By Peter Main The call for a rank and file movement is not a proposal for a new organisation. Like…

After TUC agrees to consider a general strike, step up the pressure for real action, argues Dave Stockton By a…

By Marcus Halaby London’s sparks have targeted rogue construction outfit BFK for some special treatment – flying pickets, direct action…

By Rebecca Anderson The government has tried to impose a 1 per cent pay cap on public sector workers after…

WHEN THE 2010 general election produced no outright winner, uncertainty gripped the markets: would a weak government push austerity hard enough?…

Rebecca Anderson picks apart the bizarre logic of Britain’s competing anti-cuts campaigns If we are to stop the cuts, beat privatisation and banish austerity…

‘Time to tackle the dumbing down’ is the new slogan of the Tory education ‘reforms’ which aim to make school…

When the Tories cobbled together the Con-Dem Coalition in May 2010, they were clear about how they were going to…

The continent is still deep in recession. Coordinated by Germany, France and the European Commission and Central Bank, savage austerity…

Marcus Halaby reports on the endgame in Afghanistan In late August the number of American troops killed in the war…

The 1926 General Strike is rich in lessons for today. Dave Stockton looks at how the ruling class prepared for…

It seems like only yesterday that America faced the question of whether Barack Obama would be the country’s first black…

The Trades Union Congress has agreed to consider the practicality of a general strike in response to the government’s austerity…

London’s sparks have targeted rogue construction outfit BFK for some special treatment – flying pickets, direct action and brand contamination. The…

This year’s Labour Party conference saw what has become an annual ritual: the Labour leader and his shadow chancellor trying…

This autumn the epicentre of struggle against savage austerity has moved from Greece to Spain. KD Tait examines the potential…

Joy Macready reports on the growing backlash against a women’s right to choose In September, a woman was jailed for…

Protesters picketed the BFK (Bam-Ferrovial-Kiers) Leeds Arena construction site this morning, demanding the reinstatement of workers sacked for trade union…

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By K Tait Hundreds of masked, black-clad police advancing, firing rubber bullets into the backs of fleeing protesters. In a…

By Rebecca Anderson 2 Sisters, a food-manufacturing company that has slowly been eating up the market over the course of…

By Jeremy Dewar The Coalition of Resistance is the first of the four supposedly anticuts umbrella organisations to hold a…

Leeds Workers Power report The Leeds Trades Council organised a successful meeting tonight at the Civic Hall in the city…

 After TUC motion agrees to ‘consider’ general strike, step up the pressure for real action   By a sizeable majority,…

As we go to press news is breaking of 400 dead bodies, mainly civilians, being found in Darayya. It could…

While the world’s media has been concentrating on the trial of Gu Kailai for the murder of her “business” partner…

South African state prosecutors tried to charge 270 miners with the murder of 34 of their fellow workers. To do…

If you made a rogue’s gallery of the opponents and critics of the Syrian revolution on the Arab and international…

The American Zionist scholar Daniel Pipes recently wrote an article in The Washington Times, with the title “Stay out of…

Forty years ago, four London dockers were arrested and held in north London’s Pentonville Prison. The next morning a fifth…