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NUT: local associations conference sets up new teachers' network
Local Associations for National Action Conference (LANAC) was held in Liverpool on Saturday and was attended by 110 delegates…
Greece; Euro blackmail pulls off narrow victory for the Right – but it can be overthrown by mass workers' action
By the narrow margin of just 2.77 per cent of the popular vote, the Greek electorate succumbed to the blackmail…
Editorial: we can beat the cuts – but only with a new strategy and a new leadership
The TUC has called a national demonstration against austerity in the autumn under the banner “A Future that Works”….
Why SYRIZA should fight for a workers' government
Austerity, its consequences, and how to resist: these are the issues fuelling the rise of radical Greek party Syriza. Its…
Work without pay – no way!
By Sally Turner Eighty youth from Bristol, Bath and Plymouth were forced to sleep out under London Bridge, do unpaid…
Demo silences war criminal Rajapakse
By Peter Main Hundreds of demonstrators have prevented Sri Lanka’s President Rajapakse from addressing a business meeting in the heart…
Olympic folly
By Rix Bragg This summer London will play host to the 30th Olympiad, a sporting extravaganza touted as a showcase…
NUT and NASUWT launch joint campaign
By Bernie McAdam, Sandwell NUT Teachers’ unions NUT and NASUWT have announced a joint campaign to defend pensions and protect…
Review: Why it’s Kicking Off Everywhere: The New Global Revolutions
It's time for the anti-cuts movement to turn anger into action
Rebecca Anderson, a rep in the PCS civil servants’ union, looks at the political situation in Britain and asks…
Massacres expose Assad's murderous repression
As sectarian militias roam the countryside seeking to drown the Syrian revolution in blood, Marcus Halaby argues that the only…
Keynesianism: workable reformist solution to the crisis of capitalism?
WITH A SECOND economic crisis looming on Europe’s horizons, there has been a turn in the public consciousness towards the economic…
What a workers' government would mean in Greece
With millions of Greeks prepared to vote the left-reformist SYRIZA coalition into power on the basis of its programme of…
Austerity against the workers: who will rule in Greece?
Dave Stockton looks at why the formation of a workers’ government in Greece is necessary to mobilise the popular forces…
How SYRIZA is caught between reform and revolution
SYRIZA is no revolutionary party, but neither is it a normal reformist one. Since 6 May, Syriza has become wildly…
Is the Greek left suffering a crisis of leadership?
It’s no wonder that the opinion polls, immediately after 6 May gave Syriza between 23 and 28 per cent. People…
A Greek tragedy? No, a courageous fightback!
WHY HAS Greece taken the lead? Quite simply because its ordinary people have been subjected to five austerity packages…
Antarsya and the far left
ANTARSYA HAS recognised the importance of the massive swing of voters behind Syriza as an act of rejection of the…
Greece: what direction will the struggle take?
AT THE moment, it is vitally necessary for revolutionaries to pursue such a tactic within Syriza and to campaign for maximum electoral…
After Hollande's victory – workers need to fight for their own demands
Celebrations on the streets, in the Place de la Bastille and across France, greeted François Hollande’s victory in the second…
Pham Binh: many criticisms, few solutions
Pham Binh, an American socialist, has written a series of articles criticising far left groups on his Planet Anarchy website….
The Great Unrest: How militant miners created a movement of the rank and file
In part two of this commemorative article, Dave Stockton looks at how the miners built the first rank and file…
Egypt: elections open road to counter-revolution
By Marcus Halaby The principal demand of the February 2011 protests that marked the beginning of Egypt’s revolution was for…
Why socialists shouldn't vote for the Muslim Brotherhood
After a heavily contested first round, the Egyptian presidential election came down to a run-off between two candidates, representing two…
PCS must learn lessons of pensions debacle or repeat mistakes
Delegates to this year’s PCS conference were clearly in favour of further strike action in defence of pensions, pay and…
Coalition in crisis – it's time to go on the attack!
THE COALITION took a drubbing in the local elections. The Tories and Lib Dems lost 741 seats and 13 councils, including…
Editorial: Europe turns left
As we go to press, news is breaking of victories for the left in France and Greece. François Hollande, first…
Bring racist police to justice
The recent police killings of Mark Duggan and Anthony Grainger expose the racism rife in the police force. Conditioned to…
17 June – March for Anthony Grainger
The #justice4grainger campaign is growing – and it will not stop until it gets justice. It now counts more than…
Labour wins local support – now make them fight the cuts
Joy Macready takes stock of the results ot the local council elections and asks where now for Labour? Thursday…
