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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 murder of George Floyd and the uprising against police racism
By Martin Suchanek and Jaqueline Katharina Singh George Floyd was murdered in a brutal and cowardly fashion by Minneapolis police…
Resist the Tories’ attack on Trans Rights!
The entire Labour and trade union movement must organise to resist the Tories’ attack on existing, inadequate, rights and fight…
Five ways the government’s emergency coronavirus legislation threatens the working class – and how to fight back
From strengthened police powers to forcing workers to pay for the crisis.
Fifth International Website Redevelopment Fund
Our international website fifthinternational.org is in need of a redesign, and we need your help! Please donate to our website…
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
The Road to Somewhere by David Goodhart
Tim Nailsea reviews The Road to Somewhere: The Populist Revolt and the Future of Global Politics by David Goodhart
Relaxing the Lockdown? To save lives and jobs – we’ll need workers control
Britain has become No1 in Europe and No2 in the world for COVID-19 mortality. To replace the “stay at home’…
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.
Hungary: Orban uses pandemic to attack Trans rights
Under the guise of the coronavirus pandemic, Viktor Orban has been granted the power to rule Hungary by decree. His…
Ted Knight (1933-2020)
Ted Knight, leader of Lambeth Labour council during the rate-capping dispute of the 1980s, and lifelong socialist, has died.
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.
The Labour left after Corbyn: A chance to break with strategy of compromise
Two successive election defeats have opened a debate about the balance sheet of the Corbyn project, the objectives of the…
Keir Starmer’s 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…
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…
A million sign on in two weeks: the reality behind Sunak’s empty promises
In the last two weeks of March, 950,000 people successfully applied for the income support part of Universal Credit. The…
Lockdown: More Must be Done for Victims of Domestic Violence
Since the implementation of COVID-19 quarantines on an international scale, life has become more dangerous for people trapped in households…
The politics of being off sick
THE INTERNATIONAL CRISIS of the coronavirus pandemic has exposed the stark inadequacies of the capitalist system in a number of…
Imperialism, capitalism and the destruction of humanity and nature
A Marxist analysis of the fundamental contradictions between sustainability and the capitalist mode of production.
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…
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…
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…
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…
Iran & coronavirus: Lift the sanctions!
Shortages of essential equipment, caused or exacerbated by brutal US sanctions, are severely hindering the public health response to the…
Motion: Workers’ action against the covid-19 pandemic
A motion passed by Lambeth Unison’s branch committee
A programme of action to fight the corona crisis
A programme of action published in the early weeks of the pandemic.
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…
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…
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…
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…
