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# Workers Power

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- [Articles](https://workerspower.uk/articles/) - Israeli fascist minister Ben-Gvir parades shackled Sumud Flotilla activists Thursday, May 21, 2026 Free the 430 Sumud Flotilla activists kidnapped by Israeli forces — break the siege of Gaza. Review: Inside the Manosphere by Louis Theroux Tuesday, May 19, 2026 Louis Theroux’s documentary on the ‘manosphere’ shines a light on a poisonous, right-wing misogynist ideology
- [Kick Palantir out of the NHS](https://workerspower.uk/kick-palantir-out-of-the-nhs/) - The Palantir NHS contract represents the cutting edge of the new big tech offensive against public services
- [Antisemitism, Zionism, and democratic rights](https://workerspower.uk/authoritanians-and-the-weaponisation-of-antisemitism/) - Antisemitism is weaponised against anti-Zionists in order to protect Britain's alliance with Israel
- [How Corbyn's clique sabotaged 'Your Party' opportunity](https://workerspower.uk/how-corbyns-clique-sabotaged-historic-opportunity/) - Your Party's CEC has purged the socialist left. Can anything be salvaged?
- [Senedd elections 2026: Welsh Labour's historic fall](https://workerspower.uk/senedd-elections-2026-welsh-labours-historic-fall/) - The end of an era
- [Ways of thinking: Trotsky on dialectics](https://workerspower.uk/ways-of-thinking-trotsky-on-dialectics/) - Keith Harvey draws on Trotsky's writings to argue that mastery of the dialectical method is essential for revolutionary activists confronting the political upheavals of the post-Cold War world.
- [Israeli fascist minister Ben-Gvir parades shackled Sumud Flotilla activists](https://workerspower.uk/israeli-fascist-minister-ben-gvir-parades-shackled-sumud-flotilla-activists/) - Free the 430 Sumud Flotilla activists kidnapped by Israeli forces — break the siege of Gaza.
- [Review: Inside the Manosphere by Louis Theroux](https://workerspower.uk/review-inside-the-manosphere-by-louis-theroux/) - Louis Theroux’s documentary on the ‘manosphere’ shines a light on a poisonous, right-wing misogynist ideology and the grifters who have built social media empires selling it to young men. But Theroux never really addresses what sits beneath it: a capitalist system that offers many young men insecurity, isolation and no serious future, while allowing con
- [The 1936 Revolt and the birth of Palestinian resistance](https://workerspower.uk/the-1936-revolt-and-the-birth-of-palestinian-resistance/) - First of a two-part series looking at the general strike that sparked a major revolt against British rule in Mandate Palestine
- [Third Gulf War: Stalemate and ethnic cleansing](https://workerspower.uk/third-gulf-war-stalemate-and-ethnic-cleansing/) - The US-Israeli war on Iran has reached a stalemate — while Israel's ethnic cleansing of Lebanon and Palestine continues
- [How the Iran war is choking the world economy](https://workerspower.uk/how-the-iran-war-is-choking-the-world-economy/) - Oil at $126 a barrel, fertiliser shortages, food riots ahead. The Iran war is detonating an already fragile global economy.
- [Pamphlet: The 1926 General Strike](https://workerspower.uk/pamphlet-the-1926-general-strike/) - Preface to our new pamphlet on the 1926 British General Strike
- [Pete’ll fix it! The rise and fall of Peter Mandelson ](https://workerspower.uk/petell-fix-it-the-rise-and-fall-of-peter-mandelson/) - The Mandelson scandal has exposed the grip of fixers loyal not to the working class but to capital and the state.
- [Defend Palestine solidarity — all out on May 16](https://workerspower.uk/defend-palestine-solidarity-all-out-on-may-16/) - Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, with British arms, diplomatic cover and military cooperation. That is why the state wants to silence the Palestine movement. Far from responding to the overwhelming demand to end Britain’s complicity, Keir Starmer is exploiting real antisemitic attacks to restrict the right to protest, assemble and speak. We condemn without
- [Reform: a bosses' party in populist clothing](https://workerspower.uk/reform-a-bosses-party-in-populist-clothing/) - Reform UK claims to speak for workers, but its programme serves bosses, landlords, fossil-fuel interests and the hard right.
- [Labour hammered as left and right advance](https://workerspower.uk/labour-hammered-as-left-and-right-advance/) - Keir Starmer's leadership has paved the way for Reform. If the left doesn't provide an alternative, Farage will
- [Israeli Pirates attack the Gaza Flotilla](https://workerspower.uk/israeli-pirates-attack-the-gaza-flotilla/) - Israeli forces seized a Gaza aid flotilla in international waters, detaining activists and kidnapping two organisers.
- [1 May 2026: Workers fighting on every front](https://workerspower.uk/1-may-2026-workers-fighting-on-every-front/) - The far right, imperialist war and a new cost of living crisis are common struggles around the world
- [Bondi Beach attack: Condemn antisemitic terror](https://workerspower.uk/bondi-beach-resist-the-rise-of-antisemitism/) - The two shooters who killed 15 people at Bondi Beach committed an act of vile antisemitic individual terrorism which must be condemned world-wide.
- [Statement: Release Palestine flotilla activists kidnapped by Israeli forces](https://workerspower.uk/global-sumud-flotilla-attacked-by-israeli-forces/) - Israeli piracy in the Mediterranean must be condemned and all activists released
- [Statement: After Your Party purge — unite around cost of living fight](https://workerspower.uk/statement-after-your-party-expulsions-unite-around-cost-of-living-fight/) - Corbyn has wrecked the immediate prospects of a mass new workers' party. But a united front in cost of living fight can provide framework for ongoing work
- [The workers' government: problems in the application of a slogan, 1917–77](https://workerspower.uk/the-workers-government-problems-in-the-application-of-a-slogan-1917-77/) - Stuart King traces the origins and development of the workers' government slogan from the Russian Revolution through the Comintern debates, examining how it has been misapplied by the international left in Portugal and beyond.
- [The Labour government attacks the shop floor](https://workerspower.uk/the-labour-government-attacks-the-shop-floor/) - With real wages squeezed and the TUC unable to sell another incomes policy, the Labour government faces growing rank-and-file anger. Only a communist programme and independent shop-floor organisation can resist the employers' offensive.
- [Where we stand (1977)](https://workerspower.uk/where-we-stand-1977/) - 1. Capitalism condemns the vast majority of mankind to poverty, insecurity and war. Once a progressive system which vastly enlarged the productive forces on a scale hitherto unknown, it always rested upon the concentration of ownership and control in the hands of a few while the vast majority laboured in conditions of poverty and squalor.
- [Portugal: bosses go on attack](https://workerspower.uk/portugal-bosses-go-on-attack/) - The abortive paratroopers' rebellion has swung the balance of class forces sharply to the right in Portugal, handing the capitalist class a significant victory celebrated across Europe and America.
- [The Fundamentals of our Programme (1983)](https://workerspower.uk/the-fundamentals-of-our-programme-1983/) - A general outline of our early programme, precursor to the Trotskyist Manifesto and From Protest to Power
- [Party and programme: Bolshevism vs Opportunism 1903–1912](https://workerspower.uk/party-and-programme-bolshevism-versus-opportunism/) - The IMG say Lenin was a unity fetishist. The WSL trace the Bolshevik/Menshevik split to an organisational dispute in 1903. Both are wrong. This opening article in Workers Power's series on the heritage of Bolshevism reconstructs the political history of the RSDLP from the economists to the Prague conference — showing that every question of organisation was, at its root, a question of programme.
- [Failure of a fusion: The split in the I-CL](https://workerspower.uk/failure-of-a-fusion-the-split-in-the-i-cl/) - Excerpt: Workers Power sets out the full political record of the fusion and split with Workers Fight (AWL) — documenting the programmatic differences that the Matgamna leadership systematically obscured through slander, manoeuvre, and unconstitutional suspensions.
- [A fusion on the left: International-Communist League formed](https://workerspower.uk/a-fusion-on-the-left-international-communist-league-formed/) - A resolution announcing the fusion of the Workers Power and Workers Fight (predecessor of the AWL) groups.
- [Cuts: Valuable ammunition for the battles ahead](https://workerspower.uk/cuts-valuable-ammunition-for-the-battles-ahead/) - The Counter Information Services pamphlet 'Cutting the Welfare State' provides powerful evidence that government cuts are driven by the need to prop up bank profits and private industry at the direct expense of workers' living standards.
- [Make the NUT fight education cuts](https://workerspower.uk/make-the-nut-fight-education-cuts/) - The NUT leadership's belated and half-hearted response to devastating education cuts leaves rank and file teachers without the unconditional, co-ordinated action needed to resist the systematic dismantling of public education.
- [Miners and the pay limit: an urgent task](https://workerspower.uk/miners-and-the-pay-limit-an-urgent-task/) - The NUM ballot on the £6 pay limit was rigged not by falsification but by timing and propaganda, as the NEC bureaucracy manoeuvred to silence rank and file opposition and secure acceptance of Labour's wage-cutting policy.
- [A programme for engineers](https://workerspower.uk/a-programme-for-engineers/) - The right wing's victory in the AUEW elections and the National Committee's acceptance of the £6 wage limit represent a serious defeat for the left, exposing the Broad Left's failure to develop policies capable of winning rank and file support.
- [Women and the crisis: a survey](https://workerspower.uk/women-and-the-crisis-a-survey/) - The capitalist crisis is hitting women workers hardest through redundancies, cuts in public services and an ideological offensive to drive them back into the home, making organised resistance and trade union solidarity more urgent than ever.
- [Fishing with force: Britain, Iceland and the 'Cod War'](https://workerspower.uk/fishing-with-force-britain-iceland-and-the-cod-war/) - The Labour government's despatch of frigates to defend British fishing fleets in the Cod War serves not the interests of fishing workers or consumers, but the big monopoly firms that dominate and exploit the industry.
- [Black workers: a special target, a harder fight](https://workerspower.uk/black-workers-a-special-target-a-harder-fight/) - Black workers face a double burden in the economic crisis — hit first by redundancy through the "last-in, first-out" principle while management actively attempts to divide black and white workers along racial lines.
- [Review: It Makes Yer Sick](https://workerspower.uk/review-it-makes-yer-sick/) - Review of new Red Ladder play
- [Taking a stroll to the dole](https://workerspower.uk/taking-a-stroll-to-the-dole/) - While waiting for a bus that never seems to come, console yourself with the thought that the London Transport Board (LTB) is doing its best to provide the advertised services! The Board's official reasons for the chronic service are staff shortages and difficulties in obtaining spares. But these excuses won't stand up to the shallowest
- [National Health Service cuts](https://workerspower.uk/national-health-service-cuts/) - NHS cuts are hitting workers hard through hospital closures, redundancies and deteriorating services, while the capitalist press focuses instead on the supposed plight of highly-paid consultants threatening to leave the country.
- [Fight £487m education cuts](https://workerspower.uk/fight-487m-education-cuts/) - Government cuts have slashed £487M from education expenditure, threatening nurseries, school building programmes, and thousands of teaching jobs, while the NUS leadership offers only ineffectual localised resistance.
- [Where now after the marches?](https://workerspower.uk/where-now-after-the-marches/) - The 25,000-strong London march against unemployment marks a significant hardening of opposition to the Wilson government, but trade union leaders' timid proposals fall far short of the decisive action needed to fight redundancies and unemployment.
- [Ireland: Fuel protests can kickstart real cost of living fight](https://workerspower.uk/ireland-fuel-protests-can-kickstart-real-cost-of-living-fight/) - The influence of the far right in an embryonic movement against the cost of living crisis must be denounced and rooted out at the earliest opportunity. This means fighting to bring the organised working class into action around demands that improve living standards for all.
- [Southern Africa: Imperialism in search of new friends](https://workerspower.uk/southern-africa-imperialism-in-search-of-new-friends/) - With guerilla forces advancing in Zimbabwe and the Soweto uprising shaking apartheid to its foundations, Sue Thomas argues that imperialism's options in southern Africa are narrowing rapidly — and that the British labour movement must demand an end to all support for white minority rule.
- [Portugal: One year since the 25 November events](https://workerspower.uk/portugal-one-year-since-the-25-november-events/) - One year on from the defeat of November 25th, we assesses the retreat of the Portuguese working class, the bankruptcy of the CP's class-collaborationist strategy, and the urgent need for a disciplined revolutionary party capable of translating the workers' revolutionary energy into a fight for state power.
- [The Provisionals and the Peace Movement: The strengths and limits of Republicanism](https://workerspower.uk/the-provisionals-and-the-peace-movement-the-strengths-and-limits-of-republicanism/) - Excerpt: The Northern Ireland peace movement's rapid growth reflects a real crisis of confidence in Provisional strategy — but its leadership's refusal to march against the British army exposes it as an obstacle to, rather than a vehicle for, genuine anti-imperialist unity.
- [China after Mao: Behind the bureaucrats' dogfight](https://workerspower.uk/china-after-mao-behind-the-bureaucrats-dogfight/) - Behind the swift purge of the 'Shanghai Four' lies not a clash of personalities but a struggle within China's bureaucratic ruling class over competing strategies for capitalist development — and, beneath both factions, the unresolved legacy of the workers' and students' movements unleashed by the Cultural Revolution.
- [The Labour Movement delegation to Ireland](https://workerspower.uk/the-labour-movement-delegation-to-ireland/) - The September 1976 Labour Movement Delegation to Ireland offered a real opportunity to build a trade union campaign against the British military presence — but TOM's stage-managed programme and failure to follow through with serious organising threatens to reduce it to little more than a publicity exercise.
- [Scots nationalism](https://workerspower.uk/scots-nationalism/) - With the SNP riding a wave of protest against Labour's austerity policies and the devolution debate serving as a smokescreen, John Todd argues that Scottish nationalism is a reactionary diversion that divides the working class.
- [TRICO: A victory to build on](https://workerspower.uk/trico-a-victory-to-build-on/) - After 21 weeks on strike, 400 women workers at Trico-Folberth won a landmark equal pay victory by boycotting the Industrial Tribunal and winning through direct industrial action — exposing both the inadequacy of the Equal Pay Act and the sabotage of the Communist Party-dominated district committee.
- [Standing 'Left' candidates](https://workerspower.uk/standing-left-candidates/) - With the IS standing Socialist Worker candidates as a sect-building exercise and the IMG offering uncritical support to 'class struggle candidates', Workers' Power sets out its principled position on electoral tactics, critical support, and the conditions under which revolutionaries should contest or back parliamentary candidates.
- [The Labour government and the crisis](https://workerspower.uk/the-labour-government-and-the-crisis/) - Renewed tensions inside the Labour Cabinet, Healey's mid-December budget, and the application for a 3.9 billion dollar IMF loan all signal the failure of the Labour Government's economic strategy.
- [Review: The Socialist Challenge to Labour's Cuts by IMG](https://workerspower.uk/review-the-socialist-challenge-to-labours-cuts-by-img/) - The bulk of the IMG's pamphlet The Socialist Challenge to Labour's Cuts is taken up with outlining and documenting the extent and meanings of Labour's cuts. In this respect the pamphlet can provide some useful information for socialist militants and trade unionists. However the alternative to cuts offered by the IMG, and their proposals for
- [Review: The National Question: selected writings by Rosa Luxemburg](https://workerspower.uk/review-the-national-question-selected-writings-by-rosa-luxemburg/) - Dave Stocking reviews a new English-language collection of Rosa Luxemburg's writings on the national question
- [Communism and women: For a mass working women's movement](https://workerspower.uk/communism-and-women-for-a-mass-working-womens-movement/) - From the Marxist analysis of the family to the strategic failures of the IMG's approach to the Working Women's Charter Campaign, this 1977 Workers Power article by Stuart King sets out both the theoretical foundations and the practical demands of a communist women's movement — and argues that only a working class-led, politically independent movement can deliver women's liberation.
- [The Comintern Theses on Work Amongst Women](https://workerspower.uk/the-comintern-theses-on-work-amongst-women/) - Adopted at the Third Congress of the Comintern in 1921, these theses codified twenty-five years of Marxist work among women and drew a sharp line between socialist and bourgeois feminist politics.
- [Party and Programme: From communism to social democracy](https://workerspower.uk/party-programme-pt-1/) - A three-part series explaining the importance of programme in Marx, Engels and Lenin.
- [Statement: The repression of the Berlin Palestine conference](https://workerspower.uk/statement-on-storming-of-the-berlin-palestine-conference/) - On Friday, German police shut down a conference in Berlin being held in solidarity with Palestinians facing Israeli genocide in Gaza. A force of 900 police invaded the venue, turning off speakers’ microphones and expelling people from the hall. Germany’s Interior Ministry has prevented pro-Palestinian speakers, including Dr Ghassan Abu-Sitta from Britain and former Greek
- [Statement: Your Party must reject Corbyn’s anti-socialist blacklist](https://workerspower.uk/statement-your-party-must-reject-corbyns-anti-socialist-blacklist/) - Your Party’s Central Executive Committee is set to discuss a blacklist of socialist organisations and automatic ineligibility rules that would exclude any member of a group with a national political membership structure. These measures would overturn the dual membership rights explicitly written into Your Party’s founding constitution and endorsed by its inaugural conference. The CEC
- [Ireland: stalemate north and south](https://workerspower.uk/ireland-stalemate-north-and-south/) - Seven years of military occupation have resolved nothing. With loyalism in disarray, the Southern bourgeoisie chasing foreign investment, and the republican left unable to break from nationalist politics, this 1977 Workers Power analysis maps the dead ends — and sets out what British socialists must do.
- [The crisis in Eastern Europe](https://workerspower.uk/the-crisis-in-eastern-europe/) - With investment targets slashed and repression intensifying from Warsaw to Prague, the Eastern European bureaucracies are running out of road. This 1977 Workers Power analysis cuts through western Cold War mythology to argue that only the working class — not dissidents, not Euro-Communists, not the Helsinki process — can break the hold of Stalinist rule.
- [The end of the social contract?](https://workerspower.uk/the-end-of-the-social-contract/) - As the Social Contract collapses, trade union leaders race to contain the fallout — each offering their own version of who should pay. Workers Power argues that the only answer is a concerted, class-wide fight against the government's wages offensive.
- [Back the doctors, widen the NHS fight](https://workerspower.uk/england-nhs-doctors-strike-april/) - As doctors start fifteenth round of strikes, we need to widen the fight to include all NHS staff and stop the government playing divide and rule
- [Statement: condemn the convictions of PSC leaders](https://workerspower.uk/statement-condemn-the-convictions-of-psc-leaders/) - Guilty verdicts against solidarity campaigners are part of a wider crackdown
- [Review: Engels by David McLellan](https://workerspower.uk/review-engels-by-david-mclellan/) - Worthless attack on Engels contributes nothing new
- [Strategy and tactics of the Counterfire group: A critique](https://workerspower.uk/strategy-and-tactics-of-the-counterfire-group-a-critique/) - A substantial critique of the politics and strategy of Counterfire, showing they haven't broken with the SWP's methods
- [SWP Left Platform (Counterfire) resigns: now get to the root of the matter](https://workerspower.uk/swp-left-platform-resigns/) - A programmatic analysis and critique of the split in the SWP that gave rise to the Counterfire organisation
- [EDL in Tower Hamlets - what lessons should we learn?](https://workerspower.uk/edl-in-tower-hamlets-what-lessons-should-we-learn/) - The fascists marched and the left needs to learn the lessons and build a real workers' united front
- [Review: A Radical Guide to Anti-fascism, SWP](https://workerspower.uk/review-swps-antifascism-tails-liberals-and-bureaucrats/) - The SWP's idea of building a movement is to limit its demands to what is acceptable to the existing leadership
- [The purpose of the Class Struggle Platform](https://workerspower.uk/left-unity-class-struggle-platform/) - At its meeting in June, the National Coordinating Group of Left Unity decided that platforms, with a minimum of ten signatures, could put resolutions to the November founding conference. In the course of the summer, three platforms, the Left Party Platform, the Socialist Platform and the Class Struggle Platform have been submitted and have sparked
- [South London Anti-Fascists confront the BNP in Whitehall](https://workerspower.uk/south-london-anti-fascists-confront-the-bnp-in-whitehall/) - This week it was the British National Party’s turn to try and cash in on Lee Rigby’s killing. But it went badly wrong for them, writes Jeremy Dewar Only around 50 disconsolate and bored supporters huddled on the edge of College Green – opposite the Houses of Parliament, waiting for their leader; Nick Griffin eventually
- [Halifax: English Defence League struggles to mobilise](https://workerspower.uk/halifax-english-defence-league-struggles-to-mobilise/) - The fascist EDL struggled to get numbers to Halifax on Saturday 9 July when around 400 tried to protest around the town, 200 of which had bussed in from the Midlands. Business seemed to go on as usual, except for the few closed pubs and some Asian-owned businesses which closed for safety. The fact that
- [Party and Programme Part 3: Lenin and Luxemburg against opportunism and centrism](https://workerspower.uk/party-and-programme-lenin-and-luxemburg-against-opportunism-and-centrism-part-3/) - Dave Hughes concludes the series by looking at Lenin and Luxemburg's fights for the revolutionary programme within the Second International
- [Review: A Worker in a Workers' State by Miklos Haraszti](https://workerspower.uk/review-a-worker-in-a-workers-state-by-miklos-haraszti/) - Analysis of working conditions and management practices on the shop floor in 1970s Hungary
- [Review: Women and the Unions by Sheila Lewenhack](https://workerspower.uk/review-women-and-the-unions-by-sheila-lewenhack/) - An important book that challenges myths about women's peripheral or recent role in the labour movement
- [Review: The Theory of Permanent Revolution: A Critique by the CPGB 'Trotskyism Study Group'](https://workerspower.uk/review-the-theory-of-permanent-revolution-a-critique-by-the-cpgb-trotskyism-study-group/) - The Theory of Permanent Revolution: A Critique by Loizos Michail.
- [Review: The Feminist Movement in Germany 1894–1933 by RJ Evans](https://workerspower.uk/review-the-feminist-movement-in-germany-1894-1933-by-rj-evans/) - Review fails to cover the working class women's movement which existed in opposition to the feminists
- [Review: Eurocommunism and the State by Santiago Carrillo](https://workerspower.uk/review-eurocommunism-and-the-state-by-santiago-carrillo/) - This book expresses Carrillo's latest olive branch to the bourgeoisie
- [The fight for a working class women's movement](https://workerspower.uk/the-fight-for-a-working-class-womens-movement/) - Documents produced during the National Working Women's Charter Campaign.
- ['Unity' manoeuvres: a critique](https://workerspower.uk/unity-manoeuvres-a-critique/) - Analysis of the programmatic basis of revolutionary regroupment and unity
- [AUEW elections: broad left debacle](https://workerspower.uk/auew-elections-broad-left-debacle/) - A Marxist analysis of the 'left wing' of the trade union bureaucracy
- [The Labour government, the left and the elections](https://workerspower.uk/the-labour-government-the-left-and-the-elections/) - No holding back to preserve the Labour government
- [The Anti-Nazi League: This way for a Popular Front](https://workerspower.uk/the-anti-nazi-league-this-way-for-a-popular-front/) - Analysis of the political limitations of the original ANL.
- [Euro-Stalinism – Its enemies and accomplices](https://workerspower.uk/euro-stalinism-its-enemies-and-accomplices/) - The crisis of European Stalinism, the emergence of Eurocommunism, and its impact on Trotskyism
- [Fascism and antifascism in the 1970s](https://workerspower.uk/fascism-and-antifascism-in-the-1970s/) - In periods of developing economic and political crisis those strata who possess neither the collective strength of the organised working class nor the economic and political power of the bourgeoisie are forced into ever more desparate circumstances. They are powerless against inflation as it eats away their savings and their capital, the possibility of climbing
- [Support the doctors' strike and widen the fight for the NHS](https://workerspower.uk/support-the-doctors-strike-and-widen-the-fight-for-the-nhs/) - Resident doctors strike over pay and training places, as the fight for the NHS's future intensifies.
- [BMA doctors defy Streeting – Support the strike!](https://workerspower.uk/bma-doctors-defy-streeting-support-the-strike/) - More than 50,000 NHS doctors started a five-day strike on 17 December.
- [Defend Palestine Solidarity Campaign leaders against political arrests](https://workerspower.uk/defend-the-right-to-protest/) - MPs and activists targeted in major attack on democratic rights.
- [Cable Street: British fascism routed on the streets](https://workerspower.uk/british-fascism-routed-on-the-streets/) - To commemorate the 80th anniversary of the Battle of Cable Street, we are republishing this article from fifthinternational.org Sir Oswald Mosley, MP, split from Labour to form the New Party in March 1931, together with a group of left MPs. By October 1932 Mosley had transformed the party into the British Union of Fascists. Paul
- [28 March showed the strength – 16 May will test the strategy](https://workerspower.uk/28-march-showed-the-strength-16-may-will-test-the-strategy/) - The mass demonstration showed the strength of feeling. But now the task is to organise the movement.
- [Review: If Anybody Builds It, Everybody Dies](https://workerspower.uk/review-if-anybody-builds-it-everybody-dies/) - Liberal critics of superintelligence programmes have a point, but their solutions do not compute
- [Will SWP's 'Summit of Resistance' debate a new strategy?](https://workerspower.uk/will-swps-summit-of-resistance-debate-a-new-strategy/) - Will latest summit be an action conference or another talking shop?
- [Stop bombing Iran – Stop the genocide!](https://workerspower.uk/stop-bombing-iran-stop-the-genocide/) - Editorial from Workers Power issue 428
- [Statement: Defend Iran against imperialist aggression!](https://workerspower.uk/statement-defend-iran-against-imperialist-aggression/) - US-Israeli aggression on Iran: condemn the war, defend the Iranian people
- [Five lessons from the first month of the US-Israeli war on Iran](https://workerspower.uk/five-lessons-from-the-first-month-of-the-us-israeli-war-on-iran/) - How the war is exposing Israel’s ambitions and US limits
- [The rebirth of the Democratic Socialists of America](https://workerspower.uk/rebirth-democratic-socialists-america/) - The Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) grouping has witnessed astonishing growth over the past year, going from around 5,500 members to 26,000. It now claims 2,000 members in New York City alone. The DSA’s growth began with the Bernie Sanders campaign in 2015, thanks in part to Sanders’ self-designation as a “democratic socialist” and his
- [Bhaskar Sunkara's 'Democratic Socialism': a Marxist critique](https://workerspower.uk/bhaskar-sunkaras-democratic-socialism-a-marxist-critique/) - An analysis and critique of Sunkara's 'Socialist Manifesto' and Jacobin magazine's democratic socialism
- [The contradictions of the DSA](https://workerspower.uk/the-contradictions-of-the-dsa/) - The DSA is caught between a reformist strategy and a radicalising base. Socialists should intervene.
- [Dirty talk: DSA congress clings to the Democrats](https://workerspower.uk/dirty-talk-dsa-congress-clings-to-the-democrats/) - The DSA's orientation to the Democrats is increasingly out of step with the needs of the movement
- [Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: a socialist in Congress?](https://workerspower.uk/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-a-socialist-in-congress/) - Cohabiting in the Democrats will inevitably lead socialists to compromising with the representatives of capital who lead it
- [Understanding the Epstein Files](https://workerspower.uk/understanding-the-epstein-files/) - The release of the Epstein files has cracked a window onto the world of impunity
- [Death of a neo-Nazi activist in Lyon: build a united front](https://workerspower.uk/death-of-a-neo-nazi-activist-in-lyon-build-a-united-front/) - The death of an activist is being used to normalise the far right and attack the left
- [Branch building in Left Unity](https://workerspower.uk/left-unity-local-groups/) - A report from activists in West Yorkshire building Left Unity branches
- [Left Unity launched in Wakefield](https://workerspower.uk/left-unity-launched-in-wakefield/) - Six people attended the first meeting of Wakefield Left Unity on Thursday 9 May. There were people from trade unions, socialist organisations and workers who have recently taken part in strikes against downbanding at Mid Yorks NHS Trust. After hearing a report of the recent Left Unity meetings in nearby Leeds, we discussed the progress
- [Left Unity launched in Leeds](https://workerspower.uk/left-unity-launched-in-leeds/) - 23 people came to the launch meeting of Left Unity in Leeds this Wednesday. Everyone contributed and collectively we came up with a workable plan for building outwards to people who have been let down by Labour and believe an alternative is necessary. The planning meeting agreed to support an upcoming demonstration against the Bedroom
- [Was I at Left Unity's first National Meeting?](https://workerspower.uk/left-unity-first-national-meeting/) - A Left Unity member responds to its critics
- [Building Left Unity: where to begin?](https://workerspower.uk/building-left-unity-where-to-begin/) - Ken Loach's appeal for a new anti-austerity party has been enthusiastically welcomed. What's next?
- [Report of Left Unity's first National Coordinating Group meeting](https://workerspower.uk/left-unity-ducking-decisions-in-doncaster/) - The inaugural meeting of Left Unity's national leadership was beset by arguments over process, not politics
- [An action programme for Left Unity](https://workerspower.uk/an-action-programme-for-left-unity/) - Draft action programme proposed for Left Unity's founding conference.
- [Report of Left Unity's inaugural conference](https://workerspower.uk/left-unity-founding-conference-november-30/) - 500 people attended the founding conference to agree a platform, constitution and aims
- [Report of Left Unity's second policy conference](https://workerspower.uk/left-unity-conference-doing-what-differently/) - Left Unity's Policy Conference revealed the party's strengths and its weaknesses
- [Report of Left Unity's first policy conference](https://workerspower.uk/report-of-left-unity-policy-conference-29-march/) - Left Unity's first policy conference was a step forward, but showed serious discussions remain on fundamentals
- [Statement: Condemn the antisemitic attack on Hatzola](https://workerspower.uk/condemn-the-antisemitic-attack-on-hatzola/) - We need to oppose attacks on Jewish people and attempts to scapegoat Muslims or the Palestine solidarity movement
- [30 Theses in Defence of Trotskyism](https://workerspower.uk/30-theses-in-defence-of-trotskyism/) - 1992 edition of our theses on the nature and principles of Trotskyism.
- [Against the Capitalist Offensive: The political strategy for a rank and file movement](https://workerspower.uk/against-the-capitalist-offensive-the-political-strategy-for-a-rank-and-file-movement/) - A programme for the rank and file movement producing during the 1970s
- [The Rank and File Movement Today](https://workerspower.uk/the-rank-and-file-movement-today/) - Analysis of the rank and file approaches of the SWP, IMG and Healyites during the 1970s
- [The Comintern, the CPGB, and the Minority Movement](https://workerspower.uk/the-comintern-the-cpgb-and-the-minority-movement/) - An examination of the CPGB's programme and strategy for work in the trade unions during the 1920s
- [The RILU Theses on the Trade Unions](https://workerspower.uk/the-rilu-theses-on-the-trade-unions/) - RILU documents on workers' control and factory committees with introduction
- [Marxists and the trade unions](https://workerspower.uk/marxists-and-the-trade-unions/) - Foundational article on Marxism and the trade unions from Marx to Lenin
- [Reformism, bureaucracy and the fight for Your Party](https://workerspower.uk/reformism-bureaucracy-and-the-fight-for-your-party/) - Your Party: internal battles reveal a deeper struggle over democracy, bureaucracy and real working-class power.
- [Your Party: What now after the CEC elections?](https://workerspower.uk/your-party-what-now-after-the-cec-elections/) - Your Party: members must decide whether it becomes a top-down electoral machine or a democratic, socialist, branch-led force.
- [What perspective for a new left party?](https://workerspower.uk/corbyn-sultana-new-party/) - A new left-wing party can rally forces for a fight against Labour's austerity if it bases itself on the working class
- [New Left party must put class first](https://workerspower.uk/new-left-party-must-put-class-first/) - How can we make sure the new party opens the way to a real break from failed strategies?
- [Build the new left party](https://workerspower.uk/build-the-new-left-party/) - The new party's future depends on the tempo of the class struggle--inside and outside
- [How can we rescue the new left party?](https://workerspower.uk/how-can-we-rescue-the-new-left-party/) - The struggle at the top, and the fight from below
- [Your Party must be a working class party of struggle](https://workerspower.uk/your-party-must-be-a-working-class-party-of-struggle/) - The emergence of Your Party reflects real desire for change. The question is: will it become a genuine force of working class struggle and socialism?
- [The SWP and Your Party](https://workerspower.uk/the-swp-and-your-party/) - An analysis of the Socialist Workers Party’s method and approach to building a new workers’ party.
- [Report: Your Party West Yorkshire regional assembly](https://workerspower.uk/report-your-party-west-yorkshire-regional-assembly/) - Democracy, accountability and transparency were the key demands that came out of the Bradford regional assembly for Your Party.
- [London Your Party: Two small steps forward](https://workerspower.uk/london-your-party-two-small-steps-forward/) - Jeremy Dewar reports on the first meeting of delegates from London Your Party proto-branches.
- [Your Party conference: Towards a new working class party](https://workerspower.uk/your-party-conference-towards-a-new-working-class-party/) - Labour machine politics, or working class party of struggle?
- [Your Party: Against expulsions—all power to the members!](https://workerspower.uk/your-party-against-expulsions-all-power-to-the-members/) - The Corbyn clique are attempting to split the party. Members must take control.
- [Your Party – it’s founded, now let’s build it](https://workerspower.uk/your-party-its-founded-now-lets-build-it/) - Against all the odds, Your Party’s founding conference in Liverpool was a success – not only for the party, which at various points looked like it wouldn’t get off the ground, but for the left wing, the activists, who recorded some significant victories.
- [Your Party's no cuts budgets - the real fight starts now](https://workerspower.uk/your-partys-no-cuts-budgets-the-real-fight-starts-now/) - The adoption of a no-cuts budgets policy by the Your Party founding conference is a significant step forward. It reflects the pressure of activists and commits the party to defiance against austerity.
