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Dilma Rouseff’s reformist dreamworld
The leftwing PT is set for a return to power in Brazil, but has it learned the lessons of its…
Robert Mugabe ousted in Palace coup
Zimbabwe’s working class will have to act fast to disrupt the smooth transition of power from one ruling faction to…
Germany: Collapse of coalition talks triggers unprecedented political crisis
A break with the politics of class collaboration and social partnership is needed to deepen the political crisis of the…
Lebanese intrigue opens new front in regional power struggle
Major political events in Lebanon’s politics rarely take place without the intervention of external powers.
Referendum in Kurdistan: defend the right to self-determination
The false friends of Kurdish independence are determined to keep Kurds divided and stateless.
Austrian election results show it’s time to fight back
The poor results of the left show that a new anticapitalist force can only be created around a clear programme…
Thousands march to demand justice for Palestine
The absence of Labour leaders and members speaks volumes about the real priorities of the Labour left
Balfour Centenary: it’s time to end UK’s legacy of oppression
A century on from the infamous Balfour declaration it’s time to end UK support for Israeli apartheid and colonialism
Soviet Avant Garde: Boris Arvatov’s Art & Production
A review of Boris Arvatov’s Art and Production, published for the first time in English by Pluto Press
Red October: The working class takes power
IN THE February Revolution of 1917, the workers and soldiers of Petrograd rose in spontaneous revolt against the hardships caused…
Royal Mail wins strike ban injunction
By A CWU Rep ROYAL MAIL bosses using the courts to get our strike declared “unlawful” and force us into…
Labour secures pause in Universal Credit rollout
ON 18 OCTOBER, Labour unanimously won a symbolic opposition day vote calling for a pause in the introduction of Universal…
Labour claims the new political centre ground
LABOUR’S BRIGHTON conference was a confirmation that, thanks to a general election in which Labour saw a net gain of…
Catalan nationalists collapse with a whimper
After the nationalist debacle, it’s time for working class unity to fight for a socialist and democratic alternative
Spain: after the nationalist debacle, unite the working class
ON OCTOBER 27, the Catalan Parliament declared independence by 70 to 10, with 55 abstentions. The Spanish state responded by…
Farcical Irish Labour Society AGM hijacked by the Right
ON OCTOBER 25th the Labour Party Irish Society (LPIS) held its AGM under tight security at Portcullis House in Westminster…
Internationalism: Labour’s missing link
Labour’s subservience to imperialism is the price it pays for ruling the capitalists’ system
Labour forces Tory U-turn on Universal Credit
Labour should follow up this victory by committing to reverse all welfare cuts and freezes
Ireland: Abortion Rights Campaign secures referendum on Eighth Amendment
Escalate the struggle for safe, legal and free access to abortion for women across Ireland and the Six Counties.
China: Xi Jinping’s ‘New Era’
China’s president used the party’s 19th Congress to set out the country’s bid for global pre-eminance
Labour of Love: a marriage of convenience
Audiences will wish a little more love had gone into James Graham’s laboured production
Rally to defend democracy in Catalonia, Spain and Europe!
IN CATALONIA, the Madrid government’s refusal to grant bail to the “two Jordis”, Jordi Sánchez chairman of the ANC and…
Academy collapses: students, parents and teachers among the debris
Tories learn Brexit can’t please everyone
Learning the hard way
Labour conference rejects vote on Brexit policy
It’s not undemocratic to oppose Brexit
Detroit ’67: a study in terror and tension
Review of Kathryn Bigelow’s recreation of one night at the Algiers Motel in 1967
The Chinese Communist Party’s 19th Congress
THE 19th CONGRESS of the Chinese Communist Party will open in Beijing on October 18, and is scheduled to last…
How should postal workers respond to strike ban?
“I want to say a word about Royal Mail taking legal action against the will of their own staff, rather…
With Spain at a crossroads, the workers’ movement needs to seize the initiative
THE RIGHT WING Madrid government of Mariano Rajoy has responded to the Catalan separatists’ declaration of independence by beginning the…
Reinstate Moshé Machover
The noted socialist and Anti-Zionist writer has been purged by the Labour Party