Despite Tommy Robinson’s defeat, the far right remains a threat

Only a genuine united front against fascism that penetrates every street and every workplace can successfully halt the rise of the far right both in Britain and internationally.

25 May 2019

Nigel Farage and the threat of racist populism

Right wing populism can only be defeated by strengthening the independent working class movement

25 May 2019

SOAS students protest racist lecturer

The student campaign raises the issue of students and workers' control over hiring and firing

25 May 2019

Local elections Labour stagnates and Tories slump

Labour needs to fight on a programme of restoring public services and local democracy

25 May 2019

The Limerick Soviet: Another revolution was possible

When working class people defeated an empire

24 May 2019

EU elections: why Anti-Brexit Socialists should still vote Labour

Despite the confusion caused by Labour's fudged Brexit position, internationalist Labour voters should not abandon the party for the Greens or the Lib Dems at the EU Elections.

22 May 2019

‘No to Nationalism’ rallies in Germany and Austria before EU vote

Tens of thousands of people have mobilised in cities across Germany and Austria in opposition to the “surge” in right-wing populism, nationalism and anti-migrant racism promoted by parties like the Alternative für Deutschland, AfD, and the Freiheitliche Partei Österreichs, FPÖ, just days before the European Parliament elections.

22 May 2019

Extinction Rebellion paralyses London

Extinction Rebellion (XR) captured the headlines of the mainstream media and the imagination of millions this Easter, as its activists occupied key tourist locations and major traffic arteries in London for a week or more.

04 May 2019

A Mass People’s Revolution in Sudan

Sudan is in the midst of a truly amazing people’s revolution, in which women are playing a major role, alongside youth, trade unionists, and oppressed national minorities. Among the slogans were “Freedom, Peace and Justice” and “Just Fall”.

04 May 2019

Long live May Day! Defend internationalism!

May Day has always been a focus for workers around the world and this year it is a contrasting picture all right. With a monstrous racist and misogynist in the White House, and an admirer of fascist junta, Jair Bolsonaro, in the presidential place in Brazil, there are plenty of shadows

04 May 2019

Algerian President Toppled, but Military Regime Remains

On 2 April, six weeks of mass demonstrations, culminating in a general strike, finally forced the resignation of Algeria's 82 year-old president, Abdelaziz Bouteflika. The demands raised by the demonstrators have already moved on from the resignation of Bouteflika to the removal of the entire FLN regime.

04 May 2019

100 years of the Chinese revolution 

On 4 May 1919, in Beijing, some 3,000 students demonstrated outside the home of the Minister of Communications. After pelting its residents with eggs, they broke in, trashed the building and then torched it. This violent, but rather small scale, incident turned out to be one of the key turning points in 20th Century history, in many ways the real beginning of the Chinese Revolution.

04 May 2019

Anti-Zionism is NOT antisemitism

By Jeremy Dewar Shadow Justice Secretary Richard Burgon is the latest Labour MP to be targeted by the Jewish Chronicle and Labour Friends of Israel and tarred with the brush of anti-Semitism. There are of course local and European elections coming up, so we should expect the witch-hunters inside the party to be throwing up […]

04 May 2019

Review: Glasgow 1919

One hundred years ago, tanks rumbled on the streets of Glasgow, howitzers were positioned at strategic points of the city, army snipers aimed fire from the rooftop of the Post Office.

04 May 2019

What is Jeremy Corbyn Playing at?

The reason for Corbyn and Abbott’s support for wanting to leave the EU is, however, more than a vote-catching calculus or just keeping the party together. They believe that it is a necessary pre-condition for a reforming Labour government.

04 May 2019

Israel: Netanyahu’s victory paves the way for annexation

Every dimension of this election revealed how the rightward, violently chauvinist political realignment in Israeli politics over the last decade has hardened to become the new centre ground.

04 May 2019

Ni Una Menos: origins, development and perspective of a mass women’s movement

The Latin American movement against misogynist violence ihas brought millions of women into the streets.

07 April 2019

Algeria’s revolutionary crisis

Towards a workers' and peasants' government!

31 March 2019

The march against Brexit exposed the self-defeating policy of Labour’s leaders

Socialists need to take up the anti-racist and internationalist spirit of the movement and channel it towards socialist solutions

24 March 2019

Stop Brexit – by any means necessary

Our leaflet for the 23 March for a People's Vote

23 March 2019

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: a socialist in Congress?

Cohabiting in the Democrats will inevitably lead socialists to compromising with the representatives of capital who lead it

22 March 2019

Youth strike for climate action

In February tens of thousands of young people showed the way forward in the fight against climate change by walking out of their schools and protesting.

22 March 2019

Solidarity with Leeds University Palestine activists against Fabian Hamilton’s anti-Semitism smear

Red Flag condemns Fabian Hamilton's smears and stands in solidarity with Palestine solidarity activists during Israel Apartheid Week

20 March 2019

Mass Murder in Christchurch – down with racist terror!

The terrorist killing of 50 Muslims in New Zealand is the latest horrifying testimony to the rise of violent racism worldwide.

18 March 2019

“We will continue to fight for our rights!” Interview with a Brazilian socialist

Interview with a member of the Liga Socialista

12 March 2019

IWD 2019: We need a working class women’s movement

March 8 will see women worldwide rally to celebrate International Women’s Day. We hope that millions will respond to the call for a global women’s strike, as they did last year in Spain, in Latin America, in 50 countries in all. In Spain, they were joined by rank and file trade unionists who initiated actual […]

08 March 2019

Justice for Sally Challen

Sally Challen, a woman wrongly convicted of murdering her husband in 2011, is one step closer to justice and freedom.

06 March 2019

Bread and Roses: The 1912 Lawrence Textile strike

The 10-week textile strike in 1912 is one of the greatest strikes in US labour history and unlike many others it was a victory.

06 March 2019

Civil Servants ballot over pay

The PCS is embarking on another pay ballot due to run from 18 March until 29 April. All civil servants deserve a decent pay rise – if the MPs can have one why can’t we?

06 March 2019

Shamima Begum and British Citizenship

Shamima Begum’s request to return to Britain from a Syrian refugee camp has caused enormous controversy and exposed again the precarious position of second-generation migrants.

06 March 2019

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