- [Your Party leadership elections: Vote for the Grassroots Left ](https://workerspower.uk/your-party-leadership-elections-vote-for-the-grassroots-left/) - Socialists should vote for the Grassroots Left to put the power in the hands of Your Party members.
- [Your Party — a 10 point manifesto for the local elections](https://workerspower.uk/your-party-a-10-point-manifesto-for-the-local-elections/) - Your Party should campaign for people's budgets to restore local services and democracy
- [Israel escalates attacks on Lebanon](https://workerspower.uk/israel-escalates-attacks-on-lebanon/) - Despite the November 2024 ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hezbollah, Israel continues to bomb Lebanon with impunity
- [Your Party: Sortition, plebiscites, and the fight for rank and file democracy](https://workerspower.uk/your-party-sortition-plebiscites-and-the-fight-for-rank-and-file-democracy/) - The de-sortition of a Workers Power supporter from Your Party’s oversight committee exposes what we already knew: the leadership’s ‘democratic’ mechanisms are rigged to keep the rank and file out of power.
- [Resisting Britain First - A step forward for the Manchester anti-fascist movement](https://workerspower.uk/resisting-britain-first-a-step-forward-for-the-manchester-anti-fascist-movement/) - Britain First’s Manchester march was delayed and disrupted by hundreds of militant antifascist activists.
- [Your Party London delegate assembly meets](https://workerspower.uk/your-party-london-delegate-assembly-meets/) - Against all the odds, the All London Delegate Assembly of Your Party met on Sunday 8 February in Chat’s Palace, Homerton. We held successful hustings for the Central Executive Committee elections, debated motions from the proto-branches around the capital, and decided our next steps. There were around 65 of us in the hall with a
- [Redwashing the Greens and the case for a real workers' party](https://workerspower.uk/why-we-dont-vote-green-and-what-kind-of-party-we-need/) - The Greens' victory in Gorton and Denton has transformed the political landscape. But winning elections is not the same as changing society.
- [The Filton 24: A blow to Starmer's police state](https://workerspower.uk/the-filton-24-a-blow-to-starmers-police-state/) - Juries acquit Filton 24 activists as court rules Palestine Action ban unlawful, exposing state overreach.
- [Review: Sudan’s Revolutionary and Popular Movements](https://workerspower.uk/review-sudans-revolutionary-and-popular-movements/) - Sudan civil war reviewed: genocide, revolution and resistance, exposing rival armies, foreign powers and grassroots solidarity.
- [An action programme for Britain](https://workerspower.uk/an-action-programme-for-britain/) - Our action programme for Britain, published in 2014, analysing the defeat of the resistance to the coalition government
- [From Cold War to new imperialist order: World politics and economics from the 1960s to the 1990s](https://workerspower.uk/from-cold-war-to-new-imperialist-order-world-politics-and-economics-from-the-1960s-to-the-1990s/) - A book-length analysis of the development of world capitalism from the 1960s to the collapse of the Soviet Union
- ['Gen-Z' protests in Peru: they all must go!](https://workerspower.uk/gen-z-protests-in-peru-they-all-must-go/) - Sustained nationwide protests in Peru have led to a 30 day state of emergency and the impeachment of the president. What started as a call from ‘Gen Z’, the student movement and sectors of workers has turned into huge protests against the regime, with the national strike on 15 October a major turning point. Protestors
- [Gloucester phlebotomists stage historic strike](https://workerspower.uk/gloucester-phlebotomists-stage-historic-strike/) - Phlebotomists in Gloucestershire are making history. Their strike, now reaching 256 days, is the longest ever by NHS staff. The 36 specialists began striking in March. Their demands are to have their roles reevaluated by a job evaluation panel, to be moved to a higher NHS pay band that reflects their clinical skill and expertise,
- [The Class Struggle and the Fight for Workers' Power (2024)](https://workerspower.uk/the-class-struggle-the-general-election-and-the-fight-for-workers-power/) - A revolutionary programme for working class action
- [Imperialism, capitalism and the destruction of humanity and nature](https://workerspower.uk/capitalism-kills-imperialism-capitalism-and-the-destruction-of-humanity-and-nature/) - A Marxist analysis of the fundamental contradictions between sustainability and the capitalist mode of production.
- [The Method and Principles of Communist Organisation](https://workerspower.uk/the-method-and-principles-of-communist-organisation/) - Resolution on the methods and principles of communist organisation, from ideological current to mass party
- [Theses on Communists and the Trade Unions](https://workerspower.uk/theses-on-communists-and-the-trade-unions/) - The methods and principles of communist work in the trade unions.
- [Trotskyism in the 21st Century](https://workerspower.uk/trotskyism-in-the-21st-century/) - The general principles of Leninism-Trotskyism in the 21st century.
- [Resolution on the Characterisation of the Working Class](https://workerspower.uk/what-is-the-working-class/) - A political-economic analysis of the working class under capitalism.
- [Theses on the United Front](https://workerspower.uk/theses-on-the-united-front/) - Theses on the united front and how revolutionaries use the tactic to win support and leadership within workers' struggles
- [Marxism and the national question](https://workerspower.uk/marxism-and-the-national-question/) - Is the national question Marxism's achilles heel?
- [Theses on the Early Stages of Party Building](https://workerspower.uk/theses-on-the-early-stages-of-party-building/) - Theses on the method and principles of the organisation of pre-party communist groups
- [Theses on Electoral Tactics](https://workerspower.uk/theses-on-electoral-tactics/) - How should revolutionaries operate in elections and parliament?
- [Theses on Reformism](https://workerspower.uk/theses-on-reformism/) - Theses on reformism, reformist parties, the united front, and labor, affiliation, entry, and electoral tactics.
- [The revolution in the Global South](https://workerspower.uk/the-revolution-in-the-global-south/) - Globalisation strangles the global south, but how can the working class of the poorest countries come to the head of the struggle against it?
- [Did Lenin lead to Stalin?](https://workerspower.uk/did-lenin-lead-to-stalin/) - The bosses argue Lenin lead to Stalin. This article shows how Lenin opposed Stalin and the rise of the Soviet bureaucracy.
- [The Russian Revolution of 1917](https://workerspower.uk/the-russian-revolution-of-1917-2/) - How the Bolsheviks were able to lead the world's first successful workers' revolution.
- [1905: The dress rehearsal](https://workerspower.uk/1905-the-dress-rehearsal/) - A look at the Russian Revolution of 1905, the 'dress rehearsal' for 1917.
- [Socialism in a ‘backward’ country](https://workerspower.uk/socialism-in-a-backward-country/) - The 'three concepts of the Russian revolution' that grew up prior to the outbreak of the mass struggle in 1905.
- [Lenin and the theory of imperialism](https://workerspower.uk/lenin-and-the-theory-of-imperialism/) - Imperialism is a specific stage of capitalism, represented by the division of the world's markets into giant monopolies dominated by financial capital.
- [Marxism and the national question](https://workerspower.uk/marxism-and-the-national-question-2/) - The Marxist programme on the national question.
- [Lenin's fight against economism](https://workerspower.uk/lenins-fight-against-economism/) - An outline of the struggle against economism and the beginnings of Leninism.
- [Marxism and war](https://workerspower.uk/marxism-and-war/) - The communist policy on war.
- [Marxism and the family](https://workerspower.uk/marxism-and-the-family/) - The nuclear family is not as normal as its defenders would have us believe.
- [Socialism: the transition to communism](https://workerspower.uk/the-transition-to-communism/) - 'Socialism is a good idea, but...' is an argument we have all faced. This article outlines how the transition is grounded in the everyday conditions of capitalism.
- [The philosophy of Marxism](https://workerspower.uk/the-philosophy-of-marxism/) - The materialist and scientific foundations of Marxism.
- [The Marxist theory of political economy](https://workerspower.uk/the-marxist-theory-of-political-economy/) - Why Marxist political economy explains things better than the capitalists' economic models.
- [Where did Marxism come from?](https://workerspower.uk/where-did-marxism-come-from/) - The three strands of thinking that make up scientific socialism.
- [The revolutionary programme](https://workerspower.uk/the-revolutionary-programme/) - What is the programme and why is it important?
- [Why we need a revolutionary party](https://workerspower.uk/why-we-need-a-revolutionary-party/) - Revolutionary leadership is needed to break the hold of the reformists and win the working class to communism.
- [The origins of scientific socialism](https://workerspower.uk/the-origins-of-scientific-socialism/) - How Marx and Engels transformed socialist ideas into a scientific critique of capitalism.
- [Which road: reform or revolution?](https://workerspower.uk/which-road-reform-or-revolution-2/) - Can capitalism be reformed through parliament?
- [Z is for Zetkin](https://workerspower.uk/z-is-for-zetkin/) - Clara Zetkin led the struggle for a socialist-led, working class based women’s organisation in Germany in the 1880s-1890s
- [Y is for Youth](https://workerspower.uk/y-is-for-youth/) - The task of revolutionaries today is to reach out to the new generation in whose hands the future of the planet lies
- [X is for Malcolm X](https://workerspower.uk/x-is-for-malcolm-x/) - Malcolm X was a heroic fighter for black liberation who had started his evolution from nationalism and separatism to socialism but was brutally murdered before its completion.
- [W is for War](https://workerspower.uk/w-is-for-war/) - Unlike pacifists – who reject all wars – socialists oppose some wars, support others and will be prepared to wage war against the capitalist enemy.
- [V is for Value](https://workerspower.uk/v-is-for-value/) - If the process of production inevitably produces a bit of extra value, and that extra bit comes only from what the workers contribute, why should the profits go into the pockets of the business owners?
- [U is for Unions](https://workerspower.uk/u-is-for-unions/) - A trade union can function without its bloated bureaucrats. In fact it will only really function as a force for socialist change without them.
- [T is for Trotskyism](https://workerspower.uk/t-is-for-trotskyism/) - What is it?
- [S is for Socialism: the transition to Communism](https://workerspower.uk/s-is-for-socialism-the-transition-to-communism/) - The struggle for the socialist goal is not an optional extra but the glue that binds daily struggles together
- [R is for Reformism and Revolution](https://workerspower.uk/r-is-for-reformism-and-revolution/) - Reformism begins by redefining the socialist goal - and ends by rejecting it altogether
- [Q is for Quantity and Quality](https://workerspower.uk/q-is-for-quantity-and-quality/) - The art of the dialectic
- [P is for Proletariat](https://workerspower.uk/p-is-for-proletariat/) - Why don't we just say "workers"?
- [O is for Oppression](https://workerspower.uk/o-is-for-oppression/) - Oppression is a fundamental, necessary part of capitalism, and can only be destroyed along with it.
- [N is for Nationalisation](https://workerspower.uk/n-is-for-nationalisation/) - "Nationalisation, without compensation and under workers’ control."
- [M is for Materialism](https://workerspower.uk/m-is-for-materialism/) - Philosophical materialism demonstrates why socialism is the necessary outcome of the capitalist crisis.
- [L is for Luxemburg](https://workerspower.uk/l-is-for-luxemburg/) - "The sharp sword, the living flame of the revolution."
- [K is for Kollontai](https://workerspower.uk/k-is-for-kollontai/) - Alexandra Kollontai made three decisive contributions to revolutionary socialism.
- [J is for Justice](https://workerspower.uk/j-is-for-justice/) - “When right meets right, might decides.”
- [I is for Imperialism](https://workerspower.uk/i-is-for-imperialism/) - Imperialism poses the question: socialism or barbarism?
- [H is for History](https://workerspower.uk/h-is-for-history/) - "All history is the history of class struggle."
- [G is for God](https://workerspower.uk/g-is-for-god/) - Only the overthrow of the profit system can create the conditions for the withering away of humanity’s psychological need for religious belief
- [F is for Fascism](https://workerspower.uk/f-is-for-fascism/) - In all its forms there is only one answer to fascism. Mass working class action, at the earliest opportunity, to physically and morally smash the fascist organisations.
- [E is for Exploitation](https://workerspower.uk/e-is-for-exploitation/) - Marx proved that exploitation is caused not just by the sharp practices of some bad capitalists, but is part and parcel of the profit system itself.
- [D is for Democracy and Dictatorship](https://workerspower.uk/d-is-for-democracy-and-dictatorship/) - Marxists make a distinction between forms of government and the class nature of the state. We always ask, “which class interests are served by the state?”
- [C is for Capital](https://workerspower.uk/c-is-for-capital/) - Capital, invested in human labour power and machinery, proved to be the most effective means yet for one class to exploit another.
- [B is for Bolshevism](https://workerspower.uk/b-is-for-bolshevism/) - Bolshevism is the model of democracy and unity that won the world's first socialist revolution
- [A is for Alienation](https://workerspower.uk/marxism-a-is-for-alienation/) - Why are you so fed up?
- [Trump’s ‘Board of Peace’ is an imperialist scam](https://workerspower.uk/trumps-board-of-peace-is-an-imperialist-scam/) - Gaza faces occupation masked as peace, as Palestinians resist genocide, displacement and stolen self-determination.
- [Minneapolis movement prepares for May Day mass strike](https://workerspower.uk/minneapolis-movement-prepares-for-may-day-mass-strike/) - Workers assembly points the way to organise to defeat ICE and Trump through mass strike action.
- [From landslide to freefall: Labour in crisis](https://workerspower.uk/from-landslide-to-freefall-labour-in-crisis/) - Buffeted by parties to the left and right, enmired in scandal, plagued by indecision, only a leadership vacuum keeps Starmer in Number 10.
- [The Hong Kong - Canton General Strike, 1925-26](https://workerspower.uk/the-hong-kong-canton-general-strike-1925-26/) - China’s 1925–26 Hong Kong general strike reshaped revolution, labour power and Chiang Kai-shek’s rise.
- [The Donroe Doctrine: Trump's plan to retain US power and super-profits](https://workerspower.uk/the-donroe-doctrine-trumps-plan-to-retain-us-power-and-super-profits/) - Donroe doctrine drives Trump’s America First strategy, reshaping imperial power, alliances, and the global order.
- [Together Alliance: not the way to fight fascism](https://workerspower.uk/together-alliance-not-the-way-to-fight-fascism/) - Of course there is nothing wrong with a big anti-racist demo, but it is not a strategy to defeat Reform and the far right. Yet that is what the Together Alliance demo is being billed as.
- [Iran at a historical turning point](https://workerspower.uk/iran-at-a-historical-turning-point/) - Thousands massacred as Khamenei regime drowns Iranian uprising in blood
- [Greenland at the centre of inter-imperialist tensions](https://workerspower.uk/greenland-at-the-centre-of-inter-imperialist-tensions/) - In full support of the Greenlander’s right to self-determination, we must support them in rejecting US invasion and increased militarisation by way of “reconnaissance” exercises from the EU
- [Megapicket 3-D shuts Birmingham refuse depots](https://workerspower.uk/megapicket-3-d-shuts-birmingham-refuse-depots/) - As Labour ups the ante with an injunction, bin workers must spread the strike to win
- [Teachers: build a massive yes vote to demand a strike](https://workerspower.uk/teachers-build-a-massive-yes-vote-to-demand-a-strike/) - The NEU offer of 6.3% is insulting. We must organise to win a yes vote and insist on a strike ballot
- [Review of Steve Cushion’s “Slavery in the British Empire and its Legacy in the Modern World”](https://workerspower.uk/review-of-steve-cushions-slavery-in-the-british-empire-and-its-legacy-in-the-modern-world/) - The author, Steve Cushion, summarises slavery's centrality to the British Empire admirably succinctly in his introduction; “The wealth gained by looting, enslavement, land grabbing and murder in Africa, Asia and the Americas flowed back to Europe and was turned into capital there.”
- [Minneapolis: mass action against ICE terror points towards a real general strike — and why the Democrats want it contained](https://workerspower.uk/minneapolis-mass-action-against-ice-terror-points-towards-a-real-general-strike-and-why-the-democrats-want-it-contained/) - Minneapolis has already posed the practical questions. What does it mean to support immigrant communities if workplaces continue to operate as normal while raids intensify? What does solidarity look like when deportation logistics rely on transport hubs, contractors, local administration and public infrastructure?
- [Can't Pay, Won't Pay: The Fight to Stop the Poll Tax](https://workerspower.uk/review-cant-pay-wont-pay-the-fight-to-stop-the-poll-tax-by-simon-hannah/) - Bernie McAdam reviews Can't Pay, Won't Pay: The Fight to Stop the Poll Tax by Simon Hannah
- [The limits of municipal socialism: A review of Radical Lambeth by Simon Hannah](https://workerspower.uk/the-limits-of-municipal-socialism-a-review-of-radical-lambeth-by-simon-hannah/) - Dave Stocking Radical Lambeth: 1978-1991 by Simon Hannah
- [18 June must be the start of a fightback, not the end](https://workerspower.uk/editorial-18-june-must-be-the-start-of-a-fightback-not-the-end/) - Editorial June 2022, No. 394
- ["Labour antisemitism crisis": stop the right wing sabotage](https://workerspower.uk/labour-antisemitism-crisis-stop-the-right-wing-sabotage/) - Statement Anti-Zionism is not antisemitism This campaign is actually directed against Corbyn and the party’s new left majority Fight all forms of racism Counter-offensive against the right starts now A cynical campaign is in full swing to destabilise the Labour leadership on the verge of the London Mayoral, local and regional elections, and in particular
- [Antisemitism past and present](https://workerspower.uk/antisemitism-past-and-present/) - The recent furore in Labour has renewed debate about the nature of one of the oldest forms of racism By Jeremy Dewar & Dave Stockton Religious bigotry is practically as old as religion itself. And Christian religious bigotry against Jews, unparalleled in the Muslim world of the same period, was a feature of the so-called
- [“No need for a conspiracy”: antisemitism and free speech on Israel](https://workerspower.uk/no-need-for-a-conspiracy-antisemitism-and-free-speech-on-israel/) - Red Flag spoke to Naomi Wimbourne-Idrissi of the website ‘Free Speech on Israel’ about the continued charges of antisemitism levelled against the left in general and supporters of Corbyn in particular RED FLAG: First, who set up Free Speech on Israel and why? NAOMI WIMBOURNE-IDRISSI: It was earlier this year, that a number of us from
- [Stop the antisemitism witch hunt in Labour](https://workerspower.uk/stop-the-antisemitism-witch-hunt-in-labour/) - The decision by Labour’s National Constitutional Committee, NCC, to suspend Ken Livingstone for a further year for “bringing the party into disrepute” is a victory for the Labour right and the Zionist movement. It is a victory for the right, who have cynically manufactured claims of antisemitism against leftwing party members in order to undermine
- [Reinstate Moshé Machover](https://workerspower.uk/2017-10-reinstate-mosh-machover/) - The noted socialist and Anti-Zionist writer has been purged by the Labour Party
- [Antisemitism row: the double standards of Labour's right wing](https://workerspower.uk/corbyn-antisemitism-mural/) - THE SUDDEN coordinated onslaught against Jeremy Corbyn over the weekend of 24-25 March was a transparent attempt by an alliance of rightwing forces to damage Labour’s strong lead in the run up to the May council elections, and to destabilise Corbyn’s ever-more consolidated leadership of the Labour Party. Things have not been going well for
- [The fight against antisemitism in Labour](https://workerspower.uk/labour-antisemitism-row/) - BY KD Tait THE DECISION by Labour’s right wing to reheat the smear campaign accusing Jeremy Corbyn of failing to tackle antisemitism within the party is a deliberate attempt to sabotage Labour’s local election campaign, discredit the leadership, and silence critics of Israel’s brutal oppression of the Palestinians. Though they have differing priorities and motives,
- [Labour witch-hunt is undermining the fight against antisemitism](https://workerspower.uk/labour-antisemitism-witch-hunt/) - By KD Tait KEN LIVINGSTONE has resigned from the Labour Party, days before a formal disciplinary process was due to start, the outcome of which had become a foregone conclusion after “Baroness” Shami Chakrabarti spoke out in favour of his expulsion, signalling that the leadership had definitively turned against him. In making those comments, Chakrabarti
- [Hundreds rally to oppose IHRA witch-hunters' charter](https://workerspower.uk/labour-nec-protest-ihra-witch-hunters-charter/) - By KD Tait HUNDREDS of Labour Party members attended a rally called by Jewish Voice for Labour and others outside the party's headquarters, to call on the NEC to oppose adopting the full IHRA definition of antisemitism, including all the examples, which would ban members from opposing the racist character of the Zionist settler state. Demonstrators
- [The AWL's Zionist fetish](https://workerspower.uk/the-awls-zionist-fetish/) - By Dave Stockton The Alliance for Workers’ Liberty group, AWL, is well known on the left for its assertion that the state of Israel embodies “the right to self-determination of the Jewish people”, has a “right to defend itself”, and that those on the left who reject this are antisemites, albeit “left antisemites”. Antisemitism is,
- [Labour NEC capitulates to Zionist smear campaign](https://workerspower.uk/labour-nec-capitulates-to-zionist-smear-campaign/) - By KD Tait THE Labour Party NEC’s decision to adopt all 11 unofficial examples attached to the IHRA definition of antisemitism represents a serious retreat from solidarity with the Palestinians and a victory for anti-socialist forces inside and outside the party who are determined to prevent the election of a leftwing Labour government. In capitulating
- [IHRA: Defy the witch-hunters' charter](https://workerspower.uk/ihra-defy-the-witch-hunters-charter/) - By Dave Stockton THIS SUMMER no one could ignore the remorseless campaign smearing Labour under Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership as “institutionally antisemitic”. They will also be aware of the vigorous rebuttals mounted in the press, in the party branches, and online by the comrades from Jewish Voice for Labour (JVL). JVL has performed an invaluable service
- [Imperialism & The Holocaust](https://workerspower.uk/imperialism-the-holocaust/) - The Hitler genocide must be understood as a result of the function of fascism for the German ruling class and its war aims.
- [Anti-Zionism is NOT antisemitism](https://workerspower.uk/anti-zionism-is-not-antisemitism/) - By Jeremy Dewar Shadow Justice Secretary Richard Burgon is the latest Labour MP to be targeted by the Jewish Chronicle and Labour Friends of Israel and tarred with the brush of anti-Semitism. There are of course local and European elections coming up, so we should expect the witch-hunters inside the party to be throwing up
- [Solidarity with Leeds University Palestine activists against Fabian Hamilton's anti-Semitism smear](https://workerspower.uk/solidarity-with-leeds-university-palestine-activists-against-fabian-hamiltons-anti-semitism-smear/) - Red Flag condemns Fabian Hamilton's smears and stands in solidarity with Palestine solidarity activists during Israel Apartheid Week
- [Reinstate Chris Williamson](https://workerspower.uk/reinstate-chris-williamson/) - Whatever our criticisms of Chris Williamson's politics, his statement that the Labour Party had not been robust in rebutting charges that antisemitism was rife in the party, is fair comment.
- [How democratic is Corbyn’s Labour?](https://workerspower.uk/how-democratic-is-corbyns-labour/) - THANKS TO NEIL KINNOCK’S counterrevolution against the democratic reforms of the late 1970s and early 1980s, and Blair’s in the 1990s and 2000s, Jeremy Corbyn and his team inherited a Labour Party in which the leadership could prevent the membership from either determining party policy or who should represent them in parliament.
- [Smear campaign against Labour will only disarm us in the fight against real antisemitism](https://workerspower.uk/smear-campaign-against-labour-will-only-disarm-us-in-the-fight-against-real-antisemitism/) - As the general election race heads into final straight, the campaign to paint Labour as an antisemitic party has recommenced. Writing in The Times, the Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis added his voice to the attack, arguing that Corbyn had sanctioned antisemitism in the party. In characteristically vague language, Rabbi Mirvis stated that Labour’s alleged antisemitism could not be fixed with new staff or processes, and that it was a “human problem”, and a “failure of culture”. He said Corbyn associated with antisemites, and considered “those who endorse the murder of Jews” as friends.
- [Is the Party Over?](https://workerspower.uk/is-the-party-over/) - A disorderly retreat... or stay and fight?
- ['Antisemitic' Labour: a Jewish socialist writes](https://workerspower.uk/antisemitic-labour-a-jewish-socialist-writes/) - Jewish people face casual discrimination on a day-to-day basis within capitalist society. This continues a long-standing historical trend; we were forced to become money-lenders in Europe during the Middle Ages, leading to harmful stereotypes which persist to this day, such as that the Jews are a duplicitous people who are only interested in money and
- [Socialist Campaign Group rally thousands – but give no direction](https://workerspower.uk/socialist-campaign-group-rally-thousands-but-give-no-direction/) - A report of the Socialist Campaign Groups rally.
- [The Q conundrum](https://workerspower.uk/the-q-conundrum/) - Crisis and conspiracy.
- [Zionism's influence in the UK](https://workerspower.uk/zionisms-influence-in-the-uk/) - Why Starmer said “I support Zionism without qualification”.
- [Zionism: The theory and practice of ethnic cleansing](https://workerspower.uk/zionism-the-theory-and-practice-of-ethnic-cleansing/) - Alex Rutherford charts the origins of Zionism in response to antisemitism and its evolution into a colonial project backed by imperialism.
- [1848 – When revolution swept Europe](https://workerspower.uk/1848-when-revolution-swept-europe/) - By Simon Hardy The year 2011 is a year of revolution. Uprisings sweep across the Middle East as rebellion against kings and dictators move from one country to another. And in Europe the crisis is spreading upheaval from Greece to Spain and beyond. This article looks at another “mad year” and ask what lessons the
- [Defeat the Israeli oppressors – victory to the Palestinian resistance](https://workerspower.uk/defeat-the-israeli-oppressors-victory-to-the-palestinian-resistance/) - By Dave Stockton On 7 October, at 6.30am local time, the Gaza-based Palestinian resistance movements; Hamas, Islamic Jihad, the PFLP and DFLP, launched a full scale offensive, with a barrage of missiles into Israel, some reaching Tel Aviv, 40 miles away. At the same time, their fighters, taking the Israeli Defence Force (IDF) by surprise,
- [End the siege of Gaza!](https://workerspower.uk/end-the-siege-of-gaza/) - Victory to the resistance
- [Hundreds of thousands march against Israel's war. What next?](https://workerspower.uk/hundreds-of-thousands-march-against-israels-war-what-next/) - Workers' action can strengthen the global solidarity movement
- [For workers' sanctions against Israel's war](https://workerspower.uk/for-workers-sanctions-against-israels-war/) - Fight for workers' control to stop UK complicity in the occupation
- [UK erupts in protest against Israel’s war](https://workerspower.uk/uk-erupts-in-protest-against-israels-war/) - Reports from protests across the country.
- [How can we spread the boycott campaign?](https://workerspower.uk/how-can-we-spread-the-boycott-campaign/) - And what is the role of BDS in the Palestine movement?
- [Starmer doubles down on support for Israel’s war](https://workerspower.uk/starmer-doubles-down-on-support-for-israels-war/) - Dozens of councillors have resigned, and Labour have tried to frame dissent as a 'Muslim issue'.
- [Organise a workers boycott of Israel](https://workerspower.uk/organise-a-workers-boycott-of-israel/) - Palestinian trade unions have issued a call for solidarity from the international labour movement.
- [Why we defend 'from the river to the sea'](https://workerspower.uk/why-we-defend-from-the-river-to-the-sea/) - Andy MacDonald, Labour MP for Middlesbrough, has been suspended for using the phrase.
- [Labour MPs defy leadership to vote for ceasefire](https://workerspower.uk/labour-mps-defy-leadership-to-vote-for-ceasefire/) - Mass pressure is having an effect.
- [Israel & the illusion of national unity](https://workerspower.uk/the-illusion-of-national-unity/) - Alex Rutherford explains the tensions between the different factions of Zionism and how these affect Israel’s war aims
- [Islamism, terrorism and Palestinian liberation](https://workerspower.uk/islamism-terrorism-and-palestinian-liberation/) - Jeremy Dewar asks whether Hamas is ‘just another terrorist organisation’.
- ['Two States': The nature and purpose of a reactionary utopia](https://workerspower.uk/two-states-the-nature-and-purpose-of-a-reactionary-utopia/) - For more than 70 yrs Israel and its western allies have cloaked their disposition and ethnic cleansing of Palestine behind the supposed goal of the eventual Palestinian State. Why has it never been achieved?
- [For Workers’ Action To break links with Israel](https://workerspower.uk/for-workers-action-to-break-links-with-israel/) - Britain is a key link in Israel’s war machine, selling weapons, conducting research, and investing pension funds. It’s time to the break the link—no cooperation with occupation!
- [Leeds Palestine movement gets activists organised](https://workerspower.uk/leeds-palestine-movement-gets-activists-organised/) - Report of the Palestine solidarity movement in Leeds.
- [Jewish Action for Palestine launched in Manchester](https://workerspower.uk/jewish-action-for-palestine-launched-in-manchester/) - In response to the latest onslaught of the Zionist state against the people of Gaza.
- [Defunding UNWRA endorses Israel's genocide](https://workerspower.uk/defunding-unwra-endorses-israels-genocide/) - The decision to cut off funds for Palestinian refugees exposes the West's open collusion with Israel's crimes
- [South London activists target BAE Systems](https://workerspower.uk/south-london-activists-target-bae-systems/) - A demo is planned for Saturday 20 January outside Blue Fin Building, 110 Southwark Street.
- [Workers must act to stop Rafah massacre](https://workerspower.uk/workers-must-act-to-stop-rafah-massacre/) - Israel's allies won't stop its slaughter of Gaza, but workers have the power to do so
- [Starmer's dirty tricks sabotage parliament ceasefire call](https://workerspower.uk/starmers-dirty-tricks-sabotage-parliament-ceasefire-call/) - Labour avoided a major rebellion by trampling on democracy -- a habit Keir Starmer is becoming fond of
- [Israel and US plan 'peace' of the graveyard](https://workerspower.uk/israel-and-us-plan-peace-of-the-graveyard/) - The US is talking up the prospect of Israel's war ending with a two-state solution
- [Israel and West defy ICJ ruling](https://workerspower.uk/israel-and-west-defy-icj-ruling/) - Despite its limitations, the ICJ ruling represents a moral blow to Israel and the western powers.
- [Leeds uni students demand 'war criminal off campus'](https://workerspower.uk/leeds-uni-students-demand-war-criminal-off-campus/) - Students have occupied Leeds university to demand its implement the boycott of Israel.
- [Imperialist 'ceasefire' is no solution](https://workerspower.uk/imperialist-ceasefire-is-no-solution/) - The crisis in the Middle East underlines the urgency of building a genuinely internationalist and anti-imperialist antiwar movement
- [Gaza sea corridor is an imperialist placebo](https://workerspower.uk/gaza-sea-corridor-is-an-imperialist-placebo/) - Israel's allies are providing aid as humanitarian cover for its genocidal war
- [Declaration of the Palestine Conference](https://workerspower.uk/declaration-of-the-palestine-conference/) - Berlin, 14 April 2024
- [Boycott Israel: workers' sanctions are the way forward](https://workerspower.uk/boycott-israel-workerssanctions-are-the-way-forward/) - The focus of the Palestine solidarity movement has shifted towards boycotting arms for Israel, but to succceed it needs international organisation.
- [Eyewitness report of Berlin Palestine Congress](https://workerspower.uk/eyewitness-report-of-berlin-palestine-congress/) - By Martin Suchanek In a serious attack on freedom of expression and assembly, on 12 April the Berlin police shut down and dispersed the Palestine Congress, a democratically and legally organised meeting. All this was an attempt to criminalise criticism of the state of Israel and its racist foundations, indeed any advocacy of the democratic
- [Sharon Graham scabs on Palestine](https://workerspower.uk/sharon-graham-scabs-on-palestine/) - Union leader chooses militarism over internationalism
- [Israel: A rogue state runs amok](https://workerspower.uk/israel-a-rogue-state-runs-amok/) - Six months into the war in Gaza, Israel continues to commit genocide against the Palestinians and aggression against its neighbours with impunity.
- [Leeds students join the global student revolt in solidarity with Palestine](https://workerspower.uk/leeds-students-join-the-global-student-revolt-in-solidarity-with-palestine/) - By Scott Woodhouse In the face of violent police repression of pro-Palestine student protesters in the USA, University of Leeds students walked out of classes on 1 May International Workers’ Day to set up an encampment outside their student union. Banners hung around the encampment read “No Pride in Apartheid!”, “No IDF on campus” and
- [Ceasefire now: No weapons for genocide!](https://workerspower.uk/ceasefire-now-no-weapons-for-genocide/) - There can be no peace while Israel maintains its occupation of Gaza and the West Bank
- [Has Genocide Joe turned peacemaker?](https://workerspower.uk/has-genocide-joe-turned-peacemaker/) - Will the US continue to allow Israel to ignore its most important ally?
- [Appeal for a National Palestine Assembly](https://workerspower.uk/appeal-for-a-national-palestine-assembly/) - Open letter to local and national Palestine campaigns. Unite the resistance - for workers' action to stop the genocide
- [For a national assembly to organise the Palestine solidarity movement](https://workerspower.uk/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.
- [What next in Israel’s genocide?](https://workerspower.uk/what-next-in-israels-genocide/) - Any agreement reached under the cosh of Netanyahu and Ben Gvir’s New Nakba and the services of US imperialism would mean simply continuing the torment of the Palestinians and the denial of their democratic rights and national sovereignty.
- [The strategic crisis of the PFLP and the Palestinian left](https://workerspower.uk/the-strategic-crisis-of-the-pflp-and-the-palestinian-left/) - A critique that locates the strategic impasse of the Palestinian left in its adherence to a Stalinist stages theory and the popular front.
