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France: All-out general strike now can halt anti-labour “reforms”
By KD Tait President François Hollande’s Socialist Party (PS) government has used emergency powers to force through Minister of Labour…
The Labour defeat that never was
By Dave Stockton The press reported David Cameron as jubilant – can he do anything else beyond jubilating? On the…
Justice for the Craigavon Two!
On March 30, 2012, Brendan McConville and John Paul Wootton, were both convicted and sentenced to spend the rest of their…
“Labour antisemitism crisis”: stop the right wing sabotage
Statement Anti-Zionism is not antisemitism This campaign is actually directed against Corbyn and the party’s new left majority Fight all…
Junior doctors are right to defy the government
By KD Tait Wednesday’s strike saw 20,000 junior doctors leave the frontline of the NHS and join the picket lines of…
BHS goes bust: make Philip Green pay
By Dave Stockton High street staple BHS has gone bust with debts of £1.3 billion, a £571 million pensions black…
Let all the refugees in
By Jeremy Dewar David Cameron claims, “This migration crisis is the greatest challenge facing Europe today. […] Where we can…
Film Review: High-Rise
By Jeremy Dewar A 1975 apartment block plays host to Ben Wheatley’s adaptation of the eponymous JG Ballard novel, which…
Save Lambeth Libraries protest is a reality check for Labour councils
By KD Tait The campaign to defend Lambeth’s 10 public libraries from the Labour council’s closure and outsourcing plans saw…
The Socialist Workers Party and the EU referendum
By Dave Stockton The Socialist Workers Party (SWP) recently launched its campaign for Brexit with a long article by Alex…
Long live May Day
By Rebecca Anderson The year 1890 saw the first ever May Day demonstration, called by the First Congress of the…
A spirit of socialist internationalism is more urgent than ever
Declaration of the Tenth Congress of the League for the Fifth International Since 2008, global capitalism has entered a new…
US elections: cracks widening in the two party system
By Andy Yorke In this year’s US presidential race, a month is a long time. March saw the tensions in…
History: Labour recruits for carnage in WW1
The second instalment in our serialisation of a socialist history of the Labour Party. Read the first instalment: Labour’s early years:…
A socialist plan for steel
By Jeremy Dewar Labour should demand the permanent nationalisation of Tata’s UK operation. Steelworkers have paid for these works many…
Nationalise steel as part of an industrial plan
By Jeremy Dewar At a board meeting in Mumbai, India, Tata executives voted through a plan to sell off all…
Panama paper trail leads to Cameron’s door and beyond
By Dave Stockton Villains stashing their ill gotten gains on Caribbean treasure islands is not new “April is the cruellest…
Schools set to strike against privatisation plans
By Jeremy Dewar The biggest and most militant teachers’ union, NUT, has voted for a strike ballot against the threat…
All NHS unions should strike alongside the junior doctors
By Dara O Cogaidhin Junior doctors across England launched a fresh wave of strike action on 6-7 April in their…
Labour leadership – no time for concessions
Instead of accommodating the right, we should organise the left It makes a change to have a Labour leadership that…
Cameron caught red handed – kick the Tories out
Take to the streets, Unite the strikes, Vote Labour David Cameron and George Osborne are facing a perfect storm. And…
Injustice: Tory cuts will penalise victims
The Ministry of Justice (MOJ) has announced the closure of 86 courts and tribunals across England and Wales. These closures…
The anti-cuts movement and the united front
By Jeremy Dewar TORY CHANCELLOR George Osborne has told the BBC that, “storm clouds are clearly gathering in the world…
Pakistan: new union for women workers in domestic industry
By Alisha Arshad IN PAKISTAN, women are largely confined to working in the huge “informal” sector, which employs about three quarters…
Women on the frontline
By Joy Macready WOMEN continue to face fierce austerity attacks on welfare, jobs, trade union rights, education, healthcare and childcare….
The origins of International Women’s Day
The revolutionary legacy of Clara Zetkin By Joy Macready CAPITALISM from its earliest years gave birth to the modern women’s…
Divisions at G20 summit
World powers reject calls for coordinated response, settle for status quo By KD Tait GROWING tensions between the world’s imperialist…
Syria’s largest city strangled by Assad
Ceasefire will bring neither a just nor a lasting end to the civil war By Marcus Halaby RUSSIA’S bombing campaign…
Sanders pledges to fight after Super Tuesday
Can Bernie Sanders do more than pave the way for Clinton? By Andy Yorke THE 2016 US Presidential election was…
Labour’s early years: 1900-1914
The first installment in our serialisation of a socialist history of the Labour Party. Read the second instalment: Labour recruits…