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Catalonia independence referendum a headache for right and left
When Spain adopted its post-Franco constitution there was a fierce battle over the character of the state. The Right insisted…
Spain: deadlock after elections is a chance for new thinking
With new elections likely, workers’ mobilisations could shift the balance of forces THE Spanish general election of December 20 created…
South Africa miners’ struggles could end ANC’s austerity
By Jeremy Dewar South Africa, one of the world’s major emerging markets, is about to tip into recession. Its currency…
Cologne attacks spark racist backlash
We need to challenge the social causes of sexist and racist attitudes inflamed by the refugee crisis ON New Year’s…
Saudi Arabia, US ally with problems
By Marcus Halaby For all David Cameron’s boasting that he has 70,000 “moderate” Syrian oppositionists ready to act as boots…
USA prepares to double-cross its “moderate” allies
LIKE Putin’s strategy in Syria, Britain’s and the USA’s also involves double-crossing old allies and co-opting new ones. The case…
Putin’s strange bedfellows
BY crushing the Syrian revolutionaries and leaving only Assad and ISIS standing, Putin hopes to force the West to accept…
War and Peace in Syria
By Marcus Halaby A COMMON view in the anti-war movement is that the current war in Syria is effectively a…
London Mayor campaign is chance to build fighting local Labour
By KD Tait Labour MP Sadiq Khan has secured a six point lead over Tory rival Zac Goldsmith in the…
Wage a genuine fight against sexism
By Joy Macready Labour Right’s “misogyny” accusations against Corbyn are a study in hypocrisy THE Labour party’s National Executive Committee…
Motion: Labour councils should oppose local government cuts
Local government cuts: 5 key facts
£11.3 billion will be cut from total central government grants to councils by 2016 From 2010-2015 council budgets were cut…
Letter from Jeremy Corbyn, John McDonnell and Jon Trickett to Labour council leaders
Key extracts from the 17 December letter from Jeremy Corbyn, John McDonnell and Jon Trickett to Labour council leaders To…
How can Labour activists defend local services?
A local government worker responds to Jeremy Corbyn and John McDonnell’s recent letter setting out their policy in relation to…
Defying the press onslaught
There has been no let up in the coordinated smear operation against Corbyn “First they ignore you, then they laugh…
The Tories are bankrupting our NHS
By Bernie McAdam The NHS is heading for annual deficits of £2 billion, with regulators calling it the worst crisis…
United we stand?
The commitment of our union leaders to the new politics is under scrutiny WITH the election of Jeremy Corbyn we…
Student nurses on the march against bursary cuts
In yet another fightback against Tory NHS cuts, over a thousand student nurses marched through central London on 9 January…
Doctors strike opens new front in fight to save NHS
By Bernie McAdam Labour movement solidarity can stop Hunt imposing unsafe contract AS the Tories continue their slashing of NHS…
Tube strikes are aimed at Tories, not Londoners
LONDON Underground workers are set to open up a second front in defence of workers’ right to a family life,…
After the floods
THIS year has seen some of the worst floods, with areas from Aberdeenshire down to Lancashire under water. Large swathes…
Labour’s Trident confusion
Jeremy Corbyn has made a U-turn on Trident, agreeing to maintain the orders for the nuclear submarines “to save jobs” under…
Housing crisis is deliberate
Jeremy Corbyn has said that there is no convincing solution to the housing crisis that “does not start with a…
Corbyn’s first 100 days
Our aims RED FLAG strongly supports Jeremy Corbyn against the MPs who are daily undermining him in the Tory and…
Steel firm Tata announces 1,000 new job cuts
STEEL When Steel firm Tata announced 1,000 new job cuts including 750 at the Port Talbot steel works in South…
Labour councils are implementing Tory austerity
BRANCHES & CLPs Across the country local Labour councils are implementing Tory austerity in the face of resistance from workers, youth…
Right wing MPs fear ‘bloodbath’
PLP A clique of right wing MPs have revealed their fears that they could be victims of a “bloodbath” when local…
Woman from County Down faces life in prison
A 21 year old woman from County Down faces life in prison if she is convicted by a court for…
David Cameron has smeared Muslim women
ISLAMOPHOBIA David Cameron has smeared Muslim women by suggesting that their supposed failure to learn English and integrate into British…
Jobs Not Bombs!
Cancel multi-billion arms spending and tax the rich to create jobs, save the NHS and build homes THEY can’t have…
