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Economy
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HS2: they should have gone to ChinaSavers!
What does it say about our decaying system that our rulers can spend decades debating and spending to deliver precisely nothing at the end of it?
24 Nov 2023 ,
Lalkar
Leaflets
/
Open letter to CPB: Give up the Labour party and take the revolutionary path
Sincere communists must make a serious appraisal of their work at this time of deepening crisis and renewed struggle.
16 Nov 2023 ,
Palestine
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Two ‘British’ positions on Palestine
The latest wave of Israeli violence was unleashed in a frenzy of impotent but brutal rage after Palestinian resistance launched its historic Al-Aqsa Flood battle.
14 Nov 2023 ,
Lalkar
Education
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British government stifles school debate on Gaza
As the imperialists continue their support for the ongoing genocide in Gaza, schools are urged to play their part in complying with the murderous narrative.
13 Nov 2023 ,
Electronic Intifada
Palestine
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Mutiny at the BBC: ‘gravest possible concerns’ over Palestine coverage
The BBC’s own reporters are beginning to speak out about the corporation’s complicity in Israeli war crimes.
10 Nov 2023 ,
Palestine
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Palestine Solidarity Campaign punishes Manchester branch
The PSC wants to keep pro-Palestine activism within the bounds considered acceptable by the pro-zionist establishment.
9 Nov 2023 ,
The Electronic Intifada
British politics
/
Starmer’s bad 90s remix – the Labour party ‘conference’
Sign of the times? Bourgeois politicians are no longer required to inspire the masses – only to prove their utter servility to the interests of British monopoly capital.
8 Nov 2023 ,
Marx Engels Institute
Pay and conditions
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Scottish Water workers vote to strike
Bosses are trying to force the ‘modernisation’ of pay structures – ie, to enforce ever more draconian pay cuts on workers.
7 Nov 2023 ,
World
/
Joti Brar: How can workers learn the truth if everyone is too scared to tell it?
We must respect the workers enough to believe they are capable of learning and we must create opportunities for them to do so.
3 Nov 2023 ,
Trade unions
/
Arms factory blockaded as calls for practical solidarity with Palestine grow
Non-cooperation with zionist Israel is firmly on the agenda. ‘The time to act is now.’
2 Nov 2023 ,
Novara Media
Trade unions
/
Mass non-cooperation urgently needed to help end Gaza blitzkrieg
Workers have power to prevent Britain’s continued military, propaganda and logistical support for zionist massacres.
1 Nov 2023 ,
Palestine
/
Students protest against Manchester university’s complicity in Gaza genocide
Graphene research helps Israel to develop the fighter jets, drones and other military systems now being put to such criminal use against the Palestinian people.
31 Oct 2023 ,
Palestine
/
British complicity in Gaza massacre
Britain is dripping in the blood of Palestinian massacres, and the stain will never wash out.
26 Oct 2023 ,
Declassified
Ukraine
/
Book review: Putin’s Prisoner by Aiden Aslin
Ukraine and other war zones are seen as cash cows for the west’s publicity-seeking soldiers of fortune, who crave fame and adulation for their actions.
25 Oct 2023 ,
France
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Upholding anti-imperialist struggle under the flag of the Platform, herein lies our hope
French communists host international meeting to discuss the present crisis and the way forward.
21 Oct 2023 ,
Platform News
Canada
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Association of United Ukrainian Canadians condemns honouring of Nazis
The fascist-aligned section is vocal and prominent, but Yaroslav Hunka does not represent all Canadians of Ukrainian origin.
15 Oct 2023 ,
Leaflets
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Victory to the Palestinian people in their just war for liberation!
The Palestinians are fighting a just war against imperialist-backed genocidal zionism. They will surely prevail.
12 Oct 2023 ,
History
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‘The lessons of history …’
No matter how carefully our environment is manipulated, in the end, truth will out.
10 Oct 2023 ,
Palestine
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Victory to the Palestinian people in their just war for liberation!
The Palestinians are fighting a just war against imperialist-backed genocidal zionism. They will surely prevail.
8 Oct 2023 ,
Health
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Are striking doctors really ‘greedy’ and ‘uncaring’?
An answer to ‘The Times view on health sector strikes: Uncaring profession’
21 Sep 2023 ,
Proletarian
Economy
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Macquarie stokes the roaring inflationary fires
Vulture capitalists are not ‘bad apples’ – they are the inevitable product of a system in deep and permanent crisis and decline.
20 Sep 2023 ,
Lalkar
World
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Belt and Road envy dominates G20 summit
US imperialism’s latest attempt to counter Russia and China underlines the shifting balance of world forces.
18 Sep 2023 ,
Trade unions
/
Joti Brar: a personal account of anti-war struggle against the trade union bureaucracy
Why is it so hard to get anything meaningful done via the existing trade union mechanisms?
13 Sep 2023 ,
Proletarian
Ukraine
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With depleted uranium, nuclear war is underway in Europe
Nato war crimes in Donbass don’t stop at DU; Donbass civilians are routinely targeted by cluster bombs and petal mines.
12 Sep 2023 ,
Proletarian
Trade unions
/
Who is behind the TUC motion asking British workers to support war crimes?
It’s not too late to reverse the disastrous decision taken by many union delegations and the bureaucratic leadership clique to support this criminal resolution.
11 Sep 2023 ,
Capitalist crisis
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Ofgem serves corporate energy profiteers
The energy regulators work, just not for workers.
11 Sep 2023 ,
Proletarian
China
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Isabel Crook: a long life of devotion and service to the Chinese people
Living in China for almost all of her 107 years, Isabel devoted her considerable energies to serving the people – and to the international cause of socialist revolution.
5 Sep 2023 ,
Lalkar
Industry
/
Air traffic out of control
Who is to blame for the recent mayhem in the skies?
4 Sep 2023 ,
Britain
/
The collapse of Wilko
Wilko stores across the country are expected to close over the next few weeks with the chain struggling to find a buyer.
1 Sep 2023 ,
Class Consciousness Project
Capitalist crisis
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Is life under capitalism getting you down? Luckily, there’s a cure!
Are you sad and depressed? Lonely? Anxious? Isolated? Worried about the future? You may be suffering from capitalism.
30 Aug 2023 ,
Capitalist crisis
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Oxfam identifies inequalities in shocking detail, but provides no solution
Price-gouging is a real monopoly practice. But is it really at the root of the global economic crisis?
25 Aug 2023 ,
Proletarian
Trade unions
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Which way forward for the trade unions now?
It is time to break out of suffocating ‘unity’ with those who serve our class enemies.
24 Aug 2023 ,
Proletarian
China
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Ella Rule: ‘Xi Jinping’s call to strengthen the party comes at the right moment’
The ‘US-led world order’ will use all its very considerable economic, military and propaganda means to oppose China’s rise.
23 Aug 2023 ,
Afghanistan
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Eighty Afghan civilians summarily killed by SAS, inquiry told
A ‘systematic pattern of unlawful extrajudicial killings’ highlights the routine nature of war crimes committed by British occupiers in Afghanistan.
17 Aug 2023 ,
Irish Republican News
Trade unions
/
Why do so many trade union struggles in Britain fail?
Teaching union NEU led its members into months of strike action, only to capitulate and accept a below-inflation pay rise. Why?
14 Aug 2023 ,
Class Consciousness Project
Civil liberties
/
Irish republicans challenge sinister ‘debanking’ strategy
‘We will have your house; if you keep going, we will have your car, we will have your kids, we will have your benefits and we will put you in jail.’
12 Aug 2023 ,
Ireland
/
End internment of Irish republicans now
Why are Irish republicans still being imprisoned without charge by British courts, 25 years after the initiation of the peace process?
4 Aug 2023 ,
Republican News
Civil liberties
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France in flames after yet another racist police murder
The divide between French ‘natives’ and ‘immigrants’ is constantly exacerbated in order to keep workers from making common cause against their rulers.
2 Aug 2023 ,
Lalkar
Ireland
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Landmark judgment finds murdered Irish teen was blameless
The wheels of justice? War crimes committed by the British occupiers in northern Ireland fifty years ago are only now being officially acknowledged.
1 Aug 2023 ,
Irish Republican News
Civil liberties
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Increasing state repression and the ‘non-personing’ of Nigel Farage
The targeting of such a pro-imperialist figure is a warning to all those who might engage in acts of dissent against the establishment.
25 Jul 2023 ,
Proletarian
Health
/
Capitalist contradictions abound: Victorian illnesses on the rise
How can we explain the seemingly absurd combination of British workers’ failing health from malnutrition alongside rising obesity?
22 Jul 2023 ,
Proletarian
British politics
/
Comrade Tongogara, who dedicated his life to the cause of freedom
Police brutality, national-liberation struggles and socialist revolutions: Tongagara supported every serious struggle against racism and oppression around the world.
21 Jul 2023 ,
Lalkar
British politics
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As Ukraine bleeds, British defence minister looks to a new life
Those eagerly packing Ukrainians off to fight for Nato can tend their gardens and sleep well in their warm beds, impunity guaranteed.
19 Jul 2023 ,
The Indicter
Health
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An NHS nurse speaks out on pay, privatisation and demoralisation
The conditions that have led to a haemorrhaging of trained staff from the health service have not come about by accident and will take a serious fight to reverse.
18 Jul 2023 ,
Lalkar
Capitalist crisis
/
EVENT: Trade unionism and working-class leadership
Don’t sit on your hands; don’t fiddle while Rome burns! Your class needs you; the future of humanity needs you! Step forward and help make history!
17 Jul 2023 ,
Ukraine
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Stop the War’s capitulation hides truth about Ukraine, stops workers organising
It is time we in Britain got off our knees and organised a mass movement of real opposition to the imperialist war drive.
13 Jul 2023 ,
Proletarian
Economy
/
Thames Water scandal – is the party drawing to a close?
Having paid a fortune to private investors for years, the British public must now pay again to bail out indebted utilities and clean up the horrific mess they have made.
12 Jul 2023 ,
Lalkar
Civil liberties
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Public Order Act: latest anti-worker legislation to outlaw protests and strikes
Human rights in Britain? What human rights?
11 Jul 2023 ,
Lalkar
Education
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Burden on students becoming unbearable as fresh rent hikes planned
Students are being milked like cash cows, while the vice-chancellors who facilitate this profiteering enjoy huge salaries and perks.
5 Jul 2023 ,
Proletarian
Health
/
Why does Russia now believe that Covid-19 was a US-created bioweapon?
Evidence released from secret biolabs in Ukraine reveals the deeper secret of imperialist attempts to create targeted biological weapons.
3 Jul 2023 ,
Proletarian
Trade unions
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Mick Lynch, Sharon Graham and the capitulating left
As the next election approaches, supposedly ‘radical’ trade unionists are lining up obediently behind Starmer and Labour, against the interests of their members.
1 Jul 2023 ,
Class Consciousness Project
Russia
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Sergei Lavrov on western imperialism, nazism and the rise of the global south
Russian foreign minister tells press: ‘The west has a colonial approach to Russia; they are incapable of seeing us as equal partners.’
27 Jun 2023 ,
RT
Korea
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Michael Palin in the DPRK: a western exceptionalism showcase
Workers in Britain could learn much from our Korean comrades, but they are unlikely to realise that from listening to Palin’s arrogant commentary.
25 Jun 2023 ,
Class Consciousness Project
Pay and conditions
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Homeless charity workers on strike for decent wages
St Mungo’s staff have suffered a 30 percent real-terms pay cut in the last ten years.