- [Israel threatens war with Lebanon](https://workerspower.uk/israel-threatens-war-with-lebanon/) - Israel's threats against Hezbollah are intended to send a message that support for the Palestinians invites deadly retribution
- [Israel steps up attacks on West Bank](https://workerspower.uk/israel-steps-up-attacks-on-west-bank/) - With the world's attention focused on Gaza, Israel has launched its deadliest raid on the occupied West Bank for two decades
- [Another Israeli crime in order to prepare the invasion of Lebanon](https://workerspower.uk/another-israeli-crime-in-order-to-prepare-the-invasion-of-lebanon/) - Israel is intensifying its criminal war against the Lebanese people in order to secure its continued oppression of the Palestinians.
- [Hezbollah and Iran: the Palestinians' reluctant friends](https://workerspower.uk/hezbollah-and-iran-the-palestinians-reluctant-friends/) - By Jeremy Dewar On 27 September Israel dropped 10 US made and supplied two-tonne ‘bunker buster’ bombs on Dahyeh, a suburb in southern Beirut and home to 700,000 civilians, killing 300, including Hezbollah’s leader Hassan Nasrallah and the group’s southern commander Ali Karki. This follows Israel’s attack on Hezbollah’s communications systems by blowing up its
- [The true scale of Netanyahu's genocide revealed](https://workerspower.uk/the-true-scale-of-netanyahus-genocide-revealed/) - Israel’s genocide against the people of Gaza has been underway for nearly a year.
- [Israel bans UN Palestinian refugee agency](https://workerspower.uk/israel-bans-un-palestinian-refugee-agency/) - The decision to ban UNRWA confirms the genocidal intent of Israel's war in Gaza
- [Israel marks October 7 anniversary by spreading regional war](https://workerspower.uk/israel-marks-october-7-anniversary-by-spreading-regional-war/) - There can be no lasting peace in the Middle East as long as Israel continues to exist as a gendarme for imperialist interests in the region
- [Ceasefire in Lebanon, genocide in Gaza](https://workerspower.uk/ceasefire-in-lebanon-genocide-in-gaza/) - Before Trump’s inauguration brings new pressure for a ceasefire, Israel will attempt to complete the ethnic cleansing of northern Gaza
- [Anti-Zionist Jews get organised](https://workerspower.uk/anti-zionist-jews-get-organised/) - Israel's genocidal assault is prompting a generation of young Jewish people to play a leading role in Palestine solidarity campaigning.
- [Sweden: Support the dockers’ arms blockade!](https://workerspower.uk/sweden-support-the-dockers-arms-blockade/) - ArbetarmaktSwedish section of the League for the Fifth International The following statement was published by our comrades and sent to the union. On Tuesday 4 February, the dockers’ union launched a six-day blockade of all types of weaponry for Israel. This is really exemplary – exactly the kind of action that the workers’ movement needs!
- [Israel resumes Gaza genocide](https://workerspower.uk/israel-resumes-gaza-genocide/) - By Dave Stockton On 18 March at 2.10am Israel restarted bombing the homes of civilians across Gaza, ending the two-month ceasefire. Its pretext was that Hamas would not agree to an extension of stage one, which would allow Israel Defence Forces to remain in the Strip indefinitely, while all the hostages are released. As we
- [No Zionist 'peace' in Gaza](https://workerspower.uk/no-zionist-peace-in-gaza/) - By Dave Stockton As we go to press, stage one of the Gaza ceasefire is due to end on 1 March. However, Netanyahu’s war cabinet has been repeatedly delayed negotiations on stage two, which should have started on 4 February. The Israeli prime minister has also held back the release of Palestinian detainees, many held
- [‘No Other Land’: Oscar-winning film sparks BDS debate](https://workerspower.uk/no-other-land-oscar-winning-film-sparks-bds-debate/) - A powerful indictment of Israeli's crimes is subjected to friendly fire
- [Gaza genocide: the final act?](https://workerspower.uk/gaza-genocide-the-final-act/) - After months of starvation, the Israeli army is preparing to occupy the strip indefinitely
- [The Nakba never ended](https://workerspower.uk/the-nakba-never-ended/) - After 77 years, the Nakba has morphed into open genocide
- [Arrested for displaying a Private Eye cartoon](https://workerspower.uk/arrested-for-displaying-private-eye-cartoon/) - West Yorkshire Police violently arrested retired headteacher Jon Farley at Saturday’s Palestine march in Leeds for displaying an image from satirical magazine Private Eye. The image was making an ironic point about the types of ‘Palestine action’ the UK government supports – that spraying paint on RAF planes is unacceptable but shooting Gazan aid-seekers is
- [We need workers' action to break UK links with Israel](https://workerspower.uk/we-need-workers-action-to-break-uk-links-with-israel/) - The UK state is deeply implicated in Israel's genocide. Workers should take direct action to break those links
- [Israel violates ‘Peace deal’ with impunity](https://workerspower.uk/israel-violates-peace-deal-with-impunity/) - Israeli strikes on 28 October hit schools and residential blocks across the Gaza Strip, killing at least 104 Palestinians, including 35-40 children.
- [Maccabi Tel Aviv: For a full cultural boycott](https://workerspower.uk/maccabi-tel-aviv-for-a-full-cultural-boycott/) - UEFA and FIFA are both complicit in sports-washing the genocide in Gaza, which for years has shielded Israel from accountability for its illegal occupation and its apartheid state.
- [Review of Palestine 36](https://workerspower.uk/review-of-palestine-36/) - Margaret Barclay reviews Annemarie Jacir's Palestine 36, 120 minutes, 2025.
- [Israel's ceasefire is a façade](https://workerspower.uk/israels-ceasefire-is-a-facade/) - The Gaza ceasefire has proven to be a diplomatic fiction. The reality is one of daily bombardments, a strangled humanitarian lifeline, and a military campaign expanding into the West Bank and Lebanon.
- [Where next for the antiwar movement?](https://workerspower.uk/how-can-we-build-a-class-struggle-and-anti-imperialist-movement-against-war/) - Delegate-based committees of action to unite the antiwar movement, combined with a fight inside the unions is needed to bring the working class into action
- [Proposals for PSC Trade Union Conference](https://workerspower.uk/proposals-for-psc-trade-union-conference/) - An open letter from rank and file trade unionists calling for a democratic, organising conference to build the movement
- [One year into the Israeli genocide in Gaza](https://workerspower.uk/one-year-into-the-israeli-genocide-in-gaza/) - A joint statement by the ISL, the ITO, and the L5I
- [Labour's century of support for Zionism](https://workerspower.uk/labours-century-of-support-for-zionism/) - The British Labour party's shameful record of support for the Zionist project
- [The Gaza ceasefire and the prospects for Palestinian liberation](https://workerspower.uk/the-gaza-ceasefire-and-the-prospects-for-palestinian-liberation/) - While a fragile ceasefire has been agreed in Gaza, Israel has turned its attention to the occupied West Bank.
- [Trump suggests ethnic cleansing of Gaza](https://workerspower.uk/trump-suggests-ethnic-cleansing-of-gaza/) - The noose is tightening while the world enables genocide.
- [Free Mahmoud Khalil, defend free speech on Palestine!](https://workerspower.uk/free-mahmoud-khalil/) - A Columbia University SAW-UAW writes on the repression of the Palestine solidarity movement
- [Kneecap condemn 'moral hysteria' of pro-Israel media](https://workerspower.uk/kneecap-condemn-moral-hysteria-of-pro-israel-media/) - After using their shows at Coachella to speak out for the Palestinian people, Kneecap, an underground Irish hip hop trio, have found themselves under attack from the capitalist and pro-Zionist media.
- [50+ boats are sailing to break Israel's blockade of Gaza](https://workerspower.uk/50-boats-are-sailing-to-break-israels-blockade-of-gaza/) - The largest ever Gaza freedom flotilla has assembled to challenge the blockade
- [Israel is killing Gaza's health workers](https://workerspower.uk/israel-is-killing-gazas-health-workers/) - Deliberate destruction of Gaza's health system proves Israel's genocidal intent
- [Israel gets the green light for genocide](https://workerspower.uk/israel-gets-the-green-light-for-genocide/) - Trump and Netanyahu are conspiring in front of the world to empty Gaza
- [US touts peace plan as Israel resumes Gaza city offensive](https://workerspower.uk/us-touts-peace-plan-as-israel-resumes-gaza-city-offensive/) - A 'peace plan' proposes to turn Gaza into a US protectorate
- [Italian workers strike for Palestine](https://workerspower.uk/italian-workers-strike-for-palestine/) - Strikes organised by Italian unions show the way forward for solidarity movement
- [Hunger strike: free all political prisoners now](https://workerspower.uk/hunger-strike-free-all-political-prisoners-now/) - Organise labour movement action to free political prisoners now
- [The Degenerated Revolution: The rise and fall of the Stalinist States](https://workerspower.uk/the-degenerated-revolution-the-rise-and-fall-of-the-stalinist-states/) - Our book analysis the class character of the Soviet Union, the expansion of Stalinism after WW2 and the collapse and restoration of capitalism.
- [Bruce Groves (1949–1999)](https://workerspower.uk/bruce-groves-1949-1999/) - Obituary for Bruce Groves, founder member of Workers Power and campaigner for the disabled.
- [Colin Ward: miner and socialist (1957–1999)](https://workerspower.uk/colin-ward-miner-and-socialist-1957-1999/) - Obituary for Colin Ward, sacked miner and revolutionary socialist.
- [Din Wong (1948–2011)](https://workerspower.uk/obituary-din-wong-1948-2011/) - Obituary for Din Wong, founding member of Workers Power
- [Norman Goodwin (1938–2018)](https://workerspower.uk/obituary-comrade-norman-goodwin-1938-2018/) - Obituary for Norman Goodwin, engineering worker.
- [Kate Ford: trade unionist and revolutionary socialist](https://workerspower.uk/kate-ford-trade-unionist-and-revolutionary-socialist/) - Kate Ford: trade unionist and revolutionary socialist
- [Bruno Sanhueza (1967–2022)](https://workerspower.uk/obituary-bruno-sanhueza-1967-2022/) - Obituary for Bruno Sanhueza, revolutionary, antifacist and musician
- [Paul Scully: revolutionary socialist (1967-2023)](https://workerspower.uk/paul-scully-revolutionary-socialist-1967-2023/) - Obituary, Paul Scully
- [Internationalism 2024: Revolutionary summer camp success](https://workerspower.uk/internationalism-2024-revolutionary-summer-camp-success/) - Over 150 attended this year's summer camp organised by the League for the Fifth International and REVOLUTION
- [Internationalism 2025: revolutionary summer camp report](https://workerspower.uk/internationalism-2025-revolutionary-summer-camp-report/) - Report of our international summer camp in Berlin
- [Communists and nuclear power](https://workerspower.uk/communists-and-nuclear-power/) - The communist programme for the nuclear power industry.
- [Save the Planet From Capitalist Destruction](https://workerspower.uk/save-the-planet-from-capitalist-destruction/) - The systemic causes of the climate crisis and the role of the working class in solving it.
- [Climate Change: Capitalism's Other Crisis](https://workerspower.uk/climate-change/) - A recent US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) report shows CO2 emissions rising for the second highest time on record in 2012. While largely caused by the expansion of coal-fuelled power plants in the developing world, it won’t have been helped much by US and UK plans to expand shale gas extraction. Another factor
- [G20: Climate deal overshadowed by US-China tensions](https://workerspower.uk/g20-climate-deal-overshadowed-by-us-china-tensions/) - FIRST THE good news from Hangzhou; the US and China have adopted the international climate change agreement reached in Paris in December 2015. The bad news; none of the provisions of the Treaty are enforceable. Ironically, the G20 reportedly met in Hangzhou because of the dire air quality in Beijing. The meeting of the 20
- [Fracking menace threatens half of UK](https://workerspower.uk/fracking-menace-threatens-half-of-uk/) - MOST PEOPLE imagine that their fuel comes from oil platforms far out at sea, or wells in the desert, far away places removed from daily life. Energy companies go to great lengths to paint this picture. But increasingly this is not the case. Many unfortunate enough to live around the controversial fracking sites know that
- [Climate scepticism captures the White House](https://workerspower.uk/climate-scepticism-captures-the-white-house/) - WHEN PRESIDENT-ELECT Donald Trump selects one of the most notorious climate sceptics, Scott Pruit, to head the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) you know the planet is in trouble. Pruitt, is part of the team waging a legal action by 28 states against the EPA to halt Barack Obama’s Clean Power Plan, an attempt to
- [Extinction Rebellion Has Opened A New Front In The Fight Against Climate Change](https://workerspower.uk/extinction-rebellion-has-opened-a-new-front-in-the-fight-against-climate-change/) - By Chris Close “WE WILL not be led quietly to annihilation by the elites and government… it is not only our right, but our moral duty to bypass the government’s inaction and flagrant dereliction of duty, and to rebel to defend life itself.” So reads the opening proclamation of Extinction Rebellion, the new environmental movement launched
- [Thousands join Youth Strike 4 Climate](https://workerspower.uk/thousands-join-youth-strike-4-climate/) - School students lead the way in the fight for system change not climate change
- [UK school students set to join global walk-outs against climate change](https://workerspower.uk/uk-school-students-preparing-to-join-global-walk-outs-against-climate-change/) - An international movement reaches the UK
- [Youth strike for climate action](https://workerspower.uk/youth-strike-for-climate-action/) - In February tens of thousands of young people showed the way forward in the fight against climate change by walking out of their schools and protesting.
- [Brazil’s Days of Fire](https://workerspower.uk/brazils-days-of-fire/) - With the onset of the dry season in the Amazon region, an inferno of forest fires has hit the Brazilian states of Rondônia, Pará, Mato Grosso and Amazonas. Satellite images show rainforest the size of one and a half football pitches being consumed every minute.This is a disaster not only for the inhabitants of the Amazon region itself but for everyone on the planet.
- [Liverpool rises against climate catastrophe](https://workerspower.uk/liverpool-rises-against-climate-catastrophe/) - Surrounded by lollipop placards brandishing “system change not climate change!” slogans, we joined the forefront of the march lapping the city centre retail quarters, passing out leaflets along the way. Quotes such as “it’s my future” stood out to me in the fervor of the marching protesters, taking action simultaneously with other cities across the world in a stand against climate change, capitalism and corporate ecocide.
- [Huge turnout for Leeds climate protest](https://workerspower.uk/huge-turnout-for-leeds-climate-protest/) - The march was led by school students, followed by young and older people. At its biggest march was around 8-10,000 people. We filled the whole of Briggate whilst waiting to set off on to the Headrow.
- [An energy revolution requires a social revolution](https://workerspower.uk/an-energy-revolution-requires-a-social-revolution/) - The climate disaster is already here for the millions across the world fleeing floods, fires and desertification. But now we have been given a deadline: in October 2018, UN scientists warned we have less than 12 years to keep global warming below 1.5C, the Paris Agreement’s goal, or face catastrophic, runaway climate change
- [Overthrow Capitalism – Save the World](https://workerspower.uk/overthrow-capitalism-save-the-world/) - Green taxes and individual lifestyle changes shift the burden onto consumers, making workers and the poor pay for climate change, while subsidising big business which creates it. Foodbanks and poundshops do not provide green options. Make the polluters pay, not their involuntary consumers.
- [Global Climate Strike: a millions-strong start](https://workerspower.uk/global-climate-strike-a-millions-strong-start/) - Worldwide, millions took to the streets on September 20, the first of the two planned climate general strikes.
- [Towards a green capitalism?](https://workerspower.uk/green-new-deal-or-planned-economy/) - In September, delegates to Labour Party conference adopted what was been widely hailed as the most radical environmental policy of any major political party in the world. But when it comes to the Clause V committee hashing out the party’s election manifesto behind closed doors, there is no guarantee that the conference motion’s most radical
- [The global climate strike movement is asking the wrong people for change](https://workerspower.uk/the-global-climate-strike-movement-is-asking-the-wrong-people-for-change/) - On November 29, millions of young people again took to the streets. The date for the "global climate strike" was deliberately chosen to put pressure on the UN Climate Change Conference (COP 25) being held in Madrid from 2-13 December. There is still no slackening of the movement’s mobilising power. In 2,400 cities and 158
- [COP25 in Madrid: why it failed and what we can learn](https://workerspower.uk/cop25-in-madrid-why-it-failed-and-what-we-can-learn/) - THE WORLD climate conference in Madrid was a complete failure. The final document is worse than ridiculous. Almost all the important issues, such as how to deal with emissions certificates or compensation for poorer countries, all of which are more immediately affected by climate change, were postponed to the next conference in Glasgow in November
- [Australia burns: who will douse the flames?](https://workerspower.uk/australia-burns-who-will-douse-the-flames/) - AS WILDFIRES rage across swathes of Australia tens of thousands of people have taken to the streets in every major city to demand the resignation of the government and action on the climate emergency. For weeks global media has been awash with apocalyptic images of flaming skies, refugees, incinerated forests and the charcoaled remains of
- [Greta Thunberg refuses to name the enemy in the room](https://workerspower.uk/davos-jet-set-get-greta-greenwash/) - THE ANNUAL GATHERING of the global business and political elite formally known as the World Economic Forum met at the Alpine ski resort of Davos from 21 to 24 January. Among the 3,000 attendees networking with ‘key players’ from politics, NGOs and academia, were 119 billionaires worth $500 billion between them. An Oxfam report, timed
- [Why Unite members should oppose Heathrow expansion](https://workerspower.uk/why-unite-members-should-oppose-heathrow-expansion/) - The environmental argument against a third runway at Heathrow is clear. Emissions from aviation already rose by thirty-two percent between 2013 and 2018. Currently they account for two percent of global carbon emissions and this amount is projected to triple by 2050 if no action is taken
- [Planet in flames: Capitalism's climate crisis](https://workerspower.uk/planet-in-flames-capitalisms-climate-crisis/) - 2020 set new records for global heating. Is there an alternative?
- [Capitalism and the new mass extinction](https://workerspower.uk/capitalism-causes-extinction/) - Species extinction and the destruction of nature.
- [Biden, the Climate Crisis and the Paris Agreement](https://workerspower.uk/biden-the-climate-crisis-and-the-paris-agreement/) - Capitalism and climate change.
- [In the tunnels and the trees: HS2 moves to evict Euston protesters](https://workerspower.uk/in-the-tunnels-and-the-trees-hs2-moves-to-evict-euston-protesters/) - A High Court judge has granted a possession order to evict anti-HS2 campaigners from Euston tunnel.
- [Greenwashing: fast fashion can never be sustainable!](https://workerspower.uk/greenwashing-fast-fashion-can-never-be-sustainable/) - H&M's 'Conscious' range is a distraction from the irreversible damage fast fashion is doing to the planet.
- [From mines to oil wells, Brexit is a environmental disaster](https://workerspower.uk/from-mines-to-oil-wells-brexit-is-a-environmental-disaster/) - New environmental regulation prioritises the economy.
- [Free Steven Donziger! Justice for the 'Amazon Chernobyl'](https://workerspower.uk/free-steven-donziger-justice-for-the-amazon-chernobyl/) - Corrupt US courts system moves to prevent an oil giant from being held accountable for its crimes.
- [We need a revolution to stop the climate crisis](https://workerspower.uk/we-need-a-revolution-to-stop-the-climate-crisis/) - We need to campaign between now and the COP26 to build a movement to stop climate catastrophe.
- [COP26 won't avert climate catastrophe](https://workerspower.uk/cop26-wont-avert-climate-catastrophe/) - Only a rapid and radical economic transformation can save us from climate disaster.
- [We need system change to stop climate change](https://workerspower.uk/we-need-system-change-to-stop-climate-change/) - By Chris Clough The world’s eyes will be fixed on the COP26 governmental conference on climate change in Glasgow from 1 to 12 November. But in truth little will be ‘negotiated’ there as most, if not all the fundamental points have been agreed in advance. And it is clear that the ‘big players’ – the
- [Revolutionise the Climate movement](https://workerspower.uk/revolutionise-the-climate-movement/) - By Rebecca Anderson THE COP26 climate conference of world leaders, meeting this month in Glasgow, has been billed as the ‘last best chance to get runaway climate change under control’. Each government will bring forward national climate plans under the 2015 Paris Agreement to keep global warming below 1.5 degrees Celsius. Yet even before COP26
- [COP26: Governments fail to act (again)](https://workerspower.uk/cop26-governments-fail-to-act-again/) - Once again leaving the climate crisis in the hands of politicians and business has ended in failure.
- [Lützerath is destroyed—we are not](https://workerspower.uk/lutzerath-is-destroyed-we-are-not/) - By Lars Keller WITH BRUTE force, the state and RWE have created facts on the ground, storming, clearing and demolishing Lützerath within a week. Hundreds of activists were evicted from tree houses and squats. 35,000 climate activists came out over the weekend and shouted “Lützi stays!” Many wrestled with the police in the mud and
- [Climate change report shows reckless lack of action](https://workerspower.uk/climate-change-report-shows-reckless-lack-of-action/) - 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 problem with 'Just Stop Oil'](https://workerspower.uk/the-problem-with-just-stop-oil/) - 4 July 2023 was the hottest day since records began, since then wildfires and extreme heat has scorched several countries around the world.
- [Climate change and the socialist alternative](https://workerspower.uk/climate-change-and-the-socialist-alternative/) - Capitalism destroys the environment
- [Will GB Energy have the power to tackle climate change?](https://workerspower.uk/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
- [Greens: No threat to capitalism, no saviour for environment](https://workerspower.uk/greens-no-threat-to-capitalism-no-saviour-for-environment/) - Why socialists shouldn't support the Green Party
- [Review | We Only Want the Earth](https://workerspower.uk/we-only-want-the-earth-rs21-pamphlet-review/) - A review of the rs21 pamphlet on climate change
- [Spain: floods unleash storm of protest](https://workerspower.uk/spain-floods-unleash-storm-of-protest/) - Catastrophic flooding in southern Spain has provoked anger among residents who say the government's inaction made the crisis worse.
- [COP29: World leaders abandon efforts to address climate change](https://workerspower.uk/cop29-world-leaders-abandon-efforts-to-address-climate-change/) - The COP29 conference demonstrated the total inability of capitalism to solve the climate crisis.
- [No to Labour’s airport expansions](https://workerspower.uk/no-to-labours-airport-expansions/) - By Alex Rutherford Labour’s electoral strategy with regards to environmental policy was clearly to get their betrayals in early. They ditched the £28 billion a year pledge for green investment, replacing it with a quarter of that amount and tying it to private public partnerships. They promised not to rescind any of the 100 new
- [There are no prizes for record temperatures](https://workerspower.uk/there-are-no-prizes-for-record-temperatures/) - The evidence-based solution is to overthrow capitalism
- [Political bulletin: For a workers' boycott of Israel](https://workerspower.uk/bulletin-for-a-workers-boycott-of-israel/) - Political bulletin for 22 May
- [Political bulletin: 2021 Labour party conference](https://workerspower.uk/political-bulletin-2021-labour-party-conference/) - Political bulletin for 26 September 2021
- [Political bulletin: Stop the Borders' Bill](https://workerspower.uk/political-bulletin-stop-the-borders-bill/) - Political bulletin for 15 October 2021
- [Universities bulletin: Working conditions are our learning conditions](https://workerspower.uk/universities-bulletin-working-conditions-are-our-learning-conditions/) - Universities bulletin for 16 November 2021
- [Political bulletin: No-one is illegal - open borders](https://workerspower.uk/political-bulletin-no-one-is-illegal-open-borders/) - Political bulletin for 26 November 2021
- [Universities bulletin: We need all out action to win](https://workerspower.uk/universities-bulletin-we-need-all-out-action-to-win/) - Universities bulletin for 1 December 2021
- [Political bulletin: From imperialist war to class war](https://workerspower.uk/20936-2/) - Political bulletin for 2 March 2022
- [Political bulletin: Make the rich pay!](https://workerspower.uk/political-bulletin-make-the-rich-pay/) - Political bulletin for 12 February 2022
- [1 May 2022: A united front against the cost of living crisis](https://workerspower.uk/political-bulletin-a-united-front-against-the-cost-of-living-crisis/) - Political bulletin for 1 May 2022
- [Rail strike: Escalate to win](https://workerspower.uk/rail-bulletin-escalate-to-win/) - Rail bulletin for 22 June 2022
- [Sri Lanka: Nothing has changed, but everything must change](https://workerspower.uk/sri-lanka-nothing-has-changed-but-everything-must-change/) - Download the PDF version
- [Political bulletin: Time to escalate and coordinate](https://workerspower.uk/political-bulletin-time-to-escalate-and-coordinate/) - Political bulletin for 27 July 2022
- [Solidarity with the rail strikes](https://workerspower.uk/20942-2/) - Rail bulletin for 30 July 2022
- [CWU: Coordinate and escalate the action](https://workerspower.uk/royal-mail-bulletin-coordinate-and-escalate-the-action/) - Industrial bulletin for 29 July 2022
- ['Enough Is Enough': Build councils of action](https://workerspower.uk/political-bulletin-launch-of-enough-is-enough-campaign/) - Political bulletin for 17 August 2022
- [Students must join cost of living rebellion](https://workerspower.uk/students-must-join-cost-of-living-rebellion/) - Download the PDF version
- [CWU: Break the bosses before they break us](https://workerspower.uk/royal-mail-bulletin-break-the-bosses-before-they-break-us/) - Royal Mail bulletin for 20 October 2022
- [CWU dispute: Postal bosses go nuclear](https://workerspower.uk/royal-mail-bulletin-postal-bosses-go-nuclear/) - Royal Mail bulletin for 1 November 2022
- [As Tory divisions grow, workers' action can win](https://workerspower.uk/political-bulletin-as-tory-divisions-grow-workers-action-can-win/) - Political bulletin for 2 November 2022
- [Universities bulletin: Democratic control and escalation](https://workerspower.uk/universities-bulletin-democratic-control-and-escalation/) - Universities bulletin for 30 November 2022
- [CWU: All out on 9 December](https://workerspower.uk/royal-mail-bulletin-all-out-on-9-december/) - Royal Mail bulletin for 9 December 2022
- [Victory to the nurses - defend the NHS](https://workerspower.uk/health-bulletin-victory-to-the-nurses-defend-the-nhs/) - Health bulletin for 14 December 2022
- [Health bulletin: Vote no to pay cuts!](https://workerspower.uk/health-bulletin-vote-no-to-pay-cuts/) - Health bulletin for 29 March 2023
- [All out on 1 February!](https://workerspower.uk/industrial-bulletin-step-up-the-action-to-smash-the-pay-cap/) - Industrial bulletin for 1 February 2023
- [Defy anti-union laws and fight for real pay rise](https://workerspower.uk/defy-anti-union-laws-and-fight-for-real-pay-rise/) - Health strike bulletin 1 May 2023
- [Protest strikes won't win a real pay rise](https://workerspower.uk/protest-strikes-wont-win-a-real-pay-rise/) - Teachers strike bulletin 2 May 2023
- [Royal Mail: Restore the strikes!](https://workerspower.uk/bulletin-no-more-delay-restore-the-strikes/) - Royal Mail bulletin for 9 June
- [Sellouts show rank and file must take the lead](https://workerspower.uk/industrial-bulletin-sellouts-show-rank-and-file-must-take-the-lead/) - Industrial bulletin for 10 June 2023
- [How can the health strikes win?](https://workerspower.uk/how-can-the-health-strikes-win-2/) - Health workers' bulletin 19 September 2023
- [What kind of rank and file movement?](https://workerspower.uk/industrial-bulletin-what-kind-of-rank-and-file-movement/) - Bulletin for the Workers Summit, 23 September 2023
- [Stop the Gaza massacre](https://workerspower.uk/stop-the-gaza-massacre/) - Supplement 28 October 2023
- [How can we build the solidarity movement?](https://workerspower.uk/how-can-we-build-the-solidarity-movement/) - Supplement 4 November 2023
- [End the siege of Gaza - victory to the intifada](https://workerspower.uk/end-the-siege-of-gaza-victory-to-the-intifada/) - Supplement 11 November 2023
- [Organise workers action to stop the genocide](https://workerspower.uk/organise-workers-action-to-stop-the-genocide/) - Supplement 30 March 2024
- [We need a workers' boycott of Israel](https://workerspower.uk/we-need-a-workers-boycott-of-israel/) - Supplement 3 February 2024
- [Save Port Talbot: Nationalise Tata Steel](https://workerspower.uk/22839-2/) - Download the PDF version
- [Ceasefire now: End UK support for genocide](https://workerspower.uk/ceasefire-now-end-uk-support-for-genocide/) - Supplement 21 June 2024
- [Stop far right terror with workers' self-defence](https://workerspower.uk/stop-far-right-terror/) - Supplement 1 August 2024
- [Mass protests and community self defence](https://workerspower.uk/mass-protests-and-community-self-defence/) - Leaflet for national day of action against the far right
- [Trump 2.0 will galvanise attacks on working class and democratic rights](https://workerspower.uk/trump-2-0-will-galvanise-attacks-on-working-class-and-democratic-rights/) - Statement on the second election of Donald Trump
- [UK, US, Israel, Turkey: Hands off Syria!](https://workerspower.uk/uk-us-israel-turkey-hands-off-syria/) - Statement on foreign intervention following the overthrow of Assad
- [Review: revolutionary capitalists?](https://workerspower.uk/review-revolutionary-capitalists/) - Bill Jenkins reviews Robert Brenner, Merchants and Revolution: Commercial Change, Political Conflict and London's Overseas Traders 1550-1653
- [Slow, painful economic recovery – massive cuts on way](https://workerspower.uk/slow-recovery-cuts-on-way/) - The UK economy has officially come out of recession. Unemployment has fallen for the first time in two years. Consumers spent more than expected in the Christmas sales, the housing market appears buoyant and manufacturing companies are reporting levels of optimism not seen for more than two years. But the recovery will be a long,
- [Capitalism: this is a vicious failing system](https://workerspower.uk/capitalism-vicious-failing-system/) - Two years ago this month, the credit crisis erupted and the world banking system was moments from collapse. Governments carried out huge bank bailouts, pumped money into the economy and invested in order to stimulate the economy. There was even talk of reforming capitalism and ending the power of the speculators. The world economy was
- [Finance capital unleashed: British imperialism today](https://workerspower.uk/finance-capital-unleashed-british-imperialism-today/) - Keith Spencer makes a case-study analysis of a 'Great Power' that was at the centre of the global financial whirlwind: Britain The British Conservative Party is openly saying that the cuts programme its government will carry out will touch everyone’s way of life for a generation, while blaming the poor condition of the public finances
- [EU debt crisis: bond markets attack euro](https://workerspower.uk/eu-debt-crisis/) - The European debt crisis is expanding, pitching country against country, with the major economies attempting to push recession onto the working class of economically weaker nations. With the system itself in crisis, governments aim to shift their debt burden by attacking jobs, pay and services at home, and dumping the worst of the crisis onto
- [Tories drive ahead with austerity plan despite faltering economy](https://workerspower.uk/tories-drive-ahead-with-austerity-plan-despite-faltering-economy/) - David Cameron announced it was full steam ahead with the government spending cuts after it was announced that the economy had worsened. Why? Because the government aims to slash wages and services irrespective of the economics damage, writes Keith Spencer The UK economy contracted by 0.5 per cent in the last quarter of 2010, it
- [What caused the economic crisis?](https://workerspower.uk/what-caused-the-economic-crisis/) - In the first two years of the Global Financial Crisis, everyone seemed to know where the blame lay – with the huge banks that pushed the international system of borrowing and lending into chaos. Yet slowly but surely the politicians regrouped and shifted the debate away from criticism of the bankers, blaming the crisis on
- [The credit crunch: a marxist analysis](https://workerspower.uk/creditcrunch/) - What caused the credit crunch? Some said lenders got “too greedy”. Others blamed the regulators. Yet more denied it was even happening. The Credit Crunch – A Marxist Analysis offers a radically different explanation. Charting how the events unfolded, and drawing on Karl Marx’s theory of crisis, Richard Brenner and Michael Pröbsting argue that the
- [Fact and fiction: politics behind the deficit debate](https://workerspower.uk/deficit-debate/) - Are the cuts about ideology or necessity? Many on the left have argued they have more to do with Tory politics than raw economic necessity, a case put forcefully by journalist and blogger Johann Hari. Richard Brenner puts forward an alternative perspective The state debt crisis went global this month. Stock markets dived and capitalists
- [Debate: Marxism versus Keynes – will taxation alone stop the cuts?](https://workerspower.uk/debate-marxism-versus-keynes-will-taxation-alone-stop-the-cuts/) - Simon Hardy asks if we can we just tax the rich to solve the capitalist crisis, or whether more serious action is needed THERE IS a popular argument used by many on the left, including trade union leaders and Labour left MPs, which says the deficit can be fixed simply through closing tax loopholes and increasing taxation
- [Risk of debt default spreads in capitalist currency crisis](https://workerspower.uk/risk-of-debt-default-spreads-in-capitalist-currency-crisis/) - The Eurozone is in crisis, Richard Brenner explains the latest developments of the financial saga THE RISK of the euro collapsing rose sharply at the beginning of June, as bond market billionaires took fright at prospects for Greece, Spain and even Italy going bust. At the close of a month that saw Greek workers launch another
- [The crisis in Euro state finances](https://workerspower.uk/the-crisis-in-euro-state-finances/) - The neo-liberal drive to cut taxation on the rich and strip away public services in favour of private provision has massively reduced the ability of states to raise sufficient finance from their own capitalist and middle classes, while hugely expanding the role of capital markets and private investment in every sphere of life. So after
- [The euro could collapse](https://workerspower.uk/the-euro-could-collapse/) - The prospects of a financial collapse in one more more country in Europe could well see the end of the Euro, writes Richard Brenner Germany has had an easy ride through the crisis – because of the euro. Meanwhile weaker economies in the euro, Ireland, Greece, Spain and Portugal, have had it hard. The normal
- [The United States faces a crisis not seen since the Depression](https://workerspower.uk/the-united-states-faces-a-crisis-not-seen-since-the-depression/) - The poisonous atmosphere surrounding the role of the state and taxation allows no realistic budget bargaining, writes Will Hutton at the Observer
- [Economic crisis - what’s next?](https://workerspower.uk/economic-crisis-whats-next/) - The world economy has so far failed to emerge from the crisis with any degree of health, Richard Brenner looks at the problems at the heart of the global system THIS SUMMER saw trillions wiped off the values of companies and pension funds as stock markets once again plummeted all across the world. More than
- [World economy at tipping point into recession](https://workerspower.uk/world-economy-at-tipping-point-into-recession/) - CAPITALISM IS staring into the abyss of a new recession. The recent bail-outs of banks and countries assumed that the major economies would revive in the near future. They have not. Stagnation in the world’s two biggest economic areas, the US and the EU, with inflation rising in many countries, is throwing the stock markets into turbulence,
- [The rich get richer…](https://workerspower.uk/the-rich-get-richer/) - DIRECTORS OF the FTSE 100 – the top 100 British companies – saw their incomes rise by an average of 49 per cent last year, while for the rest of us the average pay rise was less than 2 per cent. Someone’s doing well out of the recession – but it’s not you! The directors have
- [German capitalists push for fiscal powers as second credit crunch looms](https://workerspower.uk/german-capitalists-push-for-fiscal-powers-as-second-credit-crunch-looms/) - None of the problems from 2008 have gone away; in fact many have become worse, argues Richard Brenner. What are the European leaders planning next? AS WE go to press, the capitalist class is in a state of high anxiety. “Five days to save the Euro” run the headlines. The German chancellor, Angela Merkel, has called openly for the
- [Economic outlook worsens as cuts deepen crisis](https://workerspower.uk/economic-outlook-worsens-as-cuts-deepen-crisis/) - THE UK is facing a double dip recession, the first since 1975, according to recent economic data, writes Simon Hardy The coalition government had hoped that manufacturing would pick up the pace, making up for job losses in the public sector. This was dubbed the “march of the makers”, with growth to be led by
- [Keynesianism: workable reformist solution to the crisis of capitalism?](https://workerspower.uk/keynesianism-workable-reformist-solution-to-the-crisis-of-capitalism/) - WITH A SECOND economic crisis looming on Europe’s horizons, there has been a turn in the public consciousness towards the economic theories of John Maynard Keynes, famous for promoting growth as a solution to the Great Depression of the 1930s. Groups as varied as the TUC, the Peoples Charter, the Communist Party of Britain, and Counterfire
- [The Spirit Level requires a revolutionary toolkit](https://workerspower.uk/the-spirit-level-review/) - Richard Wilkinson, coauthor of the book The Spirit Level gave a half hour slide presentation about the corrosive effects of inequality on society at the Leeds Anti-Cuts Convention in February 2013. The “spirit level” refers to the carpenter’s tool to measure incline, and the slide show indeed measured in exhaustive detail the correlation between
- [WP#370: Editorial - Unite the struggles and tear down the coalition](https://workerspower.uk/wp370-editorial-unite-the-struggles-and-tear-down-the-coalition/) - DAVID CAMERON could yet meet his poll tax moment. His latest outrage, the bedroom tax, is igniting massive discontent. The Welfare Reform Act includes an attempt to snatch back housing benefit from anyone deemed to be living with a spare bedroom, including disabled people and low-income families. In areas like the North West tenants cannot
- [UK economy: 20 years of pain?](https://workerspower.uk/uk-economy-20-years-of-pain/) - The Tory government’s new Budget, due on 20 March, will be the focus of a TUC evening rally against austerity, supported by Shelter and the Child Poverty Action Group. Called A Future for Families it will be addressed by TUC general secretary Frances O’Grady and Labour Party deputy leader Harriet Harman. It will highlight
- [China: Slowing growth rates not Beijing's biggest worry](https://workerspower.uk/beijing-not-worried-by-slowing-growth-rates/) - By Peter Main In July it has become traditional for China's leaders to leave behind the heat and smog of Beijing and head for the seaside resort of Beidaihe. No doubt today's mandarins know how to enjoy themselves, but this is no holiday trip. Over the next few weeks the new government team under Xi
- [Recovery or not, workers have to fight](https://workerspower.uk/recovery-or-not-workers-have-to-fight/) - As the economy shows signs of growth, the bosses are determined to take the lion’s share George Osborne boasts that Britain’s economy is “turning a corner” and that “those in favour of a Plan B have lost the argument”. This bragging seems to be based on little beyond the latest Gross Domestic Product figures,
- [Britain: left unprepared for stormy election period](https://workerspower.uk/british-left-general-election-2015/) - As Britain approaches its most unpredictable election in many decades, Workers Power surveys the state of the economy, the labour movement and the far left Britain stands on the verge of an election campaign whose outcome is, as everyone accepts, uncertain. Yet instead of this exciting people by the prospect of a lively debate of
- [2015: their New Year's resolutions and ours](https://workerspower.uk/2015-their-new-years-resolutions-and-ours/) - Chancellor George Osborne’s early Christmas present came in the form of the Autumn Statement, which threatened to cut public spending to levels not seen since the 1930s, writes Jeremy Dewar Despite early attempts by the Tories to spin the Chancellor’s Autumn Statement as a tweaking of their austerity programme, with Prime Minister David Cameron even
- [China: free market not going according to plan](https://workerspower.uk/china-stock-market-volatile-fee-market-not-going-to-plan/) - By Peter Main 7 July, 2015 The volatility of the Chinese stock markets in the last week is symptomatic of the problems facing President Xi Jinping's economic strategy. Between June 12 and July 8, the Shanghai market dropped by 28 percent, wiping some $3.5 trillion off the value of shares and forcing the government to
- [McDonnell's “New Economics” – looking forward or avoiding reality?](https://workerspower.uk/mcdonnell-looking-forward-or-avoiding-reality/) - By Simon Hardy Over the last few months the new Labour leadership has been conducting a series of meetings, rallies and workshops to discuss the idea of the “New Economics”. The need for such an initiative is clear; the post-Blair party is struggling to re-establish a clear identity, and the new leadership are fighting to
- [Global capitalism at a turning point](https://workerspower.uk/global-capitalism-at-a-turning-point/) - Our perspectives on the current global situation, League for the Fifth International Congress in Berlin, June 2019
- [World economy facing recession](https://workerspower.uk/world-economy-facing-a-recession/) - The latest figures are startling. The capitalist world economy is heading for a crisis. It has already broken out in the manufacturing sector
- [The global crisis, the working class and the left](https://workerspower.uk/the-global-crisis-the-working-class-and-the-left/) - The global working class is threatened by the pandemic and economic crisis.
