Fight for workers' control to stop UK complicity in the occupation

Workers' action can strengthen the global solidarity movement

Protest on Day X.

By Dave Stockton As we go to press, the Labour Party Conference is assembling in Liverpool. With its many fringe events it has been promoted as the largest such gathering in years. But it will be unlike the gatherings of social movement activists in the Corbyn years. The Guardian reported in September that a total […]

By KD Tait In early September Keir Starmer reshuffled the shadow cabinet ready for a general election campaign, stuffing it with Blairite hardliners, friends to big business and sworn enemies of the left. Just as the Tory conference marked the beginning of the struggle for the leadership of the Conservatives in the wake of an […]

Suella Braverman and Rishi Sunak have rushed to reassure the police.

It’s time for them to go.

The hospitals affected are two of seven hospital buildings across the north west dubbed ‘the worst region in the country’ for roofs built with collapse-prone concrete

The government wants to ‘house’ asylum seekers on the 220-bed accommodation barge.

Courts use participation in rap music used as evidence of ‘bad character’.

4 July 2023 was the hottest day since records began, since then wildfires and extreme heat has scorched several countries around the world.

‘Every child a wanted child; every mother a willing mother’

THE TORIES’ plan to deport migrants who arrive on small boats to Rwanda has been ruled illegal by the Court of Appeal. First announced in April 2022, the government has already given Rwanda £140 million, without managing to deport a single refugee under the scheme. The latest appeal was brought by the United Nations refugee […]

Over half a million council and school employees are currently balloting for strike action to win a real pay rise. If successful, this would be the biggest strike yet in the wave of action over the cost of living crisis. But the task is huge.

The CWU leadership are running scared of their own members. Workers Power argues for a rank and file movement

A shocking new study involving 30 water treatment works has estimated that 11bn litres of untreated sewage were discharged in 2020.

The TUC has fined the NEU £153,000, bang in the middle of their strike campaign.

After the local elections, Starmer's Labour looks set to enter government. With the parliamentary left defeated we must organise to force workers' demands onto their agenda

In a climate of heightened police repression Alex Rutherford discusses the way forward for militants and activists.

THE LATEST inflation figure of 10.1% surprised many economists. It won’t have surprised many workers —except that it wasn’t higher. The Mirror reported on the day of the announcement, ‘Struggling households are now faced with shocking food prices, with cheese 49% more expensive than a year ago, eggs up 28%, sugar 33% and a white […]

By Alex Rutherford and Rose Tedeschi THE RECENT Climate Change Committee (CCC) report to Parliament, demonstrates the UK’s abject failure to prepare the country for the impacts of climate change. This is the third report of its type. Each one is essentially a ‘five year plan’ for adaptation to climate change. Sadly, even its limited […]

The Tories are making it illegal to claim asylum.

Editorial April 2023, No. 402

Silicon Valley, Signature, Credit Suisse, the first of many?

UK-EU deal sidelines reveals decorative nature of Northern Ireland Assembly

The devil is in the detail.

Why did the biggest protests in British history fail?

By Dave Stockton FAR RIGHT populist and fascist groups are mounting a widespread offensive across the UK and in the Republic of Ireland, using anti-immigrant racism and anti-trans bigotry as their calling cards. The decision of governments to admit Ukrainian refugees while at the same time, in Britain’s case at least, demonising those who cross […]

By Alex Rutherford SHAMIMA BEGUM has lost her latest appeal to regain British citizenship after this was stripped from her on supposed ‘national security grounds’ after she travelled to Syria to join ISIL in 2015, when she was just 15 years old. She is now being held at the al-Roj detention camp in north-east Syria. […]

By R Banks and Millie Collins ON 11 FEBRUARY, 16 year old Brianna Ghey was brutally murdered, stabbed to death in Warrington Park by two 15 year olds. Brianna was transgender and had become a prominent representative of the young trans community on TikTok.  Police took four days to declare that the murder ‘might’ be […]