It’s no wonder that the opinion polls, immediately after 6 May gave Syriza between 23 and 28 per cent. People…

  WHY HAS Greece taken the lead? Quite simply because its ordinary people have been subjected to five austerity packages…

ANTARSYA HAS recognised the importance of the massive swing of voters behind Syriza as an act of rejection of the…

AT THE moment, it is vitally necessary for revolutionaries to pursue such a tactic within Syriza and to campaign for maximum electoral…

Celebrations on the streets, in the Place de la Bastille and across France, greeted François Hollande’s victory in the second…

Pham Binh, an American socialist, has written a series of articles criticising far left groups on his Planet Anarchy website….

In part two of this commemorative article, Dave Stockton looks at how the miners built the first rank and file…

By Marcus Halaby The principal demand of the February 2011 protests that marked the beginning of Egypt’s revolution was for…

After a heavily contested first round, the Egyptian presidential election came down to a run-off between two candidates, representing two…

Delegates to this year’s PCS conference were clearly in favour of further strike action in defence of pensions, pay and…

THE COALITION took a drubbing in the local elections. The Tories and Lib Dems lost 741 seats and 13 councils, including…

As we go to press, news is breaking of victories for the left in France and Greece. François Hollande, first…

The recent police killings of Mark Duggan and Anthony Grainger expose the racism rife in the police force. Conditioned to…

The #justice4grainger campaign is growing – and it will not stop until it gets justice. It now counts more than…

Joy Macready takes stock of the results ot the local council elections and asks where now for Labour?   Thursday…

Britain is experiencing “the deepest recession and weakest recovery for 100 years,” according to Michael Saunders, an economist at Citigroup….

The Eurozone crisis is the main immediate threat to world economic stability and could spark another worldwide recession. Now the…

THE CAPITALISTS’ LUST for oil and gas knows no boundaries. From wars to extortion, economic sanctions and environmental disasters, these are…

VETERAN IRISH Republican Marian Price has been imprisoned without trial since May 2011. This harks back to the British government’s…

By Marcus Halaby   THE HEADY combination of big business, land development, local and national politics, and the struggle for…

By Sally Turner   REMPLOY, a government-owned company that provides disabled people with employment, is closing 36 of its 54…

By Rebecca Anderson   The issue of overriding importance at this year’s conference of the Public and Commercial Services (PCS)…

Photo: Paul Mattsson BUS DRIVERS in the capital are to ballot for strike action in pursuit of…

By Sally Turner   As soldiers prepare to scab on tanker drivers, it is clear that the threat of a…

The fight to save the NHS starts with the pensions strike on 10 May, argues NHS worker Dara O’Connell  …

By Bernie McAdam, Sandwell NUT The National Union of Teachers (NUT) Conference this Easter made abundantly clear to its leaders…

WE ARE IN the midst of the biggest capitalist offensive for generations and yet the response from the trade union…

PAKISTAN’S MILITARY has intensified its fifth operation in Balochistan, battling a resistance movement against national oppression. Thousands of Balochi political…

Students in Québec, Canada have been on strike for three months against the government’s attempts to raise university tuition fees,…

The Arab Spring of 2011 inspired millions around the world through its acts of heroism. But now the revolutions have…