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Brexit and Britain’s political crisis
The period since the 2015 general election has been a roller coaster ride for Britain’s political parties, with all of…
Unite the Union: Vote Len McCluskey for General Secretary
Labour Deputy Leader Tom Watson made a last minute bid to swing the vote against Len McCluskey in Unite the…
Condemn US bombing – Nato and Russia out of the Middle East
Donald Trump’s “surgical strike”, 59 Tomahawk cruise missiles launched from two US warships in the Mediterranean, against the Syrian government’s…
Tom Watson and Bomber Benn back Trump’s militarism
Tom Watson and Hilary Benn have taken advantage of Trump’s missile attack on Syria’s Shayrat airbase to launch their own…
Spotlight on socialist policy: The European Socialist Federation
The Brexit victory, in the June 23, 2016 referendum, created shock waves not only in Europe but right around the…
Germany: AKP ban plays into Erdogan’s hands
When Turkey’s President Erdogan compared the German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, to Hitler, there was some predictable outrage in the media…
Stop the antisemitism witch hunt in Labour
The decision by Labour’s National Constitutional Committee, NCC, to suspend Ken Livingstone for a further year for “bringing the party…
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…
