Red Flag issue 36

Belarus protests at an impasse after ten weeks

Anti-regime protests in Belarus are continuing for a tenth week, but the regime has consolidated control with the help of the police and military.

Urte March  ·  21 October 2020

Labour Disconnected: Starmer’s strategy of non-opposition

Resist the return to Blairism.

KD Tait  ·  20 October 2020

When Lancashire workers fought slavery

International solidarity in 1862-3.

Mel Astbury  ·  20 October 2020

Murder and whitewash: the case of David Oluwale

Hounded to his death by Leeds police.

Rebecca Anderson  ·  08 October 2020

Slavery bad, empire good: The Black history they won’t celebrate

The struggle for anti-racist education.

Dave Stockton  ·  08 October 2020

All change at Unison?

Vote Paul Homles for Unison General Secretary

Jeremy Dewar  ·  08 October 2020

Imperialism in the classroom: decolonise the curriculum

Tories ban anti-capitalist materials from the classroom.

Dara O'Cogaidhin  ·  05 October 2020

Locked-down students betrayed by uni bosses: #RentStrike now!

Government mismanagement and landlord profiteering has left students locked up in highly expensive accommodation which is rapidly becoming an incubator for the virus.

Rebecca Anderson  ·  02 October 2020

Tories block gender recognition reform

A workers’ movement divided by prejudice cannot unite against the system that exploits and oppresses us.

Dave Brody  ·  26 September 2020

Should workers accept cuts if Royal Mail is losing money?

Smokescreen of financial difficulties.

Pete Thompson  ·  24 September 2020

Socialist Campaign Group rally thousands – but give no direction

A report of the Socialist Campaign Groups rally.

Jeremy Dewar  ·  23 September 2020

Solidarity with Sodexo workers at Birkbeck!

Threats of large-scale redundancies among outsourced catering staff at Birkbeck have sparked a campaign of resistance from Birkbeck Unison.

Joe Crathorne  ·  22 September 2020

“Operation Moonshot” is about private profit not public health

The Tories are using the pandemic to oursource to the private sector

Rebecca Anderson  ·  21 September 2020

The hypocrisy of the “rule of six”

Protecting the rights of capitalists at the cost of workers' lives

Dave Brody  ·  21 September 2020

Colombia: authoritarianism in the pandemic

Protests in Colombia met with police violence

J. Garcia  ·  21 September 2020

From Allende to Corbyn: lessons in reformism 1970-2020

Lessons from the parliamentary road.

Tim Nailsea  ·  11 September 2020

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