Workers Power issue 395
Stop Julian Assange extradition
Priti Patel has agreed to extradite Julian Assange to the United States.
Starmer fails test of elections and strikes
Boris Johnson's government suffered two significant by-election defeats on 23 June.
Colleges to strike as UCU re-ballots in HE
UCU members at 33 further education (FE) colleges are taking part in a ballot for industrial action.
Building collectivism, organising councils of action
Editorial July-August 2022, No. 395
Mail, post, telecoms: co-ordinate the strikes
By a CWU rep IT IS a sign of the times that workers across the three main sectors organised by the Communications Workers Union—Royal Mail, Post Office and British Telecom—could be striking together. This would be a first for the CWU. Post Office workers led the way earlier this summer, with 1,500 workers taking two […]
Women’s double burden doubles again
By Millie Collins AFTER 12 YEARS of cuts to wages, pensions and public services, one in five—14.5 million—people live in poverty, including more than four million children. While the richest households saved money during the pandemic, the poorest fell further into debt with no cushion to soften the rising prices today. Research published by the […]
Colombia: Right-wing ousted by populist coalition
By Dave Stockton THE VICTORY of Gustavo Petro and Francia Márquez in the elections for president and vice president in Colombia was greeted with rejoicing on the streets. This is another success for the so-called ‘new Pink Tide’, adding to a list which now includes Andrés Manuel López Obrador, ‘AMLO’, in Mexico, Alberto Fernandez in […]
Pakistan: The capitalist crisis and the working class
By Shehzad Arshad SINCE SHAHBAZ Sharif of the Pakistan Muslim League replaced Imran Khan as Pakistan’s Prime Minister, the political crisis wracking the country has deepened. Nevertheless Sharif’s new government seems to have won the struggle within the ruling class for now and is looking relatively stable. Unsurprisingly its first attack is on the workers […]
1972: When dockers fought the law—and the dockers won
The 1972 dock strike has important lessons for today as we enter a new period of industrial struggle
The Rwanda deportations: a ‘world leading’ attack on refugee rights
The arbitrary denial of rights to asylum seekers who arrive by irregular routes threatens the principle of universal democratic and human rights
Roe v Wade overturned: women say—’we will not go back!’
International Secretariat, League for the Fifth International Finally, they have done it. On June 24, after fifty years of a limited constitutional right to abortion, American women were robbed of that right. Campaigning under the obscene slogan of ‘the right to life’ and anti-science claims that termination means killing babies, women have been deprived of […]
