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Trump’s victory and how he can be stopped
ON 8 NOVEMBER Donald Trump rode a wave of anti-establishment anger to become the 45th president of the United States…
Fracking menace threatens half of UK
MOST PEOPLE imagine that their fuel comes from oil platforms far out at sea, or wells in the desert, far…
Len McCluskey seeks third term
LEN MCCLUSKEY, head of Britain’s biggest union Unite which is also the Labour Party’s biggest donor, has resigned from his…
Bah Humbug
By Mike Black WORKERS AT the factory that makes Humbug sweets are striking against their Scrooge employer. GMB members at…
Strikes stepped up at Southern Rail
RAIL UNION Aslef has announced that 87 per cent of its drivers at Southern Rail voted to strike. These strikes…
Sparks fly at Crossrail
CONSTRUCTION WORKERS at the Crossrail site in Tottenham Court Road took two days of unofficial strike action on 30 November…
A progressive patriotism?
THE PROJECT to develop “our own progressive patriotism”, as Owen Jones puts it, is seriously misplaced, indeed a fool’s errand…
Let’s have the argument about immigration
THE PAPERS, TV and radio say Britain is under siege from immigrants. They blame them for higher taxes, crime, housing shortages,…
Labour MPs ditch free movement
PAUL NUTTALL’S threat to “replace the Labour Party and make Ukip the voice of patriotic Britain” seems to have thrown…
Inside Momentum: their politics and ours
MOMENTUM’S DECEMBER National Committee voted to hold a delegate-based conference in February 2017, and to launch campaigns in defence of…
It’s not ‘our’ Brexit
Trying to reclaim Brexit for the left is a distraction from opposing the Tory plans THERESA MAY and her three…
NHS primed for privatisation, but Labour councils can block it
SECRET COST-CUTTING plans could force hospitals, Accident & Emergency departments and wards to close, as stretched health workers struggle to…
Italy rejects anti-democratic reforms
By Marc Lassalle, originally published in our international magazine fifthinternational.org Italian voters have rejected premier Matteo Renzi’s proposed amendments to…
Momentum National Committee provides a framework for common debate and action
By Rebecca A, Yorkshire and Humber delegate (personal capacity) Last weekend’s meeting of the National Committee, the first since April,…
Concerns raised over Momentum’s recent NC elections
By KD Tait The decision to conduct a series of elections to Momentum’s National Committee through an online One Member…
Momentum’s December NC is a chance to start putting things right
The December National Committee has to make decisions that will shape how the organisation develops over the next period. The…
Who runs Momentum?
By KD Tait This Saturday, Momentum’s long-delayed National Committee will meet for the first time in seven months to discuss…
Fidel Castro, 1926-2016
Republished from our international magazine fifthinternational.org By Dave Stockton FIDEL CASTRO, one of the leaders of the Cuban revolution, has…
Motion from London Region to Momentum National Committee
The London Regional Committee met on Saturday 19th November. It passed the following motion 27-1 with 2 abstentions. “The London…
Solidarity with students’ protests in Brazil!
Red Flag supports this solidarity statement published by the communist youth group, REVOLUTION. Also available in Portuguese. The members of REVOLUTION,…
Organising resistance: Brazil after the coup
This article from a socialist activist in Brazil is republished from www.fifthinternational.org By Eloy Nogueira After the initiation of the…
NATO-Russia rivalry risks war
BRITAIN’S DEFENCE Secretary Michael Fallon recently said that NATO “is waking up to the challenge of Kremlin aggression and could…
The political crisis in Spain
AFTER TEN months of political wrangling and two inconclusive elections, Mariano Rajoy’s Popular Party (PP) has secured the support of the…
Britain complicit in Saudi war crimes
ON 8 OCTOBER, two bombs dropped by the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen hit a funeral hall in the capital Sana’a…
#FeesMustFall: South African students fight for free education
SOUTH AFRICA’S student movement has closed down many of the country’s universities for nearly a month now in their campaign…
Labour needs to fight back against council cuts
THE MOVEMENT that twice elected Jeremy Corbyn to Labour leader is defined by its opposition to austerity. But local government…
“No need for a conspiracy”: antisemitism and free speech on Israel
Red Flag spoke to Naomi Wimbourne-Idrissi of the website ‘Free Speech on Israel’ about the continued charges of antisemitism levelled…
Attacks on immigration won’t help Labour
JEREMY CORBYN told the Labour Party Conference, “It isn’t migrants that drive down wages, it’s exploitative employers and the politicians…
Durham teaching assistants vote for strike action
TEACHING ASSISTANTS employed by Durham County Council have voted overwhelmingly for strike action against the imposition of new contracts that…
Momentum must be a democratic organisation, not a talking shop
PREPARATIONS FOR Momentum’s national conference hit a snag after the Steering Committee cancelled the National Committee for the seventh month…