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Ireland revolts against water tax
By Bernie McAdam and Darren O’Coghaidhin Ireland is in the midst of a massive revolt against its government’s attempts to…
USA: low paid fight for $15
As the fight for a living wage begins to take off here in Britain, Chris Clough takes inspiration from the…
UKIP: a racist, big business party
Andy Yorke is bemused and disgusted in equal measure by the airspace and column inches afforded to UKIP’s Nigel Farage….
Vote Labour – and build a socialist alternative
By Marcus Halaby As next year’s general election approaches, working class people across Britain will be thinking about who to…
Ukraine votes: fascists enter mainstream
By KD Tait Negotiations to form a government are underway after parliamentary elections held on 26 October delivered an overwhelming…
Workers Power No.380 November 2014
The November 2014 issue of Workers Power is out now. [scribd-url pubid=”24852238179500127593153362″ url=”https://workerspower.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/WP380p01-08small.pdf” ] Click here to read online (pdf) or…
Which way forward for the unions?
As the Autumn’s coordinated strike action stalls, Jeremy Dewar reviews the unions’ record and asks how we can stop the…
South Africa: unions debate forming new party
The giant metalworkers’ trade union Numsa has been campaigning for the labour movement to break with the ruling ANC and…
No to the bombing of Syria and Iraq – solidarity with Kobane!
By Marcus Halaby As the Western powers bomb Iraq and Syria under the pretext of fighting the Islamic State, attention…
Save the NHS – support the healthworkers' strike
By Bernie McAdam As health unions call a second strike on 24 November, NHS England’s five-year plan demands more funding….
Can Podemos be won to class politics?
By Christian Gebhardt Podemos, the expression of what has been called “the new politics” in Spain, has just held its…
On 19 November students can put free education back on the agenda
By KD Tait The ritual central London march for free education, a staple of the student activist’s Autumn calendar…
Bureaucrats crawl away from the battlefield
Union leaders across the public services have called off many of their planned strikes in the run-up to the TUC’s…
Hot autumn or winter freeze?
Britain’s public sector unions launched a coordinated strike on 10 July to break the pay freeze. With a further strike…
Nato summit lays plans for new cold war
Editorial from Fifth International no. 15 The decision of the 2014 Nato Summit in Wales to station permanent military forces…
Can Rojava Kurds unite with Syrian revolutionaries?
By Marcus Halaby The liberated zones of the Syrian Kurds in Rojava have inspired debate and praise, but now hundreds…
FBI’s Most Wanted: Assata An Autobiography
Defy the anti-union laws
Union leaders complain that their hands are tied by the anti-union laws, but where is the campaign to abolish them?…
Organise the rank and file
Over the past year or two the failure of the union leaders – left as well as right – to…
We need a new leadership to beat austerity
By Jeremy Dewar As union leaders prepare to wind down strikes and settle for a pro-austerity Labour government, workers need…
Kiev losing a war on two fronts
By KD Tait On 5 September, six months of fighting between the ultra-nationalist regime in Kiev and the militias of…
Workers Power No.379 October 2014
The October 2014 issue of Workers Power is out now. Click here to…
No to war in Syria and Iraq
By Marcus Halaby US President Barack Obama took office in 2009 promising to end the US occupation of Iraq. Today…
Scotland and the nationalist left
Most of the far left forces in Scotland supported independence. KD Tait looks at how they have followed this…
For a UK-wide struggle for democratic rights and socialism
The positive enthusiasm of millions in the Scottish referendum and the massive rejection of austerity and privatisation have opened up…
Scots rock the UK – but vote to stay
By Dave Stockton Despite the rejection of independence, the shock to the system caused by the final weeks of the…
Scottish referendum: shock upset as polls show independence is possible
By Andy Yorke The Scots have an inalienable democratic right to separate from the UK if they wish. If they…
Ukraine: a critique of the Yalta Manifesto
The anti-fascist resistance in Ukraine is debating what its goals and methods should be. Dave Stockton offers a critique of…
Racist Cop Murders spark resistance
By Jeff Albertson, Workers Power USA The execution of unarmed black teenager Michael Brown by white police officer Darren Wilson…