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They shall not pass! All out to stop the EDL in Tower Hamlets, 3 September
Capitalism, media and the state – a Marxist analysis
Is the News of the World crisis a mere tale of corruption, or does the whole affair expose the fundamental…
As government minister attacks pension reforms, union leader fragments resistance
Health Secretary Andrew Lansley has labelled the public sector pension reforms “inappropriate” and “unrealistic” in a letter to Treasury minister…
Massacre in Norway: the threat of Islamophobia and violent, right wing politics
What motivated Anders Behring Breivik to kill over 90 people in Norway? His actions can only be understood in the…
Anders Behring Breivik had no legitimate grievance
Politicians should not use the Norway attacks to drag the idea of multicultural failure into mainstream acceptability, write Gavan Titley and…
Are Prentis and Barber preparing a pensions sell-out?
There are worrying signs that Unison leader Dave Prentis is preparing to take local government workers out of the battle…
Massacre in Norway: the threat of Islamophobia and violent, right wing politics
What motivated Anders Behring Breivik to kill over 90 people in Norway? His actions can only be understood in the…
Halifax: English Defence League struggles to mobilise
The fascist EDL struggled to get numbers to Halifax on Saturday 9 July when around 400 tried to protest around…
Hackgate, power elites and the limits of the “corruption” critique
How does the radical left capitalise on the Murdoch Empire crisis? In a thought provoking article on the OpenDemocracy website…
The United States faces a crisis not seen since the Depression
The poisonous atmosphere surrounding the role of the state and taxation allows no realistic budget bargaining, writes Will Hutton at…
Phone hacking: These resignation statements are meaningless
The ever-growing cast of the responsible but unaccountable is emblematic of the systemic corruption that has been laid bare, writes…
Charlie Gilmour: another example of political sentencing
Another outrageous prison sentence has been handed down to a protester, writes Rachel Brooks Charlie Gilmour, son of Pink Floyd…
News International: How deep does the rot go?
Rebekah Brooks has fallen from power as the ongoing saga at News International, and across the political scene continues, writes Rachel…
COR conference – a slump in numbers, politics and ambition
At its second conference on 9 July, the Coalition of Resistance consolidated itself as a rightward moving organisation within the…
Lambeth SOS: after J30, support the library strike!
Bombardier jobs massacre – unions must resist!
Over 1,400 jobs are being cut at train manufacturer Bombardier, but Unite is failing to organise resistance, writes M J…
Murdoch Empire phone hacking scandal exposes corruption at the heart of the system
The News of the World, flagship paper for the Murdoch Empire, is up to its neck in corruption and…
This NHS U-turn was a fake
Andrew Lansley’s privatisation remains on track, hidden by a public relations smokescreen, argues Jacqueline Davis at Comment is Free
Police violence against working people exposed
Last year, returning from a football match, student Tommy Meyers was savaged by a police dog while being arrested for…
The Demise of the Public University
There was a time when the neoliberal campus was just a coveted aspiration of the political right. Now students and…
The battle to save pensions is on!
Around 750,000 public sector workers took strike action on 30 June in a brilliant display of working class resistance to…
Pensions fury has its hour: report from central London actions
Yesterday an estimated 30, 000 teachers, lecturers and civil servants marched through London to show their opposition to the proposed…
On strike in Lambeth: solidarity forever!
By a striking Unison Teaching Assistant 8.00am The NUT rep and I mounted a picket at our school – much…
30 June: It's right to strike!
Next step – general strike to bring down the Tories By Richard Brenner THE TORIES have tried to threaten the…
Editorial: Stop the cuts – save the planet
IN PREVIOUS editorials we have argued for a strategy to beat the cuts, centring on the need to win the…
Our battle plan to beat the Tories
THE TORIES are preparing for a wave of strike action – they are starting to reveal key elements of their plan…
What would a rank and file movement look like today?
Union activists often come up against their own leaders even before they can take on the bosses. Marxists advocate a…
Greek debt crisis leaves Europe on the brink of financial collapse
With Greece on the verge of default the crisis is set to deepen, writes Simon Hardy and Richard Brenner. The…
Greece on the verge of revolution – but can the workers win?
Greece is in a prolonged pre-revolutionary crisis. Dave Stockton points to how it can be resolved The Greek state is…