- [Health vs the economy: what’s the best way out of the pandemic?](https://workerspower.uk/health-vs-the-economy-whats-the-best-way-out-of-the-pandemic/) - For a zero-covid strategy.
- [The house always wins: What we can learn from the GameStop stock war](https://workerspower.uk/the-house-always-wins-what-we-can-learn-from-the-gamestop-stock-war/) - The war between Wall Street and Reddit shows you cannot defeat the capitalists at their own game.
- [The Corona Crash by Grace Blakeley](https://workerspower.uk/back-to-the-future-a-review-of-the-corona-crash/) - Andy Yorke reviews The Corona Crash: How the Pandemic will Change Capitalism by Grace Blakeley
- [Nothing surprising in Starmer's response to the Spring Budget](https://workerspower.uk/nothing-surprising-in-starmers-response-to-the-spring-budget/) - Starmer opposes Corporation Tax increase.
- [Stop the third wave: no trade-off between lives and livelihoods](https://workerspower.uk/stop-the-third-wave-no-trade-off-between-lives-and-livelihoods/) - Coronavirus cases are surging once again.
- [Furlough end threatens 1 million jobs](https://workerspower.uk/furlough-end-threatens-1-million-jobs/) - Mass unemployment and the scourge of long-term joblessness have returned.
- [A living wage for all](https://workerspower.uk/a-living-wage-for-all/) - By Jeremy Dewar Workers in Britain are being hit by a triple whammy this month: inflation heading towards 5%; a £20 cut to Universal Credit, hitting the unemployed and worst paid workers; and the ending of furlough for 1 million workers, throwing hundreds of thousands out the door. These are not ‘temporary blips’ that will
- [Workers Expected to Pay for Worst Economic Crisis since 2008](https://workerspower.uk/workers-expected-to-pay-for-worst-economic-crisis-since-2008/) - By Tim Nailsea BRITAIN’S ECONOMIC growth has almost stalled because of shortages of labour in parts of industry and of material inputs, due to disruptions in the supply chain, coupled with the effects of Brexit. GDP grew by 0.4% in August but is still 0.8% below where it was in February 2020, before the country
- [What's the Chinese for 'Lehman Brothers'?](https://workerspower.uk/whats-the-chinese-for-lehman-brothers/) - CHINA’S CONSTRUCTION industry, a key lever in Beijing's entire economic policy, is facing a debt crisis of enormous proportions. Attention has focused on Evergrande, a development company, whose total debts are estimated at $310 billion and which failed to pay some $96 million interest on foreign bonds in September. Just three days before being declared
- [As inflation bites: make the bosses pay](https://workerspower.uk/as-inflation-bites-make-the-bosses-pay/) - Prices rise at record rates.
- [Economy: The worst is yet to come](https://workerspower.uk/economy-the-worst-is-yet-to-come/) - Assumptions that damage to the UK economy was inevitable have now been backed up with concrete evidence.
- [Mini-budget: This was what Brexit was really about](https://workerspower.uk/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
- [Resist Jeremy Hunt’s class war budget](https://workerspower.uk/resist-jeremy-hunts-class-war-budget/) - Living standards will fall by 7% in the next two years.
- [Labour commits to Tory spending plans](https://workerspower.uk/labour-commits-to-tory-spending-plans/) - Tories and Labour have moved into election mode.
- [What's behind the recent bank collapses?](https://workerspower.uk/whats-behind-the-recent-bank-collapses/) - Silicon Valley, Signature, Credit Suisse, the first of many?
- [After the Two Sessions: Where is China Going?](https://workerspower.uk/after-the-two-sessions-where-is-china-going/) - China is facing serious economic problems.
- [Labour faces budget backlash as bosses plead poverty](https://workerspower.uk/labour-faces-budget-backlash-as-bosses-plead-poverty/) - The bosses are threatening to pay for takes hikes by cutting jobs and hours.
- [A message from the markets](https://workerspower.uk/a-message-from-the-markets/) - Labour's insistence that fiscal rules are rules is a warning to workers and unions that it plans to put profit first.
- [Reeve’s economic plan](https://workerspower.uk/reeves-economic-plan/) - By Peter Main On 11 June, Chancellor Rachel Reeves will present her Comprehensive Spending Review. This will be the clearest statement yet of the strategy behind Labour’s economic policy for the next four years. It is the conclusion of a process that began well before last July’s general election with the adoption of the ‘fiscal
- [What’s creating the AI bubble?](https://workerspower.uk/whats-creating-the-ai-bubble/) - At the heart of the AI investment frenzy is a closed loop of speculative investment, reminiscent of the worst excesses of the dot-com bubble.
- [Behind Reeves’ spin, Labour budgets for the rich](https://workerspower.uk/behind-reeves-spin-labour-budgets-for-the-rich/) - Chancellor hikes taxes on workers, cuts public spending, shields the rich
- [£6 is not our limit—it must be smashed](https://workerspower.uk/6-is-not-our-limit-it-must-be-smashed/) - The Labour government's Incomes Policy is designed to lower workers' living standards, and protect the bosses' profits
- [Perspectives: TUC tries to sabotage unemployment struggle](https://workerspower.uk/perspectives-tuc-tries-to-sabotage-unemployment-struggle/) - As unemployment approaches 1.5 million, we need a programme to force trade union leaders to fight -- or act without them.
- [Women must back the strike!](https://workerspower.uk/women-must-back-the-strike/) - THE COMING struggle in the mines is likely to be a long and bitter one. It will involve not only the miners but their wives and families in tremendous sacrifices. Already miners’ families will have discovered that one of Thatcher’s measures in 1980 has deprived them of between £12 and £14 a week in social
- [All out with the miners!](https://workerspower.uk/all-out-with-the-miners/) - The miners are now locked in a life or death struggle with the Tory government and Thatcher’s henchman at the NCB.
- [Unpaid internships: an exploitive trick](https://workerspower.uk/unpaid-internships-an-exploitive-trick/) - Increasing numbers of young people are being forced to work for free as school leavers, college leavers and university graduates enter a flat jobs market, writes Rachel Brooks. Unpaid internships are on the rise, and are increasingly the only option to gain valuable work experience for those who have recently left education and found themselves
- [The great building workers' strike of 1972](https://workerspower.uk/building-workers-the-great-strike-of-1972/) - The building workers' strike holds lessons on the dangers of Broad Leftism for union activists today
- [Pensions: left leaders in retreat — only the organised rank and file can restart the fight](https://workerspower.uk/pensions-left-leaders-in-retreat-only-the-organised-rank-and-file-can-restart-the-fight/) - By Mark Booth AFTER A TURBULENT week of union executive meetings, 300 militants packed into Friends Meeting House for an emergency conference to fight the pensions sell out. It soon became clear to everyone at Unite the Resistance’s gathering that the PCS and NUT leaders would not be calling more strikes in the next few
- [The 1972 battle of Saltley Gate: “close the gates!”](https://workerspower.uk/the-battle-of-saltley-gate-1972-close-the-gates/) - On the fortieth anniversary of the Battle of Saltley Gate Norman Goodwin, then a shop steward at GKN Salisbury Transmissions plant in Witton, recounts his memories of the day when Birmingham engineering workers struck in solidarity with the miners against the Tory government. ON 10 FEBRUARY 1972 I started out for work. But I would do
- [Pensions dispute and the left: a tale of backsliding and cover-up](https://workerspower.uk/pensions-dispute-and-the-left-a-tale-of-backsliding-and-cover-up/) - THE 28 MARCH strike by London schools and colleges showed just how impressive a nation-wide strike could have been. Around 1,500 schools were shut down or severely disrupted, while almost all colleges and most ‘new’ universities faced chaos or closure. Ten thousand marched in central London, bringing traffic to a halt and cheers from passers-by.
- [The Great Unrest: Organising the Rank and File 1910-1914](https://workerspower.uk/rank-and-file-history/) - In this timely commemorative article, Dave Stockton looks at the lessons from the great working class struggles before World War One. Part two will follow next month. We have just marked the 100th anniversary of the miners’ strike of February-April 1912. This was the first national strike by a section of workers who in
- [The Great Unrest: How militant miners created a movement of the rank and file](https://workerspower.uk/rank-and-file-histor/) - In part two of this commemorative article, Dave Stockton looks at how the miners built the first rank and file trade union movement in the UK. In Part one of this article, we looked at the work of Tom Mann in bringing many of the ideas of transatlantic and continental revolutionary trade unionism (syndicalism) to
- [Pentonville Five: when dockers fought the law and won](https://workerspower.uk/pentonville-five-when-dockers-fought-the-law-and-won/) - Forty years ago, four London dockers were arrested and held in north London’s Pentonville Prison. The next morning a fifth was arrested outside while protesting at their arrest. Yet within five days the Pentonville Five were freed by a wave of unofficial action and the threat of a general strike. Dave Stockton looks at the
- [1926: How the TUC betrayed the General Strike](https://workerspower.uk/1926-how-the-tuc-betrayed-the-general-strike/) - The 1926 General Strike is rich in lessons for today. Dave Stockton looks at how the ruling class prepared for it while the unions leaders did not. In the mid-1920s the Miners Federation of Great Britain (MFGB) had almost a million members, and was the militant core of the working class movement. Coal was still
- [Fighting for the right to strike](https://workerspower.uk/fighting-for-the-right-to-strike/) - Jeremy Dewar recounts how the anti-union laws shackled the unions and calls for defiance There is no legal right to strike in Britain. This simple statement can come as a surprise to many British trade unionists. To European workers, it is a bizarre idea. But it is true nonetheless. Even if a valid trades dispute
- [The left and the general strike](https://workerspower.uk/the-left-and-the-general-strike/) - By Andy Yorke A debate has opened up in the labour movement since the vote at the Brighton TUC to consider the ‘practicalities of a general strike’. The debate has inevitably exposed differences on the left. Not everyone on the left supports a general strike, much less campaigns for it. The Alliance for Workers Liberty
- [The British General Strike of 1926 – Part Two](https://workerspower.uk/the-british-general-strike-of-1926-part-two/) - In Workers Power 367 we saw how the Communist Part of Great Britain (CPGB) initiated the powerful rank and file Minority Movement, but became ever more uncritical supporters of the union leaders when the British TUC formed the Anglo-Russian committee with the Russian trade unions. Dave Stockton looks at what this meant for the 1926
- [Socialist Party backs McCluskey, candidate of the Unite bureaucracy](https://workerspower.uk/socialist-party-backs-mccluskey-candidate-of-the-unite-bureaucracy/) - RANK AND FILE candidate Jerry Hicks has now secured 84 validated branch nominations – with several days still to go to the deadline for nominations. Barring a veritable bureaucratic coup d’état Jerry will run against Len McCluskey for general secretary of Unite. Jeremy Dewar looks at the reasoning behind the Socialist Party’s backing for the
- [125th Anniversary of the Matchworkers' Strike](https://workerspower.uk/125th-anniversary-of-the-matchworkers-strike/) - On the 125th anniversary of the matchwomen’s strike in the East End of London, Joy Macready examines the strike’s origins and how it sparked the “New Unionism” movement “Born in slums, driven to work while still children, undersized because under-fed, oppressed because helpless, flung aside as soon as worked out, who cares if they die
- [Grangemouth boss punishes surrender by announcing 200 job cuts](https://workerspower.uk/grangemouth-job-cuts-break-the-agreement-fight-back-now/) - By Marcus Halaby It is an often-repeated truism that giving in to bullies only encourages them. Workers at the Grangemouth plant near Falkirk in Scotland are learning this the hard way. After a shameful climb-down by Unite the Union general secretary Len McCluskey, hailed as having been necessary to “save jobs”, employers INEOS are now
- [Support the teachers’ strike to defend education](https://workerspower.uk/defend-education-support-the-teachers-strike/) - By Jeremy Dewar The boycotts of the ridiculous and cruel tests of children as young as five by parents earlier this year, and the public outcry at the threat by Education Secretary Nicky Morgan to force all schools to become academies prove that families would support action Teachers have delivered an overwhelming mandate to strike
- [Trade unions could be Corbyn’s biggest ally - or his most serious opponent](https://workerspower.uk/trade-unions-could-be-corbyns-biggest-ally-or-his-most-serious-opponent/) - By a UNISON activist THE NEW Tory government is unleashing a new series of attacks on working class people and their trade unions. In the NHS, on the railways, in our schools, union members are fighting back. But they are not struggling on a level playing field. The government, the media and the judges pick on
- [Durham teaching assistants vote for strike action](https://workerspower.uk/ni-una-menos-not-one-less-woman/) - TEACHING ASSISTANTS employed by Durham County Council have voted overwhelmingly for strike action against the imposition of new contracts that would see some workers lose up to 23 per cent – or £6,000 a year. The Labour led Council in Durham voted in May to dismiss all of the 2,700 teaching assistants employed by the
- [Sparks fly at Crossrail](https://workerspower.uk/sparks-fly-at-crossrail/) - CONSTRUCTION WORKERS at the Crossrail site in Tottenham Court Road took two days of unofficial strike action on 30 November and 1 December to defend Unite steward Terry Wilson. Employers Laing O’Rourke insisted Terry be transferred to another job while refusing to recognise him as a union negotiator. A further protest on 2 December was
- [Strikes stepped up at Southern Rail](https://workerspower.uk/strikes-stepped-up-at-southern-rail/) - RAIL UNION Aslef has announced that 87 per cent of its drivers at Southern Rail voted to strike. These strikes will take place in December and January, alongside an immediate and indefinite overtime ban. This is in addition to RMT strikes, on different dates, as guards continue their industrial action. Both unions are protesting the
- [Bah Humbug](https://workerspower.uk/bah-humbug/) - By Mike Black WORKERS AT the factory that makes Humbug sweets are striking against their Scrooge employer. GMB members at the Tangerine Confectionery site in York are in dispute with their bosses, who have been eroding conditions and making cuts to pension contributions. The 2016 pay offer was a measly 1 per cent increase backdated
- [Len McCluskey seeks third term](https://workerspower.uk/len-mccluskey-seeks-third-term/) - LEN MCCLUSKEY, head of Britain’s biggest union Unite which is also the Labour Party’s biggest donor, has resigned from his post and is standing for re-election. He last did this in 2013, three years into his first five-year term, to avoid embarrassing then Labour leader Ed Miliband with a major union election at the same
- [Vote McCluskey - but organise the rank and file](https://workerspower.uk/vote-mccluskey-but-organise-the-rank-and-file/) - UNITE GENERAL Secretary Len McCluskey has triggered an early election campaign for the position he currently holds. The three candidates, McCluskey, Gerard Coyne and Ian Allinson, have until 17 February to gain an undemocratically high 50 branch nominations to get on the ballot paper. Members then have from 27 March to 19 April to vote.
- [Probably the worst rail company in the world...](https://workerspower.uk/probably-the-worst-rail-company-in-the-world/) - NEARLY ONE-THIRD of all Southern Rail’s trains were late or failed to run last year. And 2017 could be even worse, with up to 46 per cent of trains cancelled or delayed in January. Furious season ticket holders and other passengers are claiming compensation, running into thousands of pounds. How can a private company absorb
- [Reinstate Ian Allinson - support the Fujitsu strike](https://workerspower.uk/reinstate-ian-allinson-support-the-fujitsu-strike/) - IT GIANT Fujitsu are the latest company to step up their union-busting campaigns, which have been on the increase - with Grangemouth and Picturehouse disputes just two high-profile examples that saw trade union reps victimised for organising workers. On 12 January Fujitsu Manchester sacked Ian Allinson, chair of Unite At Fujitsu, recent left candidate in
- [The fight for a four day week](https://workerspower.uk/the-fight-for-a-four-day-week/) - Labour's conference will debate a motion calling for a major reduction in working hours. URTE MARCH looks at the history and implications for socialist strategy
- [Why are postal bosses picking this fight?](https://workerspower.uk/why-are-postal-bosses-picking-this-fight/) - Rico Back is pushing a five-year plan called “Journey 2024”, to build Royal Mail Group into a multinational parcel giant. This will go hand in hand with a “relentless focus on efficiency” to hike profits. The Universal Service Obligation that is the final shield legally protecting the public service, customer rights and the workforce itself
- [Postal workers declare war on Royal Mail bosses](https://workerspower.uk/postal-workers-declare-war-on-royal-mail-bosses/) - Company being restructured to destroy the public service and jobs
- [Royal Mail blocks talks after historic strike vote](https://workerspower.uk/royal-mail-blocks-talks-after-historic-strike-vote/) - Bosses’ dirty tricks show rank and file organisation is key to winning
- [University staff to strike from 25 November](https://workerspower.uk/university-staff-to-strike-from-25-november/) - University and College Union (UCU) Higher Education members have voted for industrial action in two ballots over pensions and over pay, casualisation, equality and workloads. In the ballots 53 per cent of members voted, winning 79 per cent and 74 per cent majorities respectively for action. The 43 universities that met the 50 per cent
- [How postal workers can win](https://workerspower.uk/how-postal-workers-can-win/) - The CWU leaders have been combative in words, agitating for postal workers to stand strong, but their practical response of monitoring subgroups and possible legal challenges won’t stop Royal Mail. The Postal Executive is not deciding on action till 13 November, five days after mediation ends– why the delay? And there is no preparation for
- [Royal Mail Wins a Battle, but Postal Workers Can Win the War](https://workerspower.uk/royal-mail-wins-a-battle-but-postal-workers-can-win-the-war/) - Today the High Court granted Royal Mail an injunction to stop postal workers striking. This is an attack on the entire trade union movement. At this crossroads, an unofficial strike with the support of the CWU and the entire Labour and trade union movement points the way to victory.
- ["Pas de retrait, pas de trêve" - UK solidarity with French workers](https://workerspower.uk/pas-de-retrait-pas-de-treve-uk-solidarity-with-french-workers/) - Socialists and trade unionists picket the French Embassy in London in solidarity with the resistance to the Macron government’s attack on pension rights.
- [UNISON members angry as leaders back Starmer](https://workerspower.uk/unison-members-angry-as-leaders-back-starmer/) - UNISON members were informed by email on 8 January that “UNISON backs Keir Starmer to be next Labour leader”. This decision was made by the Labour Link committee who decide on the union’s relationship to the Labour Party. The decision taken by that committee (with 14 votes for Starmer, five votes for Rebecca Long Bailey
- [CWU - Organise the rank and file](https://workerspower.uk/cwu-organise-the-rank-and-file/) - Royal Mail is trying to break the union. Postal workers have to defend their jobs by whatever means necessary.
- [CWU: “Royal Mail have declared industrial war on this union”](https://workerspower.uk/cwu-royal-mail-have-declared-industrial-war-on-this-union/) - Update: The CWU has announced a ballot for action between 3-17 March ROYAL MAIL bosses promised that if workers in the CWU postal union “delivered Christmas” without the planned strike, they would engage with negotiations in the New Year. But it was a con. On the first day of negotiations on 16 January they turned
- [UCU strike: solidarity and rank and file control key to victory](https://workerspower.uk/ucu-strike-solidarity-and-rank-and-file-control-key-to-victory/) - Lectures and higher education workers are starting 14 days of strike action to defend pensions, pay and working conditions
- [Royal Mail takes posties on a “journey” to downsize our jobs and conditions](https://workerspower.uk/royal-mail-takes-posties-on-a-journey-to-downsize-our-jobs-and-conditions/) - Royal Mail's promises don't matter if they succeed in busting the union. That's where 120,000 postal workers come in
- [CWU: Vote Yes and prepare to fight](https://workerspower.uk/cwu-vote-yes-and-prepare-to-fight/) - What we do now will determine whether we have jobs and a postal service in the future – vote yes and prepare for the fight of our lives.
- [Royal Fail: postal workers get little coronavirus help from bosses](https://workerspower.uk/royal-fail-postal-workers-get-little-coronavirus-help-from-bosses/) - In the ballot result announcement on Tuesday, Dave Ward and Terry Pullinger reported on growing anger in the workforce against lack of management action to protect staff against coronavirus. Royal Mail have done little to provide gloves, hand sanitiser or sympathy despite the vulnerability of staff who work among the public every day.
- [Postal workers smash reballot – but should the coronavirus crisis block action?](https://workerspower.uk/postal-workers-smash-reballot-but-should-the-coronavirus-crisis-block-action/) - To the surprise of many, when CWU leaders Dave Ward and Terry Pullinger announced the ballot result to members on Facebook,[2] they said they would not set dates for a strike, explaining that “it’s not the right moment for us at this particular point to take industrial action”. Since then Terry has said “we’ve got no choice in the matter”, citing the “unprecedented circumstances” of the coronavirus crisis.
- [Covid-19 and the PCS: from workers’ rights to workers’ control](https://workerspower.uk/covid-19-and-the-pcs-from-workers-rights-to-workers-control/) - In the DWP we should veto work that sanctions or penalises claimants and demand Universal Credit is paid on the first day, in advance, not six weeks in arrears. In the Home Office – end deportations and close the detention centres
- [Motion: Workers' action against the covid-19 pandemic](https://workerspower.uk/emergency-covid-19-motion-lambeth-unison/) - A motion passed by Lambeth Unison's branch committee
- [Workers must take control of the lockdown](https://workerspower.uk/workers-must-take-control-of-the-lockdown/) - Coronavirus is demonstrating the essential basis upon which our society exists: the working class and the necessity of labour. Workers and their unions must take the lead and control this lockdown.
- [Immigration and the Trade Unions](https://workerspower.uk/immigration-and-the-trade-unions/) - The recent election of a Conservative government, with one of the most openly racist Prime Ministers and Cabinet in living memory, the victory of an openly xenophobic and anti-immigrant Leave campaign in the 2016 referendum, and the rise of racist and xenophobic movements in Britain and throughout the world, have all raised questions as to how the working class movement should respond to what appears to be growing support within the working class for restrictions on immigration
- [Our Lives are Worth More than Junk Mail!](https://workerspower.uk/our-lives-are-worth-more-than-junk-mail/) - While the ballot is on hold, postal workers’ health concerns have come to the fore as offices in Bridgewater and Alloa walk out
- [Remember the dead – fight for the living!](https://workerspower.uk/remember-the-dead-fight-for-the-living/) - As the coronavirus crisis rips through society, International Workers' Memorial Day on 28 April is more important than ever.
- [Threat of mass walkouts foils Royal Mail bosses’ sneak attack](https://workerspower.uk/threat-of-mass-walkouts-foils-royal-mail-bosses-sneak-attack/) - Royal Mail's attempt to cut the postal service has been thwarted by the threat of walkouts.
- [Relaxing the Lockdown? To save lives and jobs – we’ll need workers control](https://workerspower.uk/relaxing-the-lockdown-to-save-lives-and-jobs-well-need-workers-control/) - Britain has become No1 in Europe and No2 in the world for COVID-19 mortality. To replace the “stay at home’ message with “go to work” carries the danger of a second peak.
- [Unions and Labour Councils must step up the fight against unsafe re-opening of schools](https://workerspower.uk/unions-and-labour-councils-must-step-up-the-fight-against-unsafe-re-opening-of-schools/) - How we can stop the schools reopening on 1 June and put public health before private wealth
- [Union makes concessions as talks begin with Royal Mail](https://workerspower.uk/union-makes-concessions-as-talks-begin-with-royal-mail/) - The answer to a Royal Mail in the red is renationalisation not cuts
- [The great jobs massacre has begun](https://workerspower.uk/the-great-jobs-massacre-has-begun/) - As unemployment rockets, union rank & file and unemployed must launch fightback.
- [Nationalise Royal Mail, defend the USO!](https://workerspower.uk/nationalise-royal-mail-defend-the-uso/) - Royal Mail is in the red - our answer must be renationalisation
- [Leeds healthworkers join NHS fight for 15%](https://workerspower.uk/leeds-healthworkers-join-nhs-fight-for-15/) - Hundreds joined the nationwide day of action calling for justice for NHS nurses and health workers excluded from a recent public sector pay rise.
- [United Left Divided](https://workerspower.uk/united-left-divided/) - The divide in Unite's dominant faction deepens.
- [Unite leaders recommend surrender](https://workerspower.uk/unite-leaders-recommend-surrender/) - Say no to shoddy British Airways deal!
- [Grassroots Fight for 15% can Win by Escalating Action](https://workerspower.uk/grassroots-fight-for-15-can-win-by-escalating-action/) - Rallies and demonstrations are due to take place across the country, as part of a growing grassroots revolt by nurses and health workers excluded from a recent public sector pay rise
- [British Gas threaten to "fire and re-hire" 20,000 workers](https://workerspower.uk/british-gas-threaten-to-fire-and-re-hire-20000-workers/) - GMB must press ahead with strike ballot.
- [How capitalism causes unemployment](https://workerspower.uk/how-capitalism-causes-unemployment/) - How Marxists explain the causes and consequences of unemployment under capitalism
- [Motion on the great jobs massacre](https://workerspower.uk/motion-on-the-great-jobs-massacre/) - Passed by Lambeth Unison
- [CWU leadership talks out the ballot](https://workerspower.uk/cwu-leadership-talks-out-the-ballot/) - Postal workers being lined up for a defeat
- [Solidarity with Sodexo workers at Birkbeck!](https://workerspower.uk/solidarity-with-sodexo-workers-at-birkbeck/) - Threats of large-scale redundancies among outsourced catering staff at Birkbeck have sparked a campaign of resistance from Birkbeck Unison.
- [Should workers accept cuts if Royal Mail is losing money?](https://workerspower.uk/should-workers-accept-cuts-if-royal-mail-is-losing-money/) - Smokescreen of financial difficulties.
- [Bristol Trades Council to protest rising unemployment](https://workerspower.uk/bristol-trades-council-to-protest-rising-unemployment/) - Take this motion to your trade union or Labour branch.
- [All change at Unison?](https://workerspower.uk/all-change-at-unison/) - Vote Paul Homles for Unison General Secretary
- [Optare workers strike against broken pay promise](https://workerspower.uk/optare-workers-strike-against-broken-pay-promise/) - Companies that cut jobs should be nationalised without compensation to their owners
- [Shut down schools and colleges now](https://workerspower.uk/shut-down-schools-and-colleges-now/) - We need to prepare to take action.
- [Vote Paul Holmes – but organise the rank and file!](https://workerspower.uk/vote-paul-holmes-but-organise-the-rank-and-file/) - Unison General Secretary election.
- [Stop schools, colleges, universities spreading disease and death](https://workerspower.uk/stop-schools-colleges-universities-spreading-disease-and-death/) - By Jeremy Dewar Novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-19 continues to test the world’s governments. None more than Boris Johnson’s Tory administration, it seems, with the recent discovery of a new strain, variant B117 in the south-east of Britain, which is proving to be 56% more infectious than previous iterations of the virus. Not only is this variant
- [School closures can develop into fight for workers’ control of education](https://workerspower.uk/school-closures-can-develop-into-fight-for-workers-control-of-education/) - By KD Tait Following a mass online briefing attended by tens of thousands of education workers at the weekend, trade unionists are taking action to prevent the unsafe reopening of schools. This action is now essential because the government’s insistence on keeping schools open was a major contributory factor to the spread of a more
- [CWU-Royal Mail Deal: The price of not fighting](https://workerspower.uk/the-price-of-not-fighting/) - The new CWU-Royal Mail deal sells our conditions too cheaply.
