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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…
Labour Right orchestrate by-election defeats
As epected and intended, the Copeland and Stoke by-elections were severe setbacks for Labour and for Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership. Whatever…
Labour’s immigration policy: from tragedy to farce
The lack of imagination at the top of the Labour Party was on display for all to see last week….
Glasgow Labour scabs on strikers
By Chris Taylor UNISON RECENTLY announced that striking Glasgow City Council IT workers have accepted an offer from the council…
Ireland: hard Brexit, hard border
Brexit will have enormous political and economic ramifications on both Northern Ireland and the Republic. Since the EU referendum, for…
Vote McCluskey – but organise the rank and file
UNITE GENERAL Secretary Len McCluskey has triggered an early election campaign for the position he currently holds. The three candidates,…
Vote against Article 50
JEREMY CORBYN has imposed a three-line whip on Labour MPs to vote for Theresa May’s Bill to start the Brexit…
Brexit and Trump are two sides of the same coin
THERESA MAY’S visit to Washington has turned into a major embarrassment. Her “partnership” with Donald Trump which meant she refused…
Regaining Momentum
ON 10 JANUARY Jon Lansman and a majority of the Steering Committee launched a coup. This subcommittee of the NC…
America First signals an intensification of US unilateralism
ANYONE WHO doubted that Donald Trump’s arrival as 45th president of the United States heralded a major change in both the country’s…
Free movement: a self-inflicted wound that will fester unless we act
JEREMY CORBYN kicked off 2017 by announcing that Labour was not committed “in principle” to defending freedom of movement for…
Scottish Labour fails to move left
By Chris Taylor In the 18 months since Jeremy Corbyn first secured a place on the leadership ballot, hundreds of…
2016 – year of reaction: 2017 – a year of resistance
2016 was a year of momentous events. In Syria, the European Union, South America, the USA, these were not positive…
The Syrian people’s revolution massacred in Aleppo
By Marcus Halaby THE SIEGE of Aleppo has entered its final hours. A cold-blooded and methodical massacre awaits the defenders and…
Climate scepticism captures the White House
WHEN PRESIDENT-ELECT Donald Trump selects one of the most notorious climate sceptics, Scott Pruit, to head the U.S. Environmental Protection…
Endgame for Syrian revolution
DONALD TRUMP’S election on 8 November was welcomed in Moscow and Damascus. It was taken as the green light to…
