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The rich get richer…
DIRECTORS OF the FTSE 100 – the top 100 British companies – saw their incomes rise by an average of 49…
… and the poor get poorer
CHANCELLOR GEORGE Osborne famously claimed that, “We’re all in this together.” But when it comes to wealth and living standards,…
… and angrier!
THE UN’S INTERNATIONAL Labour Organisation has produced a report stating that “social upheavals” are on the cards due to growing cuts,…
Democracy, cuts and the anti union laws
The government, backed up by howls of anger by those on the right, are threatening to strengthen the anti union…
Public sector pensions – trade dispute or class war?
Is the struggle over pensions limited to an economic issue, or is it a political fight, asks Jeremy Dewar THE…
The G20 didn’t stop the economic crisis: what comes next?
No matter what they try, nothing seems to work… The world leaders have gathered at the G20, and European leaders…
Greece: the prospects for a revolution
Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou gives way to a coalition government as the EU leaders attempt to force through more cuts…
Egyptian workers fight for their rights
Since the fall of Mubarak, workers have taken their chance to launch strikes and protests over both political issues and…
Military trials and constitutional principles
The Egyptian army’s attack on unarmed Coptic demonstrators has not occurred in a vacuum. It takes place in the run-up…
Egypt after the Maspero massacre
Violence against Egypt’s Coptic Christian minority, about one-twentieth of its population, is not a new phenomenon. Hosni Mubarak’s regime, and…
How can the sparks win?
The electricians have a only weeks left until their industry agreement is ripped up, how can the campaign escalate to…
BBC ballots for strike action
Joy Macready, an NUJ member, reports on the continuing struggle at the BBC BBC WORKERS are gearing up for battle…
Builders’ union bars militant from election
MICK DOOLEY, a bricklayer who has been blacklisted and imprisoned for his militant trade union activities on construction sites in…
Grass Roots Left agrees platform
Fifty rank and file union activists, mainly but not exclusively from Unite, gathered in Birmingham on 5 November for the…
We need an anticapitalist alternative
A general assembly at the Occupy LSX protest
Unite the resistance
A new anti cuts coalition is being set up in November, it offers a real opportunity for the left, but…
Building the left: The lessons of the last 10 years
Luke Cooper looks back on past efforts to build new left organisations and points to what we can learn from…
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…
