Britain

We Demand Change: movement or party?

A left reformist echo of Labour cannot provide the alternative leadership we need

Workers Power  ·  06 May 2025

Reform punishes Labour and Tories

Reform's breakthrough and what the labour movement needs to do

Dave Stockton  ·  06 May 2025

British Steel: Nationalisation under workers’ control

It took just six hours for the government to take control of the Scunthorpe plant, but uncertainty remains

Dave Stockton  ·  06 May 2025

How can the Birmingham bins dispute be won?

Mass pickets and solidarity action could bring this strike to a rapid and successful conclusion

Jeremy Dewar  ·  06 May 2025

The roots of Trans oppression

The origins of trans oppression and why women need a united struggle for liberation

Jeremy Dewar  ·  06 May 2025

The danger of Starmer’s ‘military Keynesianism’

On 25 February, the government website proclaimed ‘Prime Minister sets out biggest sustained increase in defence spending since the Cold War.’

Dave Stockton  ·  03 April 2025

Wes Streeting gaslighting young people over mental health crisis

By Dara O’Cogaidhin Young people’s mental health has been deteriorating across Britain, compounded by the cost of living crisis, public spending cuts, and rising inequality. According to the Centre for Mental Health, one in five children and young people aged 8-25 experience mental health difficulties. Today’s young people have the poorest mental health of any […]

Dara O'Cogaidhin  ·  03 April 2025

Lambeth Labour imposes £99 million cuts

By Jeremy Dewar Austerity returned to Lambeth, South London in a big way last month. The right wing clique that has dominated the local Labour Party for decades passed a budget threatening £99 million of cuts by 2029, frontloaded with £50 million coming in the first year. Details have not been fully revealed, but we […]

Jeremy Dewar  ·  03 April 2025

Labour’s spring statement: The mask slips

By KD Tait As the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rachel Reeves, unveiled her spring statement, the echoes of austerity reverberated across the nation. Although wrapped in rhetoric about investment and growth, the proposals unveiled are far from the transformative change this country desperately needs. Instead, they are a continuation of policies that prioritise the wealthiest […]

KD Tait  ·  02 April 2025

Disability cuts kill

By Tim Nailsea In her Spring Statement on Wednesday 26 March, Chancellor Rachael Reeves announced a round of vicious cuts to disability benefits. The government is altering the points system for PIP to make it harder for people to claim the benefit. Claimants will have to display ‘greater difficulty’ in completing tasks, with a requirement […]

Tim Nailsea  ·  02 April 2025

Labour won’t beat Reform by copying them

By Dara O’Cogaidhin Recent polls showing Reform UK ahead of both the Labour government and the Conservative opposition have sent shockwaves through the political establishment. In the general election campaign Reform took most of its votes from disillusioned Tories. But its voting base is now shifting, as it picks up support from disgruntled Labour pundits. […]

Dara O'Cogaidhin  ·  10 March 2025

Child sexual exploitation scandal

Racist myth-making obscures real causes of violence against women and girls.

Millie Collins  ·  29 January 2025

Defend the right to protest

MPs and activists targeted in major attack on democratic rights.

KD Tait  ·  29 January 2025

For a workers’ plan to rescue health and social care

Trade unions must fight for a planned, universal system, free for all and funded by progressive taxation

Rose Tedeschi  ·  29 January 2025

Troublemakers At Work 2025 AGM report

Workers Power proposed local organisation and a clear position on radical democratisation of the unions.

Jeremy Dewar  ·  29 January 2025

The left challenge in Unison elections

Left campaign needs democratic control.

Workers Power  ·  29 January 2025

A message from the markets

Labour's insistence that fiscal rules are rules is a warning to workers and unions that it plans to put profit first.

Peter Main  ·  28 January 2025

When out of ideas, attack the disabled

The markets demand public spending cuts, and Rachel Reeves is happy to oblige.

KD Tait  ·  28 January 2025

Landowners revolt against tax break abolition

Special pleading by landed interests won't solve real problems with British farming.

Andy Yorke  ·  04 December 2024

Church of England: living in sin

The Archbishop of Canterbury has resigned for his part in covering up a long-running child abuse scandal.

Rose Tedeschi  ·  04 December 2024

Labour faces budget backlash as bosses plead poverty

The bosses are threatening to pay for takes hikes by cutting jobs and hours.

George Banks  ·  04 December 2024

The ACR’s Ecosocialist Manifesto: a Trotskyist critique

A review of Ecosocialist Revolution: A Manifesto, Anti*Capitalist Resistance, July 2024.

Jeremy Dewar  ·  04 December 2024

ADHD medication shortage shows how private profit trumps public health

Shareholders are lining their pockets while public health services are starved of the resources they need

Rose Tedeschi  ·  08 November 2024

Stop Labour’s law and order crackdown

Labour are continuing the Tories' clampdown on the right to protest

Jeremy Dewar  ·  07 November 2024

Chris Kaba’s killer walks free

The acquittal of Martyn Blake has been seized on by police chiefs to demand immunity for killings

Jeremy Dewar  ·  07 November 2024

Labour’s budget: running to stand still

Rachel Reeves' first budget does nothing to fundamentally challenge the Tory legacy of a shrinking welfare state and profiteering from public services

KD Tait  ·  07 November 2024

Reparations requires a revolution

Real reparations for the injustice of slavery and colonialism requires breaking the bonds of imperialist domination

Millie Collins  ·  07 November 2024

Troublemakers 2024 Conference report

Rank and file activists build on success of first conference

Andy Yorke  ·  06 November 2024

Employment rights bill gutted by bosses’ lobby

The TUC hailed a 'major boost to workers rights' that failed to abolish zero-hours contracts, fire and rehire, or deliver full rights from day one.

Andy Yorke  ·  06 November 2024

Local government strike action blocked by anti-union ballot threshold

The Tories' anti-union laws have blocked local government workers taking legal strike action to improve a pathetic 3% pay offer

Jeremy Dewar  ·  06 November 2024

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