Donald Trump's re-election has dismayed the liberal centre who have no answer to the rise of right-wing populism

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

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

The British Labour party's shameful record of support for the Zionist project

Rebel forces have driven out forces loyal to dictator Bashar al-Assad who has appealed for aid from Russia and Iran

With one candidate already on the ropes, a breath of wind prevented the second making an early exit.

A review of 1984, the Miners and the Strike that could have won by Ian Taylor, Socialist Worker.

Britain is a key link in Israel’s war machine, selling weapons, conducting research, and investing pension funds. It’s time to the break the link—no cooperation with occupation!

By Dave Stockton As we go to press, the Labour Party Conference is assembling in Liverpool. With its many fringe events it has been promoted as the largest such gathering in years. But it will be unlike the gatherings of social movement activists in the Corbyn years. The Guardian reported in September that a total […]

By Dave Stockton On 7 October, at 6.30am local time, the Gaza-based Palestinian resistance movements; Hamas, Islamic Jihad, the PFLP and DFLP, launched a full scale offensive, with a barrage of missiles into Israel, some reaching Tel Aviv, 40 miles away. At the same time, their fighters, taking the Israeli Defence Force (IDF) by surprise, […]

The spate of coups across the region reveals intensifying imperialist struggle for control of key resources.

Israel launches deadly raid into the occupied territories

Wagner mutiny shows how Ukraine war is testing Putin regime

As rival imperialists manoeuvre for position, workers urgently needs a Fifth International

As Erdogan scrapes victory on a slim margin Dave Stockton asks where next for the left in Turkey.

The manoeuvrings of the great powers will shape the prospects for peace

Why did the biggest protests in British history fail?

By Dave Stockton THE 23–24 February is the first anniversary of Vladimir Putin’s Ukraine War. On that night, 190,000 Russian armed forces launched a massive attack on the country. Their aim was to occupy its capital, overthrow its government and overawe its people. Putin called it a ‘special military operation’. In fact, it was a […]

By Dave Stockton THE FIRST issue of Workers Power as a monthly paper appeared in October 1978. Its headline Smash the Five Per Cent Limit related to a situation we face today: a government trying to impose a ceiling on wages for public sector workers. Though the government then was a Labour administration, many of […]

Dave Stockton reviews Our Bloc: How We Win by James Schneider

On 2 December, Biden signed legislation that blocked railroad workers from launching a nationwide strike for better jobs and conditions.

By Dave Stockton PROTESTS FOLLOWING the murder of 22 year-old Jina Mahsa Amini have developed into the most serious challenge to the Iranian dicatorship in four decades. Women have taken the lead in daily demonstrations and have been joined by students in the country’s universities and schools, and, crucially, workers taking mass political strike action. […]

Haitians don't want or need another armed intervention

By Dave Stockton Dockers in Southampton have refused to unload containers diverted from Liverpool, in defiance of shipping companies and government ministers attempts to undermine the Liverpool strike. This act of solidarity shows both the possibility and necessity of defying the anti-union laws, which outlaw secondary action and allow bosses to divert work to non-striking […]

The significance of the soviet form of organisation and what its legacy means for working class militants today.

Somalia, Ethiopia and northern Kenya are facing severe famine.

Five hundred Liverpool dockers at England’s fourth-largest port, employed by MDHC Container Services, are to strike from 19 September to 3 October

Dave Stocking Radical Lambeth: 1978-1991 by Simon Hannah

By Dave Stockton BORIS JOHNSON has resigned as leader of the Conservative Party, but not yet as prime minister. The artful dodger has managed to stay in No.10 Downing Street, drawing his annual salary of £164,080, until 5 September. The 50+ MPs who quit are also all entitled to three months’ salary, costing the taxpayer […]

By Dave Stockton THE FIRST day of April witnessed an important victory for US workers. An official ballot for union recognition won a majority of workers (2,654 for, 2,131 against) at the huge JFK8 Amazon warehouse on Staten Island, New York City. The first Amazon facility where workers have won union recognition after dozens of […]