- [Unison left splits after election defeat](https://workerspower.uk/unison-left-splits-after-election-defeat/) - The left should agree a common slate for NEC elections based on based on building a rank-and-file led class struggle union
- [The fight for safe re-opening of schools goes on](https://workerspower.uk/we-need-to-keep-fighting-for-safe-schools/) - A brief respite is being eroded by the government's failure to adequately fund safe schools
- [Uber victory for gig economy workers](https://workerspower.uk/uber-victory-for-gig-economy-workers/) - Court rules Uber drivers are workers.
- [This week in strikes: a round up of industrial disputes](https://workerspower.uk/this-week-in-strikes-a-round-up-of-industrial-disputes/) - Whats kicking off and where.
- [Bus strikes can lead fight against fire-and-rehire](https://workerspower.uk/bus-strikes-can-lead-fight-against-fire-and-rehire/) - The rank and file must take control.
- [Victory for the Shrewsbury 24—but this is only the beginning](https://workerspower.uk/victory-for-the-shrewsbury-24-but-this-is-only-the-beginning/) - State surveillance, political trials and blacklisting
- [NHS pay fight: unite for 15%!](https://workerspower.uk/nhs-pay-fight-unite-for-15/) - Cross-union strike committees should be elected to unite the unions behind 15% and prepare coordinated action
- [This week in strikes: a round up of industrial disputes](https://workerspower.uk/this-week-in-strikes-a-round-up-of-industrial-disputes-2/) - Manchester buses, school students and British Gas
- [Fire and rehire signals a growing bosses' offensive](https://workerspower.uk/fire-and-rehire-signals-a-growing-bosses-offensive/) - Even more employers will use this tactic to attack terms and conditions.
- [Interview: Goodlord strike enters its 13th week](https://workerspower.uk/interview-goodlord-strike-enters-its-13th-week/) - Fighting back against "fire & rehire".
- [General Secretary election: which way forward for Unite?](https://workerspower.uk/general-secretary-election-which-way-forward-for-unite/) - No candidate is proposing genuine rank and file strategy.
- [Royal College of Nurses training members to fight for a pay rise](https://workerspower.uk/royal-college-of-nurses-training-members-to-fight-for-a-pay-rise/) - Workplace activists can lead the fight for 15%.
- [Unite General Secretary Election – for a single left candidate](https://workerspower.uk/unite-general-secretary-election-for-a-single-left-candidate/) - Four candidates will be on the ballot paper.
- [The politics of the Unite general secretary election](https://workerspower.uk/vote-for-beckett-and-make-him-fight/) - Howard Beckett is the sole candidate not advocating a retreat from the struggle over the political leadership of the Labour Party.
- [Vote for Steve Turner – and organise the rank and file](https://workerspower.uk/vote-for-steve-turner-and-organise-the-rank-and-file/) - By KD Tait Members of Unite the union have started voting to elect the general secretary of Britain’s most important trade union. The election comes at a critical moment for the labour movement. After the rout of the Corbyn movement, Labour’s leadership is determined to complete the purge of the left’s influence within the party.
- [Serco Out! Outsourced workers fight back](https://workerspower.uk/serco-out-outsourced-workers-fight-back/) - Civil Enforecement and hospital workers stage walkouts.
- [We can defeat fire-and-rehire!](https://workerspower.uk/we-can-defeat-fire-and-rehire/) - Teachers take strike action.
- [Left win control of Unison’s executive – now the fight begins](https://workerspower.uk/left-win-control-of-unisons-executive-now-the-fight-begins/) - Branch activists must now co-ordinate real change from below.
- [Health workers can lead public sector revolt on pay](https://workerspower.uk/health-workers-can-lead-public-sector-revolt-on-pay/) - Government offers "insulting" 3%.
- [Unite: Is there an alternative to the Broad Left strategy?](https://workerspower.uk/united-left-broad-lefts-and-the-rank-and-file/) - Unite General Secretary election raises questions about organising the rank and file.
- [How radical is Sharon Graham's organising strategy?](https://workerspower.uk/unites-organising-strategy-a-rank-and-file-approach/) - General Secretary candidate Sharon Graham heads up the union's Organising Unit.
- [What does the Unite election mean for Labour?](https://workerspower.uk/what-does-the-unite-election-mean-for-labour/) - Much of the interest in the Unite General Secretary election has been the result of the union’s influence in internal Labour Party politics.
- [Sharon Graham elected—now make her fight](https://workerspower.uk/sharon-graham-elected-now-make-her-fight/) - Members deliver surprise result in blow for right and official left
- [Unions must unite healthworkers' pay claim](https://workerspower.uk/unions-must-unite-healthworkers-pay-claim/) - Healthworkers are being balloted over the government's insulting 3% pay offer
- [Bosses blame 'pingdemic' for market failures](https://workerspower.uk/bosses-blame-pingdemic-for-market-failures/) - Brexit and pandemic-induced shortages fuel demands for action on pay and conditions
- [Uber drivers step up fight for fair pay with two days of action](https://workerspower.uk/uber-workers-step-up-fight-for-fair-pay-with-two-days-of-action/) - Two trade unions have called on Uber drivers to stop work.
- [HGV crisis: Argos workers show the way](https://workerspower.uk/hgv-crisis-argos-workers-show-the-way/) - The pandemic revealed just how much British capitalism relies upon transport workers
- [Strategy and tactics in Unite after Graham's election](https://workerspower.uk/strategy-and-tactics-in-unite-after-grahams-election/) - Remember the old slogan - "with the union leaders where possible, without them where necessary".
- [GKN: Car workers fight against offshoring and climate change](https://workerspower.uk/gkn-car-workers-fight-against-offshoring-and-climate-change/) - Under threat of outsourcing, 550 Unite members at GKN’s plant in Erdington vote to strike.
- [Dublin Bus workers reject union-backed deal](https://workerspower.uk/dublin-bus-workers-reject-union-backed-deal/) - Dublin Bus workers have soundly rejected a deal recommended by union leaders
- [Unite: national strike needed to make Stagecoach pay up](https://workerspower.uk/unite-a-national-strike-is-the-way-to-make-stagecoach-pay-up/) - We need 15% or £15 an hour
- [We need to coordinate public sector pay ballots](https://workerspower.uk/we-need-to-coordinate-public-sector-pay-ballots/) - By Rebecca Anderson THERE IS a real opportunity for coordinated strike action between two of Britain’s largest workforces: council workers, including school support staff, and hospital employees. If successful, it could bust the public sector pay freeze and build momentum in private sector struggles for substantial pay rises. Local government and school staff have been
- [Stagecoach workers should demand a national fight](https://workerspower.uk/stagecoach-workers-should-reject-separate-pay-deals/) - By Tim Nailsea STAGECOACH DRIVERS, engineers and cleaners in Scotland, Chesterfield, Manchester, the North-East, Lancashire and Liverpool and South Wales are all balloting, or have already been balloted for strike action. The issues are broadly the same everywhere. Despite working throughout the pandemic at considerable personal risk, drivers have either not been awarded a pay
- [UCU: organise solidarity and prepare for all-out action to win](https://workerspower.uk/ucu-organise-solidarity-and-prepare-for-all-out-action-to-win/) - By Urte March HIGHER EDUCATION workers in the University and College Union (UCU) are on strike from 1–3 December in a dispute over proposed pension cuts, pay and working conditions. Workers were balloted in October over cuts to the USS pension scheme for pre-1992 universities, and a sector-wide campaign over the ‘Four Fights’ – pay,
- [NHS, local government, schools: strike for real pay rises!](https://workerspower.uk/nhs-local-government-schools-strike-for-real-pay-rises/) - Only the rank and file can overcome the divided union leaders and deliver votes for industrial action
- [All out for the UCU strike](https://workerspower.uk/all-out-for-the-ucu-strike/) - Students and staff unite - for decent conditions on campus
- [Students and staff – unite and fight for fair learning and working conditions](https://workerspower.uk/students-and-staff-unite-and-fight-for-fair-learning-and-working-conditions/) - University managers have resorted to the tried and tested tactic of divide and rule, attempting to whip up student hostility against staff.
- [Fight inflation – for a sliding scale of wages!](https://workerspower.uk/fight-inflation-for-a-sliding-scale-of-wages/) - For a 1% increase in wages for every 1% increase in prices.
- [After Bexley comes Coventry - Support the bin workers!](https://workerspower.uk/after-bexley-comes-coventry-support-the-bin-workers/) - The workers will be striking every Wednesday and Friday in March.
- [Unite the fight in transport](https://workerspower.uk/unite-the-fight-in-transport/) - Unite is running a campaign amongst members working in the bus industry throughout Britain.
- [Beyond start and stop strikes](https://workerspower.uk/beyond-start-and-stop-strikes/) - The strategy has won victories, but there are limitations.
- [After the Unison local government pay fiasco](https://workerspower.uk/after-the-unison-local-government-pay-fiasco/) - The 14.6% turnout in the pay ballot marks a dangerous low point.
- [Tories hold London transport to ransom](https://workerspower.uk/tories-hold-london-transport-to-ransom/) - TfL is facing a £2 billion shortfall.
- [Unite investigates scab officials](https://workerspower.uk/unite-investigates-scab-officials/) - The only way to ensure that union officials will never again sell out their own members to the bosses and the state is to democratise our unions.
- [Rank and file must keep UCU strike on track](https://workerspower.uk/rank-and-file-must-keep-ucu-strike-on-track/) - The University and College Union (UCU) has confirmed a new wave of strike action at 68 universities in February and March.
- [PCS members must organise for pay fight](https://workerspower.uk/pcs-members-must-organise-for-pay-fight/) - The Civil Servants’ union PCS will hold a consultative ballot on pay and pensions between 14 February and 21 March.
- [UCU strikes: escalate to win](https://workerspower.uk/ucu-strikes-esclate-to-win/) - THE UNIVERSITY and College Union (UCU) has confirmed a new wave of strike action at 68 universities in February and March. This follows the three-day strike last December in defence of their USS pension scheme and for better pay and working conditions. Since then, twelve further branches have beaten the anti-union legal threshold of 50%
- [Support Coventry bin workers against Labour council’s attacks](https://workerspower.uk/not-a-penny-not-a-vote/) - Support Coventry Bin Workers Against Labour Council’s Attacks
- [Bus workers fight continues](https://workerspower.uk/bus-workers-fight-continues/) - The fight by bus workers for better pay and conditions continues across the country.
- [Unite’s new combines: a step in the right direction](https://workerspower.uk/unites-combines-a-step-in-the-right-direction/) - The promised shop-steward combines are a good start, but should go further.
- [Higher education strikes: escalate and fight for rank and file control](https://workerspower.uk/higher-education-strikes-escalate-and-fight-for-rank-and-file-control/) - The Higher Education strike has seen vibrant picket lines and a fighting mood up and down the country.
- [London Underground strikes solid](https://workerspower.uk/london-underground-strikes-solid/) - Cuts to London transport funding are a political attack on Labour and the unions
- [Should the trade unions disaffiliate from Labour?](https://workerspower.uk/should-the-trade-unions-disaffiliate-from-labour/) - Strike-breaking by Coventry's Labour council has raised the question of affiliation once again
- [Fighting sexism in the tech sector](https://workerspower.uk/fighting-sexism-in-the-tech-sector/) - Getting organised is the first step
- [Unite the resistance to the cost of living crisis](https://workerspower.uk/as-war-and-inflation-push-up-prices-we-need-to-unite-the-fightback/) - Workers face the biggest cost of living squeeze for a generation
- [Solidarity with Coventry bin workers](https://workerspower.uk/solidarity-with-coventry-bin-workers/) - Coventry’s refuse drivers have voted 94% in favour of continuing their strike as Coventry Labour councillors are suspended from Unite.
- [Manchester wins control of buses – now fight to nationalise them](https://workerspower.uk/manchester-wins-control-of-buses-now-fight-to-nationalise-them/) - Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham has won a court case in defence of his plans to bring the city’s buses back into public control
- [Stop the P&O jobs massacre](https://workerspower.uk/stop-the-po-jobs-massacre/) - P&O Ferries have brutally sacked 800 workers without notice and replaced them with scab crews on less than the minimum wage.
- [The bin strikes are spreading](https://workerspower.uk/the-bin-strikes-are-spreading/) - Unite continues to roll out its campaign
- [Chep UK - strike reaches twentieth week](https://workerspower.uk/chep-uk-strike-reaches-twentieth-week/) - The fight at Chep is an example of how attacks on the cost of living are eroding workers’ pay.
- [We need a national fight against cost of living attacks](https://workerspower.uk/we-need-a-national-fight-against-cost-of-living-attacks/) - Instead of waiting for the leaders, rank and file activists and reps need to make the start.
- [Workers take on Greedy Caterpillar](https://workerspower.uk/workers-take-on-greedy-caterpillar/) - Caterpillar workers at two sites in Northern Ireland have just completed four days of strike action, 11-15 April, with more planned.
- [PCS: now is the time to strike](https://workerspower.uk/pcs-now-is-the-time-to-strike/) - PCS is deciding whether to ballot its members for strike action.
- [Post Office workers serve up strike](https://workerspower.uk/post-office-workers-serve-up-strike/) - Post Office workers are preparing to strike on 3 May after a massive 97.3% vote for industrial action over pay.
- [Why Just Eat couriers are striking, and how you can support them](https://workerspower.uk/why-just-eat-couriers-are-striking-and-how-you-can-support-them/) - The base rate of pay for deliveries has been reduced by 24%.
- [Royal Mail: profits up, pay down as CWU prepares strike ballot](https://workerspower.uk/royal-mail-profits-up-pay-down-as-cwu-prepares-strike-ballot/) - Demand 10% - or prepare to strike
- [Marxism and the Trade Unions](https://workerspower.uk/marxism-and-the-trade-unions-2/) - What are they for?
- [RMT ballot victory can shut down rail network](https://workerspower.uk/rmt-ballot-victory-can-shut-down-rail-network/) - By Bernie McAdam IN RESPONSE to threats over pay, compulsory redundancies and safety, RMT rail workers have voted in favour of strike action across Network Rail and 13 other train companies in the biggest endorsement of strike action since privatisation. Only at GTR did the vote for action fall short. RMT balloted over 40,000 members,
- [PCS Conference votes to launch campaign on jobs and pay in the Autumn](https://workerspower.uk/pcs-conference-votes-to-launch-campaign-on-jobs-and-pay-in-the-autumn/) - By a PCS member WITHOUT WARNING, let alone consultation, Boris Johnson has announced over 90,000 job cuts in the civil service. To add insult to injury he did so through the pages of the virulently anti-worker Daily Mail, while suggesting the resultant savings would be used to cut taxes, benefiting the rich most. One in
- [Deliveroo: GMB sweetheart deal delivers bitter aftertaste](https://workerspower.uk/deliveroo-gmb-sweetheart-deal-delivers-bitter-aftertaste/) - By Alex Reynolds and Tim Nailsea FOOD DELIVERY couriers are one of the worst-paid and most precarious sectors of the labour force. This sector has traditionally been ignored by the major trade unions, who have considered the workforce to be too dispersed to be organised. The only unions who have made any attempt to unionise
- [Coventry bin workers keep up the fight](https://workerspower.uk/coventry-bin-workers-keep-up-the-fight/) - HGV drivers striking against Coventry City Council since 31 January remain determined as ever, while the city’s Labour councillors continue strike-breaking tactics.
- [Bin struggle spreads to other unions](https://workerspower.uk/bin-struggle-spreads-to-other-unions/) - Unite’s organising drive across the industry is spilling over into other unions, inspiring refuse workers in the GMB in particular to join the struggle.
- [Wildcatting Welwyn workers win!](https://workerspower.uk/wildcatting-welwyn-workers-win/) - Refuse workers employed by Urbaser at Welwyn Garden City have shown the way to deal with bullying bosses.
- [Refuse workers, leadership, and the rank-and-file](https://workerspower.uk/refuse-workers-leadership-and-the-rank-and-file/) - Despite all the start-and-stop action, setbacks and limited victories, it is doubtless the case that there is a growing militant mood amongst refuse workers, which Sharon Graham’s new leadership and its organising drive on the bins has built on.
- [Report — TUC lefts urge resistance to cost of living crisis](https://workerspower.uk/report-tuc-lefts-urge-resistance-to-cost-of-living-crisis/) - By Jeremy Dewar "A new deal for working people, a new social settlement for the UK" A LONDON TUC rally for the 18 June national demonstration heard speakers from a variety of disputes and strikes. Rail workers, teachers and lecturers, caterers and cleaners, civil servants were all represented. The eve-of-rally meeting, held at Congress House
- [After the TUC demo: coordinate strikes to beat inflation](https://workerspower.uk/after-the-tuc-demo-coordinate-strikes-to-beat-inflation/) - By KD Tait ON SATURDAY 18 June, tens of thousands of people marched through central London to demand action to fight the growing cost of living crisis. Protesters gathered from across the country in the first national demonstration called by the TUC since 2018, calling for pay rises to beat inflation, better working conditions, and
- [Leeds University workers launch week-long pay strike](https://workerspower.uk/leeds-university-workers-launch-week-long-pay-strike/) - By Rebecca Anderson A hundred Unison members picketed Leeds University this morning, an impressive turnout to kick off their week of strike action. Libraries were closed and campus was encircled by a young, angry workforce demanding the university increase its pay offer to meet the spiralling cost of living. Earlier this year, Unison members at
- [Rail workers — escalate to win](https://workerspower.uk/rail-workers-the-way-to-win/) - By KD Tait THE RAILWAY NETWORK was brought to a standstill as 40,000 rail workers walked out in the first national strike for 30 years. The RMT union is taking action over a 3% pay offer and threats to jobs, pensions, working conditions and the safety of the railways. They were joined in London by
- [1972: When dockers fought the law—and the dockers won](https://workerspower.uk/1972-when-dockers-fought-the-law-and-the-dockers-won/) - The 1972 dock strike has important lessons for today as we enter a new period of industrial struggle
- [Mail, post, telecoms: co-ordinate the strikes](https://workerspower.uk/mail-post-telecoms-co-ordinate-the-strikes/) - By a CWU rep IT IS a sign of the times that workers across the three main sectors organised by the Communications Workers Union—Royal Mail, Post Office and British Telecom—could be striking together. This would be a first for the CWU. Post Office workers led the way earlier this summer, with 1,500 workers taking two
- [Building collectivism, organising councils of action](https://workerspower.uk/building-collectivism-organising-councils-of-action/) - Editorial July-August 2022, No. 395
- [Starmer fails test of elections and strikes](https://workerspower.uk/starmer-fails-test-of-elections-and-strikes/) - Boris Johnson's government suffered two significant by-election defeats on 23 June.
- [Colleges to strike as UCU re-ballots in HE](https://workerspower.uk/colleges-to-strike-as-ucu-re-ballots-in-he/) - UCU members at 33 further education (FE) colleges are taking part in a ballot for industrial action.
- [Royal Mail threatens to break up company if workers strike](https://workerspower.uk/royal-mail-ceo-threatens-to-break-up-company-if-workers-strike/) - Postal workers and the public should reject Royal Mail blackmail.
- [Postal bosses gear up for battle – let’s strike back now!](https://workerspower.uk/postal-bosses-gear-up-for-battle-lets-strike-back-now/) - Let's bring the strike forward.
- [Interview with a striking barrister: "We will wear them down"](https://workerspower.uk/interview-with-a-striking-barrister-we-will-wear-them-down/) - By Alex Rutherford As industrial militancy rises again in Britain for the first time in many years, criminal barristers have joined the strike wave. Workers Power spoke to Saul Brody, a striking barrister from Manchester, to discuss why the strike matters, the problems in the criminal justice system, and the impact of these issues on
- [Public sector pay ballots: press for co-ordination](https://workerspower.uk/public-sector-pay-ballots-press-for-co-ordination/) - Nurses, refuse collectors, youth workers, teachers, lecturers and civil servants are being balloted.
- [When crime doesn't pay (even the minimum wage)](https://workerspower.uk/when-crime-doesnt-pay-even-the-minimum-wage/) - Criminal Barristers are escalating their action to an all-out strike.
- [Dockers strikes spread from Felixstowe to Liverpool](https://workerspower.uk/dockers-strikes-spread-from-felixstowe-to-liverpool/) - Five hundred Liverpool dockers at England’s fourth-largest port, employed by MDHC Container Services, are to strike from 19 September to 3 October
- [Royal Mail strikes must demand nationalisation](https://workerspower.uk/royal-mail-strikes-must-demand-nationalisation/) - It is clear that nothing less than the future of Royal Mail itself is at stake.
- [How can the strikes win – and what would victory look like?](https://workerspower.uk/how-can-the-strikes-win-and-what-would-victory-look-like/) - Will this strike wave, the biggest for 30 years, end in victory?
- [Where next for the Royal Mail strikes?](https://workerspower.uk/where-next-for-the-royal-mail-strikes/) - Rank and File update
- [Southampton dockers defy anti-union laws in solidarity with Liverpool strike](https://workerspower.uk/southampton-dockers-defy-anti-union-laws-in-solidarity-with-liverpool-strike/) - By Dave Stockton Dockers in Southampton have refused to unload containers diverted from Liverpool, in defiance of shipping companies and government ministers attempts to undermine the Liverpool strike. This act of solidarity shows both the possibility and necessity of defying the anti-union laws, which outlaw secondary action and allow bosses to divert work to non-striking
- [PCS strike ballot: what kind of action do we need?](https://workerspower.uk/pcs-strike-ballot-what-kind-of-action-do-we-need/) - Civil servants are being balloted over pay, pensions and job cuts until 7 November
- [Healthworkers: vote 'yes' and prepare to fight](https://workerspower.uk/healthworkers-vote-yes-and-prepare-to-fight/) - Joint strike committees should mobilise across all unions for a big yes vote, and demand escalating action to win
- [Break the bosses before they break Royal Mail](https://workerspower.uk/break-the-bosses-before-they-break-royal-mail/) - Management threats must be met with escalation
- [Yellow Unison goes running to education bosses](https://workerspower.uk/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)
- [New anti-union laws tighten the noose](https://workerspower.uk/new-anti-union-laws-tighten-the-noose/) - What is the TUC going to do about it?
- [Postal bosses go nuclear — union must respond in kind](https://workerspower.uk/postal-bosses-go-nuclear-union-must-respond-in-kind/) - CWU leaders have called off strikes after bosses threatened them with court action
- [Postal strike at the crossroads — fight for workers' control](https://workerspower.uk/postal-strike-at-the-crossroads-fight-for-workers-control/) - Drip-feeding strikes hasn't shaken the bosses. It's time to organise for escalated action and against a compromise.
- [CWU: All out on 9 December!](https://workerspower.uk/cwu-all-out-on-9-december/) - By a CWU Rep Download the latest strike bulletin here TENS OF thousands of postal workers will mass the picketlines then march on London today. Despite wintry weather and management harassment, strikers remain solid. Public support too has kept strong. True, the billionaire press and TV grill union leaders like Dave Ward and Mick Lynch
- [RCN strike: how can the nurses win?](https://workerspower.uk/rcn-strike-how-can-the-nurses-win/) - By KD Tait Download our strike bulletin THE ROYAL College of Nursing (RCN) is taking strike action on 15 and 20 December in the largest nurses’ strike in UK history. After more than a decade of underfunding, health workers have seen their pay, conditions and staffing levels deteriorate to breaking point. Nurses have lost more
- [Suspended CWU rep speaks out: the union must fight for our reinstatement](https://workerspower.uk/suspended-cwu-rep-speaks-out-the-union-must-fight-for-our-reinstatement/) - Royal Mail has suspended at least 100 CWU reps.
- [All out to save the NHS](https://workerspower.uk/all-out-to-save-the-nhs/) - The government has picked a fight with nurses to hold public sector pay down and continue NHS privatisation.
- [How can postal workers break the deadlock?](https://workerspower.uk/how-can-postal-workers-break-the-deadlock/) - We must escalate to all out.
- [Smash the Tory anti-union drive](https://workerspower.uk/smash-the-tory-anti-union-drive/) - The unions must demand Labour commit to repealing every anti-union law.
- [UCU: 70,000 join university strikes](https://workerspower.uk/ucu-70000-join-university-strikes/) - The UCU took action in 150 universities in November.
- [PCS: Targeted strikes are not enough](https://workerspower.uk/pcs-targeted-strikes-are-not-enough/) - Branches have called on the NEC to bring all members out in January.
- [Rebuilding our movement](https://workerspower.uk/rebuilding-our-movement/) - AS IMPORTANT as they are, these strikes are not the immediate answer for the whole working class. Given weak levels of unionisation and strikes in Britain since the 1980s and Thatcher, there must be a social movement against the high cost of living crisis—the poor, those on benefits, pensioners, low income workers and precarious sections
- [We need a general strike to stop new anti-strike laws](https://workerspower.uk/we-need-a-general-strike-to-stop-new-anti-strike-laws/) - RISHI SUNAK'S new anti-strike Bill aims to make any effective strike on the railways, in hospitals or in schools illegal, by requiring unions to negotiate ‘minimum service levels’ with their employer before every strike. The Bill has widened the group of workers affected to include firefighters, ambulance workers and border staff in response to the
- [Defend workers' incomes against inflation](https://workerspower.uk/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
- [Organise the rank and file](https://workerspower.uk/organise-the-rank-and-file/) - THE STRIKES that have dominated the headlines for six months represent a decade of pent-up anger.Millions of workers, especially in the public sector, have seen their real take-home pay collapse by 20–25% under the Tories; now they’re asking us to take another 10–15% cut. The dam has burst. Industrial action stands at a 30 year
- [All out on 1 February!](https://workerspower.uk/all-out-on-1-february/) - THE WORKING class is facing the most serious attack on its living standards since the introduction of austerity after the financial crisis of 2007–8. Workers have responded with the biggest wave of strike action since the 1980s. Millions of workers in the private and public sector have struck for pay rises to keep pace with
- [CWU reballot: vote yes and restore the strike!](https://workerspower.uk/cwu-reballot-vote-yes-and-restore-the-strike/) - By Pete Thompson WORKERS IN Royal Mail and Parcelforce took 18 days of strike action last year against bosses’ plans to hold down pay and rip up terms and conditions in a union-busting campaign to transform the company on the model of its gig-economy parcel courier competitors. Strike action was enough to see some significant
- [NHS strikes: organise to win](https://workerspower.uk/nhs-strikes-organise-to-win/) - IN A historic first, nurses in the RCN union, pushed to breaking point, have joined the strike wave against the cost of living crisis. And despite media attempts to probe for public disapproval, they have massive support. A million patients are treated in the NHS every 36 minutes, and they are overwhelmingly grateful to and
- [Tories rip up workers' rights](https://workerspower.uk/tories-rip-up-workers-rights/) - By Jeremy Dewar PRIME MINISTER Rishi Sunak and business secretary Grant Shapps are rushing the Strikes (minimum service levels) Bill through parliament in order to deny workers the right to strike in six named sectors: health, transport, education, fire and rescue, nuclear power decommissioning and border security. Once signed off by King Charles it will
- [Victory means rank and file organisation](https://workerspower.uk/editorial-400-victory-means-rank-and-file-organisation/) - Editorial February 2023, No. 400
- [After 1 February: where next?](https://workerspower.uk/after-1-february-general-strike-to-smash-the-pay-cap/) - By KD Tait ON 1 FEBRUARY hundreds of thousands of teachers, lecturers, civil servants and train drivers struck in the biggest coordinated day of action for many years. In London alone, 50,000 strikers marched in the biggest weekday demonstration since the protest against Donald Trump’s visit in 2018. Tens of thousands more marched in towns
- [<strong>Escalating action needs to follow the massive strike vote in Royal Mail</strong>](https://workerspower.uk/escalating-action-needs-to-follow-the-massive-strike-vote-in-royal-mail/) - Postal workers have done it again. Forced to reballot by the Tory anti-union laws after six months of strikes and lost pay, they smashed it, with a remarkable 95.9% vote for action on a 77.3% turnout, nearly as high as the previous record ballots. Even after 18 days of strike action last year and lost
- [Postal workers - are we sliding towards a bad deal?](https://workerspower.uk/postal-workers-are-we-sliding-towards-a-bad-deal/) - Workers need to organise against any sell-out of the dispute.
- [Why the new deals are sellouts](https://workerspower.uk/why-the-new-deals-are-sellouts/) - Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Chancellor Jeremy Hunt have told their ministers that they can raise their offers to the unions from 3–3.5% to 5% for the coming year and pay a one-off bonus to ‘compensate’ for the devastating loss of income in 2022–23. This would leave millions of public sector workers facing a 15%
- [We need rank and file control of the disputes](https://workerspower.uk/we-need-rank-and-file-control-of-the-disputes/) - Editorial 15 March 2023, No. 401
- [Stop the sell-outs – step up the strikes](https://workerspower.uk/stop-the-sell-outs-step-up-the-strikes/) - THE STRIKE wave in response to the bosses’ offensive, which threatens to rob workers and the poor of 15% or more of their real income over two years, has given a welcome boost to millions. The number of walkouts over the past nine months marks the most sustained and widespread strike action for 30 years—despite
- [UCU: Anatomy of a betrayal](https://workerspower.uk/ucu-anatomy-of-a-betrayal/) - By Dara O'Cogaidhin THE UCU strike has been called off following a campaign of anti-democratic, bureaucratic manoeuvring by General Secretary Jo Grady. After negotiations with the employers’ organisation UCEA, Grady informed members via Twitter that a ‘two week period of calm’ was agreed which would enable ‘intensive negotiations with the aim of reaching a final
- [Pay vs profits: Royal Mail dispute at a crossroads](https://workerspower.uk/pay-vs-profits-royal-mail-dispute-at-a-crossroads/) - Workers need a rank-and-file movement to take control of the dispute to stop a bad deal
- [NHS pay deal is a pay cut: vote no!](https://workerspower.uk/nhs-pay-deal-is-a-pay-cut-vote-no/) - The pay offer is an insult. Organise to fight for more.
- [What is the problem with the unions?](https://workerspower.uk/what-is-the-problem-with-the-unions/) - How can we get unions that fight?
- [UCU members: fight Grady's sabotage](https://workerspower.uk/ucu-members-fight-gradys-sabotage/) - Vote 'No' to consultation and 'Yes' to action.
- [Organise a "vote no" campaign against the Royal Mail deal](https://workerspower.uk/organise-a-vote-no-campaign-against-the-royal-mail-deal/) - WHEN THE CWU postal union finally released the text of its deal with Royal Mail after months of negotiations, it immediately became clear union leaders had conceded to most of Royal Mail’s demands. The members’ response was overwhelmingly negative. Even as the union’s media team was uploading video after video trying to spin the deal
- [Teachers: protest strikes won't win real pay rise](https://workerspower.uk/teachers-protest-strikes-wont-win-real-pay-rise/) - More strikes announced, but union leaders preparing to settle for pay cut
- [Nurses: what now after the 'No' vote?](https://workerspower.uk/nurses-what-now-after-the-no-vote/) - AS WE go to press NHS managers and Health Minster Steve Barclay are dragging the largest NHS union, the Royal College of Nursing, before the High Court in a bid by to block nurses’ strike action due to start on the May Day weekend. They claimed that the strike mandate would be invalid from midnight
- [The trade union rank and file today](https://workerspower.uk/the-trade-union-rank-and-file-today/) - By Jeremy Dewar STRIKES—ESPECIALLY a prolonged strike wave like the present—draw huge number of trade union members into activity, and expand the numbers of activists building for the action. There’s lots to do: organising workplace meetings to get out the message and identify new activists, phoning up members to check postal addresses and win the
- [Civil service unions: escalate now or never](https://workerspower.uk/civil-service-unions-escalate-now-or-never/) - By Rebecca Anderson UNLIKE OTHER public sector workers, the government's 2022/23 pay offer to civil servants has not been improved by the wave of industrial action. Despite double-digit inflation, the government has refused to negotiate anything above the 2–3% pay rise that has already been imposed, not even offering the derisory one-off payments recently rejected
- [Nurses: defy strike ban and organise for a real pay rise!](https://workerspower.uk/nurses-defy-strike-ban-and-organise-for-a-real-pay-rise/) - The fight goes on, but only rank and file control can overcome obstacles
- [Royal Blackmail: don't give in to company threats](https://workerspower.uk/royal-blackmail-dont-give-in-to-company-threats/) - Renationalisation is CWU policy -- let's fight for it
- [CWU opposition forces u-turn on ballot](https://workerspower.uk/cwu-opposition-forces-u-turn-on-ballot/) - No more delay, restore the strikes.
- [Royal Mail: Build the No Vote campaign](https://workerspower.uk/royal-mail-build-the-no-vote-campaign/) - Rank and file workers should use the campaign to get organised.
- [With dodgy deals looming, the rank and file must organise to seize control of the unions](https://workerspower.uk/with-dodgy-deals-looming-the-rank-and-file-must-organise-to-seize-control-of-the-unions/) - Editorial June 2023, No. 404
- [Bureaucrats behaving badly](https://workerspower.uk/bureaucrats-behaving-badly/) - The TUC has fined the NEU £153,000, bang in the middle of their strike campaign.
- [For a rank and file movement in the CWU](https://workerspower.uk/for-a-rank-and-file-movement-in-the-cwu/) - The CWU leadership are running scared of their own members. Workers Power argues for a rank and file movement
- [Local government: vote yes and organise to strike!](https://workerspower.uk/local-government-vote-yes-and-organise-to-strike/) - 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.
- [St Mungo’s Unite extends strike to all-out](https://workerspower.uk/st-mungos-unite-extends-strike-to-all-out/) - 800 striking workers at St Mungo’s homelessness charity have escalated to indefinite action, Jeremy Dewar reports.
- [CWU ballot: Security and stability or a race to the bottom?](https://workerspower.uk/cwu-ballot-security-and-stability-or-a-race-to-the-bottom/) - By a CWU Rep The CWU leadership argues that if we had continued to strike Royal Mail would have gone bankrupt. The Tories would have taken it over, handed the parcel operation to the company’s international holding company IDS (until last year Royal Mail Group) and slashed the USO, losing tens of thousands of jobs.