22 Jun 2023 ,
Proletarian
Trade unions
/
Derby Silk Mill commemorations 2023: no communists allowed
How did the CPB appoint itself the gatekeeper of the British working-class movement?
21 Jun 2023 ,
Environment
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The biggest threat to the environment is the imperialist war machine
While lecturing workers about ‘consumer choices’, western environmental lobbies give a free pass to the planet’s real polluters.
20 Jun 2023 ,
Proletarian
British politics
/
Why is Britain so set on escalating the war in Ukraine?
Tanks, depleted uranium shells, long-range missiles, F16s: hardly a week goes by without some news of how Britain is upping the ante again.
17 Jun 2023 ,
Proletarian
British politics
/
Communist message to Silk Mill rally: Ditch the Labour party!
Don’t settle for social democracy when only scientific socialism has the answer!
16 Jun 2023 ,
Russia
/
EVENT: Book launch: Neo-nazi Nato’s Proxy War Against Russia
What is really happening in Ukraine? And what should antiwar activists be doing about it?
14 Jun 2023 ,
France
/
Joti Brar: We are heartened and inspired by French workers’ fighting spirit
Unfortunately, even the most militant of Britain’s trade union leaders seem keen to end the strikes here as quickly as possible.
8 Jun 2023 ,
Communist Initiative
Trade unions
/
Model motion: No cooperation with the imperialist drive to war
Only the collective action of workers has the power to stop the war drive in its tracks. This demand must be taken up in every trade union at every level.
7 Jun 2023 ,
Trade unions
/
Model motion: Urgent measures needed to address the cost of living crisis
Why are workers being asked to pay the cost of a crisis that was not of their making? If capitalism cannot provide for its workforce, then capitalism must go.
6 Jun 2023 ,
Trade unions
/
Model motion: Defy the anti-trade union laws
Within the current legal framework, workers’ right to strike in Britain has been all but annulled. This situation must be reversed by means of collective action.
4 Jun 2023 ,
Trade unions
/
Model motion: Break the link with Labour
The essential precondition for a successful struggle for decent pay is that our unions must break their connection with the imperialist Labour party.
3 Jun 2023 ,
Pollution
/
Demand renationalisation of the water system without compensation
Growing public outrage has forced a mealy-mouthed apology from Water UK, but the profiteers deserve jail sentences, not a wrist-slapping.
30 May 2023 ,
Proletarian
Ukraine
/
Zelensky piling up his millions as Nato tries regime change via assassination
Washington continues to stoke the fire in Ukraine, but the blowback may refuse to remain safely in Europe.
24 May 2023 ,
Proletarian
Trade unions
/
Defy the anti-trade union laws!
It is time we turned the struggle for decent wages into a struggle for socialism.
22 May 2023 ,
Proletarian
Trade unions
/
The real trade union barons
Having been absorbed into the fabric of the state machine, most trade union leaders now work not to aid but to suppress their members’ struggles.
20 May 2023 ,
Class Consciousness Project
British history
/
Twenty years later: the predatory imperialist war against Iraq
While the heroic resistance was defeating US and British imperialist forces, the British working class was effectively demobilised by its corrupted leadership.
4 May 2023 ,
Lalkar
Pollution
/
ULEZ: a
green
greed initiative
Not so much an environmental measure as a tax on driving and an effort to keep the car monopolies in profit.
18 Apr 2023 ,
Proletarian
Divide and rule
/
Anti-immigration propaganda stirs up anger and rioting in Knowsley
As the cost of living crisis brings suffering to workers, our rulers are once again using immigration to distract from their failures.
17 Apr 2023 ,
Proletarian
British politics
/
The Labour left still lost in its labyrinth
Starmer’s refusal to allow Corbyn to rejoin Labour has highlighted the true loyalties of the party’s supposed ‘left-wingers’.
12 Apr 2023 ,
Proletarian
USA
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Message to US workers: Britain sending depleted uranium to Ukraine
The imperialists can seem incredibly powerful, but in fact their dominance is declining and their rule is showing signs of senility and decay.
10 Apr 2023 ,
Italy
/
British delegate in Italy: Our rulers are working to overturn Brexit
Workers across Europe share the goal of defeating both the EU imperialist bloc and the US-led Nato war machine.
4 Apr 2023 ,
Proletarian
Trade unions
/
NHS pay offer exposes the limitations of trade unionism
The NHS dispute has brought into sharp focus the inability of modern trade unions in Britain to advance working-class aims.
29 Mar 2023 ,
Proletarian
Media
/
Look, balloons! The Hollywoodisation of imperialist ‘news’ media
Hyperbolic reportage of the ‘spy balloons’ story was a perfect example of how the ‘infotainment’ industry works to distract and confuse.
25 Mar 2023 ,
Proletarian
Trade unions
/
After the strikes, what then?
As union leaders look for the exit, their members’ anger is being directed towards yet another diversionary ‘vote Labour’ campaign.
21 Mar 2023 ,
Proletarian
British politics
/
Rishi Sunak’s new northern Ireland deal foreshadows the end of Brexit
But any victory of our rulers is likely to be short-lived.
20 Mar 2023 ,
Marx Engels Institute
Education
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Why I left my first teaching job: ‘No support, no training, no care for the kids’
This view from a school gives an insight into why so many of our teachers are feeling so demoralised.
17 Mar 2023 ,
Proletarian
Education
/
Support our teachers; save our schools!
It is not only their present ability to exist that Britain’s teachers are fighting for, but our children’s future.
14 Mar 2023 ,
Proletarian
Social wage
/
Many councils have crippling gambling debts. Workers will be paying the bill
Local councils across Britain are going bankrupt, leading to ever deeper cuts in services that have already been stripped to the bone.
13 Mar 2023 ,
Lalkar
Venezuela
/
British delegate in Caracas: ‘Facing the same enemy, we must fight together’
The world’s anti-imperialist forces are coming together in a way that has not been seen for 70 years.
12 Mar 2023 ,
Proletarian
Divide and rule
/
Sound and fury: the hollowness of the woke v anti-woke debate
Workers have no interest in perpetuating bourgeois-incited culture wars. What we need is a clear understanding of how these harmful ideas destroy our ability to unify.
8 Mar 2023 ,
Civil liberties
/
Police officer David Carrick’s campaign of rape: a bad apple or a rotten barrel?
News that the Met will now reopen the cases of a thousand officer complaints would seem to answer the question.
17 Feb 2023 ,
Proletarian
British politics
/
Lessons and legacy of the two-million strong Iraq antiwar protest
Demonstrations are dead-end get-togethers without the leadership of a vanguard revolutionary party. Iraq, Occupy – where are you now?
15 Feb 2023 ,
Proletarian
Housing
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Poor housing kills
The death of two-year-old Awaab Ishak has shone new light on a growing problem: the slum conditions being endured by too many in Britain today.
9 Feb 2023 ,
Proletarian
Pay and conditions
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Pardeep Singh and Boohoo: sweatshop and semi-slavery conditions on the rise
An immigrant worker whose punishment beating was filmed by his employer serves as a stark reminder of the true face of capitalist exploitation.
6 Feb 2023 ,
Americas
/
EVENT: Drive to war in the Americas: Disband Nato; Yankees go home!
As the reckless imperialist war drive threatens every corner of the globe, the World Anti-Imperialist Platform is bringing its focus to Latin America.
4 Feb 2023 ,
Czech Republic
/
Medieval inquisition returns to Europe as historical truth-tellers are put on trial
Josef Skála and two other scholars are being prosecuted in Prague, charged with ‘expressing doubts’ about who perpetrated the Katyn massacre.
31 Jan 2023 ,
Marx 21
Trade unions
/
TUC directs its members’ anger into more meaningless busywork
An email campaign to reverse anti-union laws? Really?
30 Jan 2023 ,
Proletarian
Capitalist crisis
/
Capitalists are causing inflation, not workers!
It’s time for the hoary old myth about wages causing inflation to be put to bed. Higher wages lead to lower profits, hence the bosses’ opposition.
29 Jan 2023 ,
Civil liberties
/
Minimum Service Bill is the latest salvo in the class war against workers
No cooperation with union-busting anti-strike laws!
27 Jan 2023 ,
Proletarian
Civil liberties
/
Communists condemn cancellation of WPB anti-Nato meeting by Conway Hall
The Conway Hall Ethical Society’s craven submission to ‘online intimidation’ gives the lie to its claim to uphold free speech.
23 Jan 2023 ,
Europe
/
Food bank crisis in Europe
As our rulers double down on their war against Russia, workers across the EU are suffering rising hunger and fuel poverty.
22 Jan 2023 ,
Lalkar
Capitalist crisis
/
Prepay meter scandal reveals workers being slowly crushed by energy debt
Workers who can’t afford crippling energy prices are being forced to pay even higher rates by the vulture providers.
18 Jan 2023 ,
Proletarian
Civil liberties
/
Joti Brar on RT: New laws on strikes and protests aim to contain workers’ anger
Instead of helping workers weather the inflation crisis, our rulers are preparing to suppress any future rebellion.
16 Jan 2023 ,
Proletarian TV
China
/
Covid: China changes gear
As the People’s Republic moves on from the era of zero-Covid, western media are desperate to portray its decision as a sign of failure.
15 Jan 2023 ,
Proletarian
Capitalist crisis
/
Communist replies to BBC budget tips: ‘Get out and see the real world.’
What kind of ‘journalist’ could seriously investigate whether ‘showering at the gym’ could be a money-saving tip for impoverished workers?
5 Jan 2023 ,
Capitalist crisis
/
Happy new year?
There is no reform that could enable this profit-hungry system to serve the needs of the working people.
3 Jan 2023 ,
Health
/
The ruin of the NHS for the benefit of private interests
In their desperation for sources of profit, our exploiters as individuals even end up damaging their own collective interests.
29 Dec 2022 ,
Lalkar
Capitalist crisis
/
Communist responds to patronising BBC advice for a ‘budget’ Christmas
Naughty? Nice? It’s time workers stopped believing the fairy tale that we get what we ‘deserve’ and organised to fight for what we need!
24 Dec 2022 ,
Proletarian
World TV
/
Comrade Joti on RT’s CrossTalk: ‘New globalisation?’
Are we witnessing the end of ‘globalisation’ as we have known it for about the last 40 years?
22 Dec 2022 ,
Proletarian TV
Pollution
/
Britain’s dire water situation is no joke
Privatisation has stolen over £60bn from essential services, leaving the country to wallow in its own filth.
19 Dec 2022 ,
Proletarian
Capitalist crisis
/
Polycrisis? Time to put an end to this capitalist madness
This system is unable to escape from its own absurd contradictions: in particular the insanity of deepening poverty in the midst of ever-accumulating wealth.
7 Dec 2022 ,
Lalkar
British politics
/
What is really meant by the demand for a ‘general election now’?
It is true that Rishi Sunak’s appointment was undemocratic. But what do those calling for his ousting really want?
5 Dec 2022 ,
Divide and rule
/
Tribute to Comrade Avtar Jouhl
An indefatigable fighter against racism and imperialism, and for socialism, which he knew held the only solution to humanity’s problems.
20 Nov 2022 ,
Lalkar
Disputes
/
Support our nurses’ struggle for decent pay!
It is not our hard-pressed medical staff who are greedy, but the privateers who are pushing down their wages in the interests of profit.
