THE CLEAN sweep of Momentum candidates for three new seats created to represent Labour’s expanded membership on its nec is a chance for the left to press for long overdue democratic reform of the party. Yasmine Dar, Rachel Garnham and Jon Lansman’s landslide victory confirms the demoralisation and decline of the right’s base amongst the […]

LABOUR’S DEMOCRACY review, led by Katy Clark, is an important opportunity for members to demand the opening up of the party to greater, meaningful participation from below. We list here some of our recommendations for the review. We have included the call for mandatory re-selection of MPs, even though the review does not explicitly refer […]

Labour needs to become a genuine social movement to make an election victory the launchpad for a real struggle for power

The heroic fight of the Finnish workers tends to be unfairly overlooked when the great revolutionary events of 1917-18 are recounted. Jens-Hugo Nyberg tells the story

NUMSA announces new 'Revolutionary Workers' Party' 

By REVOLUTION – International Communist Youth Organisation ON 13 JANUARY tens of thousands of people demonstrated in Vienna against the new Austrian government, formed by the conservative Austrian Peoples Party (ÖVP) and the far-right Freedom Party (FPÖ). The  “Black-Blue” coalition, so-called from the parties’ colours, is planning the worst attacks on the working class and […]

The final decision will be made by a ballot of the whole membership

The increase in militarist rhetoric and inter-imperialist tensions makes it a good time to reconsider the lessons of Britain's biggest antiwar movement

THE INTERNATIONAL workers' movement should take to the streets in solidarity with the justified resistance of the Kurds' against Turkish militarism

The collapse of Carillion threatens the whole privatisation and outsourcing swindle, but bolder measures are needed to completely break with the logic of the market. 

The lives and struggles of murdered revolutionary socialists Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht remain an inspiration to all those fighting injustice, exploitation, racism and the threat of war.

Resistance is not futile.

JEREMY DEWAR responds to Angela Rayner’s recent comments about white working class boys’ underachievement in school

The Labour leadership's 'caution' is a cover for ducking its duty of solidarity and giving the Iran regime the benefit of the doubt

The Spanish Prime Minister has been punished for his handling of the Catalan separatist crisis. Now is the moment for a united movement to kick out his austerity government

The struggle between Catalan separatists and the Madrid government has poisoned relations in the province, with neither side able to offer a satisfactory way forward

By Marcus Halaby Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn condemned prime minister Theresa May for her silence on Yemen prior to her recent visit to Saudi Arabia, pointing to the UK government’s “complicity in the Yemeni people’s suffering”. He has called for an end to the Saudi naval and air blockade of Yemen, which began on 6 […]

A socialist international policy has to confront the imperialist division of the world driven by capitalist competition between nation states

Socialists organised protests and blockades to greet the AfD conference which saw the nationalist party lurch further to the right

The leftwing PT is set for a return to power in Brazil, but has it learned the lessons of its past mistakes?

Zimbabwe’s working class will have to act fast to disrupt the smooth transition of power from one ruling faction to another

A break with the politics of class collaboration and social partnership is needed to deepen the political crisis of the German ruling class

Major political events in Lebanon’s politics rarely take place without the intervention of external powers.

The false friends of Kurdish independence are determined to keep Kurds divided and stateless. 

The poor results of the left show that a new anticapitalist force can only be created around a clear programme forged in resistance to austerity and racism

The absence of Labour leaders and members speaks volumes about the real priorities of the Labour left

A century on from the infamous Balfour declaration it's time to end UK support for Israeli apartheid and colonialism

A review of Boris Arvatov's Art and Production, published for the first time in English by Pluto Press

IN THE February Revolution of 1917, the workers and soldiers of Petrograd rose in spontaneous revolt against the hardships caused by two and a half years of war. Civilians were verging on starvation, while those fighting suffered horrendous losses – 1.5 million had been killed, five million wounded, with millions more taken prisoner. Demonstrations by […]

By A CWU Rep ROYAL MAIL bosses using the courts to get our strike declared “unlawful” and force us into “mediation” is a dishonest delaying tactic designed to break the momentum of our massive 89 per cent vote for strike action. Their cheek is unbelievable. They blanked the union through 18 months of talks, forcing […]