The sordid history of housing discrimination in the United States

By Jeremy Dewar ‘RATS CAUSE RIOTS! Rats cause riots!’ chanted protesters as they stormed the Michigan House of Representatives in 1967. Weeks earlier Detroit had witnessed one of the fiercest of the uprisings that had erupted across the States that summer. Even the Republicans had to admit there was an ‘urban crisis’ and substandard housing […]

01 October 2024

Another Israeli crime in order to prepare the invasion of Lebanon

Israel is intensifying its criminal war against the Lebanese people in order to secure its continued oppression of the Palestinians.

26 September 2024

Nurses reject Labour’s paltry 5.5% pay offer

Nurses have overwhelmingly rejected Labour's pay offer. Now is the time to step up the action.

26 September 2024

Labour conference fails to deliver hope for change

By KD Tait KEIR STARMER spent his first conference as prime minister under pressure to offer tangible evidence of the party’s commitment to its election slogan of ‘change’. Rachel Reeves responded to demands for the government to set out a positive vision by putting on a grin and declaring there would be ‘no return to […]

26 September 2024

Grenfell inquiry exposes institutional contempt for working class lives

The inquiry into the Grenfell fire has confirmed this was a preventable disaster, caused by the collective greed of private manufacturers and government bodies.

12 September 2024

Israel steps up attacks on West Bank

With the world's attention focused on Gaza, Israel has launched its deadliest raid on the occupied West Bank for two decades

10 September 2024

Internationalism 2024: Revolutionary summer camp success

Over 150 attended this year's summer camp organised by the League for the Fifth International and REVOLUTION

10 September 2024

AWL gets it wrong on Portuguese revolution

A review of the AWL's pamphlet on the 1974 Portuguese revolution

10 September 2024

Indian women mobilise to ‘reclaim the night’

Millions of women have organised protests and strikes after the rape and murder of Moumita Debnath

09 September 2024

SUtR: outsourcing anti-racism on behalf of labour bureaucracy

The SWP limit Stand Up to Racism's programme and tactics to what is acceptable to its reformist sponsors

09 September 2024

TUC seeks to avoid fight over anti-union laws

The first TUC under a Labour government since 2009 is a chance to demand Labour restore workers' rights.

08 September 2024

Public sector pay: 5% is not enough

The trade union leaders are preparing to show their 'goodwill' to the Labour government by accepting a below inflation pay offer, that will leave workers worse off

07 September 2024

Proposals for PSC Trade Union Conference

An open letter from rank and file trade unionists calling for a democratic, organising conference to build the movement

06 September 2024

NHS theatre nurses on strike demand safe staffing

Operating theatre nurses are on strike against plans to extend their hours, as part of Labour's plan to run the NHS on overtime

05 September 2024

Labour prepares to put working class on rations

Labour's promise of change has been revealed to be change for the worse. The trade unions and communities need to prepare to fight back.

05 September 2024

How Bristol saw off the far right

Thousands came out to protest against the far right in Bristol. One of the organisers explains how it happened

05 September 2024

Northern Ireland: Loyalists join in anti-migrant pogroms

The outbreak of rioting in England gave renewed impetus to a mounting wave of violence in the six counties

04 September 2024

University finances stretched to the nth degree

Students and workers are being made to pay for the failure of the marketisation of higher education

03 September 2024

Labour plans pain for poorest

By George Banks AFTER 14 YEARS of economic misery under the Tories, it might have been expected that a Labour government would at least spare the poorest the cost of their obsession with ‘balancing the books’. But despite promising ‘change’, Starmer and Reeves have devoted their efforts to dampening these expectations.Labour’s failure to scrap the […]

02 September 2024

Bangladesh: workers’ struggles spread after government overthrown

After mass protests led by students forced the prime minister to flee, workers have started to press their own demands

01 September 2024

Bangladesh: workers greet new government with strikes and protests

After the overthrow of Sheikh Hasina, the new government will have to reckon with growing workers' militancy

31 August 2024

British rule kneecapped

A review of Kneecap

30 August 2024

Mass protests and community self defence

Leaflet for national day of action against the far right

10 August 2024

Bangladesh on the brink of revolution

After weeks of protests, the Prime Minister has fled the country and the army has assumed control.

05 August 2024

Mass mobilisations needed to confront far right

Far right activists are exploiting the Southport murders to spread Islamophobic and anti-immigrant lies. We need mass mobilisations and workers' self-defence against the fascists.

01 August 2024

Israel threatens war with Lebanon

Israel's threats against Hezbollah are intended to send a message that support for the Palestinians invites deadly retribution

30 July 2024

For a national assembly to organise the Palestine solidarity movement

The marches, blockades and occupations have not forced the government to break links with Israel. We need to change course.

03 July 2024

French elections: No vote for the Popular Front

The new popular front is no barrier to the rise of the far right

28 June 2024

Healthworkers – fight to make Labour pay up

Health workers should organise to meet a Labour government with a united front

27 June 2024

Reform UK: Populist camouflage for unbridled capitalism

Reconfiguring the far right

26 June 2024

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