- [Postal workers: Vote no and defend our terms and conditions](https://workerspower.uk/postal-workers-vote-no-and-defend-our-terms-and-conditions/) - Rotten agreement will not provide job security and will weaken union.
- [Workers In Action — July-August 2023](https://workerspower.uk/workers-in-action-july-august-2023/) - Industrial disputes round-up
- [PCS members say no to below-inflation pay 'rise'](https://workerspower.uk/pcs-members-say-no-to-below-inflation-pay-rise/) - PCS members follow the nurses' lead
- [Organise the rank and file: an open letter to union activists and the left](https://workerspower.uk/organise-the-rank-and-file-an-open-letter-to-union-activists-and-the-left/) - An Open Letter to union activists and the left on the next steps for our movement
- [Postal workers: Organise to stop the retreat!](https://workerspower.uk/postal-workers-organise-to-stop-the-retreat/) - CWU bureaucracy wins on rotten deal, but struggle won't end.
- [Troublemakers at Work: A good first step for the rank & file](https://workerspower.uk/troublemakers-at-work-a-good-first-step-for-the-rank-file/) - An important step forward for grassroots trade unionists
- [After the strike wave, what next for the rank and file?](https://workerspower.uk/unity-against-the-bosses-and-bureaucrats/) - The 2022-2023 strike wave, despite its impressive size, failed to achieve what was possible for workers. George Banks argues the rank and file needs organisation and unity.
- [Workers Summit: The SWP, the rank & file and the revolutionary party](https://workerspower.uk/workers-summit-the-swp-the-rank-file-and-the-revolutionary-party/) - Under pressure from rank and file activity most of the revolutionary socialist groups turned left, workers power argues now is the time to unite all who want to develop a rank and file strategy.
- [St Mungo’s: Lessons for all rank and file activists](https://workerspower.uk/st-mungos-lessons-for-all-rank-and-file-activists/) - Over 800 workers at the homeless charity St Mungo’s have voted to end their three-month all out strike.
- [Workers in action: doctors, bus drivers, traffic wardens](https://workerspower.uk/workers-in-action-doctors-bus-drivers-traffic-wardens/) - NHS: doctors coordinate
- [Health strikes: future of NHS at stake](https://workerspower.uk/health-strikes-future-of-nhs-at-stake/) - The Tories can't be trusted with the NHS. But there can be no holding back for Labour.
- [Royal Mail bosses line up to cut public service](https://workerspower.uk/royal-mail-bosses-line-up-to-cut-public-service/) - After months of residents complaining about letters going undelivered for days or even weeks, and workers leaking photos of frames full of undelivered mail, the regulator Ofcom has declared a review of the Universal Service Obligation. The USO is a legal obligation, held by Royal Mail, dictating quality of service requirements. For instance, 93% of
- [Royal Mail: workers can counter attacks at the grassroots](https://workerspower.uk/royal-mail-workers-can-counter-attacks-at-the-grassroots/) - Bosses walk all over deal as union leaders dither.
- [A tale of three rank-and-file conferences](https://workerspower.uk/a-tale-of-three-rank-and-file-conferences/) - How can we build a rank and file movement?
- [How can the health strikes win?](https://workerspower.uk/how-can-the-health-strikes-win/) - An unprecedented seven days of strike action over 16 days by consultants and junior doctors.
- [PCS: Vote Lloyd and Moloney, but rank and file must organise to break with Broad Leftism](https://workerspower.uk/pcs-vote-lloyd-and-moloney-but-rank-and-file-must-organise-to-break-with-broad-leftism/) - By PCS activists Members of the civil servants’ union PCS will vote to elect their general secretary and assistant general secretary in November. The contest is between the ruling Left Unity faction candidates Fran Heathcote for general secretary and Paul O’Conner for assistant general secretary, and Marion Lloyd (Socialist Party) and incumbent AGS John Moloney
- [Unison rank and file want to get organised](https://workerspower.uk/unison-rank-and-file-want-to-get-organised/) - Unison is at a crossroads.
- [Tesla strike in Sweden: Organise for victory and control of the unions](https://workerspower.uk/tesla-strike-in-sweden-organise-for-victory-and-control-of-the-unions/) - Tesla is on the defensive in Sweden in the face of this union show of power.
- [PCS elections: Low turnout shows union activists must organise](https://workerspower.uk/pcs-elections-low-turnout-shows-union-activists-must-organise/) - The defeat of PCS’s cost-of-living pay strikes dominated the election.
- [Obituary: Dave Lewis (1959–2024)](https://workerspower.uk/obituary-dave-lewis-1959-2024/) - Dave Lewis, revolutionary socialist and founder of Lesbians & Gays Support the Miners
- [Northern Ireland: escalate public sector strike](https://workerspower.uk/northern-ireland-escalate-public-sector-strike/) - By Bernie McAdam OVER 150,000 public sector workers went on strike on Thursday 18 January in the biggest strike action the ‘Northern Ireland’ state has ever seen. Workers from 16 trade unions involving public transport, education, health and the civil service walked out for the day over an outstanding pay award. A near General Strike
- [Train drivers' union repels first test of new anti-strike law](https://workerspower.uk/train-drivers-union-repels-first-test-of-new-anti-strike-law/) - Has threat of escalating strike action turned Minimum Service law into 'a paper tiger'?
- [Sharon Graham: a mid-term report](https://workerspower.uk/sharon-graham-a-mid-term-report/) - Halfway through Graham’s first term, we look at the general secretary’s record and the limits of her return to ‘pure’ trade unionism.
- [Save Port Talbot: strike and occupy for nationalisation](https://workerspower.uk/save-port-talbot-nationalise-tata/) - 3,000 jobs are under threat at Tata Steel. The fight will have consequences across the whole industry.
- [Trade unionists campaign to divest pension funds from Israel](https://workerspower.uk/trade-unionists-campaign-to-divest-pension-funds-from-israel/) - Trade unionists are organising to take control of their pensions
- [Labour waters down workers' rights plan](https://workerspower.uk/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
- [Healthworkers – fight to make Labour pay up](https://workerspower.uk/healthworkers-fight-to-make-labour-pay-up/) - Health workers should organise to meet a Labour government with a united front
- [Workers take on Amazon](https://workerspower.uk/workers-take-on-amazon/) - Amazon is spending vast sums trying to defeat a campaign for trade union recognition.
- [NHS theatre nurses on strike demand safe staffing](https://workerspower.uk/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
- [TUC seeks to avoid fight over anti-union laws](https://workerspower.uk/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.
- [Public sector pay: 5% is not enough](https://workerspower.uk/public-sector-pay-5-is-not-enough/) - The trade union leaders are preparing to show their 'goodwill' to the Labour government by accepting a below inflation pay offer, that will leave workers worse off
- [Nurses reject Labour’s paltry 5.5% pay offer](https://workerspower.uk/nurses-reject-labours-paltry-5-5-pay-offer/) - Nurses have overwhelmingly rejected Labour's pay offer. Now is the time to step up the action.
- [Local government strike action blocked by anti-union ballot threshold](https://workerspower.uk/local-government-strike-action-blocked-by-anti-union-ballot-threshold/) - The Tories' anti-union laws have blocked local government workers taking legal strike action to improve a pathetic 3% pay offer
- [Employment rights bill gutted by bosses' lobby](https://workerspower.uk/employment-rights-bill-gutted-by-bosses-lobby/) - The TUC hailed a 'major boost to workers rights' that failed to abolish zero-hours contracts, fire and rehire, or deliver full rights from day one.
- [Troublemakers 2024 Conference report](https://workerspower.uk/troublemakers-2024-conference-report/) - Rank and file activists build on success of first conference
- [Troublemakers At Work 2025 AGM report](https://workerspower.uk/troublemakers-at-work-2025-agm-report/) - Workers Power proposed local organisation and a clear position on radical democratisation of the unions.
- [The left challenge in Unison elections](https://workerspower.uk/the-left-challenge-in-unison-elections/) - Left campaign needs democratic control.
- [Trade Unions: Crisis of leadership in the rank and file](https://workerspower.uk/trade-unions-crisis-of-leadership-in-the-rank-and-file/) - By Tim Nailsea The trade union movement in Britain saw something of a strike wave in 2022-23, in response to the double-digit inflation and the cost-of-living crisis. Yet in the following years the tide has definitely ebbed. In December 2022, 830,000 working days were lost due to strike action; by December 2024, they had dropped
- [Angela Rayner’s staff ballot for action](https://workerspower.uk/angela-rayners-staff-ballot-for-action/) - By a PCS activist A ballot for industrial action has opened at the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government. Staff at Angela Rayner’s department are fighting closures, mandated attendance and restricted promotion opportunities. Birmingham, Newcastle, Truro, Exeter, Sheffield and Warrington offices will shut, with no guarantee that others are safe in the longer term.
- [London school strikes: All out from 27 February!](https://workerspower.uk/london-school-strikes-all-out-from-27-february/) - By Jeremy Dewar The National Education Union is coordinating strikes across 10 schools in four London boroughs. Teachers are on the picket lines on 27 February and 5, 11, 12 and 13 March, while some will take off days in between as well. Strikers from all the schools will rally together outside the Department for
- [Labour declares war on the civil service](https://workerspower.uk/labour-declares-war-on-the-civil-service/) - A PCS member In a move reminiscent of the coalition government of the 2010s, Rachel Reeves has announced a sweeping 15% cut to the civil service administration budget. Reeves’ spring statement was a clear signal to the markets that Labour will hold to their self-imposed fiscal rules by slashing the public sector and making the
- [Employment Rights Bill: Labour waters down their proposals](https://workerspower.uk/employment-rights-bill-labour-waters-down-their-proposals/) - The delay in Labour’s Employment Rights Bill, originally promised as a flagship piece of legislation aimed at strengthening workers’ rights, is a betrayal of the workers and trade unions who put the party into power.
- [Birmingham bin strike: Test for Labour](https://workerspower.uk/birmingham-bin-strike-test-for-labour/) - The Tories are up in arms, demanding Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner intervenes in the Birmingham bin strike. Their aim? Convene a Cobra meeting and break the strike by drafting in private sector scab labour.
- [Get paid to go on strike?](https://workerspower.uk/get-paid-to-go-on-strike/) - Unions are increasingly paying 100% strike pay. Sounds good -- but there are downsides
- [Angela Rayner’s staff to strike from 22 April](https://workerspower.uk/angela-rayners-staff-to-strike-from-22-april/) - Civil servants are on strike against imposed changes to working conditions and job cuts
- [How can the Birmingham bins dispute be won?](https://workerspower.uk/how-can-the-birmingham-bins-dispute-be-won/) - Mass pickets and solidarity action could bring this strike to a rapid and successful conclusion
- [‘We shut the gates!’ Report from Birmingham mega-picket](https://workerspower.uk/we-shut-the-gates-report-from-birmingham-mega-picket/) - By Jeremy Dewar Many hundreds of workers poured into Lifford Lane in south Birmingham from 6am onwards, many with banners and placards. They came to close the depot and prevent agency scab dustcarts from leaving, handing a temporary victory for the city’s bin workers, who have been on indefinite strike for two months, since 11
- [Defending trans rights at work](https://workerspower.uk/defending-trans-rights-at-work/) - Organise to defend our colleagues
- [What next for the left in PCS?](https://workerspower.uk/what-next-for-the-left-in-pcs/) - Relying on existing rules and structures leaves too much power in the hands of the established, unelected bureaucracy, who will use undemocratic means to retain control.
- [Birmingham bin strike: Fire Angela Raynor, don’t rehire!](https://workerspower.uk/birmingham-bin-strike-fire-angela-raynor-dont-rehire/) - By Jeremy Dewar Unite the Union’s 2025 delegate conference erupted in anger on its penultimate day, 10 July, with news that Birmingham Labour leader John Cotton had ‘walked away’ from ACAS talks (without ever having attended them, it might be added), and threatened to sack 130 striking bin workers, unless they accept up to £8,000
- [Birmingham bin workers must spread the strike to win](https://workerspower.uk/birmingham-bin-workers-must-spread-the-strike-to-win/) - Mass pickets work, but action needs to spread to win
- [PCS members walk out on Angela Rayner](https://workerspower.uk/pcs-members-walk-out-on-angela-rayner/) - The Housing secretary is developing a taste for industrial action
- [Doctors' strike opens fight to defend NHS](https://workerspower.uk/doctors-strike-opens-fight-to-defend-nhs/) - Health workers need a united campaign with rank and file coordination to make Labour pay up
- [London Underground is trying to deport its own workers](https://workerspower.uk/london-underground-is-trying-to-deport-its-own-workers/) - We don't need 'exemptions' for key workers, we need to smash the entire racist immigration system
- [Union leaders are sabotaging NHS pay struggle](https://workerspower.uk/union-leaders-are-sabotaging-nhs-pay-struggle/) - Unison and GMB leaders are blaming members for refusing to ballot over pay award insult
- [Bus strikes shut down Manchester](https://workerspower.uk/bus-strikes-shut-down-manchester/) - Bus strikes across three networks shut down Greater Manchester in September. More strikes have been announced for October.
- [The Agitator: Towards a four-day week](https://workerspower.uk/the-agitator-towards-a-four-day-week/) - Our regular column looks at recent campaigns to reduce the working week
- [Vote Andrea Egan for Unison general secretary](https://workerspower.uk/vote-andrea-egan-for-unison-general-secretary/) - The election has opened with a left candidate challenging incumbent Christina McAnea
- [Government attacks on skilled worker visas undermine everyone](https://workerspower.uk/government-attacks-on-skilled-worker-visas-undermine-everyone/) - Kneejerk racist response to Reform surge sets a terrible precedent and must be vigorously fought
- [Andrea Egan's Unison victory is an opening for the rank and file](https://workerspower.uk/andrea-egans-unison-victory-is-an-opening-for-the-rank-and-file/) - Rank and file social worker Andrea Egan is the new General Secretary of Unison, with 1.4 million members, Britain’s biggest union.
- [Motion: Oppose US regime change in Venezuela](https://workerspower.uk/model-motion-oppose-us-regime-change-in-venezuela/) - A motion opposing the attempted US-backed coup in Venezuela
- [Stop Brexit - by any means necessary](https://workerspower.uk/stop-brexit-by-any-means-necessary/) - Our leaflet for the 23 March for a People's Vote
- [Motion: Stop the coup – stop No Deal](https://workerspower.uk/model-motion-stop-the-coup-stop-no-deal/) - A motion opposing Boris Johnson's attempt to prorogue parliament to avoid scrutiny of his hard Brexit deal
- [The 2007 Postal Strike and the struggles beyond](https://workerspower.uk/the-2007-postal-strike-the-struggles-beyond/) - A new introduction to our pamphlet on the 2007 Postal Strike.
- [The crisis in IS: Leadership’s lack of programme at root of Left Faction expulsion](https://workerspower.uk/the-crisis-in-is-leaderships-lack-of-programme-at-root-of-left-faction-expulsion/) - A statement from Workers Power, the former Left Faction of the International Socialists issued to IS members shortly after our expulsion.
- [NCAFC 'reinvigoration meeting': why we didn’t stand for the committee](https://workerspower.uk/ncafc-5-june-reinvigoration/) - Statement by REVOLUTION Many student activists will be wondering why we did not stand for, or vote, in the elections for a steering committee at the recent “reinvigoration” meeting of the National Campaign Against Fees and Cuts on 5 June. There’s no doubt been much frustration in the movement after parliament voted for tuition fees,
- [The victory of the Taliban and its international significance](https://workerspower.uk/the-victory-of-the-taliban-and-its-international-significance/) - Statement by the International Secretariat - L5I
- [Why we are relaunching Workers Power](https://workerspower.uk/editorial-why-we-are-relaunching-workers-power/) - Editorial September 2021 No. 385
- [Stop the coup in Sudan!](https://workerspower.uk/stop-the-coup-in-sudan/) - Statement by the International Secretariat - L5I
- [IWD 2024: step up the fight against war](https://workerspower.uk/iwd-2024-redouble-the-struggle-for-peace-equality-and-liberation-through-socialist-revolution/) - On IWD2024, redouble the struggle for peace, justice and women's liberation
- [French elections: No vote for the Popular Front](https://workerspower.uk/french-elections-no-vote-for-the-popular-front/) - The new popular front is no barrier to the rise of the far right
- [Far right quelled by anti-racist mobilisations – but no room for complacency](https://workerspower.uk/far-right-quelled-by-anti-racist-mobilisations-but-no-room-for-complacency/) - Antiracist demonstrations show working class solidarity is the way to stop fascist terror.
- [Trump 2.0 will galvanise worldwide attacks on working class and democratic rights](https://workerspower.uk/trump-2-0-will-galvanise-worldwide-attacks-on-working-class-and-democratic-rights/) - Right-wing populists and fascists will be encouraged by a new Trump presidency to step up their attacks
- [For a regroupment of revolutionaries](https://workerspower.uk/for-a-regroupment-of-revolutionaries/) - A joint statement between the ISL, the ITO and the L5I on regroupment discussions
- [1 May: Workers and oppressed unite!](https://workerspower.uk/1-may-workers-and-oppressed-unite/) - Workers Power Political Committee statement for 1 May 2025
- [No to occupation and war in Kashmir](https://workerspower.uk/no-to-occupation-and-war-in-kashmir/) - A statement by communists in Pakistan against the new war danger in occupied Kashmir
- [No to war between India and Pakistan!](https://workerspower.uk/no-to-war-between-india-and-pakistan/) - 7 May statement of the Revolutionary Socialist Movement, on the India-Pakistan conflict
- [Solidarity with the Ecuadorian people and their social organisations!](https://workerspower.uk/solidarity-with-the-ecuadorian-people-and-their-social-organisations/) - Statement in solidarity with the social movements in Ecuador
- [Imperialists impose 'peace' of the graveyard on Gaza](https://workerspower.uk/imperialists-impose-peace-of-the-graveyard-on-gaza/) - Donald Trump's 'peace plan' aims to turn Gaza into a western colony
- [A new stage in revolutionary regroupment](https://workerspower.uk/a-new-stage-in-revolutionary-regroupment/) - Thirty-six years ago, the predecessors of the L5I set out to re-elaborate the revolutionary programme of Marxism, renew the struggle against reformism and centrism, and fight for the reconstruction of a revolutionary communist International. Today, with our decision to join the LIS on the basis of a newly agreed common programme, one chapter of that struggle closes—and a new one opens.
- [Against Trump’s escalating interventionism in Venezuela, Colombia, and Latin America](https://workerspower.uk/against-trumps-escalating-interventionism-in-venezuela-colombia-and-latin-america/) - The solution to the Venezuelan crisis will not come from the bourgeois opposition or from a US intervention, as it can only be forged from within the Venezuelan people and its working class, on condition that they reorganise, mobilise in unity of action, and recover their capacity to fight, with an authentic revolutionary leadership, for power and the democratic and anti-capitalist transformation of the country together with the anti-imperialist struggle of all the Latin American peoples.
- [Communist principles of youth organisation](https://workerspower.uk/communist-principles-of-youth-organisation/) - The revolutionary tradition of communist youth organisation and its applicability today.
- [Students shake the Con-Dems, now workers can break them](https://workerspower.uk/students-shake-the-con-dems-workers-can-break-them/) - 2010 WAS A year of youth rebellion as the students from schools and colleges across the country took furious action against the Tories' hike in fees and cuts in grants. Let no one speak of the apathetic, playstation generation again. The cry of 'Tory scum' went up in every town and city across Britain. Voiced
- ["We turned Oxford into Paris!"](https://workerspower.uk/we-turned-oxford-into-paris/) - Over 1000 Oxford students marched through Oxford protesting spending cuts and the Browne review. A student body noted for its conservatism battled the police in an attempt to occupy the university. Today we saw the birth of a new student movement. Organised An initial organising meeting of 200 students discussed the Browne review and its
- [Riot girls or thinking women?](https://workerspower.uk/riot-girls-2/) - The day after the mass student walkout on 24 November, the Daily Mail ran the headline, “The Rage of the Girl Rioters”, supposedly exposing a new generation of mindless female thugs. Although the Mail described the images as “disturbing”, I think it was an inspiration to see so many young women protesting. Ninety years on
- [Camden girls proud to fight!](https://workerspower.uk/camden-girls-proud-to-fight/) - We staged a 24-hour “teach-in” on Wednesday 8 December in a form of protest against this coalition Government, which has now voted for the raising of tuition fees up to £9,000. The main reason for the occupation was to raise awareness through media coverage about this rise in tuition fees, and we feel we were
- [Student struggle inspires UK-wide fight against cuts](https://workerspower.uk/student-struggle-inspires-fight/) - Youth and students in Britain have run an astonishing campaign against cuts to education funding, tuition fee increases and the withdrawal of central government funding for the Education Maintenance Allowance. The month of high-intensity protest saw public opinion sway in favour of the student demonstrators, a political crisis in the Liberal Democrats, and most importantly,
- [Fees fight not over](https://workerspower.uk/fees-fight-not-over/) - Now that parliament has voted to increase tuition fees and abolish the Education Maintenance Allowance (EMA), the student movement needs to force universities and councils to refuse to implement the policies. The next stage is to demand that each local authority keeps funding and distributing EMA and campaigns for every universities to freeze tuition fees
- [Stop police brutality](https://workerspower.uk/stop-police-brutality/) - On 9 December thousands of students defied the law, passed by the last Labour government, to march into Parliament Square. The police responded by “kettling” protesters for hours in the freezing cold without food, water, toilets, even denying the injured medical attention. This is a denial of our civil rights to assemble and march, and
- [Education about discipline and values, not learning, says Gove](https://workerspower.uk/education-about-discipline-and-values-not-learning-says-gove/) - Teachers need on-the-job training, not proper education, according to the latest government white paper, The Importance of Teaching. Put forward by Michael Gove, Secretary of State for Education, the document outlines plans to ditch the one-year postgraduate course for new teachers – mostly university based education and training – and to carry out training at
- [Vote for NUS left slate](https://workerspower.uk/vote-for-nus-left-slate/) - National Union of Students President Aaron Porter will be facing an election challenge at this years NUS conference, as left-wing student activists announced they would group together to form an anti-cuts, anti-fees slate. Joana Pinto, press officer for the National Campaign Against Fees and Cuts, and Workers Power member, will be standing for the Vice
- [NUS leadership has no strategy to win](https://workerspower.uk/nus-leadership-has-no-strategy-to-win/) - When the NUS NEC passed a strategy document, supported by NUS president Aaron Porter for the student movement on 10 January, they showed once again that they want to plead and negotiate with the Con Dem government, rather than organise a fight to stop their plans. The document agreed to sponsor the Manchester demonstration on
- [Angry students chase NUS President off demo](https://workerspower.uk/angry-students-chase-nus-president-off-demo/) - Yesterday over 4000 students, workers and youth took to the streets of Manchester against the Con Dem cuts to EMA, education funding, and the public sector. Official ‘leaders’ of the movement tried to hold back protesters from expressing their anger. But they only showed their increasing irrelevance to the struggle. Many activists held placards declaring
- [Britain’s young jilted generation](https://workerspower.uk/britains-young-jilted-generation/) - SOME PEOPLE would have you believe that young people today are lazy and that they don’t care about education. Adverts tell young people how terrible their life will be without the right shoes, deodorant or iPhone. Teachers and celebrities tell us that there is a world full of opportunities and it’s our own fault if
- [NUS conference 2011: the fight for students has just begun](https://workerspower.uk/nus-conference-2011/) - Joana Pinto talks about her experience running for NUS Vice President position, NUS conference, and where students can take the fight from here This year’s NUS conference came after the year of walkouts and protests, of strikes and occupations, of thousands and thousands of students taking the streets in a wave of radicalism unseen for
- [Joana Pinto speaks to NUS conference: 'together we can win'](https://workerspower.uk/joana-nus-speech/) - Joana Pinto stood for the Vice President Union Development position at this years NUS conference. Below is her speech, calling for a fighting students union I am standing as VP-Union Development as the candidate of change. I stand for a new student movement – one starting from the bottom up, from your local unions and
- [Youth see no future under Con-Dems](https://workerspower.uk/youth-see-no-future-under-con-dems/) - As the majority of UK working class youth face a future without further education and limited job prospects, what has to be done? asks Joy Macready In a moment of candour on 17 May, David Cameron told the Commons Liaison Committee that the UK had “schools and opportunity” problems for young people. Well, yes,
- [Education and resistance: next steps for the student movement](https://workerspower.uk/education-and-resistance-next-steps-for-the-student-movement/) - As the student academic year draws to a close, the summer is a good time for reflection on the year that was. John Bowman provides a balance sheet for Revolution. Read it here
- [Chair of Birkbeck Union hammers A.C Grayling's new private university for rich kids](https://workerspower.uk/chair-of-birkbeck-union-hammers-a-c-graylings-new-private-university-for-rich-kids/) - A new private university, New College of Humanities, is set to offer degrees with big name intellectuals for the outrageous sum of £18,000. Scandalously, it plans to be part of the University of London and even use its public facilities such as the University of London Union. Birkbeck Student Union Chair, and Vice President-Elect of
- [Open letter: Grave concerns over NCAFC 5 June conference](https://workerspower.uk/open-letter-grave-concerns-over-ncafc-5-june-conference/) - From anticuts.com We have grave concerns about the recent Ncafc conference – both how it was organised and the outcome of the conference, which imposed a new set of structures that undermine the unity and inclusivity of the national organisation. The conference was called with less than four week’s notice and was not brought as
- [The Demise of the Public University](https://workerspower.uk/httpwww-newleftproject-orgindex-phpsitearticle_commentsthe_demise_of_the_public_university/) - There was a time when the neoliberal campus was just a coveted aspiration of the political right. Now students and lecturers live with the heavy burden of its realisation, writes Luke Cooper at New Left Project.
- [Charlie Gilmour: another example of political sentencing](https://workerspower.uk/charlie-gilmour-political-prisoner/) - Another outrageous prison sentence has been handed down to a protester, writes Rachel Brooks Charlie Gilmour, son of Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour, has been jailed for 16 months for violent disorder at last year’s student protests. His 'crimes' were sitting on the bonnet of a car carrying Charles and Camilla, and for a throwing
- [With the working class youth of London – against the police](https://workerspower.uk/with-the-working-class-youth-of-london-against-the-police/) - Statement by Workers Power – 8 August For the third night running, working class youth are on the streets of London fighting the police in running battles. By the evening of Monday 8 August, the uprising had spread to Hackney, Lewisham, Peckham, Croydon and Birmingham with skirmishes in Clapham, Seven Sisters and dozens of other
- [Chile: student movement grows from kiss-in towards general strike](https://workerspower.uk/chile-student-movement-grows-from-kiss-in-towards-general-strike/) - A mass movement of school and university students has Chile’s right wing president Sebastián Piñera on the ropes. Jeremy Dewar reports Yesterday, Tuesday 9 August, 150,000 high school and university students marched with their teachers through the streets of Santiago. Tens of thousands more demonstrated in Concepción, Valparaiso and other cities. As happened the previous
- [General strike: Chilean workers and students unite](https://workerspower.uk/general-strike-chilean-workers-and-students-unite/) - Massive student protests and strikes have rocked Chile as people fight back against education cuts by the unpopular right wing government, write Jeremy Dewar and Dave Stockton IN CHILE some 82 trade unions, student organisations and civil society bodies combined to mobilise for the two-day general strike or national stoppage. Called by the Workers United Central
- [Militant action can reverse Con-Dem education reforms](https://workerspower.uk/militant-action-can-reverse-con-dem-education-reforms/) - A year after students took to the streets, the fight for the future of education in Britain continues. As young people are confronted with few university places and even fewer job opportunities, the need to integrate the education and the anti-cuts movement becomes even more urgent, writes Joana Ramiro AFTER THE A-level results came out,
- [More political persecution of student activists](https://workerspower.uk/more-political-persecution-of-student-activists/) - Dan Edmonds reports on the latest round of students going through the courts after the protests AS THE courts prepare to give recent alleged rioters punitive sentences and the right wing media clamour for harsher punishments, we should not forget the attacks that the state launched on protesters in the aftermath of the student and
- ['Fuck the police!' Working-class youth and the routine abuse of power](https://workerspower.uk/fuck-the-police-working-class-youth-and-the-routine-abuse-of-power/) - This article gives a stark insight into the day-to-day experience of police brutality and racism in our inner city communities that fuelled the recent riots. Although we don't agree with the author's opposition to cuts in police budgets (Workers Power stands for democratic, working class policing from below, not capitalist policing from above), it's vital reading
- [Education not for sale](https://workerspower.uk/education-not-for-sale/) - Public education is under attack. Greedy corporations are hell bent on getting their hands on schools, colleges and universities – desperate to make a profit out of education and knowledge. This is having a terrible affect on young people, adult learners and education workers – as the market drives up costs, drives down standards and
- [New report in ‘cuts cause poverty’ shock](https://workerspower.uk/new-report-in-cuts-cause-poverty-shock/) - Have you noticed that the Con-Dems’ have stopped insisting ‘we’re all this together’? A new report showing child poverty rates spiralling as cuts hit the poorest families hardest might help explain why. The report, published by the Campaign to End Child Poverty tells a tale of two cities in Leeds. Child poverty rates in the
- [Student strikes rock Quebec and Chile](https://workerspower.uk/student-strikes-rock-quebec-and-chile/) - Students in Québec, Canada have been on strike for three months against the government’s attempts to raise university tuition fees, while Chilean students are protesting for reforms in the public education system, writes KD Tait THE GENERAL unlimited strike, organised by a coalition of student federations, started on February 13 and has drawn in
- [Work without pay - no way!](https://workerspower.uk/jubilee-workfare-scandal/) - By Sally Turner Eighty youth from Bristol, Bath and Plymouth were forced to sleep out under London Bridge, do unpaid work and had no access to toilets for over 24 hours during the Queen’s Jubilee in London. Thirty jobseekers and 50 on apprenticeships “worked” for Close Protection UK (CPUK) under the Coalition government’s workfare system.
- [Exam reforms are a con](https://workerspower.uk/english-baccalaureate-reform/) - 'Time to tackle the dumbing down' is the new slogan of the Tory education 'reforms' which aim to make school serve the needs of the market, not the students. At their heart these counter-reforms aim to segregate students by class, limiting working class students to basic literacy and numeracy skills or, at best, technical, vocational
- [Where next for the student movement?](https://workerspower.uk/november-21-nus-demo/) - On November 21 the National Union of Students (NUS) will march in London under the slogan ‘Educate, Employ, Empower’. The protest is supported by the National Campaign Against Fees and Cuts (NCAFC), Education Activists Network (EAN) and the UCU. Activists across the country are organising for the biggest possible turnout, but participation seems uneven and
- [Young people in the forefront of the struggle](https://workerspower.uk/the-futures-ours-if-we-want-it/) - By KD Tait Across the world young people are in the forefront of mass movements for democracy and human rights and against the exploitation and oppression of a system which enriches the 1% at the expense of the 99%. From the teenage women stitching Nike shoes for poverty wages in China to the radical school
- [Students - reorganise, refocus, resist](https://workerspower.uk/students-reorganise-refocus-resist/) - 2012 was a year to forget for the Tories. It was, in the main, a year to forget for student activists as well, writes K D Tait. The first year of £9,000 fees saw a 10 per cent drop in student numbers. September saw the government try to deport thousands of overseas students from London
- [Sri Lanka: release student leaders!](https://workerspower.uk/sri-lanka-release-student-leaders/) - Statement of the Socialist Party of Sri Lanka, section of the League for the Fifth International Two student leaders, Sanjeewa Bandara, Convenor of the Inter University Student Federation, IUSF, and Kimbullawe Chandrananda, Convenor of the Inter University Bhikku Federation, IUBF, have been detained by police in the capital, Colombo. Both were arrested on grounds
- [Building a revolutionary youth organisation in Britain](https://workerspower.uk/revolutionary-youth-revsocs-britain/) - By KD Tait The Revolutionary Socialists, formed around a core of former Socialist Worker Student Societies (SWSS) groups, have hit the ground running with successful interventions during Freshers’ Fairs at universities in Leicester, Leeds, Liverpool, London and Sheffield. With meetings of up to 50 students, three local zines launched, and a large presence on
- [French youth raise barricades against racism](https://workerspower.uk/french-youth-raise-barricades-against-racism/) - By KD Tait In October, thousands of French school and college students blockaded schools and took to the streets to protest the deportation of 15-year-old student Léonarda Dibrani. Dibrani, a young Roma woman, was dragged off her school bus and deported to Kosovo on 9 October. One week later, Armenian student Khatchik Kachatryan
- [London Young Labour conference: not fit for purpose](https://workerspower.uk/london-young-labour-conference-not-fit-for-purpose/) - Despite the youthfulness of the movement that brought Corbyn to power, it was years before Corbynites made serious inroads into Labour’s bureaucratic and virtually moribund youth organisations, which had been exploited for decades as merely a conveyor belt between universities and the party apparatus.
- [School closures: skeleton service or community organisation?](https://workerspower.uk/school-closures-skeleton-service-or-community-organisation/) - The vulnerable will suffer most in any social – and economic – lockdown. We must insist schools apply a broad definition to the terms of which students and families are ‘vulnerable’ based on need, not the dictates of an uncaring, neoliberal government seeking to protect business over workers and the poor.
- [Unite and fight for jobs and education](https://workerspower.uk/unite-and-fight-for-jobs-and-education/) - Students must organise solidarity with workers struggles.
- [Locked-down students betrayed by uni bosses: #RentStrike now!](https://workerspower.uk/locked-down-students-organising-rent-strikes/) - Government mismanagement and landlord profiteering has left students locked up in highly expensive accommodation which is rapidly becoming an incubator for the virus.
