Pay and conditions / Enable care workers strike against poverty pay in Scotland

Low pay has become such an issue in the care sector that up to 30 percent of vacancies are unfilled.

Social wage / People’s Assembly puts on show of fake outrage over ‘Tory Starmer’

Ever hopeful of rescuing their reputations and keeping a lid on working-class discontent, the fake left are at it again.

Palestine / Testament from a murdered journalist: Hossam Shabat’s last article

Hours before being killed in an airstrike, a Palestinian journalist describes Israel’s resumption of its scorched earth campaign in Beit Hanoun.

Society / What have the residents of Spalding got against the people of Gaza?

The media plays a vital role in desensitising British people to the sufferings of their fellow workers.

Film and TV / TV review: Adolescence

Netflix’s latest liberal mind rot.

Civil liberties / Case dismissed after Palestine Action blockade of Instro Precision arms factory

Courts are once again balking at convicting those who act to disrupt the activities of the US/British/Israeli genocidal war machine.

Capitalist crisis / Starmer’s failing militarism

As the drive to war ramps up, the contradictions of decaying imperialism are on full display.

Social wage / The poverty crisis and our demands

Workers did not cause the economic crisis, but they are expected to pay the price through austerity and war.

Society / The struggles of the youth

Capitalism has nothing to offer our young people except a lifetime of servitude to a system that crushes their spirits.

Health / No euthanasia!

Workers must demand proper health and social care, and dignified, comfortable retirement homes and hospices for the sick and elderly.

Divide and rule / Immigration, class unity and the fight against racism

Our party is committed to opposing the divide-and-rule tactics used to stop the British working class from using its collective power.

Trade unions / Communist work in the trade unions

Our role is not to take over the bureaucracies but to bring a class-conscious understanding and programme to rank-and-file militants.

Disputes / Birmingham’s gone bust! But why are workers told to pay?

No one has explained why some of the most hardworking and essential employees should bear the brunt of a crisis they had no hand in making.

Disputes / Birmingham bin workers expected to pay for council’s bankruptcy

Some binmen are being told to take an £8k pay cut after national austerity and local mismanagement combined to bankrupt the city.

China / TikTok and the threat to cultural hegemony

What is it about this particular social media platform that has the imperialists so worked up?

Civil liberties / London Metropolitan police review of Harpal Brar’s book on zionism

‘It’s an ill wind that blows nobody any good’ was not my favourite proverb at school, but I’ve recently come to fully appreciate its meaning.

Pay and conditions / Starmer ditches the promised ‘right to switch off’

Confirming what might have been anticipated about how sincere the Labour party was in its pre-election pledges to bring in a ‘New Deal for Workers’.

Civil liberties / David Miller detained by British counter-terrorism police at Heathrow

The British state, egged on by its rabid zionist attack-dogs, continues to persecute any journalist or activist who spreads awareness about its genocidal crimes.

Ecuador / Ecuador’s election – a critical analysis of class interests

As the ‘pink wave’ continues to wash over Latin America, the influence of private enterprise and US imperialism on bourgeois elections should not be forgotten.

USA / Trump White House freezes USAid

Does the dismantling of part of the USA’s regime-change machinery really mean that US imperialism no longer aims to bring down sovereign states?

USA / Deny. Defend. Depose. UnitedHealth CEO killing and the class struggle

Those words were scratched into bullets by suspected assassin Luigi Mangione, who has become an unexpected folk hero in the USA.

Science and technology / How the Chinese beat Trump and OpenAI

A classic case of constraints acting as a spur to creativity – and in the process destroying the imperialist goal of monopolising new technology.

USA / LA fires fuelled by imperialism, corruption, exploitation and injustice

Meanwhile, corporate media try to divert attention by divisive culture wars framing.

World / Washington’s unstoppable superweapon

It is not only their physical independence that countries must protect from imperialist domination but also their civil and information sovereignty.

British politics / The life and crimes of John ‘Two Jags’ Prescott

One more example of a working-class man who sold his birthright for a mess of pottage.