18 Nov 2022 ,
Proletarian
Trade unions
/
Are Britain’s union bosses interested in helping their members fight back?
As the crisis deepens, the ruling class is looking far more determined than the unions, where lions continue to be led by loyal Labour donkeys.
16 Nov 2022 ,
Proletarian
Environment
/
Environmentalists: time to look your gift horse in the mouth
The misguided actions of the environmentalist movement are annoying workers and harming the aims they espouse.
11 Nov 2022 ,
Proletarian
British politics
/
Rishi Sunak becomes Britain’s third prime minister in seven weeks
No changing of the guard can address the fundamental problem the British ruling class faces – a deepening crisis of overproduction that it is powerless to overcome.
9 Nov 2022 ,
Lalkar
Capitalist crisis
/
The cost of living crisis is a capitalist crisis!
The capitalists have shown themselves to be entirely unable to run their own system for the benefit of society.
4 Nov 2022 ,
Russia
/
West uses Putin’s birthday to ramp up demonisation and personal attacks
But despite all the baseless allegations, reality is stubbornly resistant to imperialist propaganda.
3 Nov 2022 ,
Europe
/
Liz Truss’s message to the USA seconds after the Nord Stream attack: ‘It’s done’.
The former prime minister’s leaked iPhone messages convince Russia that British forces blew up the Nord Stream gas pipelines.
2 Nov 2022 ,
Finance Twitter
Social wage
/
Hungry schoolchildren; another sign of a failed system
When an economic system can’t provide basics like food and warm shelter to its people, it is time for it to be replaced.
22 Oct 2022 ,
Proletarian
Media
/
Inside the world of imperialist mind control
The upside-down world of corporate media lies: how fairy tales and disappearing facts keep workers in ignorance and fear.
16 Oct 2022 ,
Ukraine
/
Foreign mercenaries in Ukraine – Steve Sweeney reports
One mercenary demanded Russian troops ‘surrender or die!’ after botched drone fundraiser cancelled.
13 Oct 2022 ,
RT
Energy
/
Just when you thought it couldn’t get any worse: fracking is back on the agenda
Whichever way they turn, Truss and co are tying themselves in knots trying to escape the Gordian knot of the energy and inflation crises.
10 Oct 2022 ,
Proletarian
Ukraine
/
Kharkov and Mobilisation: the Russian coalition persists, unhindered
The advance of Ukraine’s armed forces into territory from which Russian forces had already withdrawn, is not the ‘turning point’ western media are claiming.
6 Oct 2022 ,
The Postil Magazine
Civil liberties
/
Free Julian Assange!
The chilling persecution of honest journalism has only highlighted the unfreedom of bourgeois society and the lies and complicity of imperialist corporate media.
5 Oct 2022 ,
China
/
Joti Brar on the history and future of the Chinese communist party
‘The stronger China becomes industrially, technologically and militarily, the more it is able to help poorer countries break free of the stranglehold of debt slavery.’
3 Oct 2022 ,
China Reports
Health
/
Coffey’s ‘plan for patients’ boils down to more targets and some magical thinking
Reams of empty phrasemongering are aimed at hiding the fact that Truss and co have no plan to do anything to fix the crisis in our health service.
1 Oct 2022 ,
Proletarian
British politics
/
Farewell to Eric Levy
A lifelong antirevisionist and anti-imperialist fighter who never failed to act on his beliefs and never gave up his faith in the socialist future of humanity.
25 Sep 2022 ,
Lalkar
Ukraine
/
Free Ukraine’s Kononovich brothers, jailed communist youth!
As part of its suppression of political activity, the Ukrainian stooge regime has banned communist organisations and imprisoned their leaders.
19 Sep 2022 ,
China
/
Outrageous ‘assessment of human rights concerns’ in Xinjiang by UN commission
Solidarity with the people of China, being subjected to abhorrent and baseless accusations as part of the imperialists’ relentless drive to war.
17 Sep 2022 ,
Friends of Socialist China
Trade unions
/
Shameful capitulation of workers’ leadership in face of ‘mourning’ demands
With hunger, blackouts and war knocking urgently at workers’ doors, our demand should be: ‘Don’t mourn, organise.’
12 Sep 2022 ,
Proletarian
Disputes
/
Amazon workers against Victorian working conditions and derisory pay
Despite unions being banned by Amazon, its British staff have been staging wildcat actions in defence of their right to decent pay and conditions.
11 Sep 2022 ,
Lalkar
Capitalist crisis
/
EU quietly rowing back on self-defeating sanctions against Russia
In the face of the abject failure of their economic war, EU leaders are trying to salvage what they can without admitting to a U-turn.
7 Sep 2022 ,
Proletarian
Capitalist crisis
/
Cost of living crisis: the fightback is under way
Growing militance among unionised workers and vigorous new campaigns to combat the effects of poverty and inflation signify a change in the workers’ mood.
6 Sep 2022 ,
Lalkar
Social wage
/
Malthusianism is alive and well as feminists celebrate declining birth rate
Since they cannot admit to a solution lying outside of capitalist production relations, ‘women’s rights’ advocates are reduced to prettifying their chains.
2 Sep 2022 ,
Proletarian
Capitalist crisis
/
Families face energy bills topping £5,000 this autumn
Privatisation of the energy industry has put Britons at the mercy of world market prices – and no bourgeois party has a clue what to do about it.
30 Aug 2022 ,
Proletarian
Media
/
Dissecting the cliches of Anglo-American ethnocentrism
Former US ambassador calls on Britain and the USA to ‘come to the rescue’ of the world ... ‘again’.
26 Aug 2022 ,
Disputes
/
Support the postal workers!
Workers at Royal Mail are joining those on the railways and the docks in standing up for pay and conditions.
24 Aug 2022 ,
Proletarian
Support the Felixstowe dockers!
Workers at the country’s busiest port are using their collective power to demand a pay rise in line with rampant inflation.
23 Aug 2022 ,
British politics
/
Backing Truss for PM means doubling down on war drive and economic pain
Liz Truss represents a continued commitment by our rulers to their catastrophic direction on both the war drive and the economy.
11 Aug 2022 ,
Proletarian
British politics
/
Britain fretting over declining influence on ‘the rules’ as China and Russia rise
The accelerating development of a strong anti-imperialist camp is threatening the foundations of imperialist domination and plunder of the globe.
30 Jul 2022 ,
Proletarian
Civil liberties
/
Julian Assange must be freed – a plea from his wife Stella Moris
This battle is not to only save a single journalist from gross injustice but to defend the right of all workers to access and speak the truth.
29 Jul 2022 ,
Lalkar
Civil liberties
/
‘Bill of shame’ spits in the face of ‘Troubles’ victims
British attempts to whitewash war crimes in Ireland make clear once again: there will be no ‘reconciliation’ until reunification.
25 Jul 2022 ,
Proletarian
Health
/
Dr Bob Gill: The demise of British primary healthcare
First they came for the cleaners, then they came for the caterers, then for the porters, the student nurses and the junior doctors. Now they’re coming for the GPs.
11 Jul 2022 ,
Consortium News
Disputes
/
Victory to the striking railworkers; defend the right to strike!
In fighting to save jobs and defend pay, railworkers are in the front line of a desperately-needed push-back against the onslaught of capital.
22 Jun 2022 ,
Social wage
/
Food bank Britain
British families are relying on charity to eat as the market and the government both fail to provide even such a basic necessity as food.
20 Jun 2022 ,
Proletarian
Pay and conditions
/
Sainsbury’s CEO in the money as workers feel the pinch
As conditions for the mass of workers get rapidly worse, the obscene inequalities of the system come into ever-sharper relief.
15 Jun 2022 ,
Proletarian
British politics
/
Boris in trouble: It’s the economy stupid … and that bloody stupid war
The commentariat might not be admitting it, but it is the Ukraine war that looks like finally finishing off Boris Johnson’s premiership.
11 Jun 2022 ,
Proletarian
Ukraine
/
Joti Brar: ‘Greek workers have power to play leading role against Nato in Europe’
Those who spread the lie that the conflict in Ukraine is an ‘interimperialist war’ are helping to demobilise the world’s most militant antiwar activists.
9 Jun 2022 ,
Proletarian
Capitalist crisis
/
Cost of living crisis worsens as inflation and energy prices soar
Our rulers are keen to blame ‘the Russians’ for the intrinsic failings of the capitalist system itself.
29 May 2022 ,
Proletarian
Disputes
/
Train strike: Britain could see the largest walk-out since the 1926 general strike
Meanwhile, the government is considering adding to anti-trade-union legislation to try to outlaw the action before it begins.
27 May 2022 ,
Reddit
British politics
/
Labour is the party of Nato, the party of war
Throughout Labour’s history, in and out of government, its leaders have always been unabashed cheerleaders for the crimes of imperialism.
19 May 2022 ,
Proletarian
Civil liberties
/
Assange, the 21st-century inquisition
It is not one man who is on trial, but the people’s right to access meaningful and reliable information.
18 May 2022 ,
Lalkar
Divide and rule
/
Monstrous plans to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda
The main target of anti-immigrant rhetoric is the British working class, which remains disunited and powerless when racist lies flourish.
17 May 2022 ,
Lalkar
Divide and rule
/
Does our government love refugees now? What a difference one war makes
What are we supposed to make of the our rulers’ desire to extend the warmest possible welcome to refugees from Ukraine?
13 May 2022 ,
Lalkar
Media
/
‘Hurrah for the Azov!’ – The curious case of BBC whitewashing nazism in Ukraine
None of the glib refutations of nazism in Ukraine stand up to scrutiny, yet western media continue to repeat them while closing down those who expose their lies.
7 May 2022 ,
Al Mayadeen
British history
/
Kim Philby: Hero of the working class
How the Soviet Union inspired a British establishment insider to devote his life to the cause of socialism and the socialist motherland.
4 May 2022 ,
Lalkar
Housing
/
London’s great council housing fraud
Politicians talk as if workers are fools, but no-one who has tried to live on a worker’s salary can swallow the London mayor’s lies about an increase in ‘affordable’ homes.
2 May 2022 ,
Lalkar
British politics
/
Partygate again: Is Boris really about to suffer ‘death by a thousand cuts’?
The prime minister’s lies and hypocrisy are once more back in the media spotlight. But the ruling class is struggling to find a replacement for its disgraced frontman.
25 Apr 2022 ,
Proletarian
British politics
/
Paltry Partygate fines for Boris and Sunak are a slap in the face for British workers
The ‘us and them’ reality of British class society has never been clearer.
25 Apr 2022 ,
Proletarian
Lay-offs and closures
/
The day that P&O sacked all its staff: view from a worker in Dover
When capital makes decisions about its profit margins, it is real people whose lives are destroyed.
23 Apr 2022 ,
Proletarian
Korea
/
Solidarity with people’s Korea on the Day of the Sun 2022
Progressive humanity has every reason to celebrate the birth of the great Korean Marxist and revolutionary Kim Il Sung.
15 Apr 2022 ,
Climate change
/
Demonising fossil fuels will not tackle the environmental crisis
Only nationalisation of the energy sector will allow us to make rational plans to safeguard both our energy supplies and our future.
2 Apr 2022 ,
Proletarian
Lay-offs and closures
/
P&O sackings: Don’t make workers pay for the capitalist crisis
The ferry company’s callous treatment of its employees reminds us yet again that the logic of the capitalist system is impervious to the needs of human beings.
