Britain

Serco pays dividends with taxpayer money

£17m paid to shareholders.

Millie Collins  ·  11 March 2021

Alabama bill threatens trans youth

Alabama denies vital healthcare to trans youth

Millie Collins  ·  11 March 2021

Student rent strike is largest since 1973, and it’s spreading

Students at 55 UK universities are on rent strike.

Joe Crathorne  ·  11 March 2021

Nothing surprising in Starmer’s response to the Spring Budget

Starmer opposes Corporation Tax increase.

Alex Rutherford  ·  11 March 2021

International Women’s Day, 2021

The pandemic has exposed in the starkest terms how capitalism oppresses and exploits women.

Workers Power  ·  06 March 2021

Pontin’s Shameful Racism

Holiday park's anti Traveller racism exposed.

Bernie McAdam  ·  03 March 2021

In the tunnels and the trees: HS2 moves to evict Euston protesters

A High Court judge has granted a possession order to evict anti-HS2 campaigners from Euston tunnel.

Joe Crathorne  ·  26 February 2021

The fight for safe re-opening of schools goes on

A brief respite is being eroded by the government's failure to adequately fund safe schools

A Unison Steward  ·  16 February 2021

Socialists and ‘foreign aid’

In the hands of our government, aid is an instrument of imperialist policy. What is the socialist alternative?

Dave Brody  ·  15 February 2021

Fighting the witch-hunt in Bristol Labour

“Read the Standing Orders – and understand – that you have no right!”

Tim Nailsea  ·  12 February 2021

Macron declares war on ‘Islamic separatism’

New law is an attack on France's Muslim population.

Kady Tait and Dave Stockton  ·  09 February 2021

100,000 deaths and a year of government failures

We need a Zero Covid strategy

Peter Main  ·  09 February 2021

The first fruits of Brexit: 48-hr week under attack

48-hour week under attack.

Dave Stockton  ·  08 February 2021

Labour’s “loyal opposition” is betraying workers

Unemployment at 7.5% and rising.

Jeremy Dewar  ·  08 February 2021

Raise benefits to the living wage!

Government plans to revoke the £20 per week uplift.

Sarah Barden  ·  07 February 2021

Uganda’s stolen election

Yoweri Museveni retains power in a fraudulent election and places rival candidate Bobi Wine under house arrest.

Jeremy Dewar  ·  07 February 2021

The Arab Spring ten years on

Its lessons and legacy.

Marcel Rajecky  ·  07 February 2021

Bangladesh: Pandemic wreaks havoc on hyper-exploited garment workers

Thousands of Bangladeshi garment workers have lost their jobs.

Mel Astbury  ·  07 February 2021

The house always wins: What we can learn from the GameStop stock war

The war between Wall Street and Reddit shows you cannot defeat the capitalists at their own game.

Rob Schofield  ·  02 February 2021

Zionism’s influence in the UK

Why Starmer said “I support Zionism without qualification”.

George Banks  ·  31 January 2021

Marxism and nationalism

The origins, purpose and alternative to nationalist ideology

George Banks  ·  26 January 2021

Nationalism and the working class

The working class is an international class.

Mel Astbury  ·  26 January 2021

The pandemic in Palestine

Israeli discrimination in vaccine distribution

Dave Brody  ·  24 January 2021

European Court of Human Rights rules Israel boycotts are freedom of expression

Boycott, divestment and sanctions

Joe Crathorne  ·  24 January 2021

Why Labour should support the Scots’ right to a referendum

By KD Tait Faced with record levels of support for Scottish independence in the run-up to Holyrood elections in May, Labour leader Keir Starmer has resorted to a tried and busted remedy patented by former Prime Minister Gordon Brown. In a keynote speech on 21 December, Starmer claimed he was offering “a positive alternative to […]

KD Tait  ·  20 January 2021

Rosa Luxemburg’s contribution to Marxism

Luxemburg's will to advance the proletarian struggle lives on in her contribution to Marxist theory and practice

Martin Suchanek  ·  15 January 2021

Pakistan: Down with state repression! International solidarity with Kashmir!

Major Pakistani police operation against Kashmiris.

Workers Power  ·  13 January 2021

Can India’s class struggle overcome communitarian divides?

Against racism and neoliberalism.

Rebecca Anderson  ·  10 January 2021

Statement on Trump’s fascist provocation

Despite the ignominious collapse of the putsch, its significance is two-fold.

Workers Power  ·  07 January 2021

Fight for workers’ control of the lockdown

The teachers' initiative is a model for workers to follow

KD Tait  ·  05 January 2021

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