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Labour prepares to put working class on rations
Labour’s promise of change has been revealed to be change for the worse. The trade unions and communities need to prepare to fight back.
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Labour prepares to put working class on rations
Labour’s promise of change has been revealed to be change for the worse. The trade unions and communities need to prepare to fight back.
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Labour victory: now organise the resistance
Our task is to make our unions and social movements fight Labour’s coming attacks.
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industrial news
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TUC seeks to avoid fight over anti-union laws
The first TUC under a Labour government since 2009 is a chance to demand Labour restore workers’ rights.
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Public sector pay: 5% is not enough
The trade union leaders are preparing to show their ‘goodwill’ to the Labour government by accepting a below inflation pay offer, that will leave workers worse off
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Proposals for PSC Trade Union Conference
An open letter from rank and file trade unionists calling for a democratic, organising conference to build the movement
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NHS theatre nurses on strike demand safe staffing
Operating theatre nurses are on strike against plans to extend their hours, as part of Labour’s plan to run the NHS on overtime
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Workers take on Amazon
Amazon is spending vast sums trying to defeat a campaign for trade union recognition.
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Healthworkers – fight to make Labour pay up
Health workers should organise to meet a Labour government with a united front
International news
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Indian women mobilise to ‘reclaim the night’
Millions of women have organised protests and strikes after the rape and murder of Moumita Debnath
anti racism and anti fascism
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SUtR: outsourcing anti-racism on behalf of labour bureaucracy
THE MAIN labour movement anti-racism campaign in Britain, Stand Up to Racism (SUTR), is led by the SWP. But despite being controlled by the SWP, SUTR presents as a left-liberal anti-racist campaign, not a workers’ united front. It concentrates on collecting annual affiliations from trade unions but—as with trade union affiliations to the Palestine Solidarity…
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How Bristol saw off the far right
By Tim Nailsea ON 3 AUGUST far right activists put out a social media call for racists to assemble at Castle Park in Bristol city centre and copy the anti-immigrant protests that erupted nationwide in the wake of the Southport murders. Their plan was to march on the Mercure Hotel, where refugees were staying. Stand…
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Northern Ireland: Loyalists join in anti-migrant pogroms
The outbreak of rioting in England gave renewed impetus to a mounting wave of violence in the six counties
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British rule kneecapped
By Jeremy Dewar Rich Peppiatt’s debut feature length film Kneecap is a feel-good, coming-of-age comedy with a twist. The twist being that it is also a tale about Irish language rights and ultimately Ireland’s freedom from British rule. First of all it is great craic. Previously Peppiatt had only directed Irish rappers Kneecap’s music videos…
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Review of Defiance: Fighting the Far Right
A review of documentary Defiance: Fighting the Far Right directed by Satiyesh Manoharajah, Channel 4 mini-series.
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Book review: 1984, the Miners and the Strike that could have won
A review of 1984, the Miners and the Strike that could have won by Ian Taylor, Socialist Worker.
women & lgbt liberation
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Indian women mobilise to ‘reclaim the night’
Millions of women have organised protests and strikes after the rape and murder of Moumita Debnath
ireland updates
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British rule kneecapped
By Jeremy Dewar Rich Peppiatt’s debut feature length film Kneecap is a feel-good, coming-of-age comedy with a twist. The twist being that it is also a tale about Irish language rights and ultimately Ireland’s freedom from British rule. First of all it is great craic. Previously Peppiatt had only directed Irish rappers Kneecap’s music videos…
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Racist riots spread to Belfast
Northern Ireland’s sectarian culture has proven fertile ground for the spread of racist bigotry towards Muslims
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The return of Stormont
The DUP have returned to power sharing. Who benefits?
working class history
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What if the bosses fight back? The lessons of the Chilean Popular Unity 1970–1973
The events of 1970-73 hold vital lessons for us in a new period of revolutions and military coups.
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Good Friday at 25: celebrations can’t mask failures
The GFA promised much but delivered little—except a breathing space for British imperialism
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1972: When dockers fought the law—and the dockers won
The 1972 dock strike has important lessons for today as we enter a new period of industrial struggle
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