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…

The Greek elections have demonstrated a massive popular rejection of the governing parties who support the EU-IMF austerity memorandum that…

In this timely commemorative article, Dave Stockton looks at the lessons from the great working class struggles before World War…

THE VICTORY of Francois Hollande has raised huge expectations among workers across France and Europe of an end to austerity, posing…

A project is launched in Britain, bringing together activists from around the UK in a new network for united action and open…

The latest crisis in the police goes beyond individual racism, the whole system defends the police from accountability or prosecution….

Only token changes have been made since the 1999 Macpherson report concluded that the police were “institutionally racist”, after an…

In the last week, the London Metropolitan Police have become swamped by a series of exposes of police racism dating…

International Council, League for the Fifth International, 9 April 2012 Our Council has learnt with dismay and anger of the…

As we approach the second anniversary of the Coalition government coming to office, Workers Power conference looked back at the…

Big Society is Watching You! Kady Tait After the budget, the petrol chaos and the pasty tax, the Tories’ latest…

By Andy Yorke The media and Tory ministers have jumped on this week’s report on the August riots to cover…

No Cuts – No War – No Privatisation Left winger George Galloway stormed to victory in the Bradford West by-election…

On 3 March Anthony Grainger, 36, was executed by police in a car park in suburban Manchester. He was sat,…

Italian workers have downed tools as political opposition grows to labour reforms. Unelected Italian Prime Minister, Mario Monti, is facing…

The killing of 17 year-old black teenager Trayvon Martin by an armed Neighbourhood Watch man in Sanford near Orlando, Florida…