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The lessons for our national strike: rank and file initiative and control Last year saw a completely new type of…

By Bernie McAdam and Dave Stockton The Tory popular press, joined by the liberal “quality” papers, have launched a regular…

The fireworks celebrating the “cold” military coup that overthrew elected President Mohamed Morsi, however understandable, will prove shortsighted – and…

Labour leader Ed Miliband’s has started to show his true colours, setting out what he would – and crucially would…

  The rightwing UK Independence Party (Ukip) leapt into the headlines after the May county council elections. Ukip stood in…

By Marcus Halaby The Stop the War Coalition (StWC), led by Counterfire, the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) and the…

The People’s Assembly against Austerity succeeded in attracting large and enthusiastic crowds to Westminster Central Hall on 22 June. Those…

This People’s Assembly recognises: 1. The historic nature of the attack mounted by the Tory-Lib Dem coalition against the entire…

Jeremy Dewar asks whether Rosa Luxemburg’s ideas on revolutionary organisation and working class spontaneity are a better guide than those of…

The 22 June People’s Assembly, with its trade union backing and its 3,000 registered participants, presents the most serious –…

The movement which brought millions onto the streets now finds itself caught between the uncompromising violence of the state and…

Recent figures show workers in Britain have suffered an average six per cent cut in the real value of their…

Five weeks after Left Unity’s first national conference around 40 delegates attended its first National Coordinating Group (NCG) meeting in…

 By KD Tait With the killing of a soldier in Woolwich, the people of Britain were treated to a glimpse…

  By Paul Silson, Wakefield Left Unity This month Ed Miliband announced that he would follow the Con-Dem coalition’s lead…

On the 125th anniversary of the matchwomen’s strike in the East End of London, Joy Macready examines the strike’s origins…

  KD Tait looks at how the recent antifascist mobilisations in Sheffield reveal the kind of antifascism we need –…

Pathology staff in one large NHS hospital trust, mainly Unite members, have voted for industrial action against the imposition of…

The 2013 Annual Delegate Conference (ADC) of the Public and Commercial Services (PCS) Union once again conducted a heated debate…

  By Marcus Halaby “To imagine that social revolution is conceivable without revolts by small nations in the colonies and…

This week it was the British National Party’s turn to try and cash in on Lee Rigby’s killing. But it…

A packed meeting in Somerstown Community Centre, north London, agreed to found a new rank and file grouping in Unite,…

Saturday 1 June, 2013 The Pakistan elections on 11 May led to a landslide defeat for the Pakistan People’s Party…

In the week following 13 May, when rioting broke out in the Stockholm suburb of Husby, and then spread to…

This is a horrific act, committed in front of ordinary civilians, women and children. We sympathise with the family of the…

  Since April, workers campaigning for better wages and the right to unionise have shut down hundreds of restaurants in…

  Almost 80 years ago, the city of Minneapolis was a battlefield in the class war between workers and bosses….