Editorial May 2022, No. 393

It will be up to the rank and file to lead the resistance.

A disgusting, racist plan.

The chancellor’s response to the cost of living crisis has been lackluster to say the least.

The British media have hailed the scale of sanctions being imposed upon Russia for its invasion of Ukraine.

The United States works on the principle that what’s mine is mine and what’s yours is a matter for negotiation.

Despite the many inadequacies of the UK government’s scheme, its effects in terms of the relatively large number of refugees already allowed in under it cannot be denied.

Labour’s NEC has voted to proscribe three leftwing organisations.

The Spring Statement signalled the return of austerity and the steepest slide in living standards since records began in the 1950s.

We face the worst cost of living crisis in living memory.

Putin has resorted to a war of attrition against civilians.

P&O Ferries have brutally sacked 800 workers without notice and replaced them with scab crews on less than the minimum wage.

Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham has won a court case in defence of his plans to bring the city’s buses back into public control

Coventry’s refuse drivers have voted 94% in favour of continuing their strike as Coventry Labour councillors are suspended from Unite.

We need working class self-organisation to stop police harassment in schools and on the streets

The Tories are desperate to put a positive spin on the teaching of the British Empire

Revolutionary strategy in the epoch of imperialist war

The reputation of the Metropolitan Police is in tatters - again.

Football has a well documented history of both sexual and physical violence.

Workers face the biggest cost of living squeeze for a generation

The PCSC Bill must be defeated.

Day of action on 26 Feb.

Prices rise at record rates.

By Reginald Banks Omicron is just the latest in a long list of variants to devastate the world and is by no means necessarily the last one. First discovered in South Africa, it became the dominant strain around the world with lightning speed. Daily cases in the UK reached a new peak of 160,000 a […]

The Tory crisis won't last forever.

Editorial December-January 2021-22, No. 389

Anti-apartheid activist and liberation theologian Desmond Tutu has died after a long battle with cancer, aged 90.

By Dave Stockton Britain is experiencing yet another damaging outburst of coronavirus, this time the Omicron variant. Once again, leaving aside its apparent origin in South Africa, the UK is already leading the way in the speed of transmission. As a result France and Germany have imposed restrictions on travellers from the UK. Omicron cases […]

The ongoing witch-hunt against socialists and pro-Palestinian activists within the Labour Party has jumped up another gear.

Since the start of the pandemic, trans people have been left in limbo by the NHS, with devastating effects on their physical and mental health.