30 Mar 2022 ,
Civil liberties
/
Iniquitous new borders bill aims to make citizenship-stripping routine
Are we entering a time where any outspoken opponent of the present system can be rendered stateless and deported?
19 Mar 2022 ,
Lalkar
British politics
/
Renegacy of Stop the War on display once again at ‘antiwar’ events
Those who turn out to voice their concern over war in Ukraine are being fed a nausea-inducing diet of pacifism and imperialist lies.
8 Mar 2022 ,
British politics
/
Build the Workers Party of Britain
The primary goal facing us today is the breaking of all bonds between the Labour party and the working class.
5 Mar 2022 ,
Civil liberties
/
Chris Mullin: Is another honest journalist about to be put behind bars?
West Midlands police are still pursuing a vendetta against the veteran reporter who revealed their corruption and incompetence.
4 Mar 2022 ,
Proletarian
Capitalist crisis
/
Poverty stalks the land as ultrarich count the spoils
Inequality is rising in Britain and in the world, the inevitable outcome of the workings of our much-praised market economy.
3 Mar 2022 ,
Proletarian
Social wage
/
Nationalise the buses!
Covid was the last straw for thousands of Britain’s remaining bus routes, and the profit motive won’t save these essential services.
28 Feb 2022 ,
Proletarian
Ukraine
/
‘Antiwar’ and corporate media play same tricks in anti-Russia war drive
And none of them care a jot for the wellbeing or the wishes of the people of Ukraine.
23 Feb 2022 ,
Canada
/
Solidarity with the Freedom Convoy of Canada
The arteries of the Canadian capital are clogged to the point where Canada’s whole rotten capitalist system is having a heart attack.
23 Feb 2022 ,
Proletarian
British politics
/
Learn the lessons of the Corbyn project: break the link with Labour!
Breaking the thousand threads that connect workers’ organisations to the Labour party is the biggest task facing us now.
22 Feb 2022 ,
Divide and rule
/
Imperialist society can’t be ‘decolonised’; fight racism by building for socialism
While state power remains in the hands of a tiny exploiting class, workers will continue to be divided by racism.
21 Feb 2022 ,
Divide and rule
/
The tragic fall of Kathleen Stock: another voice silenced by trans extremism
A backlash against the domination of our university campuses by anti-material transgender ideologists is long overdue.
16 Feb 2022 ,
Proletarian
Divide and rule
/
Fight racism with class unity, not separatism or black nationalism
It is only by unifying the maximum forces that we will be able to confront the enemy of ALL workers – the capitalist-imperialist economic system as a whole.
13 Feb 2022 ,
British politics
/
The real conspiracy is that of the ruling class against the workers
Workers are being side-tracked from the class struggle with plausible lies that exploit their fears and their anger at being endlessly lied to.
12 Feb 2022 ,
Health
/
Law on mandatory vaccination for NHS staff to be repealed
In a last-minute U-turn, the beleaguered prime minister has realised that this is one battle he can do without.
1 Feb 2022 ,
Proletarian
British politics
/
What can Boris’s ‘partygate’ tell us about the nature of capitalist Britain?
It is not just one leader we need to replace, but the whole rotten and corrupt system he represents.
18 Jan 2022 ,
Proletarian
Divide and rule
/
The Channel boat tragedy and Britain’s inhumanity to asylum seekers
Why is the plight of these desperate migrants being weaponised?
14 Jan 2022 ,
Lalkar
Civil liberties
/
Julian Assange loses extradition appeal; British ‘justice’ exposed to the world
On the insincere assurances of US lawyers, a British court has decreed that it would be safe for Mr Assange to be handed over to their country’s tender mercies.
13 Jan 2022 ,
Lalkar
Economy
/
BP’s ‘cash machine’ goes into overdrive as workers’ energy bills soar
Britain’s energy monopolies are enjoying a profit bonanza as their rivals disappear and Ofgem fixes prices on their behalf.
11 Jan 2022 ,
Proletarian
Capitalist crisis
/
Crisis is inescapable while capitalism remains
The working class’s historic role is to put an end to profit-driven capitalism and to build a new, socialist society in its place.
4 Jan 2022 ,
Health
/
Covid has exposed the weakness of capitalism and the strength of socialism
In highlighting the fatal flaws of capitalism, the pandemic has also given us a chance to pursue solutions with renewed energy and hope.
2 Jan 2022 ,
Divide and rule
/
Jobs are available – let asylum seekers work!
What possible justification can there be for refusing to let migrants work when there are so many empty positions?
26 Dec 2021 ,
Lalkar
Health
/
Covid-19: Damning report highlights unpreparedness and corruption
Under cover of a global health emergency, our rulers have executed a blatant raid on the Treasury.
20 Dec 2021 ,
Proletarian
Education
/
No academic freedom to support Palestine
Bristol academic sacked for refusing to bow to the diktat of the zionist world lobby.
18 Dec 2021 ,
Lalkar
China
/
China and Covid: working towards a global community of health for all
While China has declared its vaccines to be a global public good, imperialist corporations continue to put profit ahead of health.
17 Dec 2021 ,
Proletarian
Environment
/
Stop these sociopaths from poisoning our rivers!
We are reaping the whirlwind after decades of criminal neglect of Britain’s privatised water and sewage systems.
15 Dec 2021 ,
Proletarian
Economy
/
Energy crisis: more millions to prop up the privateers
Taxpayer cash will shore up monopoly profits while workers shiver this winter.
14 Dec 2021 ,
Proletarian
Health
/
The NHS, the Covid pandemic and the private insurance takeover
A meaningful defence of Britain’s health service is urgently needed. What would it look like?
13 Dec 2021 ,
Lalkar
Civil liberties
/
Imperialism’s global conspiracy against Julian Assange
Corporate media maintain their silence as the persecuted journalist and publisher remains behind bars, though convicted of no crime.
10 Dec 2021 ,
Lalkar
Health
/
Derisory pay offer covers further cuts as NHS privatisation reaches new heights
National clapping and a George Cross have left nurses empty handed as the new health chief helps US profiteers move in.
2 Dec 2021 ,
Proletarian
British politics
/
Brexit continues to be a thorn in the side of imperialism
Exposing capitalist democracy, hastening Irish reunification, weakening the camp of international imperialism ... these effects of Brexit are greatly to be welcomed.
25 Nov 2021 ,
Industry
/
A curate’s egg: Shapps’s ‘Great British Railways’ scam
The proposed railways ‘solution’ is less a plan for renationalisation than it is a promise to provide further subsidies to monopoly capital.
24 Nov 2021 ,
Lalkar
China
/
Comrade Ella: Our enemy is here at home, not in China
Confusing and demoralising anticommunist propaganda is a cornerstone of the imperialist drive for domination and war.
23 Nov 2021 ,
Proletarian
Climate change
/
Cop26: Fiddling while the world burns
Awash with fossil fuel lobbyists and corporate sponsors, the latest ‘climate conference’ was just another greenwashing exercise for monopoly capital.
19 Nov 2021 ,
Proletarian
Energy
/
Why is Britain importing coal from Australia and the USA?
Is it fear of militant miners that keeps our rulers from reopening deep mines in Britain while we still have a need for coal?
18 Nov 2021 ,
Proletarian
Economy
/
‘Just in time’ reveals the fatal inadequacy of market mechanisms
Global supply lines have been designed with profit maximisation, not the needs of the people, in mind.
16 Nov 2021 ,
Proletarian
Economy
/
Energy crisis: how imperialism manufactures ‘shortages’
The monopolists are too busy vying for advantage to worry about the effects of their machinations on the lives of the workers.
13 Nov 2021 ,
Lalkar
Education
/
Prof David Miller and the zionist campaign to crush dissent on campuses
The list of truths that we are being told we must not utter in public spaces continues to grow, but truth has a way of winning out.
12 Nov 2021 ,
Proletarian
British politics
/
Ninth party congress: We must connect our movement with the masses
Important foundations have already been laid. Now we must expand and build on those in a principled and serious way.
11 Nov 2021 ,
Proletarian
British politics
/
Britain steps up diplomatic hostility towards China
In banning the Chinese ambassador from Parliament, Britain is ramping up its pro-war stance.
26 Oct 2021 ,
Proletarian
British politics
/
Palestine solidarity motion deepens division in the Labour party’s ranks
Keir Starmer has already vowed to ignore the motion passed by an overwhelming majority of conference delegates.
15 Oct 2021 ,
Proletarian
British politics
/
Labour party conference not a ‘safe space’ for women
While Keir Starmer can’t say who has a cervix, one of his MPs is receiving death threats for defending women’s rights.
14 Oct 2021 ,
Proletarian
Civil liberties
/
Anglo-American plot to assassinate Julian Assange on London’s streets
Will the authorities now be forced to cease their decade-long persecution of the world’s most celebrated journalist?
13 Oct 2021 ,
Proletarian
Australia
/
Aukus deal splits the imperialist front against China
As Lord Palmerston declared 200 years ago: imperialism has no permanent friends, only permanent interests.
25 Sep 2021 ,
Proletarian
Economy
/
Gas prices go through the roof as global shortage ties supply lines in knots
Millions of families will again be forced to choose between heating and eating this winter.
22 Sep 2021 ,
Proletarian
Ireland
/
Deprivation, anger and fear behind loyalist riots in northern Ireland
Poor protestants are responding to a sense of alienation and being left behind. The question they will need to answer is: to what and to whom are they ’loyal’?
15 Sep 2021 ,
Lalkar
Ecuador
/
Chevron’s disgraceful persecution of human rights lawyer Steven Donziger
Instead of paying billions in damages owed for horrific pollution of Ecuador’s rainforest, the oil giant is hounding and demonising its accusers.
13 Sep 2021 ,
Proletarian
Civil liberties
/
Craig Murray: British state locks up elderly journalist on spurious charges
In Britain today, any journalist who becomes an inconvenience to the ruling class can expect to be ruthlessly targeted.
9 Sep 2021 ,
Proletarian
Italy
/
Workers at the GKN factory in Florence fight back
Workers demand an end to the dismantling and export of their industries and the protection of their rights to healthcare and a decent environment.
8 Sep 2021 ,
Lalkar
Economy
/
Scandalous levels of public service corruption in Britain
Is honest dealing by businesses and politicians compatible with capitalist society and the profit motive?
7 Sep 2021 ,
Lalkar
Pay and conditions
/
Keep on trucking: supply lines chaos as Covid and Brexit effects combine
The obvious answer to the present shortage of skilled labour is to invest in training and to improve pay and conditions in the areas concerned.
3 Sep 2021 ,
Proletarian
Afghanistan
/
Saigon all over again: US pull-out from Afghanistan turns into a rout
Nato’s invading armies have been ignominiously kicked out after two decades, having achieved nothing but the reinvigoration of anti-imperialist resistance.
31 Aug 2021 ,
Environment
/
Workers party hosts popular rally against LTN scheme in Birmingham
An excellent example of socialists connecting with the community in order to advance their interests and raise their understanding.
7 Aug 2021 ,
Proletarian
Working-class history
/
Remembering the 2011 youth uprising
Ten years on, the poverty, inequality and injustice that led to an outpouring of rage on England’s streets have only worsened.
6 Aug 2021 ,
Proletarian
Civil liberties
/
Reform of the Secrets Act is another brick in the wall
While the ‘opposition’ sits on its hands, the ruling class is rolling out more legislation designed to suppress working-class discontent.
