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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…
Is the TUC building the movement – or restricting it?
Industrial overiew from Jeremy Drinkall All the signs are that the TUC demo on 26 March will be monster. Five…
The big Tory sell-off
“We are not the same old Conservative Party. We have changed. We are a party for the mainstream majority.” This…
Middle East in revolt
The revolutions in Egypt, Tunisia and Libya have sparked off a wave of protests throughout the Middle East, raising demands…
Cameron attacks multiculturalism
The UK’s Prime Minister David Cameron attacked multiculturalism in a speech in Munich recently, David Stockton looks at the racism…
Daily Star backs fascist EDL
The Daily Star recently upped its campaign of bigotry and race-hate by giving support to the fascist English Defence League…
North Africa: the revolutions rage on
The revolutions sweeping North Africa and the mass protest movements across the Middle East are a sign of the times….
Pakistan: strikes grip public sector
The Pakistani ruling class is trying to force the working class to pay the price of the capitalist crisis. But…
Left makes breakthrough as Fianna Fáil suffers historic collapse in Irish elections
A new political situation has emerged in Ireland with real opportunities for the left to lead the anti cuts struggle….
We can beat the Tories
Workers Power believes thousands of activists will be striving to make the 26 March demonstration as big as possible in…
Reasons to protest on 26 March: cuts to women's refuges
Government cuts to council budgets will lead to more victims of domestic violence dying at the hands of their abusers,…
Islamists back Egypt’s military
For decades, Hosni Mubarak justified his rule by claiming that democratisation would see Egypt fall into the hands of the…
British imperialism’s bloody history in the Middle East
UK Prime Minister David Cameron flew into Cairo after Hosni Mubarak was forced out, saying he wanted to be the…
Benefits overhaul will punish unemployed and disabled people
The government has stepped up its war on the poor with planned restructuring of benefits, which will see many of…
After the Town Hall occupation, anti-cuts group grows
Report from Lambeth Save Our Services Fresh from our spirited occupation of Brixton Town Hall, Lambeth Save Our Services met…
Celebrate 100 years of International Women's Day
Public meeting to celebrate 100 years of International Women’s Day with international and national speakers on women’s struggles.. Thursday 10…
