Last month, the RSPCA made a 'snap decision' to sell its only London animal hospital to another charity. Only the threat of strikes stopped the transfer – proof that where charity falls short, organising wins.

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Mike Davis, the American geographer and historian, has died. There was no better socialist writer in the last four decades, writes Owen Hatherley.

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NEW: Around 65% of the cabinet are privately educated. This is more than double that of Theresa May’s 2016 Cabinet (30%), and more than David Cameron’s 2015 Cabinet (50%). Just 7% of Brits are privately educated. A two-tier education system creates a two-tier society.

Sunak correct that there’s no “magic money tree.” It’s not magic & it’s actually more of a forest, watered with the sweat & blood of workers & then chipped down and hoarded by him & his billionaire mates while your family starves & freezes.

Picasso was born on this day in 1881. He became a socialist – and went on to prove the power of art as a tool in the fight against oppression and brutality.

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Class boots from Paul Mullin 👏

Designed to oppose this government and its attacks on working people.

But his club Wrexham AFC have banned them.

RT if you support Paul’s right to wear these on the pitch ❤️👊🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

This is the state of commuter rail services across the North this morning.👇🏻

Passengers here deserve so much more than the industry complacency we heard on #r4today this morning.

All British universities are facing unprecedented strikes after workers have voted overwhelmingly against cuts to their pay and pensions. Their campaign shows how the fighting mood among working people is growing bigger by the day, writes Jo Grady. tribunemag.co.uk/2022/10/how-th…

NEW: 150 universities will see an unprecedented wave of strikes as @UCU members vote to take industrial action against pension cuts by 84.9% (on a 60.2% turnout) and against a real-terms pay cut by 81.1% (on a 57.8% turnout).

Today, 15,000 ambulance service workers ballot to strike.

After years of cutbacks, surveys show:

83% face unacceptable stress at work

72% are considering leaving their jobs

And now they face a massive real-terms pay CUT!

RT if you support their fight 🚑

#EnoughIsEnough

People are going to go cold in their homes this winter.

Kids are going to go hungry because families can’t cover bills.

And what do we get from our government?

Another night of amateur dramatics to feed the egos of millionaires.

Pathetic.

#EnoughlsEnough

Our BT and Openreach members strike for the 8th day tomorrow in an increasingly bitter dispute.

They strike for fair pay but also against the hypocrisy of a company that exemplifies everything bad about business in the UK today.

#FoodbankPhil

lol

“Racism needs stamping out in all walks of life” declares Tory MP Lee Anderson - who praised a “White Pride” far-right stalwart as one of the “top lads who make me proud” of his constituency. Full story in the new Private Eye, on sale now.

The Tories’ latest attack on trade unions would conscript transport workers to work against their will – a historic blow to the right to strike that must be fiercely resisted.

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Reality facing nurses in 2022:

❤️‍🩹 38,000 shortfall in NHS nurses

🏥 Just 25% of shifts have enough staff

👩‍⚕️ 83% say too few nurses to meet patient needs

👨‍⚕️ £2,949 real-terms pay cut since 2011

The nurses strike is about saving our NHS.

Get behind them!

#EnoughIsEnough

'No amount of cajolery, and no attempts at ethical or social seduction, can eradicate from my heart a deep burning hatred for the Tory Party... So far as I am concerned they are lower than vermin. They condemned millions of first-class people to semi-starvation.'

– Aneurin Bevan

In 1982, a group of young South Asians in Bradford were arrested for preparing to defend their community from fascists. 40 years on, I spoke to them about their trial, the solidarity that helped secure their freedom, and the ongoing urgency of resistance.

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