The SWP and Your Party
An analysis of the Socialist Workers Party’s method and approach to building a new workers’ party.
Review of Migration Beyond Capitalism
Jeremy Dewar review Migration Beyond Capitalism by Hannah Cross, 202pp, Polity, 2021
Trump’s drive to dictatorship
One year on from his election, Donald Trump’s most consistent actions are not his tariff wars, his ‘peace’ attempts with Putin or Netanyahu, or his threats to attack Venezuela or Nigeria, but the war he is waging against his internal enemies.
Renters Reform Act: Now we need rent controls
renters Reform Act does not contain two vital points that could begin to swing the pendulum back in favour of tenants: rent controls and the right to withhold rent.
PCS leaders leave civil servants to fight alone
Workers at the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) voted 80%, on a 52% turnout, in favour of industrial action over the government’s pay offer.
The White Working Class Myth: A review of Underdogs
Underdogs is a well-researched book attacking stereotypes of the ‘white working class’, though problematically it accepts the term itself.
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Trump threatens invasion of Venezuala
The United States has attempted to overthrow the Venezuelan government using military coups, crippling economic sanctions, and support for right-wing paramilitary groups.
Maccabi Tel Aviv: For a full cultural boycott
UEFA and FIFA are both complicit in sports-washing the genocide in Gaza, which for years has shielded Israel from accountability for its illegal occupation and its apartheid state.
Israel violates ‘Peace deal’ with impunity
Israeli strikes on 28 October hit schools and residential blocks across the Gaza Strip, killing at least 104 Palestinians, including 35-40 children.
What’s creating the AI bubble?
At the heart of the AI investment frenzy is a closed loop of speculative investment, reminiscent of the worst excesses of the dot-com bubble.
The paedophile’s pal formerly known as Prince
The stripping of titles from Andrew Mountbatten Windsor, until recently known by the courtesy title ‘Prince’, is a desperate, belated and cynical act by a decaying institution.
Support the Doctors’ strike and widen the fight for the NHS
Resident doctors strike over pay and training places, as the fight for the NHS’s future intensifies.
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Soldier F acquitted – British justice is no justice
The aquittal of Soldier F is only the latest cover-up of Bloody Sunday by the British State.
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SUTR: A United Front Against Racism?
A report of the Newcastle mobilisation against UKIP at the end of September and an analysis of the role of Stand Up to Racism (SUTR).
Sudan: The Fall of El Fasher
The terrible sufferings of the people of Sudan today show that if a democratic revolution does not break up the repressive forces of the capitalist state and replace this with the armed power of working people, it will face a bloody counterrevolution.
Your Party must be a working class party of struggle
The emergence of Your Party reflects real desire for change. The question is: will it become a genuine force of working class struggle and socialism?
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Zohran Mamdani’s election must not lead to new illusions in Democrats
Mamdani, like Sanders and AOC, seduced by the practical attraction of winning elections, have not taken the first step to freeing the US workers and the racially oppressed from the influence of the Democrats.
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