General Secretary election: which way forward for Unite?
No candidate is proposing genuine rank and file strategy.
Bristol, riots and resistance
It’s the police violence we should be condemning.
Fighting the witch-hunt in Bristol Labour
“Read the Standing Orders – and understand – that you have no right!”
Biden, the Climate Crisis and the Paris Agreement
Capitalism and climate change.
Covid-19, Conspiracy Theories and Workers’ Resistance
Why do some people defy the public safety measures?
Paul Embery: When the dog whistle becomes tedious
Tim Nailsea reviews Despised: Why the Modern Left Loathes the Working Class by Paul Embery
The Communist Party of Britain’s reformist road to socialism
Tim Nailsea reviews the 2020 edition of Britain's Road to Socialism
Brexit talks hang in the balance
Deal or no deal, the working class loses.
Bristol West stands with Jeremy Corbyn
Bristol West CLP demands Corbyn is reinstated.
How the German Revolution was lost
Tim Nailsea reviews A People's History of the German Revolution
From Allende to Corbyn: lessons in reformism 1970-2020
Lessons from the parliamentary road.
Fully Automated Luxury Communism or scientific socialism
Tim Nailsea reviews Fully Automated Luxury Communism: A Manifesto by Aaron Bastani
“Jobs jobs jobs”
Labour’s unemployment policy means handouts for the rich.
Unite leaders recommend surrender
Say no to shoddy British Airways deal!
United Left Divided
The divide in Unite's dominant faction deepens.
Is the Party Over?
A disorderly retreat... or stay and fight?
The Road to Somewhere by David Goodhart
Tim Nailsea reviews The Road to Somewhere: The Populist Revolt and the Future of Global Politics by David Goodhart
The politics of being off sick
THE INTERNATIONAL CRISIS of the coronavirus pandemic has exposed the stark inadequacies of the capitalist system in a number of ways. Whether it is the lack of funding for the health system, deficiencies in education and childcare, or the fragility of the economy, it has shown how the social system as it is currently structured […]
Why Unite members should oppose Heathrow expansion
The environmental argument against a third runway at Heathrow is clear. Emissions from aviation already rose by thirty-two percent between 2013 and 2018. Currently they account for two percent of global carbon emissions and this amount is projected to triple by 2050 if no action is taken
Immigration and the Trade Unions
The recent election of a Conservative government, with one of the most openly racist Prime Ministers and Cabinet in living memory, the victory of an openly xenophobic and anti-immigrant Leave campaign in the 2016 referendum, and the rise of racist and xenophobic movements in Britain and throughout the world, have all raised questions as to how the working class movement should respond to what appears to be growing support within the working class for restrictions on immigration
