Britain

Grenfell inquiry exposes institutional contempt for working class lives

The inquiry into the Grenfell fire has confirmed this was a preventable disaster, caused by the collective greed of private manufacturers and government bodies.

Workers Power  ·  12 September 2024

Defend refugees against the far right

Labour's policy towards asylum seekers is little different to the Tories.

Millie Collins  ·  10 September 2024

SUtR: outsourcing anti-racism on behalf of labour bureaucracy

The SWP limit Stand Up to Racism's programme and tactics to what is acceptable to its reformist sponsors

Workers Power  ·  09 September 2024

TUC seeks to avoid fight over anti-union laws

The first TUC under a Labour government since 2009 is a chance to demand Labour restore workers' rights.

Workers Power  ·  08 September 2024

NHS theatre nurses on strike demand safe staffing

Operating theatre nurses are on strike against plans to extend their hours, as part of Labour's plan to run the NHS on overtime

Workers Power  ·  05 September 2024

Labour prepares to put working class on rations

Labour's promise of change has been revealed to be change for the worse. The trade unions and communities need to prepare to fight back.

Workers Power  ·  05 September 2024

How Bristol saw off the far right

Thousands came out to protest against the far right in Bristol. One of the organisers explains how it happened

Workers Power  ·  05 September 2024

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

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