International
  • London school strikes: All out from 27 February!
    London school strikes: All out from 27 February!
    Jeremy Dewar

    By Jeremy Dewar The National Education Union is coordinating strikes across 10 schools in four London boroughs. Teachers are on the picket lines on 27 February and 5, 11, 12 and 13 March, while some will take off days in between as well. Strikers from all the schools will rally together outside the Department for…

  • Angela Rayner’s staff ballot for action
    Angela Rayner’s staff ballot for action
    PCS Activists

    By a PCS activist A ballot for industrial action has opened at the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government. Staff at Angela Rayner’s department are fighting closures, mandated attendance and restricted promotion opportunities. Birmingham, Newcastle, Truro, Exeter, Sheffield and Warrington offices will shut, with no guarantee that others are safe in the longer term. …

  • Trade Unions: Crisis of leadership in the rank and file
    Trade Unions: Crisis of leadership in the rank and file
    Tim Nailsea

    By Tim Nailsea The trade union movement in Britain saw something of a strike wave in 2022-23, in response to the double-digit inflation and the cost-of-living crisis. Yet in the following years the tide has definitely ebbed. In December 2022, 830,000 working days were lost due to strike action; by December 2024, they had dropped…

WORK & TRADE UNIONS

  • London school strikes: All out from 27 February!
    London school strikes: All out from 27 February!
    Jeremy Dewar

    By Jeremy Dewar The National Education Union is coordinating strikes across 10 schools in four London boroughs. Teachers are on the picket lines on 27 February and 5, 11, 12 and 13 March, while some will take off days in between as well. Strikers from all the schools will rally together outside the Department for…

  • Angela Rayner’s staff ballot for action
    Angela Rayner’s staff ballot for action
    PCS Activists

    By a PCS activist A ballot for industrial action has opened at the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government. Staff at Angela Rayner’s department are fighting closures, mandated attendance and restricted promotion opportunities. Birmingham, Newcastle, Truro, Exeter, Sheffield and Warrington offices will shut, with no guarantee that others are safe in the longer term. …

  • Trade Unions: Crisis of leadership in the rank and file
    Trade Unions: Crisis of leadership in the rank and file
    Tim Nailsea

    By Tim Nailsea The trade union movement in Britain saw something of a strike wave in 2022-23, in response to the double-digit inflation and the cost-of-living crisis. Yet in the following years the tide has definitely ebbed. In December 2022, 830,000 working days were lost due to strike action; by December 2024, they had dropped…

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INTERNATIONAL

  • No Zionist ‘peace’ in Gaza
    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
    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…

  • German Elections: strong right turn but growth for Left Party
    German Elections: strong right turn but growth for Left Party
    Martin Suchanek

    By Martin Suchanek, ArbeiterInnenmacht, Berlin The Christian Democrat leader Friedrich Merz will almost certainly be the next Chancellor of Germany, probably in a ‘grand coalition’ with the Social Democrats (SPD). With a high turnout (83%), the CDU/CSU conservatives came top with 28.5% of the vote, up 4.2% since 2021. They will have 208 members in…

  • Sweden: Support the dockers’ arms blockade!
    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!…

  • Syria: women and workers get organised
    Syria: women and workers get organised
    Andy Yorke

    By Andy Yorke The fall of the hated dictator Bashar al-Assad last year has left Syria devastated by fourteen years of war, prolonged and deepened by the rival regional powers, the US and Russia. As always it is women who bear the brunt. Ninety per cent of Syrians now live below the poverty line. Three-quarters…

REVIEWS & CULTURE

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

  • No Zionist ‘peace’ in Gaza
    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!
    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!…

  • Anti-Zionist Jews get organised
    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.

CLIMATE & ENVIRONMENT

WOMEN & LGBT+

  • The femicide pandemic
    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…

  • Women face a rising tide of reaction
    Women face a rising tide of reaction
    Rebecca Anderson

    By Rebecca Anderson Trump’s second term has brought into sharp focus the fact that progressive changes that seemed irreversible can be reversed, sometimes with the stroke of a Sharpie marker pen. The accumulation of rights for women and other oppressed groups is always presented as a slow but steady march from the vote to equal…

  • Child sexual exploitation scandal
    Child sexual exploitation scandal
    Millie Collins

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

RACE & MIGRATION

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