Workers Power issue 422

‘Slow violence’ A review of The Department

REVIEW: The Department: How a Violent Government Bureaucracy Killed Hundreds and Hid the Evidence.

Matthew Smyth  ·  14 June 2025

Defending trans rights at work

Employers are re-writing policies and restrictions on bathroom use and humiliating demands to produce birth certificates or out oneself as trans are coming fast.

Workers Power  ·  12 June 2025

Starmer plays the racist card

Starmer denounced the Tories for what he calls a ‘one-nation experiment in open borders’ and claimed the country runs the danger of ‘becoming an island of strangers’, and that this has done ‘incalculable’ damage to Britain. 

KD Tait  ·  12 June 2025

Defend trans rights in Ireland

By Bernie McAdam Last August the Stormont Executive leaders, both Sinn Fein and the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), approved a temporary ban on puberty blockers for transgender youth. This recommendation emanated from the Cass Review which was commissioned by the UK government. The then Tory government had used emergency legislation to implement the ban earlier […]

Bernie McAdam  ·  12 June 2025

Reeve’s economic plan

By Peter Main On 11 June, Chancellor Rachel Reeves will present her Comprehensive Spending Review. This will be the clearest statement yet of the strategy behind Labour’s economic policy for the next four years. It is the conclusion of a process that began well before last July’s general election with the adoption of the ‘fiscal […]

Peter Main  ·  07 June 2025

Trump’s reign of terror over migrants

At his inauguration speech Trump threatened to deport ‘millions and millions of criminal aliens’.

Andy Yorke  ·  05 June 2025

We need workers’ action to break UK links with Israel

The UK state is deeply implicated in Israel's genocide. Workers should take direct action to break those links

Dave Stockton  ·  04 June 2025

Labour fails the test of office

Labour has failed the test on the cost of living, employment rights and climate change. What can we do?

Workers Power  ·  04 June 2025

No more austerity: make the rich pay!

We need united front committees of trade unions and anti-cuts campaigns to build resistance to austerity 2.0

Workers Power  ·  04 June 2025

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