Civil Servants in the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) have voted overwhelmingly to reject pension cuts and to take further strike action, yet the union leadership today called off the 28 March strike writes Rebecca Anderson. The ballot result showed that over 90 per cent of respondents are unwilling to accept the government’s current […]

The next round of pensions strikes on 28 March needs to be massive, argues Jeremy Dewar

SPRING 2012 could see a turning point in the anticuts struggle. After last years broadening of resistance to the coalition’s austerity programme from the student revolt in November 2010 to the mass N30 public sector strike the major unions – we are now at a stage when we can marshal our forces for a fresh […]

Direct action and the threat of a strike forced the construction companies to back down, writes John Bowman. What are the lessons of the electricians’ dispute?

Joy Macready reports on the exciting campaign against workfare

The victory of the Islamists in the parliamentary elections is a dangerous sign, warns Simon Hardy

The Syrian regime is scoring some important victories, but the revolution is not defeated yet, writes Marcus Halaby THE CITY of Homs, Syria’s third largest, is today a city under a military occupation, one imposed on it by the government of its own country. After four weeks of merciless siege, which saw the Syrian army launch […]

Uslan Yentik investigates the impact of the recent all India general strike which saw millions take action

Tens of thousands of students and young people in Spain marked the European TUC Day of Action against austerity measures by taking to the street to demand an end to education cuts and mass unemployment, by Jeremy Dewar

Putin’s electoral victory will lead to be social resistance in the coming years, writes Andy Yorke

The great recession has tested working class parties to the limit. Almost every social democratic and labour party has repositioned itself in favour of cuts and austerity. For a new generation of fighters, the Occupy movement and last year’s student rebellion seem to offer a way to beat the system without parties. Dave Stockton looks […]

The Catholic Church is campaigning to prevent Gay people having the right to marry IN A letter read out in 2,500 parish churches across England during Sunday Mass, the English catholic church’s two senior archbishops urges Catholics to do all they can to block the adoption of the right of gay couples to contract civil marriages. […]

Many Green Partty members are in shock at recent events on Brighton town council, reports Simon Hardy

Anton Soika reports on the latest developments with the Occupy movement

The Morning Star, daily paper of the Communist Party of Britain (CPB), has issued an appeal to all organisations of the working class to convene a conference to discuss the crisis of political representation in parliament. Richard Brenner reports

Rachel Brooks reports on the latest worrying trends in growing unemployment in Britain

Alfie Meadows is being victimised by police, reports Luke Cooper

Sally Turner AT LEAST  22 Palestinians, including 18 militants and at least four civilians, have been killed in recent air strikes on Gaza. The latest victims were a 65 year old man and his 35 year old daughter in the Jabaliya refugee camp. Islamic Jihad’s military wing, the Al-Quds Brigades, demanded that Israel call a cease […]

The recent atrocity in Afghanistan is just the latest in a long list of crimes, reports Sally Turner

Marc Lasalle and Dave Stockton reports on the crisis in the NPA as it heads for the presidential elections

Joy Macready reviews The Battle of Orgreave (2002) IN 2001, Turner Prize winning artist Jeremy Deller orchestrated a re-enactment of the Battle of Orgreave, one of the most violent confrontations of the Great Miners’ Strike. More than 800 people took part, many of them former miners, reliving events that they themselves took part in. The […]

Simon Hardy reviews Marx Reloaded by Jason Barker (2011) MARX IS back, but are his ideas still relevant? That is the basic theme of this documentary by Jason Barker. Having a documentary about Marx with such luminaries as Slavoj Žižek, Antonio Negri, and Nina Power is certainly worthwhile if it gets these ideas back into a wider audience. […]

Sussex University AROUND 80 people came to a meeting organised by the New Left Initiative at Sussex university in early March to discuss he threat of war with Iran. Kamran Matin a lecturer in Middle Eastern studies spoke about how any threat of war or an actual conflict would only strengthen the regime and help […]

Martin Suchanek reports on the recent meeting of League members in South Asia OVER THE last decade the Asian  continent has moved into the centre of world politics and economies. We witness not only continuous wars and barbaric imperialist occupations like in Afghanistan,  we also saw the emergence of new  imperialist power – China. It is […]

MARK FISHER in Capitalist Realism accuses the left and the unions today of limiting  themselves to opposing  Tory “change”  rather than themselves posing a positive alternative. In the case of the NHS most people regard it as already socialist, as not in need of any alternative. In the enemy camp  the Adam Smith Institute  calls […]

The NHS is staring into the abyss of privatisation, writes Mark Booth. Now we need a national campaign to save it

Dan Edwards and KD Tait from Revolution investigate the facts behind the popular Kony2012 campaign and find a sinister organisation with questionable goals

International women’s day needs to be put back on the map as a rallying point for women’s liberation around the world, writes Joana Ramiro  

Electricians across the country are celebrating their victory against the corrupt bosses of Balfour Beatty. The company was trying to force its workers to sign up to new contracts (BESNA) where they’d get less pay and worse conditions. But electricians and building workers weren’t going to take it lying down. After months of protests, occupations, and […]

After what can only be described as a Twitter tornado, Tesco has said that the Job Centre Plus advert for an unpaid job at one of their supermarkets was an “IT error”. The storm kicked off shortly afterwards as social media users barraged the company’s Facebook page and Twitter hashtag with angry comments. Several users […]