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Elections 2011: A good day for the Tories – now we must answer on the streets
The elections illustrate the tremendous challenges ahead of the anti-cuts movement, but we can still answer the Tory menance with…
Marxism Today: London lectures 11 May – 20 July 2011
A world in economic crisis, growing social inequality, war in Afghanistan and Libya and revolutions across the Arab world. Neo conservative…
Yes to AV: why all socialists, workers, youth should back change on 5 May
Tomorrow will see the second referendum in British history and the first ever on electoral reform. All socialists, trade unionists,…
Record turnout for Leeds May Day
On 30 April over 300 trade unionists, workers, students and unemployed joined the Leeds ‘March for the Alternative’ May Day…
Wedding used for political clampdown
The Philip K Dick short story Minority Report, which was made into a film starring Tom Cruise, sees a futuristic…
Facebook joins wave of wedding repression
Fifty anticuts pages taken down under cover of royal celebrations At the same time as the royal wedding, alongside a…
Bin Laden is dead, the US war goes on
US "drone" bombers have been destroying Pakistan's northern provinces for years
Royal Wedding celebrates all that is wrong with the system
“For richer, for poorer?” A sick joke at our expense, writes Joana Ramiro The Royal Wedding comes at a time…
A threat to our right to protest
Nina Power comments in The Guardian on the intense and repressive police crackdown on anti-cuts protesters, just a few days…
Strike against the coalition's cuts
There have been two events in the last few months which have shown that we have the power to beat…
Lansley wants to destroy the NHS – stop him now!
Andrew Lansley’s NHS and Social Care Bill is a fraud. It’s no exaggeration to say that it will destroy the…
Andrew Lansley: Thatcher's man who's out to kill the NHS
Born in Essex, and son of a pathologist, Lansley’s first taste of politics came at the university of Exeter where…
Who wants NHS privatisation?
GIANT MEDICAL and outsourcing companies are salivating at the prospect of getting lucrative contracts for NHS healthcare. That’s why private…
New healthworker network launched
HEALTH WORKERS have formed a new rank and file network to stop the attacks on the NHS. NHS staff are…
May 1926: when workers stopped the country
AT A TIME when we are facing a major offensive on workers’ gains and the union movement, the 85th anniversary…
How can we unite the anti-cuts movement?
With a number of trade unions lining up to strike together against the coalition government’s attacks, there is a burning…
The problem of autonomism
Luke Cooper discusses the growing phenomenon of autonomism in the anti-cuts and student movement “Socialist solidarity is autonomy”, wrote…
UK Uncut: direct action spreads against the cuts
The UK UNCUT occupation of luxury goods department store Fortnum and Mason during the March for the Alternative mass demonstration…
Fact and fiction: politics behind the deficit debate
Are the cuts about ideology or necessity? Many on the left have argued they have more to do with Tory…
All out for 30 June!
THE FIGHT against the cuts is taking a big step forward on 30 June, with a string of unions now pledging to…
PCS: time to move beyond one-day strikes
The Public and Commercial Services Union has played a leading role in calling for the co-ordinated public sector strike on…
Teachers taking action over pensions
THIS YEAR’S NUT conference passed important resolutions calling for co-ordinated strikes over pensions and backed calls for a one day public sector…
Battle for Libya rages on
Fierce fighting continues across Libya as the revolutionaries struggle to bring down Gaddafi’s regime. Rebel fighters, mostly a hastily assembled…
Egypt: the struggle for freedom continues
The revolution in Egypt has entered a new phase. New independent trade unions are recruiting tens of thousands and demanding…
Syrians can bring down Assad regime
SYRIAN security forces shot dead over 80 protesters on 22 April. They killed another 12 the next day, as the…
Fight racism – defend migrants
Prime Minister David Cameron has again whipped up racist fears about immigration, calling for “good immigration, not mass immigration” and…
Thousands march for Smiley Culture
“DIRTY BABYLON!” snarled the crowd in time to the reggae beat. It was a line from a 1980s Smiley Culture…
SWP: the road to Respect
The Socialist Workers Party has always rejected the need to build itself on the basis of a revolutionary programme and…
Policy: council elections, councillors and anti-cuts candidates
1. The situation in Britain is marked by an historic offensive against the public sector, carried out by an openly…
Joana Pinto speaks to NUS conference: ‘together we can win’
Joana Pinto stood for the Vice President Union Development position at this years NUS conference. Below is her speech, calling…