Venezuela / Caracas congress: Make 2025 a milestone in the fight against fascism

Delegates also express firm support for Venezuela’s constitutionally elected popular president, Nicolás Maduro Moros.

Media / Twenty years after his death, Gary Webb’s truth is still dangerous

Systematic media lies destroyed the career of an honest journalist who committed the heinous crime of telling the truth.

China / Ella Rule: What I learned in Xinjiang

Innovations abound as the Chinese region pushes ahead with its agricultural and industrial development.

World history / Albert Einstein’s address to the Jewish Council for Russian War Relief, 1942

‘The tempo of Russia’s development in the last 25 years has been so tremendous that it has scarcely a parallel in history.’

Civil liberties / All eyes on the ‘enemy within’ – Prevent scheme targets dissenting children

British teachers are being tasked with the surveillance and intimidation of Palestine-supporting young people in schools and colleges.

Social wage / Your pension at work: the obscenity of ‘investment funds’

What does the case of the Merseyside Pension Fund tell us about how retirement is funded in Britain today?

USA / Billionaire BlackRock CEO: ‘Doesn’t matter’ who wins US election

This notorious bankster’s observation highlights imperialism’s ability to maintain itself while distracting the masses with election circuses.

Capitalist crisis / Why aren’t they taxing the rich?

While ‘patriotic millionaires’ consider a wealth tax a no-brainer, Labour party ‘socialists’ are horrified at the very thought.

British politics / Joti Brar interview: ‘We are links in the long chain of revolution’

Marx and Engels bequeathed essential values for every generation of revolutionaries: humility, service, dedication, discipline, sacrifice.

Ireland / A dark misuse of Irish nationalism

It is something of a novelty to see Irish workers holding up portraits of Michael Collins alongside slogans demanding ‘Pakis out’.

Education / Education union colluding with Labour against the workers

The NEU has thrown in the towel of struggle, betraying not only its own rank-and-file membership but also the wider interests of the working class.

Capitalist crisis / Labour means austerity, racism, repression and war

So where are the trade unions?

Bangladesh / Another US coup topples the elected government of Bangladesh

All over south Asia, the USA is fomenting regime change operations as part of its drive to destroy China and reassert its global hegemony.

World / Hundreds of legal experts push Biden to drop ‘punitive and deadly’ sanctions

Despite causing immense suffering to ordinary people, imperialist economic warfare rarely has the intended effect of bringing down targeted governments.

Society / Jury refuses to convict Palestine Action activists for arms factory damage

The state will continue to persecute Palestine solidarity activists through the legal system until such time as the organised working class forces it to stop.

Civil liberties / Craig Murray on Richard Medhurst and the right to armed resistance

It is becoming easier to list the truly dissident UK journalists who have not been arrested for terrorism than those who have.

USA / Thousands shut down the Capitol to protest Israel’s war crimes

American jews join direct action sit-in demanding an immediate arms embargo on Israel to stop the genocide in Gaza.

Divide and rule / Riots and the awakening of class consciousness

Never is the capitalist class made more aware of the existential threat it faces than when confronted by the infinite power of a united working class.

Divide and rule / Class unity against fascism!

The Labour party has always sought to keep the working class divided along religious and racial lines. It remains part of the problem, not the solution.

Palestine / Lancet looks at Gaza genocide, finds official figures a massive underestimate

While western media report the official figures as if they are unreliably high, the truth is quite the reverse.

Divide and rule / How can we achieve unity of the working class against fascism?

We will never defeat racism by ‘uniting’ with the arch-racist Labour party. The job of real antiracists is to expose Labour’s support for fascism and war.

British politics / Benefit cap shock? Labour perfidy is nothing new

Those surprised by the Starmer’s contempt for the poor would do well to study the party’s 100-year history of anti-worker crimes in office.

Social wage / Media blames workers for the corruption and fraud endemic to capitalist society

It is not ‘benefit cheats’ who are emptying Britain’s treasury but the unending subsidies to monopoly capital.