- [Imperialism in the classroom: decolonise the curriculum](https://workerspower.uk/imperialism-in-the-classroom-decolonise-the-curriculum/) - Tories ban anti-capitalist materials from the classroom.
- [Students strike against university management](https://workerspower.uk/students-strike-against-university-management/) - Manchester students have occupied a university building.
- [London school students walk out over rape and harassment](https://workerspower.uk/london-school-students-walk-out-over-rape-and-harassment/) - Highgate students walked out on 25 March.
- [Child sexual exploitation scandal](https://workerspower.uk/child-sexual-exploitation-scandal/) - Racist myth-making obscures real causes of violence against women and girls.
- [Grooming gangs: Racist scapegoating trumps justice](https://workerspower.uk/grooming-gangs-racist-scapegoating-trumps-justice/) - The UK government’s latest proposal for an inquiry into ‘grooming gangs’ is a thinly veiled racist witch-hunt, designed to scapegoat Muslim and South Asian communities while ignoring systemic failures in protecting vulnerable children.
- [Police: a state-sponsored grooming gang](https://workerspower.uk/police-a-state-sponsored-grooming-gang/) - Survivors have accused South Yorkshire police of participating in and covering up sexual abuse
- [Theses on the Anti-Imperialist United Front](https://workerspower.uk/theses-on-the-anti-imperialist-united-front/) - Resolution outlining the tactics of communists towards non-proletarian classes in the struggle against imperialism in the semi-colonies.
- [MRCI resolution: Austrian workers and the European Community](https://workerspower.uk/mrci-resolution-austrian-workers-and-the-european-community/) - Resolution on the communist attitude to Austrian entry into the EEC.
- [MRCI resolution: Solidarity with the Palestinian uprising](https://workerspower.uk/mrci-resolution-solidarity-with-the-palestinian-uprising/) - Resolution on the outbreak of the first intifada
- [MRCI resolution on the Soviet intervention in Afghanistan](https://workerspower.uk/mrci-resolution-on-the-soviet-intervention-in-afghanistan/) - The Soviet intervention in Afghanistan and the tasks of revolutionaries
- [MRCI theses on Gorbachev](https://workerspower.uk/mrci-theses-on-gorbachev/) - An analysis of the Gorbachev reform programme and perspective for the political revolution
- [Nationalism, Nation States and National Liberation](https://workerspower.uk/nationalism-nation-states-and-national-liberation-2/) - Principles, strategy and tactics in the struggle for national liberation.
- [Autumn 2013 Political-economic perspectives](https://workerspower.uk/political-perspectives-autumn-2013/) - Perspectives, strategy and tasks in the class struggle.
- [Theses on the Arab Spring](https://workerspower.uk/revolution-counter-revolution-middle-east-north-africa-arab-spring/) - Resolution on the revolutions and counter-revolutions in the Arab Spring.
- [A year of war in Ukraine](https://workerspower.uk/a-year-of-war-in-ukraine/) - Resolution adopted by the XIIth Congress of the League for the Fifth International.
- [Labour Party Democracy Review - where to begin?](https://workerspower.uk/labour-party-democracy-review-where-to-begin/) - LABOUR'S DEMOCRACY review, led by Katy Clark, is an important opportunity for members to demand the opening up of the party to greater, meaningful participation from below. We list here some of our recommendations for the review. We have included the call for mandatory re-selection of MPs, even though the review does not explicitly refer
- [Momentum candidates sweep new NEC places](https://workerspower.uk/momentum-candidates-sweep-new-nec-places/) - THE CLEAN sweep of Momentum candidates for three new seats created to represent Labour’s expanded membership on its nec is a chance for the left to press for long overdue democratic reform of the party. Yasmine Dar, Rachel Garnham and Jon Lansman’s landslide victory confirms the demoralisation and decline of the right’s base amongst the
- [Sadiq Khan revives racist Stop & Search](https://workerspower.uk/sadiq-khan-revives-racist-stop-search/) - ACCORDING TO police records, knife crime has risen by 21 per cent in the past year, and gun-related offences by 20 per cent. There were over 37,000 arrests for knife offences and over 6,000 for gun crimes. All recorded crimes were up 14 per cent. For the communities, families and individuals caught up in these
- [Newham Mayor ungraciously concedes members' democratic rights](https://workerspower.uk/newham-mayor-ungraciously-concedes-members-democratic-rights/) - IN A dramatic about turn, Newham’s directly elected Mayor, Sir Robin Wales, has called for an “open selection” ballot to choose the Labour Party candidate in May’s election. This comes more than a year after party members challenged the result of a “trigger ballot” which confirmed Wales, Mayor since 2002, as the candidate. In that
- [The Elephant in the Council chamber](https://workerspower.uk/the-elephant-in-the-council-chamber/) - SOME SOUTHWARK Labour councillors have been halted – if only temporarily – in their quest to turn Elephant & Castle’s dilapidated but community-oriented shopping centre into a mecca for the middle classes. A property developer Delancey bought the site and has applied to re-build it with no adequate plans to relocate existing small traders and
- [Corbyn promises immediate action to help record numbers of homeless](https://workerspower.uk/corbyn-promises-immediate-action-to-help-record-numbers-of-homeless/) - AS FIGURES showed rough sleeping in England increased for the seventh consecutive year, Jeremy Corbyn promised a Labour government would immediately buy 8,000 homes to tackle the crisis. Official government data shows that on any given night in autumn last year, 4,751 people were recorded sleeping on the streets, a figure that has more than doubled since
- [Leading by example: The life and struggles of Minnie Lansbury](https://workerspower.uk/leading-by-example-the-life-and-struggles-of-minnie-lansbury/) - MINNIE Lansbury was born in 1889 in Stepney in the East End of London. Her parents, Annie and Isaac Glassman, were Jewish refugees from Poland, who had escaped the pogroms fomented by the Russian Tsarist police. Her tragically short life amongst the slums of the area where she was born was filled with struggle alongside
- [Labour: making "irreversible gains for women"?](https://workerspower.uk/labour-making-irreversible-gains-for-women/) - A decade of austerity has undermined many of the economic, social and political gains achieved by women since the 1970s. Job losses, cuts to welfare and social care, and the rise in part time and precarious work, are just some of the factors intensifying the problems faced by women who have to work harder for
- [Fighting sexism in the labour movement](https://workerspower.uk/fighting-sexism-in-the-labour-movement/) - COMPLAINTS of sexual harassment and discrimination by women officers and activists often go unresolved in the unions and the Labour Party. This is a shameful record and one that must be corrected immediately. The campaign group LabourToo, has submitted a dossier of complaints about such behaviour in the Labour Party. It consists of 43 anonymised
- [Skripal Affair: Time for Labour to come in from the cold war](https://workerspower.uk/sergei-skripal-labour-corbyn-oppose-cold-war/) - ON 4 MARCH 2018, a former Russian spy turned double agent for MI5, Sergei Skripal, and his daughter Yulia, were poisoned using Novichok, a hitherto obscure nerve agent. The British government has named Russia and its newly re-elected President, Vladimir Putin, as the culprit. The main evidence is the claimed development of Novichok by Russia,
- [Where was Labour on Palestine demonstration?](https://workerspower.uk/labour-corbyn-gaza-demonstration/) - By KD Tait THERE WERE a lot of Labour people on Saturday's demo for the 15 Gazans murdered in cold blood by Israel - but there was not one Labour MP among them. Why? The protest was so supportable, called by Palestine solidarity campaigns to protest the murder of 31 civilians by Israeli occupation forces
- [Newham: Labour party members finally oust Robin Wales](https://workerspower.uk/newham-labour-wales-fiaz-mayor-selection/) - ROBIN WALES, the long-standing, perhaps long-reigning would be more accurate, directly elected Mayor of Newham, has finally been deselected as the Labour Party's candidate in the forthcoming mayoral election. In an Open Selection ballot of the membership, held after Wales was not adopted as the candidate in a second Trigger Ballot, he was roundly defeated,
- [Labour can lead the fight against imperialism and war](https://workerspower.uk/labour-can-lead-the-fight-against-imperialism-and-war/) - By KD Tait THE US, French, and British attack on the Syrian regime’s chemical warfare facilities, ostensibly in retaliation for the recent chemical attack in Douma, was little more than a cynical attempt by the Nato powers to avoid being made to look totally impotent by the Syrian dictator - whilst carefully avoiding a direct
- [Labour should step up the pressure to end UK support for Israel's war crimes](https://workerspower.uk/labour-party-oppose-uk-support-israel/) - By KD Tait This year marks 70 years since the foundation of Israel and the Nakba, in which more than 700,000 Palestinians were driven from their homes. Over the last month, refugees and their descendants in Gaza have been holding peaceful protests in support of the right to return. These demonstrations have faced savage repression
- [The NHS at 70: Labour's tarnished jewel](https://workerspower.uk/nhs-70-anniversary/) - JUNE 5 2018 is the 70th anniversary of the National Health Service – the jewel in the crown of the British Labour Party and the welfare state. But the celebrations are tempered by the knowledge that the NHS is mired in the biggest crisis of its history, one that threatens the survival of a health
- [Labour must come clean on Brexit](https://workerspower.uk/labour-must-come-clean-on-brexit/) - By Peter Main THIS MONTH sees the second anniversary of the “Brexit Referendum” and, a few days later, the opening of a crucial EU summit on 28 June. Until now, it has been possible for Theresa May to hold her party together by publicly echoing the rhetoric of the “hard Brexiteers” whilst, in the actual
- [The left’s Brexit debate is nasty, dangerous and narrow](https://workerspower.uk/labour-left-brexit-debate-nasty-dangerous-narrow/) - By Simon Hannah THE FIGHT over whether to leave the European Union is increasing in tempo. Hundreds of thousands marched in central London on 23 June (venomously described by some as "liberals", "Blairites", "croissant eating intellectuals" and so on) while sections of the left in Labour have swung to being militant Lexiteers. There is a
- [Theresa May's Chequered Brexit](https://workerspower.uk/theresa-may-chequers-brexit-hybrid/) - By KD Tait After warning mutinous backbenchers that a divided Tory party risks paving the way for a Jeremy Corbyn-led Labour government, Theresa May gambled on splitting the pro-Brexit faction of her party, and uniting the Cabinet around the “hybrid” negotiating position agreed at Chequers last Friday. For now, it seems the gamble has paid
- [Corbyn's 'Build it in Britain' speech](https://workerspower.uk/corbyns-build-it-in-britain-speech/) - JEREMY CORBYN'S Birmingham launch of Labour’s ‘Build it in Britain’ campaign has been welcomed by many Labour Party members as offering a roadmap to radical reorganisation of the economy “in the interests of the many, not the few.” Certainly it was about time Labour set out its industrial strategy. And there are certainly promises, repeated
- [Labour will continue with "fair, reasonable, and managed" detention centres and deportations](https://workerspower.uk/diane-abbott-announces-labour-immigration-policy/) - By Jeremy Dewar SHADOW Home Secretary Diane Abbott was in the words of the hymn ‘a kindly light amid the encircling gloom’ of the Brexit referendum; more so than any Labour front bencher, with the exception of Jeremy Corbyn, Abbott stood up for immigrants and the invaluable contribution they make to our society. As a
- [Frank Field 1979-2018](https://workerspower.uk/frank-field-1979-2018/) - By Rebecca Anderson WE SHOULDN'T speak ill of the dead. That’s what Deputy Labour Leader Tom Watson must have been thinking when he eulogised Frank Field’s passing as a “serious loss” to the Labour Party. However, the sentiment that all life is sacred is not one Field shared, so in his memory let’s dispense with
- [Democracy Review must be the start, not the end](https://workerspower.uk/democracy-review-must-be-the-start-not-the-end/) - By Jeremy Dewar IT IS ironic perhaps that the Democracy Review, which is to be voted on at conference, will not be published until probably a day before the event. With a whole year to complete the business and plan deadlines, it lacks a certain prerequisite of democracy, transparency, in delaying till the last minute.
- [Labour’s members are its strength: it’s time to listen to them on Brexit](https://workerspower.uk/labours-members-are-its-strength-its-time-to-listen-to-them-on-brexit/) - ANOTHER poll published yesterday by YouGov reveals that the overwhelming majority of Labour members (86%) support a referendum once negotiations are complete. This has prompted the predictable objection: "It's a rigged/inaccurate poll" We know that pollsters got it wrong in 2017 and massively underestimated Jeremy Corbyn's support, but YouGov were one of the only pollsters
- [An open letter to Labour Party conference delegates](https://workerspower.uk/an-open-letter-to-labour-party-conference-delegates/) - By KD Tait THIS YEAR'S conference is the fourth under Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership but much of the legacy of the Blair and Brown years is still with us. Above all, this means that conference will play no real role in finalising policy on the most important issues facing the party; Brexit, economic policy of a Labour
- [The fight for Labour Party Black Sections](https://workerspower.uk/the-fight-for-labour-party-black-sections/) - By Jeremy Dewar IT is fitting to mark Black History Month this year by focusing on a battle fought largely inside the Labour Party between 1983 and 1993 for two reasons. First, Black History Month was initiated by groups of mainly black Caribbean and Asian members of the Labour Party, who fought to make the
- [The Fight for Rank and File Democracy in the Trade Unions](https://workerspower.uk/the-fight-for-rank-and-file-democracy-in-the-trade-unions/) - By Andy Yorke THE rejection of proposals to democratise the selection of MPs and the nomination of candidates for the Leadership at Labour's Liverpool conference threw a spotlight on the role of the unions in deciding party policy. Many first time delegates were shocked, and many more were infuriated, when, despite overwhelming support from the
- [The Workers’ Answer to Brexit](https://workerspower.uk/the-workers-answer-to-brexit/) - THE starting point for any socialist looking to determine their stance on Brexit is to ascertain whether it is in the interests of the working class. All other considerations – electoral impact, the finality or otherwise of any given referendum outcome, the attitude to Brexit of the big capitalists or Chukka Umunna – are all
- [John McDonnell's 'Industrial Democracy': From Workers Into Shareholders?](https://workerspower.uk/john-mcdonnells-industrial-democracy-from-workers-into-shareholders/) - By Simon Hannah JOHN McDonnell’s announcement at the 2018 Labour Party conference that companies with over 250 workers would have to give over 10 percent of their shares to their staff has been praised by some on the left and even got positive support in an opinion poll by Yougov. The proposal will see companies
- [Labour Party Conference report 2018: two steps forward, one step back](https://workerspower.uk/labour-party-conference-report-2018-two-steps-forward-one-step-back/) - By KD Tait LABOUR'S ANNUAL conference was widely judged a success. Even the normally hostile media were forced to admit that it confirmed Jeremy Corbyn as a credible Opposition leader who had finally succeeded in stamping his authority on the party. The much trailed possibility of open divisions, perhaps even a split to form a
- [Motion: Solidarity with the people of Brazil](https://workerspower.uk/model-motion-solidarity-with-the-people-of-brazil/) - A motion for use in promoting solidarity with the people of Brazil following the election of far-right president Jair Bolsonaro
- [Motion: Build a united front against racism and fascism](https://workerspower.uk/motion-build-a-united-front-against-racism-and-fascism/) - A motion to support the launch of Labour Against Racism and Fascism
- [No Brexit: No Compromise!](https://workerspower.uk/no-brexit-no-conpromise/) - Theresa May is trying to blackmail Parliament into voting for her deal. Labour must stand firm
- [Controversial launch for Labour anti-racism campaign](https://workerspower.uk/laraf-another-fine-mess/) - Grassroots activist initiative expropriated by Momentum
- [Empty gestures as Corbyn and May inch closer to Brexit](https://workerspower.uk/empty-gestures-as-corbyn-and-may-inch-closer-to-brexit/) - Jeremy Corbyn's response to Theresa May’s new plan for Brexit was perceptive enough: “nothing has changed”.
- [Jeremy Corbyn's Letter Is Not "Honest Politics"](https://workerspower.uk/jeremy-corbyns-letter-is-not-honest-politics/) - By trampling on conference policy, Corbyn has exchanged one rotten compromise for another.
- [Brexit is breaking Britain's politics](https://workerspower.uk/britains-brexit-crisis/) - The impossibility of reconciling the vote to leave the EU with the interests of British capitalism has triggered a historic crisis
- [We need an internationalist alternative to Brexit](https://workerspower.uk/we-need-an-internationalist-alternative-to-brexit/) - The internationalist left need to outline an alternative to Corbyn's nationalist Brexit project
- [The Working Class supports free movement, Labour must too](https://workerspower.uk/the-working-class-supports-free-movement-labour-must-too/) - FBU Executive Council Member Paul Embery claims the working class oppose freedom of movement in the EU. But polling shows this is far from the case.
- [The march against Brexit exposed the self-defeating policy of Labour's leaders](https://workerspower.uk/the-march-against-brexit-exposed-the-self-defeating-policy-of-labours-leaders/) - Socialists need to take up the anti-racist and internationalist spirit of the movement and channel it towards socialist solutions
- [What is Jeremy Corbyn Playing at?](https://workerspower.uk/what-is-jeremy-corbyn-playing-at/) - The reason for Corbyn and Abbott’s support for wanting to leave the EU is, however, more than a vote-catching calculus or just keeping the party together. They believe that it is a necessary pre-condition for a reforming Labour government.
- [EU elections: why Anti-Brexit Socialists should still vote Labour](https://workerspower.uk/eu-elections-why-anti-brexit-socialists-should-still-vote-labour/) - Despite the confusion caused by Labour's fudged Brexit position, internationalist Labour voters should not abandon the party for the Greens or the Lib Dems at the EU Elections.
- [EU elections show time for Brexit compromise is over](https://workerspower.uk/eu-elections-show-time-for-brexit-compromise-is-over/) - Labour members should fight for a special conference to win the party to an unequivocal policy of defeating Brexit and fighting for a socialist Europe
- [Reject Momentum’s democracy proposals – demand a sovereign conference](https://workerspower.uk/reject-momentums-democracy-proposals-demand-a-sovereign-conference/) - The low horizons of Momentum’s democracy review forces us to ask the question - what is Momentum for?
- [Brexit "a slow moving car crash"](https://workerspower.uk/brexit-a-slow-moving-car-crash/) - The Corbyn project for an anti-austerity Labour government is in danger. From Jeremy Corbyn himself.
- [Labour’s two faced Brexit](https://workerspower.uk/labours-two-faced-brexit/) - Jeremy Corbyn's latest statement on Labour's Brexit policy, in an email to party members, has been presented as a major shift towards a "Remain" position. It is not. It is essentially a re-statement of what has been the policy since the Liverpool conference; "constructive ambiguity" or, in plain terms, a fudge. At most, there is
- [Boris Johnson’s war cabinet prepares for hard Brexit](https://workerspower.uk/boris-johnsons-war-cabinet-prepares-for-hard-brexit/) - On Thursday night, Britain’s new prime minister wielded the knife and unveiled his new war cabinet – elevating the extreme fringe of the Tory parliamentary party to the heart of government.
- [Stop Johnson's No Deal coup — by any means necessary!](https://workerspower.uk/stop-johnsons-no-deal-coup-by-any-means-necessary/) - We need a massive campaign of resistance to this constitutional coup
- [Labour can stop the coup and take power](https://workerspower.uk/labour-can-stop-the-coup-and-take-power/) - Labour must rule lead the resistance to the coup in parliament - and on the streets
- [The Popular Front: a warning from history](https://workerspower.uk/do-we-need-a-popular-front-to-stop-johnson/) - Whatever name they go by, popular fronts inevitable subordinate the interests of the workers to the need to maintain the alliance with the bosses
- [Reject Corbyn’s pro-Brexit policy](https://workerspower.uk/reject-corbyns-pro-brexit-policy/) - The ‘deal’ agreed between the leader’s office and the trade unions is another stitch-up organised behind the backs of members, who should reject this unworkable policy
- [Labour bureaucrats gerrymander free movement motion ahead of conference](https://workerspower.uk/labour-bureaucrats-gerrymander-free-movement-motion-ahead-of-conference/) - In the run up to Labour Party Conference 2019, the Labour bureaucracy has stitched up its members by shutting down debate on freedom of movement.
- [Labour: the fight for free movement starts now](https://workerspower.uk/labour-free-movement-policy-democracy/) - At Labour Party conference in Brighton, the internationalist Left scored a significant victory on conference floor with the passage of a motion on immigration which, in principle, commits Labour to maintaining and extending freedom of movement; a radical break from Labour’s previous enthusiasm for immigration controls. The motion also mandates Labour to reject any points-based
- [Labour: fight to win - then fight for power](https://workerspower.uk/general-election-2019-fight-to-win-power/) - After three years of wrangling over Brexit, parliament has voted for a snap general election on 12 December. The battle lines for the election are clear. On one side are Boris Johnson’s Tories, backed by Donald Trump, who aim to finish what Thatcher started. A Tory government will unleash a Brexit fuelled blitzkrieg against workers’
- [Vote Labour to stop Brexit and launch the fightback!](https://workerspower.uk/vote-labour-to-stop-brexit-and-launch-the-fightback/) - Labour’s election campaign has got off to a strong start with reports of hundreds turning out for canvassing in constituencies up and down the country. Momentum is signing up teams to hit the streets in marginal seats, to organise mass phone banking and rallies in support of a programme of progressive reforms. The headline message is that
- [Labour's class problem](https://workerspower.uk/what-is-the-working-class-2/) - What is the working class in Britain? That is a pretty big topic to cover, fraught with all kinds of debate and controversies. Of course the Marxist left talks about the working class all the time because we see it as an agent of revolutionary change, a class with the potential to reshape the world along democratic and collective lines, away from capitalist exploitation and market based competition
- [Labour capitulates to Indian nationalist backlash against self-determination for Kashmir](https://workerspower.uk/labour-capitulates-to-indian-nationalist-backlash-against-self-determination-for-kashmir/) - Concerns that Labour could abandon its support for self-determination and human rights for Kashmir have been confirmed with the launch of its general election manifesto.
- [A failure of strategy](https://workerspower.uk/general-election-labour-defeat-where-now/) - LABOUR'S SHATTERING DEFEAT at the hands of Boris Johnson is a bitter day for millions of class conscious workers and most young people. Their hopes of reversing the ravages of austerity, of seriously addressing climate change, of breaking the shackles on the unions, have been cruelly dashed. Armed with a huge Commons majority, with a
- [Tories turn on child refugees](https://workerspower.uk/tories-turn-on-child-refugees/) - Boris Johnson’s Tory government published legislation in December announcing their intention to scrap the Vulnerable Children’s Resettlement Scheme (VCRS). This would enshrine in law the Tories’ hostility to child refugees
- [Johnson's victory, Corbyn's defeat, and the battles to come](https://workerspower.uk/johnsons-victory-corbyns-defeat-and-the-battles-to-come/) - A DECADE OF political crisis, the last half of which saw three general elections, two referendums, and three Tory prime ministers, has ended with Boris Johnson in Number Ten. A long time Telegraph journalist where he retailed “politically incorrect” i.e. the sexist, racist, homophobic, “jokes” that pass for wit amongst his party’s rank and file,
- [Labour Transformed: an opportunity for serious discussion](https://workerspower.uk/labour-transformed-an-opportunity-for-serious-discussion/) - LABOUR TRANSFORMED is an initiative of a group of activists to form an anticapitalist tendency in the Labour Party. Their inaugural public meeting was held in London just two days after Labour’s electoral defeat, which, it turned out, was ideal timing to capture the attention of about 150 activists looking for answers. Meeting Most of
- [Vote Rebecca Long-Bailey for Labour leader](https://workerspower.uk/vote-rebecca-long-bailey-for-labour-leader/) - THERE ARE FIVE candidates standing in the contest to succeed Jeremy Corbyn as leader of the Labour party, but members are faced with a clear choice between two: Sir Keir Starmer for the right, and Rebecca Long-Bailey for the left. A sixth nominee, Clive Lewis, the only black contender, and the only one with a
- [Labour leadership contest: defend women's right to choose](https://workerspower.uk/labour-leadership-contest-defend-womens-right-to-choose/) - Urte March responds to Rebecca Long-Bailey's comments on abortion and religious education.
- [Board of Deputies lays anti-Palestinian trap](https://workerspower.uk/board-of-deputies-lays-anti-palestinian-trap/) - All five leadership candidates have continued Corbyn's capitulation to the Zionist witch-hunt
- [Vote RLB - and make labour a party that fights](https://workerspower.uk/vote-rebecca-long-bailey-but-organise-the-labour-party-to-fight-the-tories/) - Defeating the right wing candidates is key to dragging Labour into real opposition to the Tories
- [Why the government is lying about coronavirus](https://workerspower.uk/why-the-government-is-lying-about-coronavirus/) - Our era is indeed facing ever more regular and more severe crises from global heating to financial meltdowns to pandemic diseases. Yet these global, social problems are being dealt with along rival national lines and under competing capitalist property rights
- [Why Covid-19 has pushed the NHS past breaking point](https://workerspower.uk/why-covid-19-has-pushed-the-nhs-past-breaking-point/) - The UK government’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic has exposed not only the ineptitude of the current government but the sorry state of our National Health Service, which has been pushed to breaking point by successive administrations
- [Keir Starmer’s election: the end of the Corbyn revolution](https://workerspower.uk/keir-starmers-election-the-end-of-the-corbyn-revolution/) - THE ELECTION OF Keir Starmer as Labour leader, with 56.2% of the vote, represents a clear victory for the right in the party. Neither the fact that some on the left were seduced into voting for Starmer, nor that Rebecca Long-Bailey got 27.6% of the vote, can disguise this. Starmer himself dispelled any doubts by
- [The Labour left after Corbyn: A chance to break with strategy of compromise](https://workerspower.uk/labour-left-after-corbyn/) - Two successive election defeats have opened a debate about the balance sheet of the Corbyn project, the objectives of the Labour left, and what role Momentum should play in the struggles to come.
- [Keir Starmer declares war on the left](https://workerspower.uk/keir-starmer-declares-war-on-the-left/) - We must protest Starmer’s sacking of RLB and demand her restatement with a full and humble apology. We must stop the witch-hunt of anti-Zionists, which is the prelude to a wider offensive on everything positive that remains of the Corbyn legacy.
- [Tower Hamlets Labour declares war on council workers](https://workerspower.uk/tower-hamlets-labour-declares-war-on-council-workers/) - The Unison branch at Tower Hamlets Council organised a solid three day strike against the unilateral mass sacking of the entire work force.
- [Where next after Momentum elections?](https://workerspower.uk/where-next-after-momentum-elections/) - By Urte March In the recent elections for Momentum’s national leadership, Red Flag stood three candidates as part of the Anticapitalist Platform. Our aim was to put forward an alternative programme: turn to the class struggle as the basis for rebuilding a mass movement capable of organising a socialist solution to the capitalist crises engulfing
- [Starmer lays down the law with CLP discussion ban](https://workerspower.uk/starmer-lays-down-the-law-with-clp-ban/) - By Tim Nailsea On 12 August, the Labour Party’s General Secretary, David Evans, sent an email to CLP secretaries banning discussion of ‘Sir’ Keir Starmer’s decision to settle a court case brought by former employees and the journalist John Ware, who had accused the party of slander in its rebuttal of their accusation of antisemitism
- [End the senseless slaughter, send aid not warships to migrants in the Channel!](https://workerspower.uk/end-the-senseless-slaughter-send-aid-not-warships-to-migrants-in-the-channel/) - Open the borders to refugees, economic migrants, asylum seekers.
- [Work or full pay!](https://workerspower.uk/work-or-full-pay/) - Ending the furlough scheme threatens many thousands of jobs.
- [The end of the eviction ban threatens many thousands with homelessness](https://workerspower.uk/the-end-of-the-eviction-ban-threatens-many-thousands-with-homelessness/) - 170,000 private tenants have been threatened with eviction.
- ["Jobs jobs jobs"](https://workerspower.uk/jobs-jobs-jobs/) - Labour’s unemployment policy means handouts for the rich.
- [Tories could unleash a second wave by reopening schools](https://workerspower.uk/tories-could-unleash-a-second-wave-by-reopening-schools/) - For parents', students' and teachers' control of health and safety in our schools.
- [Jobs for all!](https://workerspower.uk/jobs-for-all/) - Fight for work or full pay.
- [We need to talk about Labour](https://workerspower.uk/labour-party-leadership-mccluskey-unions/) - By KD Tait 21 May 2015 The biggest, most far reaching question posed by the Tories' election victory is what will now happen to the Labour Party. Even before all the results were in, the pundits, and its own right wing leaders, were blaming Labour's defeat on its continued links to the trades unions. Yet,
- [Vote Jeremy Corbyn for Labour leader](https://workerspower.uk/vote-jeremy-corbyn-for-labour-leader/) - 28 June, 2015 Against the odds, the socialist MP Jeremy Corbyn has made it onto the ballot for the Labour leadership election, transforming overnight a tepid debate between shades of Blairism into a struggle over Labour’s record and role in the labour movement and struggle against austerity. Corbyn’s campaign is a good thing for the
- [Delayed Corbyn demands rail nationalisation at Yorkshire hustings](https://workerspower.uk/delayed-corbyn-demands-rail-nationalisation-at-yorkshire-hustings/) - By Andy Yorke 12 July 2015 Hundreds of Labour party members and supporters, mostly thirty or older but a decent number of young people, piled into the Yorkshire regional Labour leadership hustings at Elland Road. There was an hour for Labour leader candidates – all of whom were present, with Jeremy Corbyn arriving just as
- [Class consciousness, class struggle and Jeremy Corbyn](https://workerspower.uk/jeremy-corbyn-campaign-labour-leadership-2/) - By KD Tait 29 July, 2015 Yvette Cooper has said victory for Jeremy Corbyn would turn Labour into “a protest movement” rather than a party that was serious about winning the next general election. In fact, victory for establishment Labour candidates like Cooper or Andy Burnham would signal the party’s intention to stand aside from
- [Corbyn in Camden: a new movement is born](https://workerspower.uk/jeremy-corbyn-rally-camden/) - By Jeremy Dewar On Monday 3 August the Jeremy Corby campaign came to London. After drawing crowds of 1,500 in Liverpool, 1,000 in Birmingham and hundreds upon hundreds in Luton, Coventry and elsewhere, it could not have surprised anyone that 2,500 turned out to see him in the Camden Centre. In fact the crowd was
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Jeremy Corbyn’s programme – a revolutionary socialist assessment](https://workerspower.uk/jeremy-corbyns-programme-a-revolutionary-socialist-assessment/) - By Dave Stockton 15 September 2015 Jeremy Corbyn's programme for a future Labour government contrasts dramatically with the austerity-lite policies that lost Ed Miliband and Ed Balls the general election. They are miles more radical and coherent than the mish mash offered up by Jeremy’s rival candidates in the Labour leadership election. In their own
- [Momentum launched in Lambeth and Southwark](https://workerspower.uk/momentum-launched-in-lambeth-and-southwark/) - Nearly 50 activists voted by over three to one to constitute themselves as Lambeth Momentum and Southwark Momentum on Thursday 15 October. They were enthused by the opportunity to create a movement oriented to struggle against the Tories – but also by the urgent need to complete the work of the sweeping victory of Jeremy
- [Which side are you on?](https://workerspower.uk/which-side-are-you-on/) - By Richard Brenner MILLIONS of people now have a choice. You can choose David Cameron and the Tories who want to cut tax credits for working people, cut benefits for disabled people and people who have lost their jobs, raise tuition fees for students and cut taxes for the rich. Or you can choose Labour
- [Joined Labour and not being made as welcome as you'd have liked?](https://workerspower.uk/joined-labour-and-not-being-made-as-welcome-as-youd-have-liked/) - Keen to get the hundreds of new members in your area active? Then try these 5 helpful tips to get people involved HOLD A SOCIAL EVENT It doesn't have to be all-signing, all-dancing...though that would be ideal. A local hall, someone's house, a local cafe or meeting room is fine. Make sure people can drop
- [Editorial: Keep up the Momentum](https://workerspower.uk/keep-up-the-momentum/) - 100,000 people who signed up to Jeremy Corbyn's campaign over the summer, ticked the box to indicate they wanted to keep in touch and get active after the election. Many are new activists or returnees to the party. Now the team behind Jeremy4Leader has decided to launch Momentum - a new movement to encourage them
- [Editorial: Don’t bomb Syria - don’t renew Trident](https://workerspower.uk/dont-bomb-syria-dont-renew-trident/) - DAVID Cameron is threatening to put a series of votes to the Commons that would radically up the tempo of the war drums. First there is his stated aim to expand the UK's theatre of operations in the Middle East to include bombing Syria. Labour has already, two years ago, thwarted this aim, when the intended
- [Labour left gathers momentum](https://workerspower.uk/labour-left-gathers-momentum/) - Matt Hale from Sheffield Central CLP (pc) spoke to Red Flag about the local Corbyn4Leader campaign RED FLAG: HOW DID JEREMY’S CAMPAIGN GO IN SHEFFIELD? MATT HALE: We initially started with an open organising meeting, inviting both Labour Party members and trade unionists, where we planned a series of events. We ran numerous phone banks and put
- [Interview With a Returning Labour Member](https://workerspower.uk/welcome-back-welcome-home/) - Marc Dauncey interviewed a returning Labour Party member in South Wales THESE are tumultuous times for the Labour Party after Jeremy Corbyn’s dramatic win and a huge influx of activists. Nowhere is that more evident than at the grassroots, local level – constituency and branch meetings. But how are these new activists finding the experience?
