Editorial September 2022, No. 396

With an ‘electorate’ of 160,000 geriatric Tory party members, 0.3% of the population chose the country’s leader.

By Jeremy Dewar “A new deal for working people, a new social settlement for the UK” A LONDON TUC rally for the 18 June national demonstration heard speakers from a variety of disputes and strikes. Rail workers, teachers and lecturers, caterers and cleaners, civil servants were all represented. The eve-of-rally meeting, held at Congress House […]

What are they for?

Editorial May 2022, No. 393

It will be up to the rank and file to lead the resistance.

A revolutionary situation could emerge in which Putin’s ‘managed capitalism’ and ‘managed democracy’ can be called into question.

The Spring Statement signalled the return of austerity and the steepest slide in living standards since records began in the 1950s.

We need working class self-organisation to stop police harassment in schools and on the streets

The Tories are desperate to put a positive spin on the teaching of the British Empire

Revolutionary strategy in the epoch of imperialist war

Prices rise at record rates.

Anti-apartheid activist and liberation theologian Desmond Tutu has died after a long battle with cancer, aged 90.

For a 1% increase in wages for every 1% increase in prices.

‘NEGOTIATIONS ARE about give and take … We are not cowards because we have taken a compromise,’ said the self-styled ‘socialist revolutionary’ Irvin Jim, general secretary of the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (Numsa). Immediately after, he ordered 155,000 steelworkers back to work, ending their three-week strike. This wasn’t just ‘compromise’; it was […]

By Jeremy Dewar Workers in Britain are being hit by a triple whammy this month: inflation heading towards 5%; a £20 cut to Universal Credit, hitting the unemployed and worst paid workers; and the ending of furlough for 1 million workers, throwing hundreds of thousands out the door. These are not ‘temporary blips’ that will […]

Jeremy Dewar reviews The Making of the Black Working Class in Britain by Ron Ramdin

Mass unemployment and the scourge of long-term joblessness have returned.

We need to campaign between now and the COP26 to build a movement to stop climate catastrophe.

Highgate students walked out on 25 March.

The left should agree a common slate for NEC elections based on based on building a rank-and-file led class struggle union

Unemployment at 7.5% and rising.

Yoweri Museveni retains power in a fraudulent election and places rival candidate Bobi Wine under house arrest.

By Jeremy Dewar Novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-19 continues to test the world’s governments. None more than Boris Johnson’s Tory administration, it seems, with the recent discovery of a new strain, variant B117 in the south-east of Britain, which is proving to be 56% more infectious than previous iterations of the virus. Not only is this variant […]

Review of Mangrove, first film in Steve McQueens Small Axe series.

Unison General Secretary election.

For a zero-covid strategy.

Vote Paul Homles for Unison General Secretary

A report of the Socialist Campaign Groups rally.

Fight for work or full pay.