Media / Declassified UK: an ideological defence mechanism for a dying system

How the imperialists allow criticism of past offences in order to whitewash the crimes of the present.

China / Nina in Xinjiang: ‘We are moved by the confidence and joy of your children’

The transformative effect of a visit to China on a communist teacher from Britain.

Health / Infected blood: another chapter in the book of Tory-Labour betrayals

As in the case of the Post Office, mistakes that could have been rectified were continued for years and then covered up.

British politics / No votes for genocide-enablers or Nato warmongers!

We are calling on workers to help the campaigns of, and give their votes to, all candidates standing on an anti-genocide, anti-Nato and anti-Labour platform.

Divide and rule / Immigrants make vital contributions to British pensions and welfare benefits

Population study shows that without the essential part played by immigrant workers, our pensions and social service provisions would collapse.

Palestine / Nakba 76 – talk by Dr Ranjeet Brar

Join us to show your solidarity with the people of Palestine and remember their long history of struggle.

Education / Join the students: No cooperation with genocide in Gaza! Free Palestine!

Britain’s students are leading the way. The rest of the working class is duty bound to follow their lead.

Trade unions / Gaza, inflation, Assange … Where are the trade unions?

While crime after crime is committed against the people, those who should be organising the resistance are doing nothing.

Health / Decaying dental services cause misery for millions of workers

The steady destruction of NHS dentistry has left millions of working people resorting to to DIY dental kits as Victorian era diseases return to Britain.

Russia / Daily Mail doxes young people on their return from Russian festival

Why did Russia’s hosting of an international youth festival provoke such a hysterical reaction from British media?

Civil liberties / Latest twist on Assange’s extradition: cause for pessimism or optimism?

While an individualist view tends to despondence, there is a positive aspect to British imperialism’s blatant complicity in persecuting free speech.

Ukraine / The tragic end of Gonzalo Lira: A voice silenced in Ukraine

A US citizen done to death by the US’s fascist proxies in Ukraine for the crime of telling the truth about Nato’s proxy war against Russia.

Media / John Pilger: the man they couldn’t silence

The most courageous, fearless and decent of journalists, who devoted his life to speaking the truth and uncovering imperialist lies.

Cuba / How unjust and cruel US sanctions impact Cuba’s health provision

The US’s inhumane blockade has severe impacts on the right to life and wellbeing of the Cuban people.

Civil liberties / Journalist Graham Philips still being targeted by the British state

The British ruling class has a long tradition of persecuting those who work to shed light on inconvenient truths.

Social wage / Why is Manchester in poverty? Workers need socialism!

What is at the root of the spiral of poverty and decay we are experiencing in towns and cities across Britain?

Africa / New alliance is a knock-out for Nato in the Sahel

Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger, by founding a new Alliance of Sahel States, have started a revolution in the continent’s geopolitics.

Civil liberties / Julian Assange’s final appeal against extradition from Britain to the USA

If the WikiLeaks editor is extradited to face trumped-up ‘treason’ charges in the USA, it is the death of investigations into the inner workings of power by the press.

Poetry / Poem for Gaza: They’re not like us though are they?!

Meanwhile, under the same sun, a team of exhausted men are pulling broken-limbed children from rubble.

Media / France: the new authoritarian journalism

How French media looked away from the suffering inflicted on Palestinians in Gaza.

Health / Vape wars: Children in the sights of tobacco giants

It seems unlikely that the British government has any real intention of stopping the corporate dope-pedlars in their tracks.

Civil liberties / Julian Assange: Day X is here

The case of Julian Assange reveals how little concern the bourgeoisie really has for ‘human rights’ and ‘civil liberties’.

World history / Who are the imperialists to accuse others of ‘terrorism’?

Thoughts on the barefaced hypocrisy and doublespeak of the real mass-murdering terrorists.

Culture / Benjamin Zephaniah – lifelong champion of the oppressed

From the miners’ strike to Palestine, this working-class poet and author was steadfast in his opposition to British imperialism and its divide-and-rule tactics.

Health / NHS: Murder by a thousand cuts

Excess avoidable deaths are rising alongside waiting lists for operations and GP consultations – and it is no coincidence.

