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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…
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…
IWD 2020: Build a socialist women’s movement
INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY 2020 comes at a time of widespread mobilisations of women against rape, sexual harassment and violence in…
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…
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
Feminism for the 99%? Social reproduction and the socialist revolution
Urte March reviews Feminism for the 99%: A Manifesto by Cinzia Aruzza, et al
Iraq: al-Sadr prepares the counter-revolution
IRAQ’S REVOLUTIONARY DEMOCRATIC protest movement, which started on October 1, 2019, is facing its biggest test yet, as interim Prime…
Northern Ireland: Healthworkers battle on
ON 18 DECEMBER over 20,000 Northern Ireland health workers from four unions, RCN, Unison, NIPSA and Unite were involved in…
Julian Assange: exposing war crimes is not a crime!
In pulling back the curtain on the secret diplomacy and murderous actions of US imperialism, whistleblowers have exposed the…
Why socialists oppose the Tories’ new immigration system
Trade unions and Labour MPs should oppose this attack on workers and fight for the progressive policy passed at conference
The ‘Deal of the century’ means the annexation of Palestine
Donald Trump’s ‘deal’ is a flagrant breach of international law and the national rights of the Palestinians
Harvey Weinstein’s conviction is a symbolic victory for #MeToo
Harvey Weinstein would never have seen the inside of a courtroom without the rebirth of a movement against sexual harassment…
Vote RLB – and make labour a party that fights
Defeating the right wing candidates is key to dragging Labour into real opposition to the Tories
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
Why we shouldn’t be surprised the Tories hired a eugenicist
The pseudo-science of eugenics is making a comeback internationally
Stop the deportation flights!
Deportation exposes the racist and barbaric nature of the hostile environment policy