- [The Class Struggle Inside Labour](https://workerspower.uk/the-class-struggle-inside-labour/) - Jeremy Corbyn won Labour’s leadership election by mobilising hundreds of thousands with his call for Labour to break with the austerity consensus and lead opposition to cuts, privatisation and war. The comprehensive nature of Corbyn’s victory has opened up a serious struggle over the Party’s future direction. The Blairite right have been quick off the
- [Nationalise the Steel Industry!](https://workerspower.uk/nationalise-the-steel-industry/) - British steel is in crisis. While cheap Chinese is steel being “dumped” on world markets, three body blows have been inflicted on steel production. The SSI steelworks in Redcar is going into liquidation, with the government refusing to offer any lifeline. A mothballing operation will now see 2,200 jobs go, in a devastating blow to
- [Can Labour Overturn the Nationalists and Win Back Scotland?](https://workerspower.uk/can-labour-overturn-the-nationalists-and-win-back-scotland/) - The Scottish Nationalist Party is still riding high after its almost total wipe out of Labour in the May general election. The SNP has a lot of support among the electorate. Currently in the opinion polls they have about 50 per cent of the vote and look set to win a sweeping victory in the
- [A New Way to Nationalise](https://workerspower.uk/briefing-on-the-back-a-new-way-to-nationalise/) - NATIONALISATION. It’s the Labour policy the Tories have always hated. And it’s back in the news. Newly elected Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has made it a cornerstone of his new package of leftwing policies. In a popular move he has called for the renationalisation of the railways. He wants to take gas, water and electricity
- [Labour: stop the war!](https://workerspower.uk/labour-stop-the-war/) - At 10pm Parliament will vote on whether to send British planes to join the US-led bombing of Syria. David Cameron’s drive to war has nothing to do with protecting civilians and everything to do with maintaining Britain’s status as the USA’s principal ally. A vote to bomb Syria will mean RAF jets killing civilians they
- [Jobs Not Bombs!](https://workerspower.uk/front-page-jobs-not-bombs/) - Cancel multi-billion arms spending and tax the rich to create jobs, save the NHS and build homes THEY can’t have it both ways. The Tories say there’s no money to save council services, save jobs in steel, boost flood defences and stop the bankruptcy of NHS trusts. But they’ve got billions for nuclear missiles and high
- [Right wing MPs fear 'bloodbath'](https://workerspower.uk/right-wing-mps-fear-bloodbath/) - PLP A clique of right wing MPs have revealed their fears that they could be victims of a “bloodbath” when local parties select MPs, following changes to constituency boundaries. Some of these MPs seem to feel that having voted to add Britain’s contribution to the bloodbath in Syria could leave them on the wrong side of
- [Labour councils are implementing Tory austerity](https://workerspower.uk/labour-councils-are-implementing-tory-austerity/) - BRANCHES & CLPs Across the country local Labour councils are implementing Tory austerity in the face of resistance from workers, youth and unemployed - and increasingly from local Labour parties. The Labour leadership’s decision to launch a national campaign against central government cuts to local authorities is welcome - and long overdue. We hope that Labour
- [Corbyn’s first 100 days](https://workerspower.uk/corbyns-first-100-days/) - Our aims RED FLAG strongly supports Jeremy Corbyn against the MPs who are daily undermining him in the Tory and liberal media and will seek to oust him the moment they think they can get away with it. Blair, Brown and Miliband halved the membership during their years in leadership, lost two general elections and
- [Labour’s Trident confusion](https://workerspower.uk/labours-trident-confusion/) - Jeremy Corbyn has made a U-turn on Trident, agreeing to maintain the orders for the nuclear submarines “to save jobs” under pressure from the unions, especially the GMB and Unite. But he has ludicrously suggested they should carry conventional, not nuclear warheads. The £167 billion it costs to run these nuclear subs – which could never
- [United we stand?](https://workerspower.uk/united-we-stand/) - The commitment of our union leaders to the new politics is under scrutiny WITH the election of Jeremy Corbyn we finally have a Labour Leader who is not afraid to identify his party with the trade unions, to defend striking workers on television and in the press and to promise the repeal of the anti-union
- [Defying the press onslaught](https://workerspower.uk/defying-the-press-onslaught/) - There has been no let up in the coordinated smear operation against Corbyn “First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.” It started in earnest in August 2015, at the point when it became obvious that Jeremy Corbyn was on course for a landslide victory in last
- [How can Labour activists defend local services?](https://workerspower.uk/how-can-labour-activists-defend-local-services/) - A local government worker responds to Jeremy Corbyn and John McDonnell’s recent letter setting out their policy in relation to Labour councils implementing Tory austerity OVER the coming month, councils across the UK will be setting budgets for the coming year. They will include savage cuts, with the most vulnerable (women, children, the elderly and
- [Letter from Jeremy Corbyn, John McDonnell and Jon Trickett to Labour council leaders](https://workerspower.uk/letter-from-jeremy-corbyn-to-labour-council-leaders/) - Key extracts from the 17 December letter from Jeremy Corbyn, John McDonnell and Jon Trickett to Labour council leaders To the Leaders of Labour Councils Dear Colleague, We are writing to you as Leader of the Party, Shadow Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government and Shadow Chancellor. Today the government has announced the
- [Wage a genuine fight against sexism](https://workerspower.uk/wage-a-genuine-fight-against-sexism/) - By Joy Macready Labour Right’s “misogyny” accusations against Corbyn are a study in hypocrisy THE Labour party’s National Executive Committee (NEC) took the correct action in suspending Rochdale MP Simon Danczuk’s party membership after revelations he sent lewd text messages to a 17-year old woman. He used his position of power to make sexual advances
- [London Mayor campaign is chance to build fighting local Labour](https://workerspower.uk/london-mayor-campaign-is-chance-to-build-fighting-local-labour/) - By KD Tait Labour MP Sadiq Khan has secured a six point lead over Tory rival Zac Goldsmith in the battle to seize control of City Hall after eight years of Tory misrule. The campaign is a chance to build on the 2015 General Election gains and mobilise the enthusiasm generated by Jeremy Corbyn’s new
- [Focus Can Help Momentum Succeed](https://workerspower.uk/focus-can-help-momentum-succeed/) - By KD Tait SINCE Jeremy Corbyn's landslide election as leader of the Labour Party, the grassroots network Momentum has formed 90 local groups to coordinate the activities of Labour Party members and supporters who want to champion the policies Jeremy was elected on and spearhead resistance to the Tories. Local groups have rallied a cross-section
- [John McDonnell’s ‘workers cooperatives’ – profit or bust](https://workerspower.uk/john-mcdonnells-workers-cooperatives-profit-or-bust/) - By Dave Stockton John McDonnell's speech at the Cooperative Ways Forward Conference in Manchester on 21 January opened his campaign for what he calls "the new economics" – involving a clear break from the austerity-lite policies pursued by Labour under Gordon Brown and Ed Miliband. This was John's opening gambit in a welcome - and
- [What are the prospects for Scottish Labour?](https://workerspower.uk/what-are-the-prospects-for-scottish-labour/) - By Sandy McBurney ALL commentators are agreed that the governing party, the Scottish National Party (SNP), is going to win the 2016 Scottish parliamentary elections. They are on 50 per cent plus in the opinion polls. Their membership stands at 115,000, which is the equivalent of over a million members on a British scale. This
- [Labour’s early years: 1900-1914](https://workerspower.uk/labours-early-years-1900-1914/) - The first installment in our serialisation of a socialist history of the Labour Party. Read the second instalment: Labour recruits for carnage in WW1 By Dave Stockton Keir Hardie speaking at a Women's Suffrage demonstration in Trafalgar Square Foundation of the Labour Party, Memorial Hall, Farringdon Street, London, February 1906 IN FEBRUARY 1900, the Labour Representation
- [The anti-cuts movement and the united front](https://workerspower.uk/the-anti-cuts-movement-and-the-united-front/) - By Jeremy Dewar TORY CHANCELLOR George Osborne has told the BBC that, “storm clouds are clearly gathering in the world economy and that has a consequence for lots of countries including Britain”. At the same time, the Office of National Statistics revealed that the UK economy is 1 per cent smaller than previously calculated: a
- [Labour leadership – no time for concessions](https://workerspower.uk/editorial-labour-leadership-no-time-for-concessions/) - Instead of accommodating the right, we should organise the left It makes a change to have a Labour leadership that attacks the Tories rather than concedes to them. Jeremy Corbyn and John McDonnell have succeeded in knocking the Tories off their perch several times recently. Their counterattack against the Budget resulted in George Osborne’s humiliating
- [Nationalise steel as part of an industrial plan](https://workerspower.uk/nationalise-steel-as-part-of-an-industrial-plan/) - By Jeremy Dewar At a board meeting in Mumbai, India, Tata executives voted through a plan to sell off all its UK plants or, failing that, to shut them down. Some 15,000 workers and their families face the prospect of devastating job losses, with another 25,000 workers in the supply chain at severe risk. The
- [History: Labour recruits for carnage in WW1](https://workerspower.uk/history-labour-recruits-for-carnage-in-ww1/) - The second instalment in our serialisation of a socialist history of the Labour Party. Read the first instalment: Labour's early years: 1900-1914 By Dave Stockton The years of the First World War of 1914-18 were critical ones for the British labour movement. Its political party, its trade unions and the role they play in British life
- [Save Lambeth Libraries protest is a reality check for Labour councils](https://workerspower.uk/save-lambeth-libraries-protest-is-a-reality-check-for-labour-councils/) - By KD Tait The campaign to defend Lambeth’s 10 public libraries from the Labour council’s closure and outsourcing plans saw more than 2,000 people march through Brixton in one of the biggest local demonstrations in years. Residents, librarians and Friends of Lambeth libraries assembled at the Carnegie library to congratulate the occupiers who walked out
- [The Labour defeat that never was](https://workerspower.uk/the-labour-defeat-that-never-was/) - By Dave Stockton The press reported David Cameron as jubilant – can he do anything else beyond jubilating? On the morning after the 5 May elections, it became clear that their results were a disappointment to a wide spectrum of politicians, journalists and assorted “think tanks”; indeed to all of those who had already written
- [Momentum NC puts foot on brake](https://workerspower.uk/momentum-nc-puts-foot-on-brake/) - By Rebecca Anderson The interim leadership of the campaign formed to support Jeremy Corbyn in the Labour Party has decided to delay holding its founding conference until February 2017. Although there are plans to hold regional policy conferences, the delay means that there is no way for tens of thousands of Corbyn’s supporters to organise
- [Momentum youth and students to meet in Manchester](https://workerspower.uk/momentum-youth-and-students-to-meet-in-manchester/) - By KD Tait On 5 June, Momentum Youth and Students will hold its founding conference in Manchester. The conference is open to all members of Momentum under 30, or in education. This is the first national meeting of a section of Momentum and is a chance to ensure that young Labour members take advantage of
- [Labour has to go back to basics in Scotland](https://workerspower.uk/labour-has-to-go-back-to-basics-in-scotland/) - By Sandy McBurney New Labour’s formula has delivered the greatest electoral defeat in Scottish Labour’s history. It’s time for change Scottish Labour suffered a historic defeat in the Holyrood elections, securing just 20 per cent of the vote and 24 seats. The biggest shock of the night came when they were pushed into third place
- [Eight months hard Labour: a new recruit writes](https://workerspower.uk/eight-months-hard-labour-a-new-recruit-writes/) - A party member in the Progress council bastion of Lambeth argues that victory is possible - and worth fighting for By Joe Clegg Summer 2015 was a time of great political excitement for me. Born under Maggie the Milk Snatcher, grown up under Tony the Warmonger, for the first time in my life, there was
- [Motion: Defend Corbyn's leadership from right-wing coup](https://workerspower.uk/model-motion-support-jeremy-corbyn-stop-the-coup/) - A motion opposing the PLP's coup against Jeremy Corbyn
- [To #KeepCorbyn our response must be swift and ruthless](https://workerspower.uk/to-keepcorbyn-our-response-must-be-swift-ruthless-and-decisive/) - A handful of disloyal members are using their privileges as MPs to launch a coup against Jeremy Corbyn. This coup demonstrates the plotters’ contempt for democracy and for the wishes of the 250,000 people who elected Jeremy as leader nine months ago. Deputy leader Tom Watson barely waited to get the Glastonbury mud off his
- [Motion: Organise to defeat Labour rebels](https://workerspower.uk/model-motion-organise-to-defeat-the-rebels/) - A motion mobilising support for Jeremy Corbyn's re-election
- [This is our fight to win - join Labour to defeat the rebellion](https://workerspower.uk/this-is-our-fight-to-win-join-labour-to-defeat-the-rebellion/) - By KD Tait THE COUP has stalled. Jeremy Corbyn has resisted a vicious attempt to morally blackmail him into resigning and open the way to a right-wing counter-revolution in the Labour Party – a return to austerity-lite and anti-immigration policies. The Labour rebels will now have to challenge Corbyn and hundreds of thousands of members
- [Join the Labour revolution](https://workerspower.uk/join-the-labour-revolution/) - THE COUP has failed. Jeremy Corbyn has resisted a vicious attempt to morally blackmail him into resigning and opening the way to a right-wing counter-revolution in the Labour Party – a return to austerity-lite and anti-immigration policies. The Labour rebels will now have to challenge Corbyn and hundreds of thousands of members in a leadership contest,
- [200,000 join Labour - let’s keep up the momentum ](https://workerspower.uk/200000-join-labour-lets-keep-up-the-momentum/) - By KD Tait The attempted coup launched by Labour’s parliamentary rebels has failed to oust Jeremy Corbyn - but it has provoked a renewed membership surge. Figures confirmed by the New Statesman show 200,000 people have joined the party in the last two weeks, taking total membership to 600,000. Labour is now the biggest it
- [Motion: Vote of confidence in Jeremy Corbyn](https://workerspower.uk/model-motion-vote-of-confidence-in-jeremy-corbyn/) - A motion of confidence in Jeremy Corbyn's leadership during the PLP coup
- [Corbyn makes the ballot - fight for the right to vote!](https://workerspower.uk/corbyn-makes-the-ballot-fight-for-the-right-to-vote/) - By KD Tait Jeremy Corbyn is on the ballot for the Labour leadership election. First the plotters tried to bully him into resigning. Then they tried to keep him off the ballot so they could crown a stooge of the Parliamentary Labour Party. Outraged by the back-stabbing of the MPs and the bias of the
- [Re-electing Jeremy Corbyn is the best response to Labour "split" blackmail](https://workerspower.uk/re-electing-jeremy-corbyn-is-the-best-response-to-labour-split-blackmail/) - By Dave Stockton In spite of a barrage of dirty tricks, blackmail and anti-democratic measures, Jeremy Corbyn's campaign for Labour leader is going from strength to strength. The election campaign is effectively taking place in a state of emergency inside the party. CLPs have been banned from meeting to carry out their business, and many
- [Answers Owen Jones may not want to hear](https://workerspower.uk/answers-owen-jones-may-not-want-to-hear/) - Jeremy Dewar replies to Owen Jones’ article, ‘Questions all Jeremy Corbyn supporters need to answer’ Just over a year ago in Euston, Jeremy Corbyn addressed a mass rally, two overspill rooms and, from the top of an FBU fire engine, a street audience. Owen Jones was one of the supporting speakers. Then he opened his
- [Paul Mason's opportunism is not 'the way ahead' for Labour](https://workerspower.uk/paul-masons-unnecessary-concessions-are-not-the-way-ahead-for-labour/) - By Jeremy Dewar Paul Mason, former broadcaster with the BBC and Channel 4, has published an article on the Medium.com blog. As usual with Mason, it is well written and, insofar as it sides firmly with Jeremy Corbyn in the current Labour leadership election battle, provides a number of welcome arguments for party members and supporters.
- [Coup plotters prepare Labour for a split](https://workerspower.uk/coup-plotters-prepare-labour-for-a-split/) - The election campaign for Labour Party leader is in full swing, with huge rallies for Jeremy Corbyn. Liverpool is leading with up to 10,000 turning out and with large meetings in Hull and Leeds. This is the response of members and supporters to the attempt by MPs to oust him. Some 172 MPs voted no
- [A compromise with the rebels will sabotage the radical changes Labour needs](https://workerspower.uk/a-compromise-with-the-rebels-will-sabotage-the-radical-changes-labour-needs/) - By KD Tait Reports that rebel Labour MPs are preparing ‘truce’ plans if Jeremy Corbyn is re-elected are designed to dilute Corbyn’s programme and prevent the membership asserting their democratic rights. The vehicle for implementing this continued sabotage is the parliamentary party and their allies in the party’s apparatus. The immediate task after the election
- [Labour must go on the offensive to stop new Tory cuts](https://workerspower.uk/labour-must-go-on-the-offensive-to-stop-new-tory-cuts/) - BY LAUNCHING their coup following the Brexit vote, the PLP totally deflected the Labour Party from its prime duty of mobilising the population against the new Tory government that has only a wafer-thin majority. The anti-Corbyn campaign has now lasted a full three months, allowing Theresa May an uninterrupted honeymoon, as the media targeted Corbyn, in
- [Use the weapon of democracy](https://workerspower.uk/use-the-weapon-of-democracy/) - THIS YEAR’S restrictions on Labour’s internal democratic life are without precedent since the 1980s. At a time when hundreds of thousands are joining the party, avenues for participation in political discussion and decision making have been almost entirely sealed off. Campaigning for the local and mayoral elections followed by the EU referendum saw regular meetings suspended.
- [How can we stop the Labour purge?](https://workerspower.uk/how-can-we-stop-the-labour-purge/) - By Bernie McAdam JOHN MCDONNELL speaking at a fringe meeting at the Trade Union Congress in Brighton said of the coup launched in June against Jeremy Corbyn that “This is about the Establishment saying to you: how dare you elect a socialist as the leader of the Labour Party.” and adding “And it isn’t just
- [A compromise deal with PLP rebels will prove fatal](https://workerspower.uk/a-compromise-deal-with-plp-rebels-will-prove-fatal/) - REPORTS ARE rife that rebel Labour MPs will offer Jeremy Corbyn a “truce” if is he re-elected. In return for ceasing their open sabotage in the Commons and the media they will demand the dilution of Corbyn’s programme and the blocking of any restoration of the membership’s democratic rights. They will demand a stop to
- [Owen Smith’s record speaks for itself](https://workerspower.uk/owen-smiths-record-speaks-for-itself/) - OWEN SMITH is the candidate chosen by Labour’s rebel right wing MPs to stand against Jeremy Corbyn in the leadership election. Many party activists asked, “Owen who?”, so low was his profile when his bid was announced in July. His choice sums up just how cynical and bankrupt the right wing of the party are. Their
- [Our victory – no compromise](https://workerspower.uk/our-victory-no-compromise/) - Jeremy Corbyn’s overwhelming victory now presents the possibility of consolidating Labour as a left wing socialist party – a task that means there is no room for compromise with the right wing. Our victory will be celebrated as a great achievement of hundreds of thousands of members and supporters who have campaigned successfully to stop
- [Momentum must be a democratic organisation, not a talking shop](https://workerspower.uk/momentum-falters/) - PREPARATIONS FOR Momentum’s national conference hit a snag after the Steering Committee cancelled the National Committee for the seventh month running and asserted that the conference would take place through an online ballot of all members, rather than with delegates. Following protests from branches and regional committees, the Steering Committee has agreed to convene the
- [Attacks on immigration won't help Labour](https://workerspower.uk/in-the-era-of-brexit-attacks-on-immigration-wont-help-labour/) - JEREMY CORBYN told the Labour Party Conference, “It isn’t migrants that drive down wages, it’s exploitative employers and the politicians who deregulate the labour market and rip up trade union rights. It isn’t migrants who put a strain on our NHS; it only keeps going because of the migrant nurses and doctors who come here
- [Labour needs to fight back against council cuts](https://workerspower.uk/labour-needs-to-fight-back-against-council-cuts/) - THE MOVEMENT that twice elected Jeremy Corbyn to Labour leader is defined by its opposition to austerity. But local government cuts mean Labour councils in many of the party’s heartlands have spent six years as the face of brutal cuts to the social fabric of our communities. Unless it is overcome, this contradiction will torpedo
- [Inside Momentum: their politics and ours](https://workerspower.uk/inside-momentum-their-politics-and-ours/) - MOMENTUM’S DECEMBER National Committee voted to hold a delegate-based conference in February 2017, and to launch campaigns in defence of migrants’ rights and against the expulsions and suspensions of Jeremy Corbyn supporters in the Labour Party. The Steering Committee and office staff remain unchanged. With the dark clouds of Brexit looming, and the transformation of
- [Labour MPs ditch free movement](https://workerspower.uk/labour-mps-ditch-free-movement/) - PAUL NUTTALL’S threat to “replace the Labour Party and make Ukip the voice of patriotic Britain” seems to have thrown some Labour MPs into a panic. Dan Jarvis MP, for example, thinks that, “the Ukip fox is in the Labour henhouse and we have got to make a decision about what we want to do
- [Free movement: a self-inflicted wound that will fester unless we act](https://workerspower.uk/free-movement-a-self-inflicted-wound-that-will-fester-unless-we-act/) - JEREMY CORBYN kicked off 2017 by announcing that Labour was not committed “in principle” to defending freedom of movement for workers within the European Union. This major retreat represents an attempt to reposition Labour as a pro-Brexit party, despite the fact that 65 per cent of Labour voters and an overwhelming majority of members oppose
- [Labour’s immigration policy: from tragedy to farce](https://workerspower.uk/labours-immigration-policy-from-tragedy-to-farce/) - The lack of imagination at the top of the Labour Party was on display for all to see last week. Speaking on the BBC’s Andrew Marr Show on Sunday 12 February, Deputy Party Leader Tom Watson announced that Labour was considering a regional immigration policy: “I think you can actually say London requires more liberal
- [Labour Right orchestrate by-election defeats](https://workerspower.uk/stoke-and-copeland-by-election-setbacks/) - As epected and intended, the Copeland and Stoke by-elections were severe setbacks for Labour and for Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership. Whatever the particular reasons for the defeat in the two seats, the campaign and the result shows that an army of activists is no use if you haven’t got a clear altnernative. That Labour, not the
- [Grassroots Momentum conference should call for a broad, democratic organisation of the Labour Left](https://workerspower.uk/grassroots-momentum-conference-should-call-for-a-broad-democratic-organisation-of-the-labour-left/) - THE GRASSROOTS Momentum conference in London should be a chance to rally Labour members and supporters around a fighting strategy to push for democracy and socialist policy in the movement. The conference is the first chance Momentum’s members have ever had to meet up nationally. It is also the first national meeting of grassroots activists
- [Tom Watson and Bomber Benn back Trump's militarism](https://workerspower.uk/tom-watson-and-bomber-benn-back-trumps-militarism/) - Tom Watson and Hilary Benn have taken advantage of Trump's missile attack on Syria's Shayrat airbase to launch their own attack on Jeremy Corbyn. This is the latest salvo in their war of attrition which they intend to wage until they finally remove him as the Leader of the Labour Party. Tom Watson, Deputy Leader
- [8 June - Labour Must Turn Left to Spike May's Plans](https://workerspower.uk/general-election-8-june-labour-turn-left/) - Labour can stop a big Tory win if it fights with a bold left-wing message, pledging to tax the wealthy to rebuild our public services and communities We need a campaign that radically breaks with routine - mass activity on the streets, open air rallies, stalls, public and workplace meetings, demonstrations against the Tories’ attacks
- [Labour 2017: A manifesto worth fighting for](https://workerspower.uk/labour-2017-a-manifesto-worth-fighting-for/) - Labour’s 2017 manifesto has been heralded as the most left wing manifesto since 1983. And so it is. That’s a third of a century and therefore something most of the electorate, the younger and even middle-aged part has never seen. There is something there for every age group. From the cradle to the grave. As
- [For the many: a manifesto worth fighting for?](https://workerspower.uk/for-the-many-a-manifesto-worth-fighting-for/) - LABOUR’S 2017 MANIFESTO has been heralded as the most left wing manifesto since 1983. And so it is. That’s a third of a century and therefore something most of the electorate, the younger and even middle-aged part has never seen. There is something there for every age group. From the cradle to the grave. As
- [Corbyn says 'War on Terror' has failed](https://workerspower.uk/corbyn-says-war-on-terror-has-failed/) - In the week or so between the leaking of Labour’s Manifesto and the Manchester terrorist attack, Labour began to close the gap in the opinion polls. When the election was announced, the Tories were up to 25 per cent ahead of Labour. By the previous week, that lead had been cut to just five points,
- [Labour surge hangs Tories out to dry](https://workerspower.uk/general-election-2017-labour-surge-beats-tories/) - A massive turnout of young and working class voters has inflicted a shock defeat on the Tories, with a surge in support for Jeremy Corbyn’s leftwing Labour programme denying Theresa May her majority and mandate for hard Brexit. May miscalculated big time. The Tories now have to cling onto power by relying on the Democratic
- [Red Kensington beats Tories](https://workerspower.uk/red-kensington/) - A Kensington CLP member explains how victory has been tempered by catastrophe of Grenfell Tower fire ON A NIGHT filled with drama, a microcosm of Labour’s advance could be seen in Kensington, where veteran Kensington campaigner and Labour councillor, Emma Dent Coad, who overturned the incumbent Tory Victoria Borwick’s 7,000 majority and won by 20
- [Bittersweet victory?](https://workerspower.uk/bittersweet-victory/) - L.A., from South London explains how members took their confidence into winning campaigns in marginal seats EARLY ON in the election campaign, our local Labour Party branch officers held a meeting to discuss coordinating efforts from our ward. We had invited members who wanted to come and there were about a dozen or more of
- [Making Labour's National Education Service fit for purpose](https://workerspower.uk/a-national-education-service/) - THE UNDERFUNDING of childcare programmes, the privatisation of secondary education (via the ever-expanding programme of unaccountable and selective academies and “free” schools) and the tripling of university tuition fees have all been designed to give children form wealthy middle class families a head start in life. Add to this the fact that wages and conditions
- [A tale of two manifestos](https://workerspower.uk/a-tale-of-two-manifestos/) - Simon Hannah compares Tony Benn’s 1983 and Jeremy Corbyn’s 2017 contributions VIRTUALLY EVERYONE now accepts that Labour’s 2017 manifesto For the Many not the Few was a remarkable success. Almost as soon as the draft was leaked and summarised in the entire bosses’ press and broadcast media, in the belief that it would embarrass and
- [Red Flag No. 15 Editorial - September 2017](https://workerspower.uk/red-flag-no-15-editorial-september-2017/) - By KD Tait LABOUR have been consistently ahead of the Tories in the polls since the summer. This Autumn is a chance for the whole labour movement to take the offensive against a Tory government that has no plan except fighting amongst themselves over Brexit. But although Theresa May is a lame duck prime minister,
- [Support the Labour Campaign for Free Movement](https://workerspower.uk/support-the-labour-campaign-for-free-movement/) - THE UK is at a crossroads in its relationship to the rest of the world, and so is our party. Immigrants and free movement are being scapegoated by a political and economic elite that is subjecting ordinary people to cuts and austerity. During the greatest refugee crisis in recent years, the Tories have responded with
- [Birmingham bin strike: class solidarity trumps party unity](https://workerspower.uk/birmingham-bin-strike-class-solidarity-trumps-party-unity/) - By Bernie McAdam AFTER SEVEN weeks of strike action and an apparent agreement with council chiefs, it seemed sense had prevailed; Birmingham’s Grade Three bin workers would not be sacked and a suspended union rep would be reinstated. Instead the Labour run council has completely gone back on its word and issued redundancy notices to
- [A Labour Brexit? Definitely maybe](https://workerspower.uk/a-labour-brexit-definitely-maybe/) - By Peter Main LABOUR'S CALL for a post-Brexit “transition period”, during which the UK would remain in the Single Market, has been presented as a clear-headed alternative to the government’s “constructive ambiguity”. Shadow Brexit Secretary Keir Starmer described it as “a credible solution to one of the most important issues facing Britain’s exit from the
- [Labour conference rejects vote on Brexit policy](https://workerspower.uk/2017-10-labour-conference-rejects-vote-on-brexit-policy/) - It's not undemocratic to oppose Brexit
- [Labour of Love: a marriage of convenience](https://workerspower.uk/2017-11-labour-of-love-a-marriage-of-convenience/) - Audiences will wish a little more love had gone into James Graham's laboured production
- [Internationalism: Labour's missing link](https://workerspower.uk/2017-10-internationalism-labours-missing-link/) - Labour’s subservience to imperialism is the price it pays for ruling the capitalists' system
- [Labour claims the new political centre ground](https://workerspower.uk/labour-claims-the-new-political-centre-ground/) - LABOUR'S BRIGHTON conference was a confirmation that, thanks to a general election in which Labour saw a net gain of 31 seats and the Tories lost their overall majority, Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership of the party is now unchallenged. This should not have been surprising in a party where electoral success comes first, second, and third
- [Labour secures pause in Universal Credit rollout](https://workerspower.uk/labour-secures-pause-in-universal-credit-rollout/) - ON 18 OCTOBER, Labour unanimously won a symbolic opposition day vote calling for a pause in the introduction of Universal Credit. The motion was non-binding but the result is a fresh sign of the government’s vulnerability, with Tory mps ordered to abstain from the vote. Earlier that day, facing growing disquiet from her own backbenchers,
- [Thousands march to demand justice for Palestine](https://workerspower.uk/2017-11-thousands-march-demonstration-balfour-centenary-london-free-palestine/) - The absence of Labour leaders and members speaks volumes about the real priorities of the Labour left
- [Why won't Labour show solidarity with Iran protests?](https://workerspower.uk/labour-foreign-secretary-emily-thornberry-support-iran-protests/) - The Labour leadership's 'caution' is a cover for ducking its duty of solidarity and giving the Iran regime the benefit of the doubt
- [Give class room in Labour's education policy](https://workerspower.uk/angela-rayner-white-working-class-boys-schools-education-policy/) - JEREMY DEWAR responds to Angela Rayner’s recent comments about white working class boys’ underachievement in school
- [RF No. 17 Editorial: Getting serious about taking power](https://workerspower.uk/labour-getting-serious-about-taking-power/) - Labour needs to become a genuine social movement to make an election victory the launchpad for a real struggle for power
- [From the ruins of Carillion and PFI, let's build a real alternative](https://workerspower.uk/carillion-collapse-threatens-thousands-of-jobs-chance-for-break-with-privatisation-and-outsourcing/) - The collapse of Carillion threatens the whole privatisation and outsourcing swindle, but bolder measures are needed to completely break with the logic of the market.
- [Anger at Labour council boils over at launch meeting of Camden United Against the Cuts](https://workerspower.uk/anger-at-labour-council-boils-over-at-launch-meeting-of-camden-united-against-the-cuts/) - The council room of Camden Town Hall was packed out on the evening of Monday 10 January for the launch meeting of Camden United Against the Cuts. Camden’s financial crisis is one of the worst in London and the sheer scale of the cuts is historic. With £80 to £100 million to be lost from
- [Leeds anticuts protesters occupy town hall](https://workerspower.uk/leeds-anticuts-protesters-occupy-town-hall/) - Today, at around 1pm, half an hour before Leeds Council were due to meet to pass a budget of swingeing cuts, hundreds braved the rain to lobby the meeting to refuse to implement the budget. Around 75-100 people managed to occupy the main council chamber, where the meeting was to be held. Many more gathered
- [Labour Party: with us or against us?](https://workerspower.uk/labour-party-with-us-or-against-us/) - IN THE MONTHS after the Con-Dem coalition was formed, 30,000 people – fearful for their future – signed up to join the Labour Party. Brown’s departure meant a party leadership contest and many old and new party members hoped someone would emerge who would rally resistance to the impending savage cuts to jobs and services. They were
- [Victory of Scottish nationalists exposes Labour’s failures](https://workerspower.uk/snp/) - The Scottish National Party (SNP) wiped the floor in last weeks Scottish Parliament elections, gaining 23 seats at the expense of Labour, Lib Dems, and the Tories, writes John Bowman The SNP now has an overall majority in Holyrood. It’s the first time in the history of devolution that any party has been able to claim
- [Labour: shame on you for turning blue](https://workerspower.uk/labour-shame-on-you-for-turning-blue/) - The new Blue Labour movement is a dangerous turn to the right, argues Luke Cooper IT IS testament to the lack of real political debate inside the modern Labour Party that the Blue Labour phenomenon has caused quite a stir. It is also a sign of how desperately the party is trying to make headway
- [What the riots reveal about Britain](https://workerspower.uk/what-the-riots-reveal-about-britain/) - Jeremy Dewar argues that August’s disturbances were not ‘criminality pure and simple’ but a youth uprising against police racism, poverty and social oppression THE SHOCK was felt by everybody. The speed with which the fighting against the police and the rioting spread from district to district and town to town, the ferocity of the youth burning
- [Labour's right turn](https://workerspower.uk/labours-right-turn/) - Ed Ball’s announcement, rapidly endorsed by Ed Miliband, that a future Labour government would not promise to reverse a single cut and supports a pay freeze on public sector workers has caused outrage amongst Labour’s working class base. Balls was unambiguous. On the Tory–Lib Dem freeze on public sector pay, which is a real pay
- [Labour wins local support – now make them fight the cuts](https://workerspower.uk/labour-local-election-win/) - Joy Macready takes stock of the results ot the local council elections and asks where now for Labour? Thursday 3 May proved to be a red-letter day for Labour. The local elections saw a mass turn to Labour, despite its lack of strategy to oppose austerity. This was clearly a protest vote against the
- [Bedroom Tax: make Labour pledge 'no evictions'](https://workerspower.uk/bedroom-tax-make-labour-pledge-no-evictions/) - By an activist in Armley Hands off our Homes The Bedroom tax came into effect on 1 April, cutting the housing benefit of a working age social tenant (council-owned or housing association) by 14% if they are deemed to have one more bedroom than they need, and by 25% if they are deemed to have
- [Ed Miliband shows why we need a new workers' party](https://workerspower.uk/labour-party-conference-2012/) - This year’s Labour Party conference saw what has become an annual ritual: the Labour leader and his shadow chancellor trying to steal the Tories clothes and “standing up to the unions”. Bernie McAdam looks at what happened in Manchester. This year Labour’s message was plain enough. Workers should wait quietly and patiently for another two

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