Palestine / Gaza speaks: the zionists are failing despite their horrendous crimes

Palestinian resistance calls on the world to join the fight to stop the fascistic genocide and to send food and medical relief to the starving and wounded of Gaza.

Cyprus / Britain using its Cypriot base to aid Israeli genocide in Gaza

Cypriot workers condemn the use of their island by the imperialist powers, who use their territory to aid and abet the genocide of Palestinians.

Civil liberties / Get ready for Day X: Julian Assange must be freed!

British judges have shown themselves only too ready to allow our ‘justice system’ to be used to persecute an innocent man for the ‘crime’ of real journalism.

Ireland / The Dublin riots

Why are so many on the left so quick to dismiss every outpouring of working-class rage as ‘mindless’ and ‘lumpen’?

Economy / 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?

Palestine / 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.

Education / 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.

Palestine / 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.

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.

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.

Palestine / Authorities announce the collapse of the healthcare system in the Gaza Strip

The true face of zionism revealed: a barbaric, fascistic, supremacist ideology that openly declares its aim of wiping out more than two million people in Gaza.

Canada / 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.

Leaflets / 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.

History / ‘The lessons of history …’

No matter how carefully our environment is manipulated, in the end, truth will out.

Palestine / 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.

Disputes / Support pay restitution for doctors; defend the NHS!

The British government is holding both patients and staff to ransom.

China / Aymeric Monville: Report back from Xinjiang

A French communist reflects on the yawning gulf between reality on the ground and the propaganda lies being endlessly repeated in western media.

Ukraine / Is Washington preparing to hang its stooge Zelensky out to dry?

As well as losing its proxy war against Russia, Washington is also losing control of the propaganda war.

Health / Are striking doctors really ‘greedy’ and ‘uncaring’?

An answer to ‘The Times view on health sector strikes: Uncaring profession’

Economy / 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.

China / How China is developing mass involvement in local governance

The CPC is working at the local level to build social cohesion and stability, deepening its connections with the people.

Film and TV / Film review: Oppenheimer

While the USA continues to trumpet itself as the home of free speech, this is only allowed so long as what is said poses no threat to imperialist domination at home and abroad.

Ukraine / 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.

Capitalist crisis / Ofgem serves corporate energy profiteers

The energy regulators work, just not for workers.

Lay-offs and closures / ‘Post-socialist mortality crisis’ proves that deindustrialisation kills

The ruling classes stir up populism amongst deindustrialised populations in order to try to persuade workers to pin the blame for their hardship onto other workers.

Capitalist crisis / 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.

Capitalist crisis / 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?

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?

Civil liberties / 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.

Korea / South Korea: the ‘Land of Morning Calm’ is working itself to death

Capitalist dystopia in action: behind the ‘economic miracle’, the daily grind keeps getting harder.

Civil liberties / 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.

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?

Health / 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.

Ireland / What exactly is the Orange Order celebrating?

Why is a protestant militia, founded in 1795 to combat the influence of the Enlightenment and maintin colonial rule, still marching in Irish streets?

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.

Education / 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.

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.

Korea / 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.

Pay and conditions / 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.

Environment / Ecology without class struggle is gardening!

Our planet can only be saved by scientific planning of human production and economic activity, taking into account all the consequences for nature.

Russia / Who blew up the Kakhovka dam?

With Ukraine’s ‘offensive’ failing, and the western psyop brigade keen to talk about everything except battlefield realities, it is not hard to see who benefits.

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.

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.

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.

Trade unions / Defy the anti-trade union laws!

It is time we turned the struggle for decent wages into a struggle for socialism.

China / US imperialism’s militarisation of Taiwan

Continued attempts to use the island province as a battering ram against China must be vigorously opposed.

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.

Russia / Zyuganov to Putin: ‘Form a patriotic front against the imperial west!’

Communist leader urges Russian president to reunite the country’s greatest heroes with the people.

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.

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.

USA / 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.

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.

China / Is China the target of the greatest propaganda campaign in human history?

