PCS strike is part of a growing movement by low paid workers fighting for a living wage
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.
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.
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
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 […]
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.
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.
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.
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.
Socialists need to take up the anti-racist and internationalist spirit of the movement and channel it towards socialist solutions
Our leaflet for the 23 March for a People's Vote
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.
Red Flag condemns Fabian Hamilton's smears and stands in solidarity with Palestine solidarity activists during Israel Apartheid Week
March 8 will see women worldwide rally to celebrate International Women’s Day. We hope that millions will respond to the call for a global women’s strike, as they did last year in Spain, in Latin America, in 50 countries in all. In Spain, they were joined by rank and file trade unionists who initiated actual […]
It is vitally important that we prevent LGBT+ individuals from being forced out of public life by discriminatory policies that seek to invalidate anyone that dares transgress society’s gender norms.
Sally Challen, a woman wrongly convicted of murdering her husband in 2011, is one step closer to justice and freedom.
The PCS is embarking on another pay ballot due to run from 18 March until 29 April. All civil servants deserve a decent pay rise – if the MPs can have one why can’t we?
Shamima Begum’s request to return to Britain from a Syrian refugee camp has caused enormous controversy and exposed again the precarious position of second-generation migrants.
As Brexit talks stumble on the intractable backstop to the British border in Ireland, Bernie McAdam calls on British socialists to fight for the only internationalist response, abolish the border altogether!
Labour needs to commit to decriminalisation of sex work and a programme to challenge the exploitation of women
By Jeremy Dewar Labour suffered its first split in 38 years on 18 February, when Chuka Umunna and six other MPs resigned the Labour Party whip to form the Independent Group, TIG. They were soon joined by Joan Ryan MP and three Tories, including Anna Soubry, thereby revealing the coordinated, cross-party basis for the new […]
The impossibility of reconciling the vote to leave the EU with the interests of British capitalism has triggered a historic crisis
Recent victories show what is possible. Now activists should link up with other unions and build for joint strike action across the sector.
Without clearing out the anti-socialist wreckers from the PLP, any Corbyn government will be held hostage by its backbenches.
School students lead the way in the fight for system change not climate change
Labour lefts break ranks to demand conference policy is adhered to - and Brexit put to a vote
The internationalist left need to outline an alternative to Corbyn's nationalist Brexit project
An international movement reaches the UK
By trampling on conference policy, Corbyn has exchanged one rotten compromise for another.
After years of inaction, Unison members finally have the chance to send a message to the Tories that workers are prepared to fight the destruction of our education system