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Southern: Another sellout derailed
On 3 April rail drivers’ union Aslef announced that 52 per cent of its members on Southern Rail had rejected…
Syria missile attack: Trump plays with fire
Statement published by the League for the Fifth International The US attack on a Syrian airbase near Homs marked a…
The renewal of Bolshevism: Lenin’s April Theses
Lenin’s April Theses, at 479 words one of the shortest of his major works, represented a qualitative advance in his…
Lexit: The mirage of ‘Class Struggle in One Country’
“Triggering Article 50 opens the way to progressive policies outside the EU to control capital, raise public funds for…
Royal Mail piles up demands for cuts
Up to 300 postal workers in Doncaster walked out on 24 March against a worker off on stress being…
The rebirth of the European far right
A number of factors have contributed to the rise of right wing populism in Europe and, indeed, in other countries…
Theresa May blocks Second Scottish Independence Referendum
Now is not the time,” declared British Prime Minister Theresa May on the announcement of the Scottish parliament’s vote for…
Red Flag No. 12 Editorial – April 2017
Tom Watson and Hilary Benn have taken advantage of Trump’s missile attack on Syria’s Shayrat airbase to launch their own…
Darcus Howe (1943-2017)
Darcus Howe was introduced to a new generation of activists in August 2011, when he was interviewed on the BBC…
#IndyRef2: ‘The Right to Divorce Does Not Mean All Marriages Should End In Divorce’
The British working class movement exists and has been created in over 200 years of joint struggle against British capital….
Bus Eireann workers launch all-out indefinite strike
On Friday 24 March, workers at Irish bus and coach operator Bus Eireann began an indefinite all-out strike. Five trade…
May triggers Article 50
FREEDOM screams the hate Mail. The blinding Sun, “beams this message from our iconic White Cliffs to our neighbours….
Fora Temer! Working class joins anti-government protests in Brazil
March 15 was a remarkable day with strikes and protests throughout Brazil. The working class, along with the youth movement,…
Terror at home and abroad
Islamic State has claimed responsibility for Wednesday’s terrorist attack in which five people were killed and dozens injured in Westminster….
France: Presidential elections in a climate of crisis
“Since 1965 I have never lived through a presidential election like this. There are no more axes, no more rules”,…
Obituary: Martin McGuinness, 1950-2017
Sinn Fein’s Martin McGuinness, ex deputy First Minister of Northern Ireland and ex IRA leader, has died. He played a…
India: 13 union leaders sentenced to life
In a blatant attack on trade unionism, a court in India has sentenced 13 workers, including all 12 members of…
Probably the worst rail company in the world…
NEARLY ONE-THIRD of all Southern Rail’s trains were late or failed to run last year. And 2017 could be even…
Grassroots Momentum conference should call for a broad, democratic organisation of the Labour Left
THE GRASSROOTS Momentum conference in London should be a chance to rally Labour members and supporters around a fighting strategy…
Southern Rail: Aslef members back RMT over TUC
The long running dispute at Southern Rail has taken a further dramatic turn after drivers in the Aslef union voted…
The Bolsheviks and the revolutionary struggle for Women’s Liberation
By Joy Macready The 1917 Bolshevik government advanced a revolutionary programme for women’s rights, struggling to break with the backwardness…
Women’s liberation, Islam and anti-Muslim racism
By Martin Suchanek This article was originally published in Neue Internationale – Frauen Zeitung, the German language magazine of the…
Revolutionary Women: Konkordiya Samoilova
Konkordiya Samoilova was born in 1876 in Irkutsk, Siberia. Her father was an Orthodox priest. Samoilova graduated with a gold…
The fight for women’s liberation
By Joy Macready Women’s oppression long predates capitalism. Indeed it goes back to the origins of class society. But each…
The working class origins of International Women’s Day
Red Flag issue 11 Editorial: March 2017
IN A time of increasing political instability and tension that has given us Donald Trump and Brexit, it’s reassuring to…
Israel-Palestine: rhetoric starts to fit reality as illusion of two-state solution recedes
Normally, American Jewish leaders would expect to feel quite positive about a new US President apparently more friendly to Israel…
Stormont in crisis
The resignation of Sinn Fein’s Martin McGuinness as Deputy First Minister has triggered a new election and brought the ‘Northern…
Syriza continues ‘cuts for cash’ policy
By Katie Pelikanou On February 28 representatives from the European Union, European Central Bank, and the International Monetary Fund arrived…
The resistance to Trump can create a new leadership
Donald Trump’s presidency has galvanised opposition. But turning resistance into victories will not be easy. Republicans control both houses of…