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What caused the economic crisis?
In the first two years of the Global Financial Crisis, everyone seemed to know where the blame lay – with…
Angry students chase NUS President off demo
Yesterday over 4000 students, workers and youth took to the streets of Manchester against the Con Dem cuts to EMA,…
NUS leadership has no strategy to win
When the NUS NEC passed a strategy document, supported by NUS president Aaron Porter for the student movement on 10…
Vote for NUS left slate
National Union of Students President Aaron Porter will be facing an election challenge at this years NUS conference, as left-wing…
Teachers need national strike now!
Teachers, civil servants and lecturers are set to lose tens of thousands of pounds from their pensions over a lifetime…
Royal Mail up for sale
The Communication Workers Union has taken to the streets to protest against plans to privatise Royal Mail. The Coalition has…
This is revolution!
What is a revolutionary situation “… a revolution is impossible without a revolutionary situation; furthermore, it is not every revolutionary…
"Who's afraid of the general strike" | Jeremy Drinkall's industrial overview
“No one was talking about a general strike.” This is how Brendan Barber opened his account of the 28 January…
We can break this government too – and we must | editorial
The revolutions in Egypt and Tunisia have inspired millions of people around the world. In Tunisia mass demonstrations routed the…
A general strike is the way to beat this government
The November-December demonstrations by school and university students blew away the stifling atmosphere that had built up within the Labour…
National Shop Stewards Network splits
The crisis inside the national Shop Stewards Network has come to a head and resulted in the inevitable parting of…
Tories drive ahead with austerity plan despite faltering economy
David Cameron announced it was full steam ahead with the government spending cuts after it was announced that the economy…
Coalition of Resistance: National Council agrees to fight ALL the cuts
Coalition of Resistance: National Council agrees to fight all the cuts Andrew Burgin of Stop the War opened the first…
Anger at Labour council boils over at launch meeting of Camden United Against the Cuts
The council room of Camden Town Hall was packed out on the evening of Monday 10 January for the launch…
The fight for a general strike today
Dave Stockton looks in depth at the call for a general strike in Britain today For all the verbal smokescreen…
Letter from Pakistan: taxing the poor
Pakistan’s finance minister, Abdul Hafeez Shaikh, has an international reputation as a privatiser, writes Shehzad Arshad of the RSL. He…
South Sudan votes on independence
Sudan’s Southern region is set to hold a referendum on 9 January, widely expected to result in a majority for…
Wikileaks: the war for information is on
The USA, its intelligence services and right-wing media such as Fox and Sky are waging a brutal world wide campaign…
Cancún conference: dirty great COP out
World leaders failed the planet yet again in Cancún, Mexico when the Conference of the Parties on Climate Change (COP16)…
Our very own Mukhabarat?
In the summer of 1994, when I was visiting my Iraqi cousins in Baghdad, I told them the story of…
Haitian people suffer another man-made disaster: cholera
Eleven months after the earthquake that devastated Haiti in January 2010, the country is now suffering from an outbreak of…
Video evidence exposes war crimes against Tamils
The pure horror of the Sri Lankan government’s genocidal war against the Tamils in May 2009 has been released in…
Defence of legal aid is a battle for us all
The Government’s Green Paper on legal aid proposes a set of changes that will destroy this vital public service. The…
EU debt crisis: bond markets attack euro
The European debt crisis is expanding, pitching country against country, with the major economies attempting to push recession onto the…
Unions set for strike over pensions
Unions are gearing up to defend public sector pensions in what could be a key battle with the Con-Dems in…
Education about discipline and values, not learning, says Gove
Teachers need on-the-job training, not proper education, according to the latest government white paper, The Importance of Teaching. Put forward…
Coalition of Resistance sets stage for fightback
The sheer breadth and depth of the cuts has angered hundreds of thousands. Activists across the country have responded with…
Who is Len McCluskey – and will he fight?
Well! In Unite’s leadership election, left-wing candidate Len McCluskey won with over 100,000 votes. Over 50,000 members voted for second-placed…
Stop police brutality
On 9 December thousands of students defied the law, passed by the last Labour government, to march into Parliament Square….
Introducing REVOLUTION – socialist youth group
The youth movement REVOLUTION has played a leading role in the student protests by organising young people across the country…