Workers Power

UK, US, Israel, Turkey: Hands off Syria!

Workers Power

Statement on foreign intervention following the overthrow of Assad

The return of Trump: the sequel is always worse

Dave Stockton

Donald Trump’s re-election has dismayed the liberal centre who have no answer to the rise of right-wing populism
Landowners revolt against tax break abolition

Andy Yorke

Special pleading by landed interests won’t solve real problems with British farming.
Church of England: living in sin

Rose Tedeschi

The Archbishop of Canterbury has resigned for his part in covering up a long-running child abuse scandal.

WORK & TRADE UNIONS

Troublemakers 2024 Conference report

Andy Yorke

Rank and file activists build on success of first conference
Employment rights bill gutted by bosses’ lobby

Andy Yorke

The TUC hailed a ‘major boost to workers rights’ that failed to abolish zero-hours contracts, fire and rehire, or deliver full rights from day one.
Local government strike action blocked by anti-union ballot threshold

Jeremy Dewar

The Tories’ anti-union laws have blocked local government workers taking legal strike action to improve a pathetic 3% pay offer

LABOUR PARTY

Labour faces budget backlash as bosses plead poverty

George Banks

The bosses are threatening to pay for takes hikes by cutting jobs and hours.
Labour’s century of support for Zionism

Dave Stockton

The British Labour party’s shameful record of support for the Zionist project
Stop Labour’s law and order crackdown

Jeremy Dewar

Labour are continuing the Tories’ clampdown on the right to protest

REVOLUTIONARY STRATEGY

The ACR’s Ecosocialist Manifesto: a Trotskyist critique

Jeremy Dewar

A review of Ecosocialist Revolution: A Manifesto, Anti*Capitalist Resistance, July 2024.
Review | China: Rise, Repression, Resistance

Peter Main

A review of Adrian Budd’s new book on China
France: the government offensive and the tasks of revolutionaries

Marc Lasalle

Analysis of the political crisis in France and the positions of the French left

FIFTH INTERNATIONAL ISSUE 26

INTERNATIONAL

The return of Trump: the sequel is always worse

Dave Stockton

Donald Trump’s re-election has dismayed the liberal centre who have no answer to the rise of right-wing populism
Anti-Zionist Jews get organised

Alex Rutherford

Israel’s genocidal assault is prompting a generation of young Jewish people to play a leading role in Palestine solidarity campaigning.
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.
Ukraine: the prospects for an imperialist peace

Dave Stockton

Donald Trump has promised to end the war, but a great power partition will plant the depth charge of future wars.
Ceasefire in Lebanon, genocide in Gaza

Dave Stockton

Before Trump’s inauguration brings new pressure for a ceasefire, Israel will attempt to complete the ethnic cleansing of northern Gaza

REVIEWS & CULTURE

The ACR’s Ecosocialist Manifesto: a Trotskyist critique

Jeremy Dewar

A review of Ecosocialist Revolution: A Manifesto, Anti*Capitalist Resistance, July 2024.
Review | Hard Graft

Agnes Finnie

An exhibition exploring the impact of work on the human body, particularly women and the marginalised.
Review | She Who Struggles

Ursula Kempe

Exploring the role of women in revolutionary and national liberation movements during the 20th century.

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

Anti-Zionist Jews get organised

Alex Rutherford

Israel’s genocidal assault is prompting a generation of young Jewish people to play a leading role in Palestine solidarity campaigning.
Ceasefire in Lebanon, genocide in Gaza

Dave Stockton

Before Trump’s inauguration brings new pressure for a ceasefire, Israel will attempt to complete the ethnic cleansing of northern Gaza
Israel marks October 7 anniversary by spreading regional war

Workers Power

There can be no lasting peace in the Middle East as long as Israel continues to exist as a gendarme for imperialist interests in the region

CLIMATE & ENVIRONMENT

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
Greens: No threat to capitalism, no saviour for environment

Tim Nailsea

Why socialists shouldn’t support the Green Party

WOMEN & LGBT+

The international movement against femicide grows

Sani Meier

From Turkey to South Africa, the scourge of gendered violence is being resisted by a growing movement.
Review | Hard Graft

Agnes Finnie

An exhibition exploring the impact of work on the human body, particularly women and the marginalised.
Review | She Who Struggles

Ursula Kempe

Exploring the role of women in revolutionary and national liberation movements during the 20th century.

RACE & MIGRATION

Chris Kaba’s killer walks free

Jeremy Dewar

The acquittal of Martyn Blake has been seized on by police chiefs to demand immunity for killings
Undercover: Exposing the Far Right review

KD Tait

Hope Not Hate go undercover to expose the changing dynamics of the international far right mixing racism, violence and conspiracy theories
Defend refugees against the far right

Millie Collins

Labour’s policy towards asylum seekers is little different to the Tories.

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