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The great building workers’ strike of 1972
Dale Farm eviction – the racism that shames Britain
The shocking police violence around the eviction of travellers at Dale Farm exposed the racism at the heart of British…
The Jarrow March – for jobs and dignity
The Socialist Party organised Jarrow March ended in London in early November, inspired by the 1936 Jarrow crusade, Joy Macready…
Syria: Assad's concessions are a fraud
Despite president Bashar al-Assad’s promises not to shoot protesters, his regime has continued to kill civilians, most recently in Damascus…
“Split talk” amongst the Nepalese Maoists
Chairman Prachanda and vice chairman Kiran, now leading different factions in the Maoist party
#Occupy Movement hits Pakistan
The Occupy Lahore Camp started on 22 October at noon in Nasir Bagh park, a regular site for political rallies….
Strike against electricity privatisation in Pakistan
Electricity supply workers took to the streets in Lahore on 1 November to protest at government plans to dissolve the…
US threatens war against Iran
With the publication of the International Atomic Energy Agency report on the Iranian nuclear programme this week, it is no…
7 billion people – don’t panic, organise!
Humanity has passed the 7 billion mark, according to the UN, and the usual concerns about ‘over population’ filled the…
Review: Ides of March
By Joana Ramiro THE IDES of March could not come at a more politically appropriate time, for this is a…
Occupy: We are the 99%!
The Occupy Wall Street Movement (OWS) has spread like wildfire to hundreds of cities across the USA. Its acknowledged inspirations…
Anticapitalism 2011 discusses future of the left
Anticapitalism 2011 saw three days of discussion and debate over the big questions facing the left and anti-austerity movements. Just…
History in the making: democratic revolutions in the eye of uneven and combined development
2011 will undoubtedly be remembered as the year of the Arab Revolution. We have seen an explosion of democratic aspiration…
Sparks blockade Balfour Beatty at Blackfriars Bridge
This morning electricians in London took the fight against pay cuts and deskilling to the largest company behind the attack…
15 October: Occupy Wall Street Goes Global
Global occupation movement sets up camp on steps of St Paul’s in London
Up to 5,000 people rallied to the call to occupy the London Stock Exchange last Saturday. Although police blocked an…
Electricians protests: Pickets hold strong at Carrington Paper Mill
Several minibusses full of construction workers refused to cross the picket lines at the unfinished Carrington Paper Mill today. This…
Construction workers occupy Oxford Street – now its time to strike!
Electricians organised another militant protest in their battle over pay and conditions – it shows the kind of attitude we…
Sparks promise wildcat strike wave
An angry meeting of electricians fighting a 35 per cent cut to their pay pledged to escalate their campaign into…
400 Electricians escalate action at Kings’ Cross
This morning, Wednesday 28 September, the second London demonstration of electricians and supporters with official backing from Unite the…
Strategy and tactics of the Counterfire group; a critique
The global capitalist crisis has shaken up existing outlooks on the radical left. A new climate of discussion is opening…
Editorial: Their crisis is our opportunity
Milton Friedman, the Monetarist economist who inspired Thatcher, once said that you can only carry out lasting change if there…
How we can fight back against the crisis
In the face of a huge crisis many trade union and labour leaders are unwilling to fight back against the…
What is wrong with Europe?
THE GREEK economy accounts for only 2 per cent of EU GDP. If the EU were a single economic entity,…
World economy at tipping point into recession
CAPITALISM IS staring into the abyss of a new recession. The recent bail-outs of banks and countries assumed that the major economies…
Form joint strike committees and unite the pensions struggle
Jeremy Dewar looks at the impending mass strike action in defence of pensions and asks how we can get the…
Mick Dooley: we need to transform the unions
Mick Dooley is a member of UCATT and will be speaking at Anticapitalism on building resistance in an age of…
Jerry Hicks: our side needs to up the ante
An interview with Jerry Hicks, an organiser of Grass Roots Left, the rank and file movement in UNITE, and a…
Ashok Kumar: we must fight the new racism
Ashok Kumar, student activist and ex LSE sabbatical officer, wil be speaking at Anticapitalism 2011 on the new racism “The…
Joana Ramiro: Palestine is key to the Arab revolutions
Joana Ramiro will be speaking at Anticapitalism 2011 on the struggle for the liberation of Palestine The story of the…