5 Aug 2021 ,
Proletarian
Social wage
/
Cambian Childcare: End this chattel slavery
How many more horrendous revelations do we have to endure before action is taken to end the abuse of vulnerable children by profiteers?
1 Aug 2021 ,
Proletarian
USA
/
Whistleblower Daniel Hale sentenced to 45 months in US prison for drone leak
‘I am here because I stole something that was never mine to take – precious human life.’
29 Jul 2021 ,
The Intercept
Environment
/
‘Recycling’ today: greenwashing for a broken, ecocidal system
Why does our society seem so incapable of dealing with the rising tide of plastic that threatens to overwhelm us?
28 Jul 2021 ,
Proletarian
Social wage
/
Scandalous profiteering at the expense of children in care
Our most vulnerable children have been transformed into business units by private equity funds.
25 Jul 2021 ,
Lalkar
Ireland
/
Britain’s dirty war back in the spotlight
The full historical reckoning for centuries of colonial crimes will be made by a future reunified Ireland.
20 Jul 2021 ,
Economy
/
Fraud office’s ‘deferred prosecution’ trick shields top bosses from legal action
The lords of finance capital have long made it clear that they are above the law: now it’s being implicitly accepted by those who supposedly ‘regulate’ their activities.
15 Jul 2021 ,
Social wage
/
Unemployment and poverty set to rise as furlough ends and benefits are cut
A brutal shock is in store for many workers as the temporary multi-tiered unemployment support system is slashed back to the bone.
13 Jul 2021 ,
Proletarian
Ukraine
/
Britain’s Crimea provocation: a navy lark that went very wrong
Those who are driving us towards a full-scale conflagration with Russia should be careful what they wish for.
10 Jul 2021 ,
Civil liberties
/
Metropolitan police branded ‘institutionally corrupt’
An unsolved murder and a persistent family have laid bare a catalogue of dishonest dealings by police stretching out over decades.
28 Jun 2021 ,
Proletarian
Health
/
Film: The Great NHS Heist
Dr Bob Gill’s contribution to the fight to save our NHS is incalculable. This film is essential viewing for every British worker.
19 Jun 2021 ,
Health
/
NHS dentistry in its death throes as Covid is used as a cover for privatisation
Increasing numbers of poor workers are not registered with a dentist and are forced to use DIY treatments in an emergency.
17 Jun 2021 ,
Proletarian
Civil liberties
/
Workers Party statement: No to Covid passports
There is no medical justification for the imposition of such documents; they are not aimed at protecting our health but at the surveillance and control of workers.
31 May 2021 ,
Divide and rule
/
Sewell report concludes ‘no institutional racism’ in British society. How?
The whitewashers of the system and the self-identifying ‘social justice warriors’ form a perfect double-act, working to keep workers perpetually divided.
27 May 2021 ,
Lalkar
Civil liberties
/
Kill the Policing, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill!
A marked increase in police violence against workers has already been in evidence even before the new policing bill has passed into law.
24 May 2021 ,
Lalkar
Industry
/
The Sanjeev Gupta, Lex Greensill and David Cameron affair
Once again we see the absurdity of a system that leaves the fate of essential industries and millions of workers in the hands of rapacious fraudsters.
21 May 2021 ,
Lalkar
World
/
Five Eyes become four as New Zealand distances itself from anti-China action
Workers have no interest in going along with the wave of anti-China propaganda that is preparing the ground for a devastating war.
20 May 2021 ,
Proletarian
Britain
/
Britain commits to nuclear expansion in defiance of non-proliferation treaty
What is behind the renewed imperialist drive to war?
15 May 2021 ,
Health
/
Imperialism fails the Covid test
Capitalism is proving itself to be systemically incapable of dealing rationally and humanely with the global pandemic.
12 May 2021 ,
Lalkar
Economy
/
Post Office pursued vindictive prosecutions against subpostmasters
The appeal court victory of 29 of those wrongfully convicted has opened the floodgates for hundreds more claims.
4 May 2021 ,
Proletarian
Industry
/
Greensill debacle: the door keeps revolving
The collapse of this particular debt-laden finance house is drawing public attention to some very uncomfortable truths.
3 May 2021 ,
Health
/
NHS privatisation accelerated during the pandemic: a medical ‘shock doctrine’
Instead of rebuilding our decimated public capacity, private providers are being subsidised to the tune of billions to take the place of the NHS.
1 May 2021 ,
Proletarian
Industry
/
FlyBe is dead, long live FlyBe
Turns out all it takes to avoid the creditors is a slightly tweaked name and a fresh coat of paint.
26 Apr 2021 ,
China
/
Who is peddling the ‘Uyghur genocide’ myth, and why?
It is not in the interests of British workers to accept the lies being propagated by our rulers.
21 Apr 2021 ,
Proletarian
Pay and conditions
/
Don’t make care workers pay for the crisis in social care!
We must renationalise and reunite social care with healthcare, and pay all workers in the sector a decent wage.
17 Apr 2021 ,
Proletarian
Civil liberties
/
Police Bill: capitalism gears up for the class struggles to come
Our rulers are in a hurry to pass new laws while the excuse of Covid lingers and before workers have woken up to the true scale of the present economic crisis.
7 Apr 2021 ,
Proletarian
British politics
/
Salmond v Sturgeon: what’s going on in the Scottish nationalist camp?
All this sound and fury is serving to obscure Salmond’s real crime: the incitement of reactionary separatism amongst the British working class.
3 Apr 2021 ,
Proletarian
Civil liberties
/
BLM, XR: No reds under the bed … yet
Our rulers are nervous that workers may start to put up really meaningful resistance to imperialist domination, despoliation and war.
2 Apr 2021 ,
Proletarian
Housing
/
Ban extended, but evictions continue
Behind the toothless legislation is a government, and parliament, inextricably intertwined with the landlord class.
1 Apr 2021 ,
Proletarian
Disputes
/
Shrewsbury 24: Justice delayed is justice denied
Workers must start to organise themselves so as to be able to demand justice now – social justice for all.
30 Mar 2021 ,
Proletarian
British politics
/
Liverpool scandal: Starmer cheers as the government sends in the commissioners
Labour and Tory are two sides of the same dud coin; we should be grateful to Starmer for demonstrating this so clearly.
29 Mar 2021 ,
Industry
/
Cameron’s hand caught trapped in the till as Greensill collapses
The collapse of yet another debt-laden house of cards has shone a light on the revolving door between career politicians and the corporations they serve.
27 Mar 2021 ,
Proletarian
Yemen
/
US falters over Yemen war, while Britain stops its ears
While the US looks to hide its defeat behind talk of peace and principles, Britain continues blatantly to prioritise the interests of its arms manufacturers.
12 Mar 2021 ,
Lalkar
Social wage
/
Don’t tell Newham we are all in it together
The financial and physical inability to isolate or to work safely has led to far worse covid outcomes for the poorest in our society.
10 Mar 2021 ,
Proletarian
Industry
/
With ‘saviours’ like Gupta, who needs enemies?
If you are rich enough, you can get richer still without spending a penny; it is the workers who pay when the vultures’ schemes collapse.
9 Mar 2021 ,
Proletarian
Health
/
More ‘reforms’ of the NHS, so many nails in the coffin
We have a hard fight on our hands if we wish to save our health service from the corporate looters and privateers.
6 Mar 2021 ,
Lalkar
Social wage
/
Destitution in Britain compounded by 2020 crash and covid shutdowns
How can it be that there is so much want in the midst of so much plenty?
4 Mar 2021 ,
Proletarian
Civil liberties
/
Mairead Maguire nominates Assange, Manning, Snowden for Nobel peace prize
Irish peace prize winner explains how the bravery of these three whistleblowers inspires peace-loving workers everywhere.
24 Feb 2021 ,
Lalkar
Pay and conditions
/
Bringing Kaplan to book: time to get organised in the gig economy
A reminder that the whole reason for having trade unions is to fight the workers’ corner everywhere.
21 Feb 2021 ,
Media
/
Big Tech and the end of dissent: First they came for Donald Trump
The useful idiots of the liberal left are cheering while tech giants clamp down ever harder on freedom of speech.
17 Feb 2021 ,
Proletarian
USSR
/
Communist George Blake dies in Moscow aged 98
One of Britain’s most committed cold war warriors, who went on to live out his years in peace in Russia.
15 Feb 2021 ,
Lalkar
Housing
/
Planning reforms won’t fix the housing crisis
Building more homes is not the answer unless they are built for those who need them.
14 Feb 2021 ,
Lalkar
Media
/
British ban of Chinese news channel is another step towards open warfare
The mainstream media is spreading cold war propaganda against China in support of the imperialists’ drive to an all-out conflagration.
10 Feb 2021 ,
Proletarian
British politics
/
The Big Ride for Palestine and the Labour party
Tower Hamlets council’s decision to ban a fundfaising event for Palestine highlights the Labour party’s role as a tool of British imperial policy.
9 Feb 2021 ,
Lalkar
Social wage
/
Hard to swallow: UK food parcels shamefully inadequate
When profit takes precedence over the provision of service, it’s no surprise that half-hearted and belated government measures are not fit for purpose.
8 Feb 2021 ,
Proletarian
Lay-offs and closures
/
Chester Road closure: No to GKN’s industrial vandalism!
A 270-year-old British manufacturer is being slowly dismantled by asset-stripping vultures, destroying vital jobs and engineering capacity in the process.
4 Feb 2021 ,
Proletarian
France
/
Macron government attempts to suppress exposure of police brutality
French workers continue to set an example in resisting the encroachments of the powerful upon their rights.
29 Jan 2021 ,
Lalkar
Health
/
DVLA: Keeping non-essential staff in offices is endangering lives
The biggest outbreak of covid yet recorded in Britain is taking place in a government office in Wales – and staff are still being forced to come in to work.
27 Jan 2021 ,
Proletarian
Health
/
Covid: Frontline workers are paying for the crisis with their lives
Thousands of businesses are claiming to be ‘essential’, forcing staff to come to work but failing to provide PPE or to implement proper safety measures.
25 Jan 2021 ,
Proletarian
Society
/
Time to end poverty: expropriate the expropriators!
Bourgeois commentators are increasingly identifying the problems besetting humanity, but they are congenitally incapable of recognising the solution staring them in the face.
23 Jan 2021 ,
Civil liberties
/
Julian Assange: the persecution continues
Years of unwarranted imprisonment and torture do not look likely to end any time soon, despite the denial of the US’s extradition claim.
18 Jan 2021 ,
Lalkar
Iran
/
One year on from the imperialists’ murder of General Qasem Soleimani
All progressives must support the right of Iran to defend itself against relentless imperialist aggression.
8 Jan 2021 ,
Lay-offs and closures
/
Jobless figures mount as Paperchase is latest retail chain to fail
As the economic crisis is exacerbated by repeated lockdowns, company after company is going to the wall.
7 Jan 2021 ,
British politics
/
Fresh revelations prove definitively that Britain’s ‘defence’ capacity has aggressive intent
What kind of defence force entails a permanent military presence of 145 base sites in 42 countries?
6 Jan 2021 ,
Proletarian
Civil liberties
/
Julian Assange victorious, for now
Judge’s ruling makes it clear that the principles supposedly protecting free speech and honest journalism remain in peril.
5 Jan 2021 ,
Proletarian
World
/
ICC drops case against Britain, despite ‘clear evidence’ of war crimes
How can the warmongering criminals rampaging around the globe be held to account?
