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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…
Education not for sale
Public education is under attack. Greedy corporations are hell bent on getting their hands on schools, colleges and universities –…
A new women’s movement to fight the ‘new sexism’
We need a new women’s movement based on both gender and class politics, argues Jo Cassidy Over 5,000 women were…
Libya – the struggle continues
Gaddafi has been toppled from power, but the fight for the future of Libya continues. Dave Stockton looks at the…
Troy Davis: murdered by the state of Georgia
The state of Georgia has carried out a modern day lynching,, writes Jeff Albertson TROY DAVIS was put to death…
India: carworkers fight back
Indian car workers have taken off the breaks in the struggle against management, by Ahsan Raza The city of Gurgaon…
Nepal gets new Prime Minister but deeper problems remain
The new Prime Minister of Nepal won’t be able to change the problems affecting the country, writes Rajesh Thapa The…
Pakistani trade unionists facing repression
Shehzad Arshad from Revolutionary Socialist Movement, Pakistan, reports on the struggle of the electrical company workers in Karachi against their…
Review: Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
“There is a mole at the top of the circus…” THESE WORDS open up a well made and tense thriller, directed…
The challenge of Capitalist Realism – rebuilding faith in a radical alternative
Mark Fisher, cultural critic, author of Capitalist Realism (Zero Books: 2009) and a lecturer at Goldsmiths and the University of…
Israel and USA promise to veto Palestinian statehood
Whilst most of the worlds population support the Palestinian bid at the UN for statehood, the US and Israel have…
Dale Farm resists eviction
Natalie Silverstein reports on the latest developments at Dale Farm, a travelled community threatened with eviction ON 19 SEPTEMBER, the…
Protesters storm the Israeli embassy
Protests have mushroomed since Israel’s killing of five Egyptian soldiers in mid-August, when Israeli security forces breached Egyptian territory in…
Mass strikes in Egypt can reignite the revolution
Massive strikes by workers have broken out across Egypt, reports Marcus Halaby. This opens up a new phase of the…
