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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…
2.5m reasons to fight the coalition
Halfway through its term the Tory-Lib Dem coalition has failed – even by its own standards. Nick Clegg recently said…
Condemn the Marikana massacre – unite to win demands
Statement of the League for the Fifth International 20 August 2012 The League for the Fifth International condemns the…
Syria: Legitimacy and Division
As the rival imperialist powers manoeuvre to gain an advantage from the mass uprising against Bashar al-Assad’s dictatorship, Marcus Halaby…
Sparks target the blacklist: fight for workers’ control of hiring
Unite Construction Rank and File – the “sparks” – held their conference in London last Saturday, almost one year to…
Why has the left covered up another PCS sellout?
Rebecca Anderson asks why the left has covered up the latest sellout by so-called ‘left’ trade union PCS On 26…
The August Riots – one year after
Racism rife, jobs and services in shreds, justice denied – Jeremy Dewar reports Pam Duggan, whose son was shot by…
Remploy: strike suspension undermines the struggle
By Andy Yorke GMB and UNITE officials called off the third Remploy strike scheduled for Monday 6 August, breaking the…
Atos wins £400 million contract to terrorise the disabled
By Paul Silson In another slap in the face for disabled people, Atos Origin has secured a £400 million contract…
Anticapitalist Initiative not fit for purpose
Rebellion, a national event of the Anticapitalist Initiative (ACI), took place in London on 14 July. It attracted around sixty…
Support the Remploy strikers!
A sustained Remploy strike could put the Tories into crisis Remploy workers are preparing to strike against government plans to…
Leeds link-up with Syriza activists
Nassos Theodoridis, a member of Syriza’s Human Rights Commission, spoke by live-link to a meeting organised by the Labour Representation…
Leeds Remploy strike a success
A fantastic strike took place at the Remploy factory in Leeds on Thursday, reports Paul Silson. Every single unionised worker…
Remploy strike: a great first step in the fight for jobs
Leaflet given out at Leeds Remploy factory picket line on 19 July 2012 Remploy strike leaflet 19 July 2012 (as pdf)…
London Bus drivers win Gold in Olympic bonus dispute
In a dramatic turn of events on the eve of the second London bus strike, the employers appear to have…
London Bus strike shakes bosses and Boris
Today’s strike saw hundreds of bus drivers from 17 companies putting on some of the biggest and most militant pickets…
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…
