ON SATURDAY 21 April, a number of democratic and socialist activists were arrested by the Punjabi Police in Lahore, amongst…

By KD Tait THE US, French, and British attack on the Syrian regime’s chemical warfare facilities, ostensibly in retaliation for…

By  Marcus Halaby  The overwhelming priority of the Labour movement today is to prevent Britain from taking any further military…

By Liga Socialista, Brazil THESE ARE tense days in Brazil. The political instability, which began with the parliamentary coup, heightened…

By Shahzad Arshad, Revolutionary Socialist Movement, Pakistan A NEW mass movement is developing in Pakistan. On April 8, tens of…

THE OVERWHELMING priority of the Labour Movement today is to prevent Britain taking military action in Syria, or joining a…

ROBIN WALES, the long-standing, perhaps long-reigning would be more accurate, directly elected Mayor of Newham, has finally been deselected as…

ON 4 MARCH 2018, a former Russian spy turned double agent for MI5, Sergei Skripal, and his daughter Yulia, were…

By KD Tait THERE WERE a lot of Labour people on Saturday’s demo for the 15 Gazans murdered in cold…

By Jeremy Dewar, Unison rep, pc Another year, another pay cut. Or so it seems. As we go to press,…

Israeli armed forces, firing indiscriminately on unarmed Palestinian demonstrators, men, women and children, have killed at least 16 and injured…

THE SUDDEN coordinated onslaught against Jeremy Corbyn over the weekend of 24-25 March was a transparent attempt by an alliance…

Liga Socialista, Brazil  ON THE evening of March 14, Marielle Franco (38), a city councillor from the Maré favela in…

PARIS – Strikes and demonstrations have taken place across France in a day of action called by a united front of…

THE State of Emergency declared by the government of Ranil Wickremasinghe on March 6, initially for 7 days, was finally…

Statement of the Liga Socialista to the Brazil Social Forum SINCE the impeachment of President Dilma Rousseff of the Workers’…

Up and down the country university workers are holding meetings and rallies to reject the proposed deal proposed between the…

Executive Committee of the Socialist Party of Sri Lanka The declaration of a State of Emergency by the government of…

A decade of austerity has undermined many of the economic, social and political gains achieved by women since the 1970s….

Sylvia Pankhurst (1882 –1960) was a formidable figure; an internationalist and anti-imperialist, an anti racist, and for a period a…

By Mekdela Ejigu THE limited legal abortion and women’s reproductive rights available in the United States exist in a permanent…

COMPLAINTS of sexual harassment and discrimination by women officers and activists often go unresolved in the unions and the Labour…

By a London teacher The recent decision by an East London primary school to ban pupils from wearing the hijab…

By Ella Mertens WHETHER in Chile or Ireland, Germany or Poland – all over the world – women are protesting…

By Jaqueline Singh WHILE within Fortress Europe right wing agitation and violence against refugees are on the increase, its external…

By Hemamali Wijesinghe  Sri Lanka has had a developed culture and literacy for many centuries. As far back as 1931,…

MINNIE Lansbury was born in 1889 in Stepney in the East End of London. Her parents, Annie and Isaac Glassman,…

By Frederik Haber THE results of the metal-workers’ pay campaign in Germany have attracted a lot of attention not only…

By a Unison schools convenor There are 1.3 million local government and school support workers – 78 per cent of…