Britain

Labour’s two faced Brexit

Jeremy Corbyn’s latest statement on Labour’s Brexit policy, in an email to party members, has been presented as a major shift towards a “Remain” position. It is not. It is essentially a re-statement of what has been the policy since the Liverpool conference; “constructive ambiguity” or, in plain terms, a fudge. At most, there is […]

Workers Power  ·  11 July 2019

How Britain’s biggest union undermines migrant workers’ rights

Over the past seven years cleaners and security guards at London’s most prestigious universities have been fighting a relentless and courageous struggle for basic rights: the London Living Wage, sickness, holiday and maternity pay, workplace conditions, and end to contracting out and union recognition.

Workers Power  ·  09 July 2019

No Pride in deportations!

50 years after the Stonewall riots, over a million people flooded central London for the biggest ever annual Pride celebration. The actual march, limited to just 30,000 participants by Pride organisers, was overwhelmingly a jamboree of corporate and government pink-washing

Workers Power  ·  09 July 2019

Brexit “a slow moving car crash”

The Corbyn project for an anti-austerity Labour government is in danger. From Jeremy Corbyn himself.

Workers Power  ·  08 July 2019

The Stonewall Rebellion 50 years on

Pride must not be handed over to the corporations or the liberals, let alone the police, just to show “how far we have come”. We owe it to those facing beatings and murders today to make it a militant demonstration of solidarity with them.

Workers Power  ·  03 July 2019

Two years after Grenfell, firefighters say “Never Again!”

Red tape saves lives. The ruling class and the housing companies have continued to strip away our safety in order to line their own pockets. This must change to prevent another Grenfell.

Rob Schofield  ·  14 June 2019

Reject Momentum’s democracy proposals – demand a sovereign conference

The low horizons of Momentum’s democracy review forces us to ask the question - what is Momentum for?

Workers Power  ·  11 June 2019

Sudan: Counter-revolution strikes back, supported by the Egyptian and Saudi dictatorships

An indefinite general strike and international solidarity can beat the dictatorship

Workers Power  ·  04 June 2019

Brexit is a hostile environment for Labour

Constructive ambiguity has failed. Labour must break with Brexit and advance a genuinely internationalist programme

Workers Power  ·  01 June 2019

EU elections show time for Brexit compromise is over

Labour members should fight for a special conference to win the party to an unequivocal policy of defeating Brexit and fighting for a socialist Europe

Workers Power  ·  27 May 2019

PCS Conference: New pay ballot requires rank and file organisation to win

We can halt the union's decline by fighting for members' control of disputes and strategy

Workers Power  ·  26 May 2019

Royal Mail bins union agreement

As the union prepares for a new battle, activists need to develop the members' control of the dispute needed to win

Workers Power  ·  26 May 2019

British Steel: Nationalisation under workers’ control

The labour movement needs to act quickly to prevent asset stripping, block the closure, and secure public ownership.

Workers Power  ·  26 May 2019

Despite Tommy Robinson’s defeat, the far right remains a threat

Only a genuine united front against fascism that penetrates every street and every workplace can successfully halt the rise of the far right both in Britain and internationally.

Workers Power  ·  25 May 2019

Nigel Farage and the threat of racist populism

Right wing populism can only be defeated by strengthening the independent working class movement

Workers Power  ·  25 May 2019

SOAS students protest racist lecturer

The student campaign raises the issue of students and workers' control over hiring and firing

Workers Power  ·  25 May 2019

Local elections Labour stagnates and Tories slump

Labour needs to fight on a programme of restoring public services and local democracy

Workers Power  ·  25 May 2019

BEIS cleaners strike for the living wage

PCS strike is part of a growing movement by low paid workers fighting for a living wage

Urte March  ·  24 May 2019

EU elections: why Anti-Brexit Socialists should still vote Labour

Despite the confusion caused by Labour's fudged Brexit position, internationalist Labour voters should not abandon the party for the Greens or the Lib Dems at the EU Elections.

Workers Power  ·  22 May 2019

Extinction Rebellion paralyses London

Extinction Rebellion (XR) captured the headlines of the mainstream media and the imagination of millions this Easter, as its activists occupied key tourist locations and major traffic arteries in London for a week or more.

Workers Power  ·  04 May 2019

Long live May Day! Defend internationalism!

May Day has always been a focus for workers around the world and this year it is a contrasting picture all right. With a monstrous racist and misogynist in the White House, and an admirer of fascist junta, Jair Bolsonaro, in the presidential place in Brazil, there are plenty of shadows

Workers Power  ·  04 May 2019

Anti-Zionism is NOT antisemitism

By Jeremy Dewar Shadow Justice Secretary Richard Burgon is the latest Labour MP to be targeted by the Jewish Chronicle and Labour Friends of Israel and tarred with the brush of anti-Semitism. There are of course local and European elections coming up, so we should expect the witch-hunters inside the party to be throwing up […]

Workers Power  ·  04 May 2019

Review: Glasgow 1919

One hundred years ago, tanks rumbled on the streets of Glasgow, howitzers were positioned at strategic points of the city, army snipers aimed fire from the rooftop of the Post Office.

Workers Power  ·  04 May 2019

What is Jeremy Corbyn Playing at?

The reason for Corbyn and Abbott’s support for wanting to leave the EU is, however, more than a vote-catching calculus or just keeping the party together. They believe that it is a necessary pre-condition for a reforming Labour government.

Workers Power  ·  04 May 2019

Israel: Netanyahu’s victory paves the way for annexation

Every dimension of this election revealed how the rightward, violently chauvinist political realignment in Israeli politics over the last decade has hardened to become the new centre ground.

Workers Power  ·  04 May 2019

The Working Class supports free movement, Labour must too

FBU Executive Council Member Paul Embery claims the working class oppose freedom of movement in the EU. But polling shows this is far from the case.

Rob Schofield  ·  08 April 2019

The march against Brexit exposed the self-defeating policy of Labour’s leaders

Socialists need to take up the anti-racist and internationalist spirit of the movement and channel it towards socialist solutions

Workers Power  ·  24 March 2019

Stop Brexit – by any means necessary

Our leaflet for the 23 March for a People's Vote

Workers Power  ·  23 March 2019

Youth strike for climate action

In February tens of thousands of young people showed the way forward in the fight against climate change by walking out of their schools and protesting.

Workers Power  ·  22 March 2019

Solidarity with Leeds University Palestine activists against Fabian Hamilton’s anti-Semitism smear

Red Flag condemns Fabian Hamilton's smears and stands in solidarity with Palestine solidarity activists during Israel Apartheid Week

Workers Power  ·  20 March 2019

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