As Brexit talks stumble on the intractable backstop to the British border in Ireland, Bernie McAdam calls on British socialists to fight for the only internationalist response, abolish the border altogether!

By Jeremy Dewar Labour suffered its first split in 38 years on 18 February, when Chuka Umunna and six other MPs resigned the Labour Party whip to form the Independent Group, TIG. They were soon joined by Joan Ryan MP and three Tories, including Anna Soubry, thereby revealing the coordinated, cross-party basis for the new […]

The impossibility of reconciling the vote to leave the EU with the interests of British capitalism has triggered a historic crisis

Recent victories show what is possible. Now activists should link up with other unions and build for joint strike action across the sector.

Without clearing out the anti-socialist wreckers from the PLP, any Corbyn government will be held hostage by its backbenches.

School students lead the way in the fight for system change not climate change

Labour lefts break ranks to demand conference policy is adhered to - and Brexit put to a vote

An international movement reaches the UK

By trampling on conference policy, Corbyn has exchanged one rotten compromise for another.

The murder of a leader of the Pashtun Protection Movement represents a major escalation of government repression

A motion opposing the attempted US-backed coup in Venezuela

After years of inaction, Unison members finally have the chance to send a message to the Tories that workers are prepared to fight the destruction of our education system

Housing charity Shelter has released a report highlighting the dire state of Britain’s housing crisis, which shows Labour’s policy continues to fall short of what is needed

Andy Yorke reviews The Left Case Against the EU by Costas Lapavitsas

MARCEL RAJECKY examines the trajectory of governments leading Europe’s swing to the extreme right

The incoherent arguments put forwards by Lexit supporters offer no route to radical reforms and lead away from socialism.

The Hitler genocide must be understood as a result of the function of fascism for the German ruling class and its war aims.

Protests spread in spite of vicious government crackdown

The US-led attempt to overthrow the Maduro regime has entered a potentially decisive stage

Jeremy Corbyn's response to Theresa May’s new plan for Brexit was perceptive enough: “nothing has changed”.

Grassroots activist initiative expropriated by Momentum

Theresa May is trying to blackmail Parliament into voting for her deal. Labour must stand firm

The New Year will be a year of major political conflict in Britain – one that could spill out onto the streets. The Brexit crisis could in addition trigger the early onset of a recession, the first signs of which are already appearing in the world economy. A general election may come sooner rather than […]

Editorial As we go to press Theresa May is still trying to blackmail both wings of her party by threatening Remainers with a No Deal Brexit and hard line Leavers with No Brexit. The other threat she holds over them is the prospect of Jeremy Corbyn in Downing Street. Meanwhile Corbyn has set his face […]

By Dave Stockton The Tories and the right wing tabloids are back at work after the midwinter break: stoking up racism. Their target is the 200 or so refugees who have crossed the English Channel since November, to claim their internationally recognised right to asylum. Harsh measures by British and French border authorities have made […]

In 1919, having stopped the First World War and overthrown the monarchy, German revolutionaries attempted to spread the Russian socialist revolution to Europe by launching an insurrection in Berlin.

A movement against an attack on working hours has morphed into a sustained challenge to Hungary’s authoritarian ruler

The constitutional stand-off has been resolved but instability remains the order of the day in 2019

After the release of three students - step up the campaign to end abductions.

By KD Tait It was billed as the big breakthrough for the far right: a demonstration on December 9, the supposed eve of Parliament’s vote on the Withdrawal Agreement, led by Gerard Batten, head of the rump-UKIP, and Tommy Robinson, self-appointed white crusader against Islam. In the end they managed to draw a crowd of […]