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Labour's right turn
Ed Ball’s announcement, rapidly endorsed by Ed Miliband, that a future Labour government would not promise to reverse a single…
The problem for the Labour left
The Labour left will find it very hard to beat back the right wing turn, argues Simon Hardy THE LABOUR Left, aka…
Labour and the unions
The move to the right is shaking the link between Labour and the unions, argues Dave Stockton Labour’s violent swing…
Sparks fly for more strike action
The electricians dispute is continuing, writes Joy Macready, and the sparks have Balfour Beatty in their sights AFTER SIX months…
Economic outlook worsens as cuts deepen crisis
GDP graph shows a double-dip recession emerging
Fear and hypocrisy: the Arab League monitors in Syria
Marcus Halaby reports on the latest developments in the Syrian revolution as international monitors send back their reports THE ARAB League…
Egyptian elections show sweeping gains for counterrevolution
Dave Stockton DESPITE MASSIVE mobilisations in Tahrir Square and other city centres in November and December, Egypt’s Supreme Council of…
Nigeria: cut in fuel subsidy sparks general strike
Millions of people in Nigeria took action against the government’s cut in fuel subsidies, writes Dave Stockton, but the union…
Stephen Lawrence: racism, lies and reluctant justice
Ron Paul: a bigoted, reactionary enemy of the 99 per cent
Ron Paul, standing to the be the Republicans presidential candidate, has some support on the left because he is antiwar…
The Fidesz Government in Hungary: a parliamentary coup d’etat as civil rights under attack
Mass protests have broken out in Hungary against antidemocratic laws, writes Tobi Hanse Late at night on 2 January, tens…
Italy’s new government launches major attack on workers
Martin Suchanek reports on the latest attack on Italian workers by the new government MARIO MONTI whose “government of experts” was…
Anti-austerity protests in Romania
JANUARY HAS seen days of mass militant action against the government, as thousands of people took to the streets across Romania…
The 1972 battle of Saltley Gate: “close the gates!”
On the fortieth anniversary of the Battle of Saltley Gate Norman Goodwin, then a shop steward at GKN Salisbury Transmissions…
Battle for the internet: Internet giants take actions against proposed censorship laws in the US
AN ‘INTERNET blackout’ on 18 January by industry giants including Wikipedia and Google succeeded in blocking attempts to pass new…
Megaupload shut down by mega corporations
THE COLLAPSE of the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Protect Intellectual Property Act (PIPA) in the US congress…
Twitter has ‘different ideas about freedom of expression’
IN A move calculated to appeal to investors, Twitter has announced it is now able to censor tweets by country of…
Eurozone crisis will get worse in 2012
Despite the best efforts of the French and German leaders, the Eurozone crisis is not going away, writes Andy Yorke…
NCAFC Conference: Despite the problems, a step forward
Anyone reading the #NCAFC Twitter feed over the weekend will have got the impression that the National Campaign Against Fees…
Manchester Anticapitalists discuss anticuts unity
Saturday saw the second meeting of Greater Manchester Anticapitalists, again bringing together a diverse audience of radical activists wanting to…
Willett’s privatisation bill rolled into ditch – for now
The government has dropped controversial proposals to make it easier for private businesses to set up universities, after several months…
Willett's privatisation bill rolled into ditch – for now
The government has dropped controversial proposals to make it easier for private businesses to set up universities, after several months…
Solid strike at Unilever Leeds: now escalate to defend pensions
Forty Unilever workers from the night shift, USDAW reps and officials and supporters joined picketlines outside the big Leeds plant…
John Lewis: “profiting from sweatshops”
Last week, British Prime Minister David Cameron and his deputy Nick Clegg were presenting John Lewis as an example of…
The battle of Downhills – no to Academies!
Staff and parents at Downhills Primary School have launched an impressive campaign to fight the Department of Educations attempt to…
South London Anticapitalist Network launched
Simon Hardy reports on a successful meeting in South London for an anticapitalist alternative. Around 40 people met on Saturday…
Unite the Resistance comes to Manchester
Tuesday saw the first real organising meeting in Manchester for the Unite the Resistance campaign, which recently held a several-hundred…
Internet sites shut down in protest of SOPA and PIPA acts in US
Several online sites, including Wikipedia and Marxist Internet Archive, have taken its english-language page offline in a protest against a…
Union leader slams Ed Miliband but who put him there in the first place?
Unite General Secretary Len McCluskey has launched a stinging attack on the Labour leader Ed Miliband claiming that he {Miliband]…
Anger over Labour support for pay freeze deepens
Ed Ball’s announcement, supported by Miliband, that a future Labour government would not reverse a single cut and would implement…