28 Dec 2020 ,
Proletarian
Lay-offs and closures
/
Sunak extends furlough till April as jobless stats sow panic
The number of redundancies continues to climb inexorably each month, despite all efforts to massage the figures and soften the blow.
23 Dec 2020 ,
Civil liberties
/
Julian Assange extradition trial: Shameful martyrisation continues
Kafka’s dystopian vision has been brought to life in the heart of the British injustice system.
22 Dec 2020 ,
Lalkar
Industry
/
Government announces extra £16.5bn for military
Government promises spending will protect 10,000 jobs, but at what cost to the working class?
9 Dec 2020 ,
British politics
/
Crisis of legitimacy: trust in politicians and journalists keeps going down
What does it say about our ‘democracy’ when those who are supposed to uphold it are some of the least trusted people in the country?
7 Dec 2020 ,
Proletarian
Social wage
/
Demise of RPI: another attack on workers’ pensions
Why should our right to a dignified old age depend on the vagaries of stock-exchange gamblers and government statisticians?
5 Dec 2020 ,
Proletarian
Economy
/
Water privateers: ‘Doing what’s in the best interests of shareholders’
As Britain’s utilities are looted by shareholders, workers are forced to pay astronomical bills for deteriorating services.
29 Nov 2020 ,
Proletarian
Economy
/
B&M: Bending the rules and ripping off the public purse – and it’s all legal
Funds used to ‘support the economy through covid’ have been spent on making the rich richer while everyone else struggles.
25 Nov 2020 ,
Proletarian
Social wage
/
Humbled by their own incompetence: ‘winter economic plan’ back to square one
Lockdown exacerbates ruling class conflict over future for employers, employees, and unemployed.
24 Nov 2020 ,
Proletarian
British politics
/
Paul Turek: passing of a working-class fighter
Our party mourns the loss of a true class-conscious proletarian and a staunch fighter for socialism.
24 Nov 2020 ,
Proletarian
Economy
/
Edinburgh Woollen Mill: the vultures circle
Thousands of workers look set to lose their jobs, but the man whose fortune they made will have no trouble hanging onto his millions.
19 Nov 2020 ,
Proletarian
Economy
/
Capital gains tax: Big business cries before it is hit
Despite the exponential growth of poverty and inequality, our rulers still can’t seem to face the idea of paying a little more of their ill-gotten gains into the state’s coffers.
18 Nov 2020 ,
Proletarian
Economy
/
City spivs raid the public purse
The revolving door between private sector consultancies and the civil service continues to spin.
16 Nov 2020 ,
Proletarian
Education
/
Marketisation of services to vulnerable children exposes true values of liberal democracy
Never has the gap between human and capitalist logic been so glaringly apparent.
15 Nov 2020 ,
Proletarian
British politics
/
Jeremy Corbyn suspended from the Labour party
Sir Keir Starmer is doing everything in his power to ram home the lesson that Labour will never serve working-class interests.
11 Nov 2020 ,
Lalkar
Capitalist crisis
/
Book: Bandit Capitalism: Carillion and the Corruption of the British State
A meticulously researched exposure of outsourcing and corruption that falls short of finding either the true culprit or the way out for impoverished workers.
3 Nov 2020 ,
Proletarian
Economy
/
Covid: Parasites enjoy a bonanza whilst workers struggle
There has never been a better time for workers to learn hard truths about the nature of the capitalist system.
31 Oct 2020 ,
Social wage
/
Insult to injury: government plans to cut Universal Credit boost
Covid has exposed the injustice of below-poverty-line benefits. How will our rulers balance their need for cheap and desperate workers with maintaining social peace?
29 Oct 2020 ,
Social wage
/
Southern Cross: vulture capitalists still getting fat on the care home racket
The problems in our care homes are rooted in privatisation and began well before the pandemic arrived to bring them to national attention.
28 Oct 2020 ,
Syria
/
Dirty British propaganda war against Syria exposed
The war machine is facing a most welcome crisis of legitimacy.
16 Oct 2020 ,
Proletarian
British politics
/
Workers party launches corona wealth tax campaign
All progressives in Britain should be working to extend the reach of the Workers Party into the ranks of the working class.
12 Oct 2020 ,
Proletarian
Yemen
/
British soldier arrested for protesting collusion in Saudi’s Yemen war
‘I’ve seen enough not to speak out and I’d rather sleep peacefully in a cell than stay silent for a pay cheque.’
29 Sep 2020 ,
Proletarian
Pay and conditions
/
Railway pensions under threat
It is the bosses’ responsibility to see to it that deferred wages are paid in full; why are workers expected to take the hit?
23 Sep 2020 ,
Proletarian
Economy
/
Vultures circle over Royal Mail
Britain’s privatised mail service is likely to be broken down into ever-smaller parts as investors peel of the most profitable parts one by one.
21 Sep 2020 ,
Proletarian
Pay and conditions
/
FT spills the beans on the great pensions rip-off
Not content with stealing workers’ unpaid labour today, the capitalists are conspiring to steal their right to a dignified retirement tomorrow.
20 Sep 2020 ,
Proletarian
Britain
/
Civil servants face coercion over return to the workplace
In a desperate bid to restore city centre footfall, the government is pushing workers back into offices.
16 Sep 2020 ,
Proletarian
Civil liberties
/
Media freedom? Show me the MSM journalist opposing the torture of Assange
11 Sep 2020 ,
Housing
/
Grenfell Tower: construction bosses’ contempt for workers’ lives laid bare
Despite its best efforts, the glacial inquiry has let slip a series of unpalatable truths about the practices and motivations of the construction industry.
4 Sep 2020 ,
Lalkar
Social wage
/
UBI: a recipe for universal misery
Our demand must be for meaningful work in a society free from poverty, unemployment and insecurity.
24 Aug 2020 ,
Proletarian
Capitalist crisis
/
FT spills the beans on private equity scam
The super-rich are indulging in an orgy of speculation using the ‘free money’ of low-interest debt. Who pays?
23 Aug 2020 ,
Proletarian
Divide and rule
/
Look, balloons! Another migrant scare distracts attention from corona and crisis
With the worst covid outcome and deepest recession in Europe, our rulers are keen to divert workers’ anger from themselves and their failing system.
19 Aug 2020 ,
Proletarian
Society
/
Thinktank warns of massive rise in destitution in the wake of Covid-19
The wonders of capitalism: five million Britons predicted to become destitute this year.
10 Aug 2020 ,
Proletarian
Lay-offs and closures
/
Nissan slashes workforce and pensions, poised to flee Sunderland altogether
Blame Brexit; blame covid ... blame anything but the capitalist system.
31 Jul 2020 ,
Capitalist crisis
/
Rising inequality following the 2020 crisis of overproduction
Mushrooming inequality has the capitalist class spooked, for they fear the consequences.
29 Jul 2020 ,
Proletarian
Economy
/
Water CEOs fleece the public
Residents’ bills are sky high, the nation’s water reserves are seeping away, but privateer bosses are still shamelessly rinsing the coffers.
27 Jul 2020 ,
Proletarian
Health
/
PPE scandal: crony capitalists make a killing while frontline workers sacrificed
Meanwhile, the system’s defenders are worried that workers might learn the right lessons.
26 Jul 2020 ,
Proletarian
Pay and conditions
/
Ministry of Justice retreats on sick pay for cleaners
Victory for struggling cleaners after Emanuel Gomes’s death, who worked for a week with suspected covid and a raging fever.
24 Jul 2020 ,
Proletarian
Industry
/
Leicester sweatshops keep their heads down despite covid panic
Fashion industry gangmasters are riding out the storm, safe in the knowledge that it will be business as usual before long.
17 Jul 2020 ,
Proletarian
Civil liberties
/
Under cover of Covid-19: trial by jury is under attack
The abolition of workers’ right to a jury trial could be the final nail in the coffin of the justice system in Britain.
14 Jul 2020 ,
Proletarian
British politics
/
Stop the War gets it wrong again
When is an anti-war movement not an anti-war movement?
13 Jul 2020 ,
Divide and rule
/
Statues come down: the toppling of the mighty
Good riddance to bad rubbish, but what next?
10 Jul 2020 ,
Lalkar
Divide and rule
/
JK Rowling’s stance against the thought police
The author’s brave stance in defence of reality must be defended, and her hysterical detractors exposed as the reactionary bullies they are.
9 Jul 2020 ,
Lalkar
Economy
/
Bosses press on with sackings as crisis deepens
As the furlough support scheme comes to an end, the true depth of the economic crisis is becoming ever clearer.
7 Jul 2020 ,
Proletarian
Economy
/
Go Outdoors ‘rescued’ – for now
Financial fancy footwork may allow the chain’s owners to sidestep onerous lease conditions as high street footfall plunges.
2 Jul 2020 ,
Palestine
/
Palestinian lives matter: the murder of Ahmed Eriqat
Ahmed Eriqat of Abu Dis was the latest victim of senseless murder by Israeli soldiers in occupied Palestine.
30 Jun 2020 ,
Proletarian
Social wage
/
The plight of the homeless after lockdown
‘Business as usual’ as rough sleepers are thrown back onto the streets.
29 Jun 2020 ,
Proletarian
Lay-offs and closures
/
P&O takes the money and runs
The shipping company is laying off a thousand workers on the very routes it is being paid public money to operate.
29 Jun 2020 ,
Lay-offs and closures
/
Imperial College sacking vital IT workers
University managers plan to axe more than half their IT staff, despite their heroic work in enabling vital pandemic research.
27 Jun 2020 ,
Pay and conditions
/
Conditions at Yodel: report by a worker
Workers in the logistics industry are being sweated at ever-more intense and unendurable rates.
26 Jun 2020 ,
Proletarian
Lay-offs and closures
/
British Gas and SPS are latest to announce big job losses
As the economic crisis bites, employers are looking to cut not only jobs but also pay, pensions and everything else.
25 Jun 2020 ,
Disputes
/
Covid couriers sacked for requesting PPE and social distancing
Workers responsible for transporting covid test samples from hospitals to labs are being victimised for requesting basic safety measures.
25 Jun 2020 ,
British politics
/
Boris’s chapter of accidents
As the covid emergency progresses, the prime minister is jumping from one fiasco to another, exposing his many inadequacies to full public view.
23 Jun 2020 ,
Proletarian
Civil liberties
/
The Coronavirus Act 2020
Jumping on the excuse of Covid-19, parliament has rammed through a host of draconian measures unrelated to the health crisis.
19 Jun 2020 ,
Proletarian
Civil liberties
/
Julian Assange: The truth will set him free
Many questions remain to be answered about the conduct of Julian’s defence.
18 Jun 2020 ,
Industry
/
End British export of rubber bullets
British arms manufacturers continue to profit from these lethal ‘crowd control’ weapons.
17 Jun 2020 ,
Pay and conditions
/
BA threatens to sack its entire workforce
After rinsing the furlough scheme, the airline is now insisting that its staff should accept huge pay cuts or be sacked.
16 Jun 2020 ,
Proletarian
Lay-offs and closures
/
Debenhams shafts its cafe workers
Catering staff at the department store have been summarily dismissed without notice or redundancy pay.
15 Jun 2020 ,
Economy
/
British trade agreements after Brexit
By pinning all their hopes for Britain’s future on a US trade deal, our rulers are taking us out of the frying pan and into the fire.
10 Jun 2020 ,
Proletarian
Social wage
/
UBI: the ‘right’ to be idle or the right to work?
What does the call for a universal basic income really mean?
