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For Workers’ Action To break links with Israel

Britain is a key link in Israel’s war machine, selling weapons, conducting research, and investing pension funds. It’s time to the break the link—no cooperation with occupation!

Dave Stockton  ·  12 January 2024

‘Two States’: The nature and purpose of a reactionary utopia

For more than 70 yrs Israel and its western allies have cloaked their disposition and ethnic cleansing of Palestine behind the supposed goal of the eventual Palestinian State. Why has it never been achieved?

Robert Teller  ·  12 January 2024

Israel & the illusion of national unity

Alex Rutherford explains the tensions between the different factions of Zionism and how these affect Israel’s war aims

Alex Rutherford  ·  12 January 2024

Concrete Crisis Raacs Greater Manchester

The hospitals affected are two of seven hospital buildings across the north west dubbed ‘the worst region in the country’ for roofs built with collapse-prone concrete

Workers Power  ·  28 September 2023

Workers Summit: The SWP, the rank & file and the revolutionary party

Under pressure from rank and file activity most of the revolutionary socialist groups turned left, workers power argues now is the time to unite all who want to develop a rank and file strategy.

Jeremy Dewar  ·  14 September 2023

Oppressed French youth demand justice for Nahel!

27 June, Nanterre (a banlieue of Paris): two policemen stop a car, one shouting, ‘Open or I put a bullet in your head!’. Seconds later, a shot. 17-year-old Nahel M is dead.

Marc Lasalle  ·  05 July 2023

Israel bombs Jenin while its West Bank settlers run amok

Israel launches deadly raid into the occupied territories

Dave Stockton  ·  04 July 2023

St Mungo’s Unite extends strike to all-out

800 striking workers at St Mungo’s homelessness charity have escalated to indefinite action, Jeremy Dewar reports.

Jeremy Dewar  ·  20 June 2023

Pakistan: Heading for a constitutional crisis?

Pakistan is heading towards a constitutional crisis. Minerwa Tahir argues why a constituent assembly is the way forward.

Minerwa Tahir  ·  04 June 2023

Bulletin: Build the NO vote campaign

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A CWU Rep  ·  24 May 2023

Escalating anti-migrant aggression in Eastern Europe exposes EU hypocrisy

Horrific scenes of families starving and freezing on the Belarusian border represent a new low for human rights in the recent history of Europe.

Urte March  ·  08 December 2021

South Africa: steelworkers’ three-week strike sold out

‘NEGOTIATIONS ARE about give and take … We are not cowards because we have taken a compromise,’ said the self-styled ‘socialist revolutionary’ Irvin Jim, general secretary of the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (Numsa). Immediately after, he ordered 155,000 steelworkers back to work, ending their three-week strike. This wasn’t just ‘compromise’; it was […]

Jeremy Dewar  ·  25 October 2021

Italy: fascists direct covid anger against trade unions

By KD Tait ON SATURDAY 16 October tens of thousands attended an anti-fascist demonstration in Rome, called by the CGIL trade union, in response to a fascist attack on the union’s headquarters the previous week. On 9 October thousands of people had attended a protest against the Green Pass, a covid passport which provides proof […]

KD Tait  ·  25 October 2021

Red Is The New Green

Workers Power  ·  25 October 2021

SPD: Life in the old dog yet

By Jaqueline Katherina Singh (Berlin) The Social Democrats (SPD), led by Olaf Scholz, topped the polls with 25.7% in the German general election on 26 September and will take the first shot at forming a coalition government. Negotiations are likely to last till Christmas. Over the preceding year both the conservatives (CDU/CSU) and the Greens […]

Jaqueline Katherina Singh  ·  10 October 2021

Texas abortion ban is a class issue

By Marcus Otono (Nashville, Tennessee) Texas has become the testing ground for a new approach to the nearly 50 year-long battle over abortion rights in the United States. A new law took effect on 1 September which prohibits terminations after the detection of a foetal heartbeat, around six weeks into a pregnancy. There are no […]

Marcus Otono  ·  09 October 2021

Defy Labour’s anti-socialist purge!

RF Political Committee Right wing members of Labour’s National Executive Committee (NEC) are proposing a motion to expel members of four leftwing organisations who have opposed Keir Starmer’s leadership and the witch-hunt of anti-Zionists and Marxists. While the total number of members is small, the proposal to ‘proscribe’ (i.e. ban) Socialist Appeal is a reference […]

Workers Power  ·  20 July 2021

Police officers evade prosecution for domestic violence

Only 43 of 800 accused officers have been prosecuted.

Alex Rutherford  ·  11 July 2021

Rape culture crisis in schools

A number of schools have seen students walk-out in protest.

Millie Collins  ·  11 July 2021

Leftist Strike Leader Wins Election in Peru

The centerpiece of Castillo’s campaign was to call a constituent assembly.

Chris Clough  ·  11 July 2021

Momentum’s Refounding Convention – not the process we need

Momentum's biggest problem is not structural but political.

Urte March  ·  28 June 2021

India: vaccine free market let virus spread

The world's largest vaccine manufacturer is in India.

Minerwa Tahir  ·  05 June 2021

Mass movement shakes Colombia’s US backed government

Since April 28 Colombia has been in a state of rebellion.

Chris Clough  ·  26 May 2021

End UK support for Zionist state

We must make it impossible for our governments to continue propping up this apartheid regime.

Dilara Lorin  ·  16 May 2021

Bobby Sands: Irish freedom fighter 1954-1981

Forty years ago, the death of Bobby Sands reverberated throughout the world in a way that no other event has done in recent Irish history.

Dara O'Cogaidhin  ·  05 May 2021

Unionism in crisis as Loyalists lash out

For a workers' republic of Ireland.

Bernie McAdam  ·  21 April 2021

Kids in Cages: Biden’s immigration policy is a return to the status quo

Kids in cages are kids in cages, no matter which party puts them there.

Rebecca Anderson  ·  13 April 2021

How the Hartlepool by-election is exposing Starmer

Starmer's "electable" party might lose.

Marcel Rajecky  ·  13 April 2021

Government report twisted data to obscure Britain’s institutional racism

Racism in the UK report highly controversial.

Reginald Banks and Jeremy Dewar  ·  12 April 2021

Only Brazil’s working class can solve the health, political and economic crises

3,000 deaths per day.

Alex Rutherford  ·  10 April 2021

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