £18,932 per person on average – £1.24 trillion a year, almost half the UK economy’s annual product! […]
Tulip Workers Vote Unanimously for Industrial Action After Pay Row and Health and Safety Cuts
Leicester Socialist Party and the National Shop Stewards Network (NSSN) attended an emergency branch meeting today for workers from Tulip, a food processing plant in Coalville. The members present voted unanimously to ballot for industrial action due to a series of abuses by their employers. This was after talks between Tulip and the Bakers’ Union […]
