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Editorial: Autumn of struggle
THIS SUMMER has been a truly momentous one. The riots that swept the country caused huge soul searching by liberal England and…
2011 British political perspectives
Political perspectives passed by the 2011 Workers Power conference in June Political situation At last year’s conference we were in…
Report of the fantastic ‘Rank & File’ construction workers' meeting
Report from the construction workers rank and file conference discussing the growing disputes in the trade Some names have been…
Chile: student movement grows from kiss-in towards general strike
A mass movement of school and university students has Chile’s right wing president Sebastián Piñera on the ropes. Jeremy Dewar…
Israeli protest movement plans million-person march in September – but will it challenge the occupation?
Since mid-July “tent city” protests and weekly demonstrations have been shaking the state of Israel, writes Mark Booth. On the…
With the working class youth of London – against the police
Statement by Workers Power – 8 August For the third night running, working class youth are on the streets of…
Southampton council strike: a heroic struggle misled
The rolling strike by 2,400 Southampton council workers is now entering its 11th week. But despite Unite and Unison workers’…
Tottenham ablaze: The anger is back
As images of buildings and cars set ablaze spread through the media, Joana Ramiro reports on the harsh reality of…
They shall not pass! All out to stop the EDL in Tower Hamlets, 3 September
And they say they're "not Nazis" - EDL'ers in Nazi salute / callumhornigold.wordpress.com
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!
Strikers in Lambeth on 30 June
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…
