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

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

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

We need a Zero Covid strategy

48-hour week under attack.

Unemployment at 7.5% and rising.

Government plans to revoke the £20 per week uplift.

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

Its lessons and legacy.

Thousands of Bangladeshi garment workers have lost their jobs.

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

Why Starmer said “I support Zionism without qualification”.

The origins, purpose and alternative to nationalist ideology

The working class is an international class.

Israeli discrimination in vaccine distribution

Boycott, divestment and sanctions

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 […]

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

Major Pakistani police operation against Kashmiris.

Against racism and neoliberalism.

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

The teachers' initiative is a model for workers to follow

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 […]