Labour faces budget backlash as bosses plead poverty
The bosses are threatening to pay for takes hikes by cutting jobs and hours.
Stop the war… with annexations
Stop the War’s perspective on the Ukraine war is a blend of the politics of the two major political tendencies which support it and make up the bulk of its members – Counterfire and the Communist Party of Britain (CPB).
Boycott Israel: workers’ sanctions are the way forward
The focus of the Palestine solidarity movement has shifted towards boycotting arms for Israel, but to succceed it needs international organisation.
Jewish Action for Palestine launched in Manchester
In response to the latest onslaught of the Zionist state against the people of Gaza.
Tories take aim at migrant workers as Brexit drives immigration to record high
Keir Starmer and Shadow Home Secretary Yvette Cooper are desperate not to be viewed as ‘soft on migrants’.
Starmer doubles down on support for Israel’s war
Dozens of councillors have resigned, and Labour have tried to frame dissent as a 'Muslim issue'.
Resist the Tories’ carnival of reaction
It’s time for them to go.
After the strike wave, what next for the rank and file?
The 2022-2023 strike wave, despite its impressive size, failed to achieve what was possible for workers. George Banks argues the rank and file needs organisation and unity.
‘We don’t need no thought control’: Review of Roger Waters, ‘This Is Not a Drill’ world tour
The 'controversial' politics of Roger Waters take centre stage in his first farewell tour 'This Is Not a Drill' tour
Dirty money, dirty water
A shocking new study involving 30 water treatment works has estimated that 11bn litres of untreated sewage were discharged in 2020.
Starmer’s ‘five missions’ offer little to the working class
After the local elections, Starmer's Labour looks set to enter government. With the parliamentary left defeated we must organise to force workers' demands onto their agenda
Defend refugee rights!
The Tories are making it illegal to claim asylum.
End neglect and abuse of asylum seekers
By R. Banks THE GOVERNMENT’S mistreatment of asylum seekers has come into public focus in recent weeks through a series of scandals, highlighting serious safeguarding failures and violations of basic human rights. It began with the Manston processing centre, a former military base in Kent. The site was intended to process 1,000 to 1,600 people […]
The Public Order Bill is an attack on the right to protest
The Bill has passed the House of Commons.
‘Which side are you on?’ Labour has a crisis of leadership
Labour’s lead has narrowed to just four points.
Stop Julian Assange extradition
Priti Patel has agreed to extradite Julian Assange to the United States.
Make the rich pay for pensions and benefits linked to inflation
By R. Banks IN A desperate effort to distract the public’s attention from the ongoing Partygate scandal, Chancellor Rishi Sunak has unveiled a package of measures to help those ‘hit hard’ by the cost of living crisis, partially funded by a windfall tax on energy profits. While scandal was the impetus for the announcement, desperate […]
Tories’ 2022 diary: everything under attack everywhere
By R Banks IN THE closing days of its 2021–22 session, parliament passed all the Tories’ key pieces of legislation unamended. No sooner had the royal assent been given to these anti-working class Acts than yet more were proposed in the Queen’s Speech, in which the government set out its legislative agenda for the coming […]
Sunak: The embodiment of unashamed wealth and privilege
The chancellor’s response to the cost of living crisis has been lackluster to say the least.
Aid for Ukrainian refugees must be extended to all
Despite the many inadequacies of the UK government’s scheme, its effects in terms of the relatively large number of refugees already allowed in under it cannot be denied.
We can live with an endemic Covid-19, but we don’t have to
By Reginald Banks Omicron is just the latest in a long list of variants to devastate the world and is by no means necessarily the last one. First discovered in South Africa, it became the dominant strain around the world with lightning speed. Daily cases in the UK reached a new peak of 160,000 a […]
Argentinian election: far left and far right advances
The Workers Left Front – Unity (FIT-U), a coalition made up of four Trotskyist organisations, has emerged as the country’s third largest political force in Argentina.
The return of Covid – public health before private wealth!
Omicron and vaccine mismanagement push pandemic into third year
National Insurance hike will make workers pay for Tory health and care crisis
By Reginald Banks The Tories have fired an initial salvo at the working class in the battle over who is to pay for the pandemic. The new ‘health and social care levy’, which cleared all of its Commons stages in a single day, will raise national insurance rates by 1.25% to their highest level ever […]
Act now to stop NHS privatisation by stealth
Profiteers are cherry-picking the most profitable parts of our health service
Police: enforcers of class rule
The police do not exist to ‘protect and serve’ the population at large.
Stop the retreat in the face of Tory attacks
If our “leaders'' won't lead, then grassroots activists need to take initiative and organise.
We need a united front to #KilltheBill
Create councils of action to link up the struggles and sustain the campaign until victory
Pro-democracy activists on trial in Hong Kong
47 protesters on trial.
Zionism’s influence in the UK
Why Starmer said “I support Zionism without qualification”.
