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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…
Pensions: left leaders in retreat — only the organised rank and file can restart the fight
By Mark Booth AFTER A TURBULENT week of union executive meetings, 300 militants packed into Friends Meeting House for an…
New report in ‘cuts cause poverty’ shock
Have you noticed that the Con-Dems’ have stopped insisting ‘we’re all this together’? A new report showing child poverty rates…
Cameron referendum conditions anger Scotland
David Cameron has stirred up a hornets nest of indignation in Scotland by announcing that he intends to force the…
Draft motion to PCS Left Unity conference opposing the sell out
Below is the resolution, adopted a a meeting of trade unionists in Lambeth on 3 January, calling for escalation of…
Pensions conference: left leaders timid in face of right wing betrayal
PCS Left Unity, the leading faction in the civil service union, opened its doors to activists from all unions to…
Stephen Lawrence: racism, lies and reluctant justice
Stephen Lawrence: racism, lies and reluctant justice
After nearly 20 years two murderers have been convicted of a racist killing. But why did justice take so long,…
Occupy and the Tasks of Socialists
An excellent article at the blog, Louis Proyect: the Unrepentant Marxist, looks at the relationship between organised socialists and the…
Stop the pensions sell out!
A nightmare before Christmas – Jeremy Dewar reports on the disgraceful attempt by the TUC and big union leaders to…
Pension dispute – organise against a sell out
The leaders of some of the trade unions are threatening a sell out of the pensions dispute. Although 3 million…
Rape and the Occupy Movement
The rapes reported at some Occupy# camps have barely been discussed by the movement. But they pose major questions around…
Britain is ruled by the banks, for the banks
Is David Cameron’s kid-glove treatment of the City remotely justified, when it neither pays its way nor lends effectively, asks Aditya…
The Eurozone fiscal-union deal must be stopped!
The fiscal union in Europe is potentially a turning point which would see years of austerity and poverty across Europe…
