By Jeremy Dewar On 27 September Israel dropped 10 US made and supplied two-tonne ‘bunker buster’ bombs on Dahyeh, a suburb in southern Beirut and home to 700,000 civilians, killing 300, including Hezbollah’s leader Hassan Nasrallah and the group’s southern commander Ali Karki. This follows Israel’s attack on Hezbollah’s communications systems by blowing up its […]

By Peter Main The MASS protests that ended with the storming of the presidential palace and Rajapakse’s flight began when even the slightly better-off residents felt the impact of the rapidly deteriorating economic situation. They were soon joined by thousands of others, who established a permanent encampment on Galle Face Green. Entirely missing from the […]

Since Joe Biden dropped out of the presidential election after his catastrophic debate with Trump, Kamala Harris has established a narrow lead in the opinion polls. But these are hardly safe or reliable majorities. Hence, amongst the liberal and reformist socialist left there is anxiety bordering on frenzy about Trump’s re-election. Adding fuel to the […]

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 […]

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

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

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 […]

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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 […]

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

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

A review of Kneecap

Leaflet for national day of action against the far right

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

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.

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

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