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Syria: the revolution needs arms!
By Marcus Halaby The Stop the War Coalition (StWC), led by Counterfire, the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) and the…
The Peoples Assembly – one step forward two steps back
The People’s Assembly against Austerity succeeded in attracting large and enthusiastic crowds to Westminster Central Hall on 22 June. Those…
Resolution to the People's Assembly
This People’s Assembly recognises: 1. The historic nature of the attack mounted by the Tory-Lib Dem coalition against the entire…
Luxemburg or Lenin – how should revolutionaries organise?
Jeremy Dewar asks whether Rosa Luxemburg’s ideas on revolutionary organisation and working class spontaneity are a better guide than those of…
People’s Assembly: our best chance for unity
The 22 June People’s Assembly, with its trade union backing and its 3,000 registered participants, presents the most serious –…
Can the Turkish Spring become a hot summer?
The movement which brought millions onto the streets now finds itself caught between the uncompromising violence of the state and…
The logic of wealth inequality
Recent figures show workers in Britain have suffered an average six per cent cut in the real value of their…
Left Unity: ducking decisions in Doncaster
Five weeks after Left Unity’s first national conference around 40 delegates attended its first National Coordinating Group (NCG) meeting in…
After Woolwich: self defence and working class unity against fascism
By KD Tait With the killing of a soldier in Woolwich, the people of Britain were treated to a glimpse…
Branch building in Left Unity
By Paul Silson, Wakefield Left Unity This month Ed Miliband announced that he would follow the Con-Dem coalition’s lead…
125th Anniversary of the Matchworkers' Strike
On the 125th anniversary of the matchwomen’s strike in the East End of London, Joy Macready examines the strike’s origins…
Sheffield: the right and the wrong way to fight fascism
KD Tait looks at how the recent antifascist mobilisations in Sheffield reveal the kind of antifascism we need –…
Leeds health workers set for strike action
Pathology staff in one large NHS hospital trust, mainly Unite members, have voted for industrial action against the imposition of…
PCS Conference 2013: stumbling through the dark
The 2013 Annual Delegate Conference (ADC) of the Public and Commercial Services (PCS) Union once again conducted a heated debate…
Syria: revolution, "communal war" and a negotiated settlement
By Marcus Halaby “To imagine that social revolution is conceivable without revolts by small nations in the colonies and…
South London Anti-Fascists confront the BNP in Whitehall
This week it was the British National Party’s turn to try and cash in on Lee Rigby’s killing. But it…
Unite Fight Back: rank and file group founded
A packed meeting in Somerstown Community Centre, north London, agreed to found a new rank and file grouping in Unite,…
Elections in Pakistan: Defeat for pro-war parties
Saturday 1 June, 2013 The Pakistan elections on 11 May led to a landslide defeat for the Pakistan People’s Party…
The riots in Stockholm: a reaction against worsening social conditions and violence
In the week following 13 May, when rioting broke out in the Stockholm suburb of Husby, and then spread to…
Woolwich: the War on Terror on our doorstep
This is a horrific act, committed in front of ordinary civilians, women and children. We sympathise with the family of the…
Strike wave shakes up US fast food chains
Since April, workers campaigning for better wages and the right to unionise have shut down hundreds of restaurants in…
1934: Class war in Minneapolis
Almost 80 years ago, the city of Minneapolis was a battlefield in the class war between workers and bosses….
Was I at Left Unity's first National Meeting?
By Richard Brenner IT’S ONE week since the first national meeting of Left Unity, and after reading some of the…
Bedroom Tax: make Labour pledge 'no evictions'
By an activist in Armley Hands off our Homes The Bedroom tax came into effect on 1 April, cutting the…
Left Unity launched in Wakefield
Six people attended the first meeting of Wakefield Left Unity on Thursday 9 May. There were people from trade unions,…
Young people in the forefront of the struggle
By KD Tait Across the world young people are in the forefront of mass movements for democracy and human rights…
The Palestinian struggle in Syria: an interview
A member of the League for the Fifth International’s German section interviewed Thaer, a resident of Yarmouk, Syria’s largest Palestinian…
Postal workers plan boycott of privatised mail
2013 may not be the year the world ends but it certainly could prove a bad one for anyone who…
Rape and the Left – The enemy within
By Rebecca Anderson THE RAPE AND assault charges against members of the Socialist Workers Party, the RMT union and the…
NHS: the beginning of the end?
By Carla Turner APRIL 2013 could go down in history as the day that marked the beginning of the end…
