On May 3, Londoners go to the polls to elect a new mayor. The two main candidates are the incumbent Tory candidate, Boris Johnson, and Labour’s Ken Livingstone, who was in office from 2000 to 2008. Workers’ Power is calling for a vote for Livingstone. Jeremy Dewar writes

The British working class is facing the fight of its life. The NHS is facing destruction. Mark Booth writes

March proved to be a bad month for the Coalition. It was a reverse of the old adage that March comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb. In the first week or so it looked like things were going smoothly with the NHS destruction bill finally clearing the Lords, and the […]

By Dave Stockton Italian workers have downed tools as political opposition grows to labour reforms. Unelected Italian Prime Minister, Mario Monti, is facing serious opposition to his plans to “free up” labour contracts. In fact, as with similar “reforms” in Spain, his aim is to allow employers to sack workers with near-impunity, as they can […]

George Galloway’s ‘Bradford Spring’ shows huge potential for left advance Dave Stockton assesses George Galloway’s stunning election win in Bradford West. George Galloway has pulled off his second big election victory (the first was in Bethnal Green and Bow in 2005) to confound the major national parties, especially the pro-war and pro-cuts Labour Party. He […]

In the aftermath of Mahinda Rajapakse’s victory in his war against the Tamils, the JVP, the supposedly Marxist party that backed him, has split apart. Peter Main outlines the history behind the split and the prospects it has created. The split in the JVP opens up the potential for a regeneration of the entire working […]

Rebecca Anderson says the tanker drivers’ dispute could win and destabilise the Tories still further…but why have Unite guaranteed not to strike over Easter? Over 2000 petrol tank drivers from seven companies are threatening to strike over pay and conditions, health and safety, training and pensions. The strike is aimed at creating industry standards that […]

The second edition of The Degenerated Revolution updates the original analysis of the origins and nature of the Stalinist states in Russia, Eastern Europe, Cuba and China with a detailed examination of the collapse of the USSR in 1989-2 and the course followed by the remaining Stalinist states. The Degenerated Revolution: the rise and fall […]

Civil Servants in the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) have voted overwhelmingly to reject pension cuts and to take further strike action, yet the union leadership today called off the 28 March strike writes Rebecca Anderson. The ballot result showed that over 90 per cent of respondents are unwilling to accept the government’s current […]

The next round of pensions strikes on 28 March needs to be massive, argues Jeremy Dewar

SPRING 2012 could see a turning point in the anticuts struggle. After last years broadening of resistance to the coalition’s austerity programme from the student revolt in November 2010 to the mass N30 public sector strike the major unions – we are now at a stage when we can marshal our forces for a fresh […]

Direct action and the threat of a strike forced the construction companies to back down, writes John Bowman. What are the lessons of the electricians’ dispute?

Joy Macready reports on the exciting campaign against workfare

The victory of the Islamists in the parliamentary elections is a dangerous sign, warns Simon Hardy

The Syrian regime is scoring some important victories, but the revolution is not defeated yet, writes Marcus Halaby THE CITY of Homs, Syria’s third largest, is today a city under a military occupation, one imposed on it by the government of its own country. After four weeks of merciless siege, which saw the Syrian army launch […]

Uslan Yentik investigates the impact of the recent all India general strike which saw millions take action

Tens of thousands of students and young people in Spain marked the European TUC Day of Action against austerity measures by taking to the street to demand an end to education cuts and mass unemployment, by Jeremy Dewar

Putin’s electoral victory will lead to be social resistance in the coming years, writes Andy Yorke

The great recession has tested working class parties to the limit. Almost every social democratic and labour party has repositioned itself in favour of cuts and austerity. For a new generation of fighters, the Occupy movement and last year’s student rebellion seem to offer a way to beat the system without parties. Dave Stockton looks […]

The Catholic Church is campaigning to prevent Gay people having the right to marry IN A letter read out in 2,500 parish churches across England during Sunday Mass, the English catholic church’s two senior archbishops urges Catholics to do all they can to block the adoption of the right of gay couples to contract civil marriages. […]

Many Green Partty members are in shock at recent events on Brighton town council, reports Simon Hardy