Britain
Keir Starmer’s rivers of blood
A shameful display of racist pandering marks a new low in Labour's sorry record of scapegoating immigrant workers
We Demand Change: movement or party?
A left reformist echo of Labour cannot provide the alternative leadership we need
Reform punishes Labour and Tories
Reform's breakthrough and what the labour movement needs to do
British Steel: Nationalisation under workers’ control
It took just six hours for the government to take control of the Scunthorpe plant, but uncertainty remains
How can the Birmingham bins dispute be won?
Mass pickets and solidarity action could bring this strike to a rapid and successful conclusion
The roots of Trans oppression
The origins of trans oppression and why women need a united struggle for liberation
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.’
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
Child sexual exploitation scandal
Racist myth-making obscures real causes of violence against women and girls.
Defend the right to protest
MPs and activists targeted in major attack on democratic rights.
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
Troublemakers At Work 2025 AGM report
Workers Power proposed local organisation and a clear position on radical democratisation of the unions.
The left challenge in Unison elections
Left campaign needs democratic control.
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.
When out of ideas, attack the disabled
The markets demand public spending cuts, and Rachel Reeves is happy to oblige.
Landowners revolt against tax break abolition
Special pleading by landed interests won't solve real problems with British farming.
Church of England: living in sin
The Archbishop of Canterbury has resigned for his part in covering up a long-running child abuse scandal.
Labour faces budget backlash as bosses plead poverty
The bosses are threatening to pay for takes hikes by cutting jobs and hours.
The ACR’s Ecosocialist Manifesto: a Trotskyist critique
A review of Ecosocialist Revolution: A Manifesto, Anti*Capitalist Resistance, July 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
Stop Labour’s law and order crackdown
Labour are continuing the Tories' clampdown on the right to protest
Chris Kaba’s killer walks free
The acquittal of Martyn Blake has been seized on by police chiefs to demand immunity for killings
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
Reparations requires a revolution
Real reparations for the injustice of slavery and colonialism requires breaking the bonds of imperialist domination
Troublemakers 2024 Conference report
Rank and file activists build on success of first conference
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.
