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Spain rises up against austerity
This autumn the epicentre of struggle against savage austerity has moved from Greece to Spain. KD Tait examines the potential…
Free abortion on demand
Joy Macready reports on the growing backlash against a women’s right to choose In September, a woman was jailed for…
Bust the bosses – not the unions
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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Anti-cuts struggle escalates in Spain
By K Tait Hundreds of masked, black-clad police advancing, firing rubber bullets into the backs of fleeing protesters. In a…
One hundred workfare placements offered by union-busting company
By Rebecca Anderson 2 Sisters, a food-manufacturing company that has slowly been eating up the market over the course of…
Coalition of Resistance runs away from the General Strike
By Jeremy Dewar The Coalition of Resistance is the first of the four supposedly anticuts umbrella organisations to hold a…
Leeds TUC meeting to build for 20 October a success
Leeds Workers Power report The Leeds Trades Council organised a successful meeting tonight at the Civic Hall in the city…
Say YES to a General Strike!
After TUC motion agrees to ‘consider’ general strike, step up the pressure for real action By a sizeable majority,…
Victory to the Syrian Revolution!
As we go to press news is breaking of 400 dead bodies, mainly civilians, being found in Darayya. It could…
China cracks down on workers’ centres
While the world’s media has been concentrating on the trial of Gu Kailai for the murder of her “business” partner…
South Africa: Marikana massacre exposes the betrayal of the ANC
South African state prosecutors tried to charge 270 miners with the murder of 34 of their fellow workers. To do…
Cynics and cowards: the left on Syria
If you made a rogue’s gallery of the opponents and critics of the Syrian revolution on the Arab and international…
Imperialism in the dock: why the West is not bombing Syria
The American Zionist scholar Daniel Pipes recently wrote an article in The Washington Times, with the title “Stay out of…
Pentonville Five: when dockers fought the law and won
Forty years ago, four London dockers were arrested and held in north London’s Pentonville Prison. The next morning a fifth…
Four immediate steps against the crisis
In an extract from Workers Power’s forthcoming programme, Beyond The Crisis – Beyond Capitalism, Richard Brenner sets out our key…
Young Blood: Solidarity with Greece
WHEN IT IS 38 degrees in the sun, not much stirs in the centre of Athens. But on 24 August 10,000…
Lessons from the 2010–11 student movement
By KD Tait THE ACTS OF resistance taken by thousands of young people during the student movement of winter 2010-11 shook the…
Where next for the student movement?
IF YOU ARE a new student reading this there’s a good chance you’ve started a course that will see you graduate…
At the sharp end of the crisis
YOUNG PEOPLE in Tory Britain are caught between a rock and a hard place. Youth unemployment stands at over 20…
London Met: thousands face deportation in racist crackdown
JUST WEEKS after London was touted as a multicultural paradise during the Olympics, international students at London Metropolitan University have been…
The Agitator: Sparks target blacklist
“Every time – we beat ‘em then walk away. Let’s get some blacklisted guys and shop stewards in and hit…
TUC: call a general strike!
Union leaders are planning neither to change their strategy nor to lead an effective fight to stop the Tory-Lib Dem…
Julian Assange must face justice and be protected from US imperialism
Julian Assange has been granted political asylum by Ecuador, in a move which has divided opinion amongst those who support…
Bolshie Women: Free Pussy Riot
Three members of the Russian radical feminist band Pussy Riot have been sentenced to two years in prison after being…
Sean Rigg: why did it take four years to get to the truth?
The family, friends and supporters of Sean Rigg, a black musician from Brixton, have finally heard some of the facts…
Workfare extended to prisoners
The workfare system sees multi-millionaire companies such as Tesco, McDonald’s and Asda exploiting workers by forcing them to take part…
Disabled activists expose Paralympic hypocrisy
Disabled People Against Cuts organised a week of protests in the run-up to the Paralympic Games to highlight attacks on…
Spanish miners and farm workers take on bosses and the state
Spain is the new Greece, the latest country to fall victim to the bond markets and Eurozone bailout conditions. With…
An autumn offensive
Editorial of Workers Power 366 – September 2012 We are halfway through the Tory-Lib Dem government. David Cameron and Nick…