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Unions enter the battlefield: half a million surge onto London anti-cuts march
It was a long time coming, but yesterday London was crammed full of people for one of the largest demonstrations…
March 26 Demonstration Live Blog
Demonstration live blog
Stop the UN intervention in Libya
The UN decision to intervene in Libya was not a humanitarian measure to “protect civilians”. It was, first of all,…
Victory to the Libyan Revolution!
The rebellion against Gadaffi’s dictatorship deserves unconditional support and that is not altered by the UN decision. Those who oppose…
Smiley Culture dies in police custody
Demonstrate against police custody deaths, remember Smiley 16 April 2011, 12pm South Bank Gym, 124-130 Wandsworth Road (Vauxhall tube) SMILEY…
Royal Family: affront to democracy
THE FORTHCOMING marriage of Prince William and Kate Middleton on 29 April is being paraded as a “feel good” moment…
Britain’s young jilted generation
SOME PEOPLE would have you believe that young people today are lazy and that they don’t care about education. Adverts…
Why socialists want troops out of Afghanistan
This October will be the tenth anniversary of the invasion of Afghanistan. It will probably not be celebrated anywhere in…
Will Arab revolutions transform Palestine?
How will the emerging Arab revolutions affect the struggle of the Palestinian people? Will it help their long battle for…
Next Chinese leader set to face workers’ rebellion
YOU MAY not have heard of him, but the man to watch in China is Xi Jinping. Two years ago he…
From tsunami to nuclear crisis and market chaos
AT 2:55PM on 13 March a 30 foot high Tsunami struck Japan, the waves crashing over flood barriers and in some…
Secrets and lies of nuclear power
MOST PEOPLE do not think nuclear power is a problem until something goes wrong – then the threat of radiation or…
Solidarity sweeps USA as workers dare to fight
The action of workers and young people in the US has been an inspiration. A series of mass protests, occupations…
Free Bradley Manning
UNTRIED AND unconvicted, 24-year-old US army private Bradley Manning has been imprisoned for almost 300 days, held in cruel, inhuman and…
Obama’s trail of broken promises
Barack Obama campaigned on a ticket of ‘hope and change’ but, in office, has radically short-changed his young, Black and…
2011 YEAR OF REVOLUTION
From credit crunch to global crisis The fightback begins WHAT STARTED as a credit crunch became a worldwide recession. The…
A working class solution to the crisis
The Con-Dem Coalition aims to destroy the welfare state. The bosses, police chiefs, top civil servants and most of…
Labour Party: with us or against us?
IN THE MONTHS after the Con-Dem coalition was formed, 30,000 people – fearful for their future – signed up to join the…
TUC: leaders without a strategy
The Trade Union Congress called the 26 March demo under the slogans: jobs, growth and justice. Countering the Con-Dems’ rhetoric…
Strikes take anticuts fight to next stage
As we go to press, the Universities and Colleges Union is in the middle of a week of strikes. This…
“No one’s talking about a general strike”
There is a serious debate going on within the movement about how to beat the cuts, write Jeremy Drinkall and…
Millionaires’ war on services
NEARLY 80 per cent of the Con Dem Coalition cabinet are millionaires, yet their attacks are hitting ordinary people hardestNEARLY…
Serve the rich, screw the poor – the Tories’ vision for Britain
The Tories are pushing through some of the most dramatic cuts and reforms in living memory, John Bowman explains where…
Editorial: All together now
Over the next four years the Tories and the Liberal Democrats want to destroy the welfare state as we know…
Bring down the Tories? Yes we can!
Mandate? No WAY. Cameron and Clegg do not have the voters’ backing for their vicious cuts package – the deepest…
Post Office staff vote overwhelmingly to strike
Post Office workers have voted a thumping 93% in favour of striking over the lack of a pay rise. The…
All together for our pensions – UCU lecturers prepare to strike
University lecturers are preparing to strike against a massive attack on their pensions. Across the public sector, the Con-Dem government…
Hundreds take protest against NHS Bill to City of London
The Bill in question is Andrew Lansley’s Health and Social Care Bill, which will open up 80% of the NHS…
UK food price rises spark riot fears
HSBC’s Karen Ward, a senior economist at the bank, said that rapidly rising food prices were occurring at a time…
The great pensions robbery
“There’s got to be a deal here between the taxpayer and the scheme member and that deal is going to…
