Why do some people defy the public safety measures?

By KD Tait Following a mass online briefing attended by tens of thousands of education workers at the weekend, trade unionists are taking action to prevent the unsafe reopening of schools. This action is now essential because the government’s insistence on keeping schools open was a major contributory factor to the spread of a more […]

By Jeremy Dewar Novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-19 continues to test the world’s governments. None more than Boris Johnson’s Tory administration, it seems, with the recent discovery of a new strain, variant B117 in the south-east of Britain, which is proving to be 56% more infectious than previous iterations of the virus. Not only is this variant […]

By KD Tait Boris Johnson’s Brexit deal will be voted on by Parliament this week. With an 80-seat majority, the deal is certain to pass. It has already been unanimously backed by the remaining 27 EU member states. The campaign to leave the EU, based on the nationalist myth of reclaiming British ‘sovereignty’ was a […]

Statement by the Political Committee of Red Flag Whatever a narrow majority of the electorate imagined they would get when they voted to Leave the European Union, the strategists who planned Brexit knew exactly what they wanted. Nigel Farage’ s UKIP and the European Research Group with Jacob Rees Mogg, like their co-thinkers in the […]

By KD Tait This Christmas, the UN humanitarian aid agency is helping provide food to thousands of school children over the school break. In May, before the coronavirus outbreak, 2.4 million, or 17 per cent, of children were living in households without enough food. By October, 900,000 more children had been registered for free school […]

The Labour leadership is attempting to drive the left out of the party. In the past few weeks, over 100 elected branch and constituency officers have been suspended, including 54 on 19 December alone. In November, General Secretary David Evans issued a ban on CLPs discussing his suspension of Jeremy Corbyn. This attack on the […]

By Peter Main The recent launch of the Zero Covid campaign brings a welcome breath of fresh air and sanity to the public debate on dealing with the pandemic. For all their talk of “following the science” and “balancing health and wealth”, Boris Johnson and his cabinet have ignored clear lessons from the rest of […]

Tim Nailsea reviews Despised: Why the Modern Left Loathes the Working Class by Paul Embery

By Dave Stockton On 29 October 2020, Jeremy Corbyn, Labour Leader from September 2015 to April 2020, was suspended from party membership and had his membership of the Parliamentary Labour Party withdrawn. The action was taken by the Party’s unelected General Secretary, David Evans, in collusion with the party’s leader Keir Starmer. The pretext given […]

Negligence at every step.

Mike Pompeo gives the green light to Israeli settlements.

We need a workers' inquiry.

Class, oppression and mental health under lockdown.

Deal or no deal, the working class loses.

More must be done for those needing to escape abuse.

A motion for use in trade unions opposing Keir Starmer's suspension of Jeremy Corbyn

International Secretariat, League for the Fifth International The League for the Fifth International sends internationalist solidarity to the International Marxist Tendency whose member, Amar Fayaz, was whisked away by cops and armed men in plain clothes in the early hours of November 9. The abduction took place in Jamshoro, Sindh, which is located near the […]

Manchester students have occupied a university building.

Refugees still stranded on Lesbos.

Bristol West CLP demands Corbyn is reinstated.

We must resist the Tories' demonisation and violent victimisation of some of the most vulnerable people on earth.

For a zero-covid strategy.

The fight against Tory values.

The Bolivian working class and indigenous peoples must ensure their electoral victory doesn't end in class collaboration.

From protests to the referendum and beyond.

Millions of US citizens vote today in an election which the whole world is watching.

Mass protests in Poland for abortion rights.

A motion for use in Labour Parties, opposing Keir Starmer's suspension of Jeremy Corbyn

The suspension of Jeremy Corbyn is an attack against the socialist left which must be opposed