Workers Power 279 October 2003 One hundred years ago this month the Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU) was founded. The WSPU became the militant wing of a mass movement of women fighting for the vote. Within this organisation many of the direct action tactics used today were first developed. Kirstie Paton and Stuart King […]

Sylvia Pankhurst developed a very different view from her mother and older sister of how the vote for women could be achieved. Although she did not speak out against it, she was opposed to the ‘terrorist’ turn which she believed “retarded a wonderful movement which was rising to a great climax”. For Sylvia a successful […]

George W Bush is set on war. He will not let anything get in his way. Not Iraq’s agreement to let weapons inspectors back. Not the United Nations meddlesome attempt to let diplomacy work to disarm Saddam Hussein. He will try to bully France, bribe Russia and berate China to get the UN Security Council […]

Globalisation strangles the global south, but how can the working class of the poorest countries come to the head of the struggle against it?

What is the programme and why is it important?

  The period of the 1880’s and 1890’s in Germany was a period of rapid industrialisation carried through under the guidance of the repressive German state. It saw the birth and growth of German Social Democracy as the mass workers party. It drew women, and children, into industry on a large scale. It was in […]

Revolutionary leadership is needed to break the hold of the reformists and win the working class to communism.

Can capitalism be reformed through parliament?

How Marx and Engels transformed socialist ideas into a scientific critique of capitalism.

Racism – what it is and how to fight it! Published in 1995 by Workers Power, it examines the history of racial oppression and the use of racism as a weapon to divide the working class. Sorry this pamphlet is no longer in print Available to read online here Available to download here

The example of Chartism proves there is a revolutionary tradition in the British working class writes Stuart King ‘The era of Chartism is immortal in that over the course of a decade it gives us in condensed and diagrammatic form the whole gamut of proletarian struggle – from petitions in parliament to armed insurrection. All […]

As unemployment approaches 1.5 million, we need a programme to force trade union leaders to fight -- or act without them.

Our first perspectives document, setting out the fundamental political basis of our tendency: orientation to the working class, internationalism, the united front and application of a revolutionary programme.

Where is the National Abortion Campaign going?

The war in the Six Counties is a war between British imperialism and the Irish people. But this fact is still not clear to many on the British left.

The Labour government's Incomes Policy is designed to lower workers' living standards, and protect the bosses' profits