8 Jun 2020 ,
Proletarian
Lay-offs and closures
/
Thousands more to go at Rolls Royce’s Derby plant
As more and more manufacturing jobs are being scrapped, workers are the victims of the downward spiral of capitalist crisis.
6 Jun 2020 ,
Health
/
Second spike looms: Boris opts for ‘whack-a-mole’ over having a good plan
On every level, the performance of socialist countries in dealing with Covid-19 is putting the profiteering, anti-worker ethos of capitalism to shame.
4 Jun 2020 ,
Proletarian
British politics
/
Workers party sets a course despite lockdown
Weeks of lockdown have been used by the Workers party to speak to more than half a million people.
2 Jun 2020 ,
Proletarian
Lay-offs and closures
/
Jobless total rockets
As the economic crisis bites, over a million workers in Britain have been forced precipitously onto the breadline.
24 May 2020 ,
Proletarian
World history
/
Women in the victory over fascism
Without the brave and tireless efforts of women across the USSR and Europe, vanquishing the enemy would have been impossible.
21 May 2020 ,
Granma
Industry
/
‘Back to work’ stampede – and may the devil take the hindmost
Reopening schools and workplaces without proper safety measures highlights the government’s true priorities.
20 May 2020 ,
Proletarian
Pay and conditions
/
Workers in the US and Britain fight for workplace safety
Wildcat strikes and a high-profile resignation are highlighting the anti-worker essence of capitalist accumulation.
15 May 2020 ,
Proletarian
Lay-offs and closures
/
British Airways takes the money and runs
The Covid-19 crisis is highlighting the necessity for public ownership of all our vital services.
13 May 2020 ,
Health
/
Covid-19: What is the coronavirus and is it a real threat?
Dr Ranjeet Brar takes a look at the medical aspects of the present pandemic, comparing Covid-19 to other viruses such as influenza and Sars.
12 May 2020 ,
Lalkar
British politics
/
Supreme court ruling overturns Israel boycott ban – for now
What can workers do to stop this advance from being rolled back by Parliament?
3 May 2020 ,
Capitalist crisis
/
The corona pandemic and the capitalist world economic crash of 2020
Our rulers are keen to convince us that the deepest depression in the history of capitalism is a random and unpredictable ‘black swan’ event.
2 May 2020 ,
Capitalist crisis
/
A call to arms: This May Day, fight together against imperialism
Workers’ parties sign international revolutionary anti-imperialist manifesto.
1 May 2020 ,
Economy
/
Covid-19 furlough scheme: a bonanza for big business
While thousands of workers find themselves without a job, bosses are cashing in on the ‘free money’ of the furlough scheme.
30 Apr 2020 ,
Proletarian
Health
/
Covid-19: Why is it that Cuba can manufacture PPE, but Britain can’t?
Britain’s frontline workers continue to put their lives on the line, paid in broken promises and empty gestures.
28 Apr 2020 ,
Proletarian
Venezuela
/
Using the Covid crisis: British and US military massing off Venezuelan coast
Reckless and desperate attempts are being made by US imperialism to encircle and crush Venezuelan socialism.
25 Apr 2020 ,
Proletarian
Health
/
Coronavirus stats are air-brushing the elderly
Thousands of Covid-19 infections and deaths in Britain’s care homes have simply not been tracked or counted.
20 Apr 2020 ,
Proletarian
Society
/
Lessons of Covid-19 pt 1: Only workers can solve the problems created by capital
Who are the real ‘key workers’ and why are they still being treated so badly?
19 Apr 2020 ,
Proletarian
Social wage
/
Hunger rising sharply as covid-19 lockdown combines with economic crash
Why are we witnessing the obscene sight of workers going hungry in the midst of plenty?
17 Apr 2020 ,
Proletarian
Cuba
/
Socialist Cuba shows real international solidarity during Covid-19 outbreak
People or profits? The coronavirus pandemic is bringing this question to the fore more sharply than ever.
14 Apr 2020 ,
British politics
/
Harry Dunn and the one-sided ‘special relationship’
Our rulers, who love to flaunt their ‘patriotism’, fail miserably when it comes to defending the interests of their own against a stronger foreign power.
13 Apr 2020 ,
Proletarian
Social wage
/
Austerity Britain: where the homeless seek shelter in bins
Report reveals shocking rise of bin sleepers as one waste worker recounts finding children as young as nine or ten.
6 Apr 2020 ,
Proletarian
Yemen
/
Burying bad news: corona-filled papers ignore Britain’s Yemen invasion
Unreported in British media, British troops have landed in Aden. All that awaits them is the graveyard of imperialist ambitions.
4 Apr 2020 ,
Proletarian
British politics
/
Onwards and upwards: In memory of Deborah Lavin
One of a kind: her influence on party life, and the guidance she gave to young cadres in particular, will be fondly remembered and sorely missed.
3 Apr 2020 ,
Proletarian
Health
/
Now 230 workers’ parties call for united effort to fight Covid-19
Progressive parties from around the world have signed a joint letter calling for closer international cooperation in the fight against the coronavirus.
2 Apr 2020 ,
British politics
/
Red salute to our beloved Comrade Deborah Lavin
Her funeral is to be live-streamed since large gatherings are prevented by the present pandemic conditions.
30 Mar 2020 ,
Health
/
Britain’s response to Covid-19 pt 1: ‘Take it on the chin’
What the coronavirus teaches us about our rulers’ attitudes and priorities.
27 Mar 2020 ,
Proletarian
British politics
/
John Hepple: a life of working-class struggle
A true son of the working class, one of so many who have given their lives to the fight for a better world.
25 Mar 2020 ,
Proletarian
Lay-offs and closures
/
RIP FlyBe
The only rational way to ensure that vital infrastructure exists and is run for the benefit of all is public ownership.
9 Mar 2020 ,
Proletarian
Pay and conditions
/
Barclays spies on its own staff
The banking giant is using ‘Big Brother tactics’ to monitor staff and keep their noses to the grindstone.
6 Mar 2020 ,
Proletarian
Civil liberties
/
Craig Murray: Assange’s armoured glass box is an instrument of torture
‘They are attempting to make him kill himself – or create the conditions where his death might be explained away as suicide.’
4 Mar 2020 ,
Craig Murray
Disputes
/
Wirral’s binmen to strike?
Outsourced waste collector Biffa is playing fast and loose with its workers’ pay.
3 Mar 2020 ,
Proletarian
Civil liberties
/
Craig Murray in the public gallery: Assange hearing day 4
The British state is lying about the validity of the US extradition treaty – and it knows it.
2 Mar 2020 ,
Craig Murray
Civil liberties
/
Craig Murray in the public gallery: Assange hearing day 3
The sham show-trial at Woolwich reveals how brazenly our rulers will flout their own rules when it suits them to do so.
1 Mar 2020 ,
Craig Murray
Civil liberties
/
Craig Murray in the public gallery: Assange hearing day 2
It has been demonstrably proved in court that the US knows its own charges against Assange are untrue.
1 Mar 2020 ,
Craig Murray
Civil liberties
/
Craig Murray in the public gallery: Assange hearing day 1
This shameful show trial is being exposed by one of the few people in the court who is prepared to tell the truth to the outside world.
29 Feb 2020 ,
Craig Murray
Social wage
/
Errol Graham and the unreported austerity pandemic
Social murder in our midst is being hushed up by all arms of the state, hand in glove with media that are entirely uninterested in ‘speaking truth to power’.
27 Feb 2020 ,
Proletarian
Pay and conditions
/
Offshore oil workers under threat
Will trade unions now get off the back foot and start to mobilise their members into an active campaign of resistance?
26 Feb 2020 ,
Proletarian
Civil liberties
/
John Pilger: Julian Assange must be freed, not betrayed
Australia and Britain are helping to get the WikiLeaks editor extradited to the USA, which is preparing a lifetime of torture for the ‘crime’ of exposing the truth.
22 Feb 2020 ,
JohnPilger.com
Pay and conditions
/
Lecturers rise against pay cuts and pensions robbery
The marketisation of education: staff are being sweated so that universities can make fat profits.
21 Feb 2020 ,
Social wage
/
Work doesn’t pay and British families know it
Fourteen million people, including four million children, live in poverty in Britain, and more than half of those come from working families.
19 Feb 2020 ,
Proletarian
British politics
/
George Galloway: ‘The idea that the organs of the state are impartial is dead’
Does this herald a moment when the working class in Britain gets back up off its knees and starts to fight again?
16 Feb 2020 ,
Proletarian
Civil liberties
/
UN: Britain and US guilty of torturing Julian Assange and Chelsea Manning
This illegal and brutal repression must not be allowed to succeed in its aim of terrifying workers into submission.
7 Feb 2020 ,
Proletarian
Pay and conditions
/
Union-busting at St Mungo’s homeless charity
More pressure on workers in the charity sector, where a race to the bottom is well underway.
4 Feb 2020 ,
Proletarian
Disputes
/
RSPCA: You wouldn’t treat a dog like this
Despite healthy donations and reserves, the charity is using a minor single-year operational deficit to justify ‘salami-slicing measures‘ on pay and conditions.
30 Jan 2020 ,
Proletarian
Pay and conditions
/
Defend railway pensions!
Workers have a right to their deferred wages in retirement and to a dignified old age after a lifetime of work.
27 Jan 2020 ,
Capitalist crisis
/
FlyBe farce exposes lunacy of privately owned transport
A hefty subsidy to the airline’s private owners may not be enough to save a vital service and thousands of jobs.
22 Jan 2020 ,
Proletarian
Pay and conditions
/
Firefighters victory forces government retreat on public sector pensions
The FBU has won its case to get former pension rights restored, and the case has wide implications.
19 Jan 2020 ,
Proletarian
Social wage
/
Children in care being let down as vultures profit from their misery
The children’s care system is yet another example of how privateers are feeding off the wretchedness of society’s most vulnerable.
18 Jan 2020 ,
Proletarian
Iran
/
Self-identifying ‘communists’ blame Iran
Self-defence is no offence; those who really want to stop war must stand with the resistance.
16 Jan 2020 ,
Proletarian
Industry
/
Car industry crisis pushes Peugeot-Fiat merger
Workers rightly fear for their jobs as another round of ‘cost-cutting’ looms.
15 Jan 2020 ,
Proletarian
Iran
/
US imperialism digging its own grave ever faster in the middle east
Slavishly supported by Britain as it does so.
14 Jan 2020 ,
Proletarian
Disputes
/
Stand with rail strikers defending passenger safety
Railway bosses have abandoned the deal that was struck a year ago and are refusing to restart talks without preconditions.
9 Jan 2020 ,
Proletarian
Iran
/
Britain is acting as the US’s sanctions lapdog; will it follow into all-out war?
If the British imperialists fall in line with the US’s drive to war against Iran, they will share the bitter fruits of humiliation and defeat with their partner in crime.
6 Jan 2020 ,
Proletarian
Society
/
Debt survey shows inequality widening as rich get richer and poor get poorer
As the gap between the super-rich and everyone else gets ever wider, it is clear that this system is overdue for a foreclosure of its own.
5 Jan 2020 ,
Lalkar
British politics
/
The Brexit election and the birth of the Workers party
As Boris prepares a fresh assault on the trade unions, what does the election result mean for workers?
29 Dec 2019 ,
Lalkar
Working-class history
/
Peterloo in its historical perspective, part 2
As a result of the industrial revolution, a new class, the urban proletariat, was emerging onto the political and social scene in 1819.
