Workers Power

‘Slow violence’ A review of The Department

Matthew Smyth

REVIEW: The Department: How a Violent Government Bureaucracy Killed Hundreds and Hid the Evidence.

Defending trans rights at work

Workers Power

Employers are re-writing policies and restrictions on bathroom use and humiliating demands to produce birth certificates or out oneself as trans are coming fast.
Starmer plays the racist card

KD Tait

Starmer denounced the Tories for what he calls a ‘one-nation experiment in open borders’ and claimed the country runs the danger of ‘becoming an island of strangers’, and that this has done ‘incalculable’ damage to Britain.
Defend trans rights in Ireland

Bernie McAdam

By Bernie McAdam Last August the Stormont Executive leaders, both Sinn Fein and the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), approved a temporary ban on puberty blockers for transgender youth. This recommendation emanated from the Cass Review which was commissioned by the UK government. The then Tory government had used emergency legislation to implement the ban earlier…

WORK & TRADE UNIONS

Defending trans rights at work

Workers Power

Employers are re-writing policies and restrictions on bathroom use and humiliating demands to produce birth certificates or out oneself as trans are coming fast.
‘We shut the gates!’ Report from Birmingham mega-picket

Rob Schofield

By Jeremy Dewar Many hundreds of workers poured into Lifford Lane in south Birmingham from 6am onwards, many with banners and placards. They came to close the depot and prevent agency scab dustcarts from leaving, handing a temporary victory for the city’s bin workers, who have been on indefinite strike for two months, since 11…
How can the Birmingham bins dispute be won?

Jeremy Dewar

Mass pickets and solidarity action could bring this strike to a rapid and successful conclusion

LABOUR PARTY

Labour fails the test of office

Workers Power

Labour has failed the test on the cost of living, employment rights and climate change. What can we do?
Keir Starmer’s rivers of blood

KD Tait

A shameful display of racist pandering marks a new low in Labour’s sorry record of scapegoating immigrant workers
Reform punishes Labour and Tories

Dave Stockton

Reform’s breakthrough and what the labour movement needs to do

REVOLUTIONARY STRATEGY

We Demand Change: movement or party?

Workers Power

A left reformist echo of Labour cannot provide the alternative leadership we need
Trans rights: Counterfire gets it wrong

Millie Collins

Counterfire capitulates to the wisdom of the justices
The RCP declares ‘war on woke’

Andy Yorke

The rise of Nigel Farage’s Reform Party and Trump’s victory have seen the Revolutionary Communist Party downplay and excuse reactionary ideas in the working class in its 26 February issue of The Communist.

FIFTH INTERNATIONAL ISSUE 26

INTERNATIONAL

Trump’s reign of terror over migrants

Andy Yorke

At his inauguration speech Trump threatened to deport ‘millions and millions of criminal aliens’.
We need workers’ action to break UK links with Israel

Dave Stockton

The UK state is deeply implicated in Israel’s genocide. Workers should take direct action to break those links
No to war between India and Pakistan!

Workers Power

7 May statement of the Revolutionary Socialist Movement, on the India-Pakistan conflict
After 100 days, Trump runs into resistance

KD Tait

Protests need a clear programme to avoid being diverted into regenerating the Democrats
The Nakba never ended

Zara Ali

After 77 years, the Nakba has morphed into open genocide

REVIEWS & CULTURE

‘Slow violence’ A review of The Department

Matthew Smyth

REVIEW: The Department: How a Violent Government Bureaucracy Killed Hundreds and Hid the Evidence.
Kneecap condemn ‘moral hysteria’ of pro-Israel media

Rose Tedeschi

After using their shows at Coachella to speak out for the Palestinian people, Kneecap, an underground Irish hip hop trio, have found themselves under attack from the capitalist and pro-Zionist media.
Review: Rise Up. Resistance, Revolution, Abolition

Workers Power

Review of exhibition at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.

BOOKS & PAMPHLETS

Palestine: A Marxist Introduction charts the struggles of the Palestinians against colonial oppression, invasive settlement, mass expulsion and war.

Find out more about Palestine: A Marxist Introduction

The 1984–5 miners’ strike was the decisive class battle of postwar Britain. This pamphlet analyses the origins of the dispute, Thatcher’s strategy, and why the miners lost.

Find out more about the 1984 Great Miners’ Strike

The need to chart a way out of capitalist climate breakdown and war has never been more urgent. Our international programme is a contribution to this strategic debate.

Find out more about A Manifesto for Socialist Revolution

FREE PALESTINE

We need workers’ action to break UK links with Israel

Dave Stockton

The UK state is deeply implicated in Israel’s genocide. Workers should take direct action to break those links
The Nakba never ended

Zara Ali

After 77 years, the Nakba has morphed into open genocide
Gaza genocide: the final act?

Workers Power

After months of starvation, the Israeli army is preparing to occupy the strip indefinitely

CLIMATE & ENVIRONMENT

COP29: World leaders abandon efforts to address climate change

Rebecca Anderson

The COP29 conference demonstrated the total inability of capitalism to solve the climate crisis.
Spain: floods unleash storm of protest

Frieda Koppler

Catastrophic flooding in southern Spain has provoked anger among residents who say the government’s inaction made the crisis worse.
Review | We Only Want the Earth

Geilis Duncan

A review of the rs21 pamphlet on climate change

WOMEN & LGBT+

Defending trans rights at work

Workers Power

Employers are re-writing policies and restrictions on bathroom use and humiliating demands to produce birth certificates or out oneself as trans are coming fast.
Defend trans rights in Ireland

Bernie McAdam

By Bernie McAdam Last August the Stormont Executive leaders, both Sinn Fein and the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), approved a temporary ban on puberty blockers for transgender youth. This recommendation emanated from the Cass Review which was commissioned by the UK government. The then Tory government had used emergency legislation to implement the ban earlier…
The roots of Trans oppression

Jeremy Dewar

The origins of trans oppression and why women need a united struggle for liberation

RACE & MIGRATION

Trump’s reign of terror over migrants

Andy Yorke

At his inauguration speech Trump threatened to deport ‘millions and millions of criminal aliens’.
Keir Starmer’s rivers of blood

KD Tait

A shameful display of racist pandering marks a new low in Labour’s sorry record of scapegoating immigrant workers
Labour’s attacks on migrants won’t stop Reform

George Banks

Migrants are easy targets but chasing racist votes fails on its own terms

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