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Israel marks its 70th anniversary by massacring Palestinians
By KD Tait OVER THE past four weeks, at least 37 Palestinians have been killed, and more than 4,000 wounded,…
Labor Notes 2018: successes pose new challenges for union activists
By Jeremy Dewar, Lambeth Unison delegate (pc) and Marcus Otono, Workers Power USA. THREE THOUSAND trade unionists assembled in Chicago…
Karl Marx at 200
By Martin Suchanek ANNIVERSARIES NEVER serve as a mere recollection of a person’s historical work. When they are about an…
The fight against antisemitism in Labour
BY KD Tait THE DECISION by Labour’s right wing to reheat the smear campaign accusing Jeremy Corbyn of failing to…
French workers’ and students’ struggle at a turning point
By Marc Lassalle PARIS – After a month of militant but inconclusive strikes and occupations by railway workers and students,…
The Good Friday Agreement: Northern Ireland’s sectarian peace
By Bernie McAdam THIS YEAR marks the twentieth anniversary of the signing of the Good Friday Agreement (GFA). The ‘peace…
The danger of a global trade war
By Markus Lehner “Trade wars are good” – Donald Trump Though Donald Trump’s tweets often seem mere clowning, the decrees…
The 70th anniversary of the Deir Yassin Massacre
By Dave Stockton THIS YEAR’S celebrations of the anniversary of the foundation of the State of Israel were bigger than…
Solidarity with the Pashtun Protection Movement
ON SATURDAY 21 April, a number of democratic and socialist activists were arrested by the Punjabi Police in Lahore, amongst…
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…
Syria strikes risk escalating Middle East conflict
By Marcus Halaby The overwhelming priority of the Labour movement today is to prevent Britain from taking any further military…
Brazilian left unites in response to arrest of Lula
By Liga Socialista, Brazil THESE ARE tense days in Brazil. The political instability, which began with the parliamentary coup, heightened…
Pakistan: Tens of thousands at Pashtun defence meeting
By Shahzad Arshad, Revolutionary Socialist Movement, Pakistan A NEW mass movement is developing in Pakistan. On April 8, tens of…
No intervention in Syria – troops out now!
THE OVERWHELMING priority of the Labour Movement today is to prevent Britain taking military action in Syria, or joining a…
Newham: Labour party members finally oust Robin Wales
ROBIN WALES, the long-standing, perhaps long-reigning would be more accurate, directly elected Mayor of Newham, has finally been deselected as…
Skripal Affair: Time for Labour to come in from the cold war
ON 4 MARCH 2018, a former Russian spy turned double agent for MI5, Sergei Skripal, and his daughter Yulia, were…
Where was Labour on Palestine demonstration?
By KD Tait THERE WERE a lot of Labour people on Saturday’s demo for the 15 Gazans murdered in cold…
Norman Goodwin (1938–2018)
Local Government: Union leaders prepare fresh capitulation
By Jeremy Dewar, Unison rep, pc Another year, another pay cut. Or so it seems. As we go to press,…
Another Israeli massacre in Gaza
Israeli armed forces, firing indiscriminately on unarmed Palestinian demonstrators, men, women and children, have killed at least 16 and injured…
Antisemitism row: the double standards of Labour’s right wing
THE SUDDEN coordinated onslaught against Jeremy Corbyn over the weekend of 24-25 March was a transparent attempt by an alliance…
Marielle lives on amongst us!
Liga Socialista, Brazil ON THE evening of March 14, Marielle Franco (38), a city councillor from the Maré favela in…
French railway workers prepare for decisive struggle
PARIS – Strikes and demonstrations have taken place across France in a day of action called by a united front of…
Sri Lanka in the aftermath of the Emergency
THE State of Emergency declared by the government of Ranil Wickremasinghe on March 6, initially for 7 days, was finally…
Brazil: From resistance to the struggle for socialism
Statement of the Liga Socialista to the Brazil Social Forum SINCE the impeachment of President Dilma Rousseff of the Workers’…
UCU: No capitulation – fight on to victory
Up and down the country university workers are holding meetings and rallies to reject the proposed deal proposed between the…
Statement on the State of Emergency in Sri Lanka
Executive Committee of the Socialist Party of Sri Lanka The declaration of a State of Emergency by the government of…
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….
Sylvia Pankhurst: fighter for working class women
Sylvia Pankhurst (1882 –1960) was a formidable figure; an internationalist and anti-imperialist, an anti racist, and for a period a…
USA: Our bodies – our choice
By Mekdela Ejigu THE limited legal abortion and women’s reproductive rights available in the United States exist in a permanent…