Britain

University finances stretched to the nth degree

Students and workers are being made to pay for the failure of the marketisation of higher education

Workers Power  ·  03 September 2024

Labour plans pain for poorest

By George Banks AFTER 14 YEARS of economic misery under the Tories, it might have been expected that a Labour government would at least spare the poorest the cost of their obsession with ‘balancing the books’. But despite promising ‘change’, Starmer and Reeves have devoted their efforts to dampening these expectations.Labour’s failure to scrap the […]

Workers Power  ·  02 September 2024

Mass mobilisations needed to confront far right

Far right activists are exploiting the Southport murders to spread Islamophobic and anti-immigrant lies. We need mass mobilisations and workers' self-defence against the fascists.

Workers Power  ·  01 August 2024

Will Farage reform the Tories?

The Tory party has descended into internecine warfare.

Jeremy Dewar  ·  10 July 2024

The Left and the general election

Only by gathering the forces of working class opposition to Labour and directing them in a united front against the government can we begin to build a party that can not only resist the coming attacks on our class, but destroy capitalism and the imperialist system that stand behind Starmer and Reeves.

Jeremy Dewar  ·  09 July 2024

No honeymoon for Labour

To get reforms out of Labour will be like drawing teeth.

KD Tait  ·  08 July 2024

Thames Water bankrupt: Nationalise the water companies

Free-market economists’ claims about the efficiency of privatisation don’t hold water.

Andy Yorke  ·  06 July 2024

Labour victory: now organise the resistance

Our task is to make our unions and social movements fight Labour’s coming attacks.

KD Tait  ·  05 July 2024

For a national assembly to organise the Palestine solidarity movement

The marches, blockades and occupations have not forced the government to break links with Israel. We need to change course.

Workers Power  ·  03 July 2024

Workers take on Amazon

Amazon is spending vast sums trying to defeat a campaign for trade union recognition.

Rebecca Anderson  ·  02 July 2024

Greens: No threat to capitalism, no saviour for environment

Why socialists shouldn't support the Green Party

Tim Nailsea  ·  28 June 2024

Healthworkers – fight to make Labour pay up

Health workers should organise to meet a Labour government with a united front

Workers Power  ·  27 June 2024

Reform UK: Populist camouflage for unbridled capitalism

Reconfiguring the far right

Workers Power  ·  26 June 2024

Appeal for a National Palestine Assembly

Open letter to local and national Palestine campaigns. Unite the resistance - for workers' action to stop the genocide

Workers Power  ·  21 June 2024

A Labour government will open a new terrain of struggle

To fight for anticapitalist measures to tackle war, poverty and climate change--we need a revolutionary workers' party

Workers Power  ·  13 June 2024

The general election and the tasks of the working class

The workers' movement has to put Labour on notice that it can expect no honeymoon

Workers Power  ·  12 June 2024

Fourteen years of Tory rule: a balance sheet

The Lords of Misrule prepare to depart the stage

Workers Power  ·  11 June 2024

Labour waters down workers’ rights plan

Labour's plan to extend workers' rights will be gutted by 'consultation' with bosses unless trade unions fight back

Workers Power  ·  10 June 2024

Is the NHS safe in Labour’s hands?

Privatisation is here to stay

Workers Power  ·  09 June 2024

Will GB Energy have the power to tackle climate change?

Labour's energy plan amounts to little more than state subsidies for big energy companies

Workers Power  ·  08 June 2024

Trade unionists campaign to divest pension funds from Israel

Trade unionists are organising to take control of their pensions

Workers Power  ·  07 June 2024

What attitude should socialists take to independent candidates?

Independent candidates should use their campaigns to organise a working class movement to press our demands on the next government

Workers Power  ·  05 June 2024

No vote for George Galloway and the ‘Workers Party’

The politics of Galloway and the Workers Party do not represent a way forward for the Palestine movement or the working class

Workers Power  ·  04 June 2024

Resist Rwanda deportation scheme

The Tories’ plan to deny refugees their right to claim asylum in Britain, and instead deport them to Rwanda, has overcome another hurdle with the passage of the Rwanda Safety Bill. The Bill was necessary to overrule last November’s Supreme Court ruling that the scheme broke UK and international law because there was insufficient evidence […]

Workers Power  ·  10 May 2024

Leeds students join the global student revolt in solidarity with Palestine

By Scott Woodhouse In the face of violent police repression of pro-Palestine student protesters in the USA, University of Leeds students walked out of classes on 1 May International Workers’ Day to set up an encampment outside their student union. Banners hung around the encampment read “No Pride in Apartheid!”, “No IDF on campus” and […]

Scott Woodhouse  ·  04 May 2024

Manchester stands with Elbit 3!

Palestine Action activists are being pursued through the courts in an attempt to stop the successful targeting of Israeli arms manufacturers

Workers Power  ·  22 April 2024

Tory Britain: the endgame approaches

Workers Power held its national conference last month, which debated and passed a perspectives document to guide our work over the next year. Here we publish edited excerpts.

Workers Power  ·  22 April 2024

Bankrupt Britain: how councils go bust

Bankruptcy proceedings filed up and down the country by local councils are the legacy of 14 years of Tory war on public services.

Workers Power  ·  22 April 2024

Sharon Graham scabs on Palestine

Union leader chooses militarism over internationalism

Workers Power  ·  22 April 2024

Boycott Israel: workers’ sanctions are the way forward

The focus of the Palestine solidarity movement has shifted towards boycotting arms for Israel, but to succceed it needs international organisation.

George Banks  ·  22 April 2024

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