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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…
Ignore Will and Kate, come to REVOLUTION Today 30/4/2011
All we seem to hear about on the TV these days is “Will and Kate”, “the Royal Wedding”, how it’s…
Why socialists should vote yes in the Alternative Vote referendum
The Alternative Vote (AV) system isn’t proportional, but it’s still an improvement on the rotten First Past the Post (FPTP)…
Which road? Reform or revolution
Rosa Luxemburg, 1871-1919 By Karen Petrie For more than three decades Marx and Engels argued…
March to save the NHS: Tuesday 17 May
Tuesday 17 May 5.30pm March from University College Hospital to Whitehall This is a crucial moment for the battle to…
Leeds anti-cuts convention challenges leaders to fight
Over 100 Leeds activists gathered on 9th April for the Anti-Cuts Convention, an event aimed at building and uniting the…
NUS conference 2011: the fight for students has just begun
Joana Pinto talks about her experience running for NUS Vice President position, NUS conference, and where students can take the…
Black Bloc: aesthetics won't beat the cuts
Luke Cooper argues that the “Black Bloc” tactic used on March 26 can’t stop the cuts in a reply to…
Justice for Smiley – Justice for all who have died in police custody!
The death of Smiley Culture while in police custody has struck a chord that has resonated deeply across south London…
Prison officers threaten strike over prison privatisation
G4S, formerly known as ‘Securicor’ has been awarded a contract to take over Birmingham Prison. The outsourcing security company has…
Northern Ireland: Omagh killing no way forward
The explosion that claimed the life of Omagh policeman Ronan Kerr does not further the struggle against British occupation in…
The credit crunch: a marxist analysis
What caused the credit crunch? Some said lenders got “too greedy”. Others blamed the regulators. Yet more denied it was…
Brixton riots 1981: the fight against racism
From the Workers Power archive – April 1981. Mark Hoskisson explains the causes of the Brixton riots, poverty, alienation and…
Editorial: we can beat the Tories!
Along with thousands of activists, all our readers will be striving to make the 26 March demonstration as big as…
Italy: women and workers march against Berlusconi
Hundreds of thousands of women took to the streets of 200 Italian cities on 13 February calling for “dignity” and…
Tower Hamlets workers throw their weight behind call for general strike
Teachers and council workers from Tower Hamlets called on their leaders to organise general strike action today in a mass…
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…