Workers Power

Angela Rayner’s staff to strike from 22 April

PCS Activists

In Birmingham, there is an opportunity for striking workers from Angela Rayner’s department to link up and protest alongside the bin workers who Rayner recently called on to accept a pay cut.

Report: Trans rights protests in Leeds

Angelina Ross

Despite being hastily arranged, both protests attracted hundreds. Far from viewing the ruling as an isolated act of bigotry, protesters framed it as part of a deliberate strategy to fracture solidarities and repress identities that challenge the status quo.
Resist the Supreme Court ruling — defend and extend trans rights!

Rebecca Anderson

Trans people and their allies are taking to the streets in huge numbers
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.

WORK & TRADE UNIONS

Angela Rayner’s staff to strike from 22 April

PCS Activists

In Birmingham, there is an opportunity for striking workers from Angela Rayner’s department to link up and protest alongside the bin workers who Rayner recently called on to accept a pay cut.
Get paid to go on strike?

Workers Power

In the recent spate of school strikes across London, the National Education Union has been offering teachers up to 100% of their pay lost due to strike action. While there will be some money lost to their pension contributions, this essentially amounts to a cost-free strike.
Employment Rights Bill: Labour waters down their proposals

KD Tait

The delay in Labour’s Employment Rights Bill, originally promised as a flagship piece of legislation aimed at strengthening workers’ rights, is a betrayal of the workers and trade unions who put the party into power.

LABOUR PARTY

Labour blames welfare claimants for unemployment

Rose Tedeschi

By Rose Tedeschi Liz Kendall says that young Universal Credit claimants are ‘taking the mickey’ by choosing not to work. Never mind that Universal Credit pays a standard rate of only £393.45 a month, less than a person could make in a week on a full-time minimum wage job. Never mind that millions of jobs…
When out of ideas, attack the disabled

KD Tait

The markets demand public spending cuts, and Rachel Reeves is happy to oblige.
Labour faces budget backlash as bosses plead poverty

George Banks

The bosses are threatening to pay for takes hikes by cutting jobs and hours.

REVOLUTIONARY STRATEGY

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.
Review | SWP’s antifascism tails liberals and bureaucrats

Jeremy Dewar

The SWP’s idea of building a movement is to limit its demands to what is acceptable to the existing leadership
The ACR’s Ecosocialist Manifesto: a Trotskyist critique

Jeremy Dewar

A review of Ecosocialist Revolution: A Manifesto, Anti*Capitalist Resistance, July 2024.

FIFTH INTERNATIONAL ISSUE 26

INTERNATIONAL

Israel resumes Gaza genocide

Dave Stockton

By Dave Stockton On 18 March at 2.10am Israel restarted bombing the homes of civilians across Gaza, ending the two-month ceasefire. Its pretext was that Hamas would not agree to an extension of stage one, which would allow Israel Defence Forces to remain in the Strip indefinitely, while all the hostages are released. As we…
Syria: Only workers and democratic forces can halt sectarian pogroms

Jeremy Dewar

By Jeremy Dewar Three months after the fall of Assad, the new Syrian regime, led by interim president Ahmed al-Sharaa of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), is facing its stiffest test: a test that goes to the core of the HTS’ sectarian and anti-democratic politics. While part of the threat originates from former forces of the…
Free Mahmoud Khalil, defend free speech on Palestine!

Workers Power

A Columbia University SAW-UAW writes on the repression of the Palestine solidarity movement
No Zionist ‘peace’ in Gaza

Dave Stockton

By Dave Stockton As we go to press, stage one of the Gaza ceasefire is due to end on 1 March. However, Netanyahu’s war cabinet has been repeatedly delayed negotiations on stage two, which should have started on 4 February. The Israeli prime minister has also held back the release of Palestinian detainees, many held…
Congo bleeds in scramble for rare earths

Jeremy Dewar

By Jeremy Dewar In less than three weeks the Rwandan-backed M23 militia swept through the mineral-rich provinces of North and South Kivu, in eastern Congo, leaving a trail of destruction. Over half a million people have been forced to flee in terror, many not for the first time. In late January, the M23 ‘rebels’ surrounded…

REVIEWS & CULTURE

Review | SWP’s antifascism tails liberals and bureaucrats

Jeremy Dewar

The SWP’s idea of building a movement is to limit its demands to what is acceptable to the existing leadership
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.

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

Israel resumes Gaza genocide

Dave Stockton

By Dave Stockton On 18 March at 2.10am Israel restarted bombing the homes of civilians across Gaza, ending the two-month ceasefire. Its pretext was that Hamas would not agree to an extension of stage one, which would allow Israel Defence Forces to remain in the Strip indefinitely, while all the hostages are released. As we…
No Zionist ‘peace’ in Gaza

Dave Stockton

By Dave Stockton As we go to press, stage one of the Gaza ceasefire is due to end on 1 March. However, Netanyahu’s war cabinet has been repeatedly delayed negotiations on stage two, which should have started on 4 February. The Israeli prime minister has also held back the release of Palestinian detainees, many held…
Sweden: Support the dockers’ arms blockade!

Workers Power

ArbetarmaktSwedish section of the League for the Fifth International The following statement was published by our comrades and sent to the union. On Tuesday 4 February, the dockers’ union launched a six-day blockade of all types of weaponry for Israel. This is really exemplary – exactly the kind of action that the workers’ movement needs!…

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+

Report: Trans rights protests in Leeds

Angelina Ross

Despite being hastily arranged, both protests attracted hundreds. Far from viewing the ruling as an isolated act of bigotry, protesters framed it as part of a deliberate strategy to fracture solidarities and repress identities that challenge the status quo.
Resist the Supreme Court ruling — defend and extend trans rights!

Rebecca Anderson

Trans people and their allies are taking to the streets in huge numbers
The femicide pandemic

Millie Collins

By Millie Collins In 2023, every 10 minutes, a woman or girl was intentionally killed by a partner or family member. A report recently released from the UN showed that gender-related killings, or femicide as it is now commonly known, is on the rise around the world. While there has been some public outcry, this…

RACE & MIGRATION

Labour’s attacks on migrants won’t stop Reform

George Banks

By George Banks Fearing the electoral threat posed by Reform, Labour has launched a fresh assault on migrants. Part of this campaign is a disturbing ad blitz, boasting of the highest deportation levels seen in five years. These advertisements are styled in Reform UK’s distinctive turquoise, with Labour’s branding conspicuously absent. They have also launched…
Child sexual exploitation scandal

Millie Collins

Racist myth-making obscures real causes of violence against women and girls.
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

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