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Stagecoach workers should demand a national fight
By Tim NailseaSTAGECOACH DRIVERS, engineers and cleaners in Scotland, Chesterfield, Manchester, the North-East, Lancashire and Liverpool and South Wales are…
Western powers must accept refugees and provide aid for Afghanistan
By Dave Stockton AFTER 40 years of war Afghanistan momentarily seemed to be at peace after the Taliban took power…
Refugees victimised in EU-Belarus ‘hybrid war’
By Urte March ON THE border between Belarus and its EU neighbours— Poland, Latvia, and Lithuania—refugees from the global south…
What’s 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…
Stop the coup in Sudan!
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,…
Revolutionise the Climate movement
By Rebecca Anderson THE COP26 climate conference of world leaders, meeting this month in Glasgow, has been billed as the…
Brazil: armed demonstrations threaten coup
By Carlos Uchoa Magrini and Assiria Conti ON 7 SEPTEMBER Brazil’s far right president Jair Bolsonaro called hundreds of thousands…
We need a united front to stop Priti Patel’s racist Borders Bill
By Joe Crathorne BETWEEN 600,000 and 1.2 million undocumented migrants and asylum seekers live in Britain, around 50,000 of whom…
Labour shortages result of attacks on migrant workers
By Dave Stockton THE CONFEDERATION of British Industries (CBI), representing 190,000 companies, warned on 18 October that ‘acute’ labour shortages…
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…
South Africa: steelworkers’ three-week strike sold out
‘NEGOTIATIONS ARE about give and take … We are not cowards because we have taken a compromise,’ said the self-styled…
Italy: fascists direct covid anger against trade unions
By KD Tait ON SATURDAY 16 October tens of thousands attended an anti-fascist demonstration in Rome, called by the CGIL…
Red Is The New Green
Why we should oppose the new Online Safety Bill
By Alex Rutherford THE GOVERNMENT and Labour are exploiting the murder of David Amess MP to whip up fears around…
Sleepwalking into Plan B?
Violence against women: workers’ inquiry not judges’ cover-up
By Rebecca Anderson THE TRIAL of Wayne Couzens for the murder of Sarah Everard has shone a spotlight on violence…
Political bulletin: Stop the Borders’ Bill
Unite: national strike needed to make Stagecoach pay up
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…
Battle of Blair Mountain: When miners took on the US state
By Chris Clough One hundred years ago, a five-day bloody battle raged in the US. A million rounds of ammunition…
SPD: Life in the old dog yet
By Jaqueline Katherina Singh (Berlin) The Social Democrats (SPD), led by Olaf Scholz, topped the polls with 25.7% in the…
Texas abortion ban is a class issue
By Marcus Otono (Nashville, Tennessee) Texas has become the testing ground for a new approach to the nearly 50 year-long…
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…
National Insurance hike will make workers pay for Tory health and care crisis
By Reginald Banks The Tories have fired an initial salvo at the working class in the battle over who is…
Aukus is an escalation of inter-imperialist rivalry
By Alex Rutherford The Aukus security pact between Australia, the UK and the US represents one of the most dramatic…
Dublin Bus workers reject union-backed deal
Met boss keeps top job – for now
COP26 won’t avert climate catastrophe
