Britain

Defend workers’ incomes against inflation

INFLATION HAS reached its highest level since the 1980s. The November rate for the UK was 10.67%. Between September 2021 and September 2022, food prices increased by 14.5 percent. At the same time annual wages rises in the private sector stood at 6.7% and 2.9% in the public sector. The purchasing power of wages has […]

Workers Power  ·  16 January 2023

Archive: NHS rank and file must take the lead!

Archive article about the 1982 NHS strike.

Workers Power  ·  18 December 2022

The NHS: Death by a thousand cuts

7.2 million people are on waiting lists for NHS treatment in England.

Rebecca Anderson  ·  18 December 2022

The Public Order Bill is an attack on the right to protest

The Bill has passed the House of Commons.

George Banks  ·  17 December 2022

Resist Jeremy Hunt’s class war budget

Living standards will fall by 7% in the next two years.

KD Tait  ·  17 December 2022

How can this winter of discontent end in victory?

Editorial December-January 2022/23, No. 399

Jeremy Dewar  ·  17 December 2022

The bankers’ budget: robbing the poor to pay the rich

Hunt's budget constitutes the organised impoverishment of millions in order to protect the profits of business, banks and speculators.

KD Tait  ·  18 November 2022

Fight for a workers’ government

Editorial November 2022, No. 398

KD Tait  ·  02 November 2022

As Tories fall apart, workers’ action can finish them off

By KD Tait SIX SHORT weeks was all Tory MPs needed to put an end to the Truss experiment. This time they did not make the mistake of consulting their members. Having already installed Jeremy Hunt as Chancellor, the election rules were blatantly rigged in favour of the bankers’ man Rishi Sunak. The forces of […]

KD Tait  ·  02 November 2022

Postal bosses go nuclear — union must respond in kind

CWU leaders have called off strikes after bosses threatened them with court action

A CWU Rep  ·  02 November 2022

Leftwing candidate excluded in Labour HQ stitch-up

Members should boycott this fraudulent selection.

Jeremy Dewar  ·  02 November 2022

New anti-union laws tighten the noose

What is the TUC going to do about it?

KD Tait  ·  02 November 2022

Yellow Unison goes running to education bosses

By a Unison activist THE NATIONAL Education Union has won an impressive mandate to call an official strike ballot for a cost of living pay increase. Not only did over a quarter of a million teachers vote by 86% on a 62% turnout for strike action in support of a fully-funded (i.e. increasing school budgets) […]

Workers Power  ·  02 November 2022

Childcare in crisis: mothers’ march demands better

By Millie Collins MORE THAN 12,000 people took to the streets across 11 major cities on 29 October to protest the extortionate cost of childcare, demanding much needed reforms to the archaic parental leave system—which Rishi Sunak disgracefully described as a ‘holiday’. The ‘March of the Mummies’ was organised by Pregnant Then Screwed, a charity […]

Millie Collins  ·  02 November 2022

Latest UN climate reports show need for socialist solutions

Official reports chart the complete failure of attempts to solve the climate crisis and serve as a reminder of the urgent need for socialist solutions.

Alex Rutherford  ·  02 November 2022

Trouble at the top: the social roots of the Tory crisis

The deep divisions in the Conservative party have their roots in the decline of British capitalism.

Tim Nailsea  ·  02 November 2022

After Truss—now for the rest!

Now is the time to press our advantage. The unions must sound the advance across every front of struggle.

Workers Power  ·  21 October 2022

South Asian solidarity needed to oppose spread of Hindu nationalism

Hindu nationalism is promoting anti-Muslim hatred

Bernie McAdam  ·  09 October 2022

Don’t wait for the Tories to lose it!

Editorial October 2022, No. 397

Workers Power  ·  08 October 2022

Leeds cost-of-living protest gives a voice to growing resistance

By Rebecca Anderson The 1st October Enough is Enough day of action in Leeds began at 10am when a thousand people joined the picket line at the train station, spilling out into the road as we listened to the RMT speaker explain why they are striking and won’t give up, followed by chants of “Enough […]

Rebecca Anderson  ·  02 October 2022

Where next for Enough Is Enough?

If the national campaigns won't unite, we need to build unity from below

Workers Power  ·  02 October 2022

Mini-budget: This was what Brexit was really about

By Peter Main At first sight, Kwasi Kwarteng’s “mini-budget” looks like nothing more than pandering to the Tory members who voted for Liz Truss. Anyone who seriously thinks that forcing part-time workers on Universal Credit to find a few more hours of work each week is going to have the slightest effect on the national […]

Peter Main  ·  29 September 2022

Obituary: Mikhail Gorbachev, 1932–2022

In death, as in life, the role and significance of Mikhail Gorbachev, who died on August 30 and was buried on September 3, remains disputed.

Peter Main  ·  13 September 2022

‘Which side are you on?’ Labour has a crisis of leadership

Labour’s lead has narrowed to just four points.

George Banks  ·  13 September 2022

Elizabeth Windsor (1926–2022)

HOUR AFTER hour of obsequious commentary, constant updating on the progress of the coffin towards London, an uninterrupted procession of has-beens and would-be’s underlining their own importance by recalling their past royal encounters—there is no way of avoiding the passing of Elizabeth II. More importantly, the suspension of strike action by the RMT and by […]

Peter Main  ·  13 September 2022

‘Touch one, touch all’: The murder of Chris Kaba

By Jeremy Dewar TWO TO three thousand people turned out in central London on Saturday 10 September to protest the killing of Chris Kaba by the police the previous Monday. The large response clearly surprised the police and organisers, just as it lifted the spirits of the grieving family. Another police murder Chris was the […]

KD Tait  ·  13 September 2022

Left maintains NEC seats – despite Momentum

Four of the five candidates of the Centre Left Grassroots Alliance were elected to the NEC.

Peter Main  ·  12 September 2022

Democratic local assemblies needed to unite cost of living campaigns

By R. Banks and Alex Rutherford The growing cost of living crisis and increasing public alarm at what it will mean pose the urgent need for a united front between all those affected by inflation. It needs to bring together union members and those who want to join a fighting union; the unemployed and underemployed; […]

Alex Rutherford  ·  10 September 2022

Liz Truss PM: Fight fire with fire

With an ‘electorate’ of 160,000 geriatric Tory party members, 0.3% of the population chose the country’s leader.

Jeremy Dewar  ·  05 September 2022

Economy: The worst is yet to come

Assumptions that damage to the UK economy was inevitable have now been backed up with concrete evidence.

Peter Main  ·  15 July 2022

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