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Boko Haram: the forgotten Islamic State
By Jeremy Dewar 7 March 2015 Last year Boko Haram declared the area under their control an Islamic state, part…
We need to talk about abortion differently
We can't afford another Tory government
By Jeremy Dewar, 10 February 2015 In May the Conservatives want to win the election to make even deeper cuts,…
Election 2015 – a race to the bottom
By Dave Stockton, 9 February 2015 Rampant inequality, falling real wages, the NHS in crisis, young people unemployed or condemned…
Stop Pegida
7 February 2015 The British press have, in the wake of the Charlie Hebdo massacre, woken up to the growing…
Cuba: in from the cold or into the fire?
6 February 2015 As the US moves to ‘normalise’ relations with Cuba, Jeremy Dewar asks is this the end of…
Secularism, multiculturalism and working class integration
5 February 2015 The Charlie Hebdo massacre in Paris on 7 January, when two terrorists murdered 12 journalists, a worker…
Turkey: defend union rights – victory to the metal workers' strike!
By Svenja Spunck, 4 February 2015 On the morning of January 29, in Turkey, 15,000 workers in the metal industry…
Does the SNP offer a way forward for the left in Scotland?
3 February 2015 The Scottish National Party claims it is a social democratic party and it is widely seen as…
What Labour and socialist candidates should be fighting for
Editorial, Workers Power No. 381, February 2015 It is a total diversion to call for a vote for capitalist parties…
PCS ‘left’ ditches democracy
By Rebecca Anderson, 30 January 2015 The National Executive Committee of the Public and Commercial Services union has made the…
A&E crisis exposes Tory lies
By Darren O’Coghaidhin, 29 January 2015 Hospital A&E units are suffering their worst crisis since the founding of the NHS…
Greece: Victory marred by coalition with Right
International Secretariat, League for the Fifth International – Wed, 28/01/2015 The elections of 25 January in Greece represent a historic…
How Marxists criticise religion
The future's red not Green
By Dave Stockton If the Scottish National Party is touted to cause the electoral upset of the century and maybe…
Syriza's modest proposal
By Tobi Hansen and KD Tait 19 January 2015 A snap general election in Greece looks set to end in…
London buses: 80 different rates – one solid strike
By Bernie McAdam On 13 January over 20,000 London striking bus drivers in Unite paralysed services. Pickets were held outside…
Rajapaksa's defeat offers opportunities for the Left in Sri Lanka
By Peter Main Despite his characteristic boasting that he would win with ease, Mahinda Rajapaksa was defeated in the Sri…
Charlie Hebdo: Islamist terrorism and Republican Racism
The 7 January attack on the offices of the French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo, in which 12 people were killed,…
Ukraine's European dream is a neoliberal nightmare
By KD Tait Ukraine’s parliament has approved a programme of economic shock therapy described by an MP from the ruling…
2015: their New Year's resolutions and ours
Chancellor George Osborne’s early Christmas present came in the form of the Autumn Statement, which threatened to cut public spending…
Police, politicians and the NUS can't stop the fight for free education
By KD Tait 2014 was the year the student movement moved decisively from the defensive to the offensive. Tax the…
Britain: left unprepared for stormy election period
As Britain approaches its most unpredictable election in many decades, Workers Power surveys the state of the economy, the labour…
What's at stake in the Mexican student revolt?
By Rico Rodriguez On 26 September, a protest by students in Iguala, a city of over 100,000 people, in the…
Left Unity Conference: doing what differently?
By KD Tait Left Unity’s Policy Conference on 15-16 November in London saw members pass a series of policy documents…
A response to the SWP – yes to principled unity
By KD Tait The Socialist Workers Party (SWP) has published an appeal for the left to discuss the formation of…
Smears and social-imperialism, the politics of the “third camp” on Ukraine
By Marcus Halaby Why hasn’t Richard Brenner answered the AWL broadsheet’s claims (and the comments, above)? Why doesn’t Workers’ Power…
Is UKIP a threat to Labour in 2015?
UKIP slashed a Labour majority from 5,971 in 2010 to 617 in Heywood and Middleton last month, setting the pundits…
£10 minimum an hour – now!
By Joy Macready The campaign for a £10 an hour minimum wage is gaining momentum – and it’s about time….
Ferguson: the cops re-arm
By Peter Main November is expected to see a Grand Jury decide not to indict Darren Wilson, a white policeman,…