22 Dec 2019 ,
Lalkar
British politics
/
The Brexit election and the death of Project Corbyn
What lessons can workers take from the last four years?
12 Dec 2019 ,
Proletarian
Disputes
/
Support the South Western Railway strike
Railway workers are fighting to put safety ahead of profit: keep the guard on the train!
3 Dec 2019 ,
Proletarian
USSR
/
Why do we celebrate the October Revolution?
Workers need to take inspiration from the achievements of October; an example that our rulers would prefer us to forget.
2 Dec 2019 ,
Disputes
/
Royal Mail: high court bans the strike
For how long will we accept the right of bosses’ courts to decide how workers’ organisations are run?
26 Nov 2019 ,
Proletarian
Education
/
Sabotage of state schools
Growing privatisation and austerity is eroding the hard-won right to an education for our children.
17 Nov 2019 ,
Working-class history
/
Avtar Jouhl: lifelong class fighter against racism
Comrade Avtar reflects on a life of struggle in the IWA and the trade unions from the 1950s to the 1990s.
10 Nov 2019 ,
International Socialist
British politics
/
Brexit delayed again as general election called
Following years of Parliament’s refusal to implement the referendum result, can an election break the deadlock?
6 Nov 2019 ,
Lalkar
Trade unions
/
Stifling criticism of Israel in the British trade-union movement
TUC votes in support of Palestine, but decision is ignored by the media, including those on the left.
1 Nov 2019 ,
Lalkar
Social wage
/
DWP dirty tricks are pushing the most vulnerable over the edge
Private companies are being handsomely paid to prevent the sick from accessing benefits they have every right to.
31 Oct 2019 ,
Proletarian
Economy
/
QuickQuid – cut and run
Having extorted millions from struggling austerity-hit families, the US-backed payday lender is pocketing its loot and getting out.
30 Oct 2019 ,
Civil liberties
/
Julian Assange in court: unmistakable signs of torture
Unless Julian is released shortly he will be destroyed. If the state can do this, then who is next?
28 Oct 2019 ,
Craig Murray
Society
/
The true level of unemployment
Joblessness is being underreported by a factor of 200 percent.
26 Oct 2019 ,
Proletarian
Disputes
/
Royal Mail workers vote overwhelmingly to strike
Mail workers are ready to fight for their pay and conditions, but is their union prepared to back them?
24 Oct 2019 ,
Proletarian
Lay-offs and closures
/
City leeches celebrate the demise of Thomas Cook
Financial gamblers in the City are playing with loaded dice, deliberately pushing companies over the edge in order to get paid.
6 Oct 2019 ,
Proletarian
Climate change
/
The TUC and climate change: don’t mention the wars
Unions tail-end middle-class eco protests and stoke illusions in ‘green’ capitalism.
28 Sep 2019 ,
Proletarian
Europe
/
Anniversary of the D-Day landings
Why are the imperialists so keen to push the lie that the Normandy landings changed the course of WW2?
23 Sep 2019 ,
Lalkar
Britain
/
Bury FC: a victim of capitalism
One more reason for workers to burn with indignation against a social order that can never be made to serve their interests.
15 Sep 2019 ,
Proletarian
Health
/
Shameful levels of malnutrition in Britain
Privatisation and cost-cutting in social care have led to shocking levels of neglect amongst the most vulnerable in our society.
13 Sep 2019 ,
Lalkar
British politics
/
Comrade Bridget Bell, dedicated fighter for the working class
Bridget was highly respected for her work during the 1984/5 miners’ strike, and for her principled class position at all times.
9 Sep 2019 ,
Lalkar
Iran
/
Britain falters onto the warpath against Iran
With so much else on their plate, Britain’s rulers may not be keen to follow the US into yet another doomed war.
6 Sep 2019 ,
Lalkar
British politics
/
Boris’s Brexit bombshell
Can the warring remainer factions get themselves together and block Britain’s EU exit before 31 October?
4 Sep 2019 ,
Lalkar
British politics
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Interview: What does our party stand for?
Responses to a Turkish journalist about Britain, Brexit, Boris, the workers’ movement and the wider world.
27 Aug 2019 ,
Proletarian
Industry
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British Steel sold for ‘blood money’? A reply to the Morning Star
Where should workers look for their salvation from the crises that destroy industry and jobs?
26 Aug 2019 ,
Proletarian
Education
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Our schools need more than money
It is not only cuts that are devastating and gutting our schools but privatisation and outsourcing.
24 Aug 2019 ,
Proletarian
Education
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GSM collapse: another for-profit education provider hits the rocks
A London-based private university has gone bust, leaving students and staff in the lurch.
23 Aug 2019 ,
Pay and conditions
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Cleaners demand fair pay at government department
Outsourced staff are on strike for living wages at the department of business.
16 Aug 2019 ,
USA
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US workers force child migrant concentration camp to close
Homeware staff strike against their employers’ profiting from privatised detention camps.
14 Aug 2019 ,
Lay-offs and closures
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Nissan to cull 12,500 jobs globally as Chinese car market stalls
The crisis of overproduction continues to wreak havoc with workers’ lives.
12 Aug 2019 ,
World history
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The origins of World War Two
How did WW2 come about? And when were the opening salvos really fired?
11 Aug 2019 ,
Lalkar
Divide and rule
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Racial profiling revealed in Home Office visa processing
African academics are routinely being denied entry to attend conferences and seminars in Britain.
10 Aug 2019 ,
Education
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Teachers given pay rise, but schools forced to pay
Government will fund a 0.75 percent increase, with schools told to find most of the required cash from their own budgets.
8 Aug 2019 ,
Proletarian
Social wage
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‘We often see grown men in tears – they can’t believe they’re here’
Manchester reporter discovers dismay, rage and defiance in Oldham, a town bruised by universal credit and austerity.
7 Aug 2019 ,
Manchester Evening News
British politics
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Boris Johnson is Tories’ last hope of averting electoral annihilation
But can he convince voters that he really is prepared to deliver Brexit, in the teeth of ruling-class opposition?
6 Aug 2019 ,
Proletarian
British politics
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Will Boris bottle Brexit?
Johnson is loud in declaring himself ready for a no-deal EU exit, but is that just an electoral ploy?
2 Aug 2019 ,
Proletarian
Iran
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Unions call on British government to send in the gunboats
What would Bob Crow have said to the ITF’s blindly acquiescing in the war games of our imperial masters?
30 Jul 2019 ,
Proletarian
Divide and rule
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Police refuse to investigate killing of refugee schoolgirl
The authorities are closing their eyes to strong evidence of racist bullying in the death of Shukri Abdi.
29 Jul 2019 ,
Proletarian
Pay and conditions
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GMB protest at Rugeley Amazon
British trade union seems more worried about defending the profits of shareholders than the interests of workers.
21 Jul 2019 ,
Birmingham Worker
Housing
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Foreign investors head to Birmingham housing market
As London property prices nose-dive, investors are hoping to make a quick buck out of new-build apartments in the country’s second-largest city.
18 Jul 2019 ,
Birmingham Worker
Housing
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Council tax becoming the new poll tax says report
Thinktank investigation reveals the huge disparity in rates of payment between the poorest and richest households.
16 Jul 2019 ,
Birmingham Worker
Britain
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British imperialism announces: there is no peace, only war
Army plans to move to a permanent war footing in hopes of stopping successful economic development by Russia and China.
15 Jul 2019 ,
Lalkar
British politics
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BBC’s anti-Corbyn hatchet job fails to land blow
If Corbyn’s allies can't fight back against the Israeli lobby within their own party, what chance will they have against the power of British imperialism?
14 Jul 2019 ,
The Electronic Intifada
British politics
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Thousands of Labour voters and members angry over Brexit
While the media focus on ludicrous ‘antisemitism’ allegations, workers are more interested in hearing JC explain his Brexit U-turn.
12 Jul 2019 ,
Proletarian
Health
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Brexit, profiteers and the NHS
Why are Donald Trump and a ‘no-deal’ Brexit being held up as threats to the future of the health service?
11 Jul 2019 ,
Lalkar
Pay and conditions
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Railway pensions under attack
As profiteering franchise bidders haggle with the government over contract terms, workers’ hard-earned pensions are once more under threat.
8 Jul 2019 ,
Proletarian
British politics
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Brexit and the Tory leadership race
The contenders are busy promising the earth, but the poisoned challice of Brexit could quickly see off May’s successor.
6 Jul 2019 ,
Lalkar
Education
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Thousands of children are taught in classes that are too big
Reverse privatisation and create an education system that serves the real needs of both society and individuals.
4 Jul 2019 ,
Divide and rule
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Fighting the forces of fascism: persuasion, not force, is key right now
What should meaningful antifascist work look like in present-day Britain?
28 Jun 2019 ,
Divide and rule
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Teach children to kick against gender stereotypes, not gender itself
The party of the working class must above all be the purveyor of truth.
26 Jun 2019 ,
Czech Republic
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Czech comrade speaks in Birmingham and London
Dr Josef Skála described the advances made by socialist Czechoslovakia and discussed the challenges of organising the forces for socialist reinstatement.
19 Jun 2019 ,
Birmingham Worker
Lay-offs and closures
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Fight against the closure of Ford Bridgend
Workers are not to blame for the crisis; stop redundancies and demand nationalisation!
17 Jun 2019 ,
British politics
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Prosecuting Boris Johnson
Leaving aside the double standards of the case, misuse of the law is not in anyone’s interests.
15 Jun 2019 ,
British politics
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British workers demand Brexit … TWICE!
The Brexit party’s win in the 2019 EU election has thrown the Tories into unprecedented chaos.
12 Jun 2019 ,
Proletarian
Housing
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Right-to-rent and work checks promote racism and victimise the most vulnerable
Forcing landlords and employers to check the immigration status of tenants and employees has led to a surge in homelessness among non-white workers in Britain.
11 Jun 2019 ,
British politics
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Tribute to Comrade John Dempster
A staunch and determined comrade to the end.
11 Jun 2019 ,
Climate change
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Letter: How can we deal with climate change?
Should workers ‘take a haircut’ to save the environment?
10 Jun 2019 ,
Proletarian
British politics
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EU election: a second Brexit referendum. Do we really need a third?
Britain’s Labour-Tory two-party political monopoly is cracking under the pressure of Brexit.
6 Jun 2019 ,
Proletarian
British politics
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Letter: Is the British Worker a racist paper?
Are there colours, fonts or names we need to avoid in order to preserve our socialist message as we try to connect Marxism with the working masses?
5 Jun 2019 ,
Proletarian
Lay-offs and closures
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British Steel: overproduction crisis claims another scalp
As thousands of workers lose their jobs, the vultures of Greybull Capital are standing at the front of the queue for ‘reimbursement’.
3 Jun 2019 ,
Proletarian
Pollution
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Residents unite against power station plan next to Bristol inner-city nursery
Fight against unelected planning authorities exposes once again the true nature of Britain’s sham democracy.
2 Jun 2019 ,
Proletarian
Pay and conditions
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Support the Sellafield strikers!
Workers at the Sellafield nuclear plant are in revolt against poverty wages and management bullying.
28 May 2019 ,
Proletarian
Civil liberties
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Julian Assange facing extradition to the United States
Why is the WikiLeaks founder being targeted now, and what happens next?
23 May 2019 ,
Proletarian
Society
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Hunger on the rise in Britain, despite economic ‘recovery’