How can we resist the rising tide of sinophobia when there is so little printed or spoken about China by western media and politicians that actually reflects reality?

Palestine / Israeli persecution of Palestinians taken to a new level in January

The zionists have seemed to get away with their crimes untouched for 75 years, but every sign is that this experiment in fascistic colonialism is doomed.

USA / Why is the BLM movement so quiet about the murder of Tyre Nichols?

Racial oppression can only meaningfully be fought by a united working class against the capitalist state that seeks to divide and keep us down.

Germany / Scholz visits Biden as USA works to bury the truth about Nord Stream

Will Washington test the anti-Putin coalition to destruction?

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.

France / French workers fight for their pension and retirement rights

Militant fighting spirit is on display in abundance in France. What is now needed is class-conscious leadership and vision.

Education / 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.

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.

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.

USA / Working-class antiwar rage sends US woke mafia into a head fit

A broad coalition of those who really want to stop the US war machine faces silence from the media and insults from the ‘left’.

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.

Germany / Nord Stream sabotage – Seymour Hersh’s revelations

Corporate media are doing what they can to quash discussion of the USA’s attack on its ally, but the fall-out from this detailed exposé is destined to be far-reaching.

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.

Media / On the media of ‘Russiagate’ and related fake stories

The last shred of mainstream journalistic integrity has been destroyed by the revelation that every part of the relentless Russiagate media barage was false.

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?

USA / Anticommunism in the USA: the spectre remains

The spectre of communism haunts the US Congress 175 years later.

Germany / How America took out the Nord Stream pipeline

The New York Times called it a ‘mystery’, but the truth is that the United States executed a covert sea operation against its own allies.

Housing / 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.

Pay and conditions / 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.

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.

USA / The US ‘Inflation Reduction Act’ – blatant protectionism

US monopolies are hoping to survive the present crisis at the expense of their rivals, but alienating all their allies will ultimately only hasten their demise.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Iran / Iran and the western-manufactured hijab protests

Attempts to cast imperialist countries as champtions of women’s rights are laughable to anyone familiar with the declining position of women in the west.

Science and technology / Microchips and monopoly: a new front in the global struggle

What is the significance of the USA's quest to repatriate the complex chain of semiconductor production?

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?

Capitalist crisis / Happy new year?

There is no reform that could enable this profit-hungry system to serve the needs of the working people.

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.

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!

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.

Australia / Racist persecution of Aborigines in Australia continues unabated

A culture of torture has been exposed in Australia’s penal system, facilitated by the dehumanisation embedded into every level of the state machinery.

Nicaragua / Oppose US ‘special measures’ against sovereign Nicaragua!

Once again, the USA wants to starve an entire people into submission, simply because they have asserted their right to economic and political independence.

China / Xi Jinping to CPC: The times are calling us, and the people expect us to deliver’

The last five years have indeed been ‘truly momentous and extraordinary’ ones in China’s history and development – and the next five look likely to be even more so.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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’.

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.

Palestine / Obituary for Palestinian journalist Shireen Abu Akleh

A CNN investigation has endorsed the view that Shireen was deliberately assassinated. But the truth about Israeli crimes cannot be snuffed out so easily.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Palestine / Palestinian Nakba continues with the murder of journalist Shireen Abu Akleh

After 74 years of endless atrocities, the Israelis are further than ever from realising their fascistic goal of an ethnically ‘pure’ state.

Media / Yemen v Ukraine: What makes a war newsworthy?

Why are the crocodile tears of our leaders and their presstitutes reserved for some victims of war and denied to others?

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.

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.

Media / Liberal journalism’s fury as Soviet symbolism returns to liberated Donbass

True colours? Guardians of western values are agonising over the rout of the murderous thugs who have been rampaging for eight years in east Ukraine.

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?

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.

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.

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.

Ukraine / Faking ‘war crimes’: Mariupol hospital witness exposes imperialist lie machine

The accounts of those on the scene clearly contradict the atrocity narratives the west is spinning to whip up support for an escalation of the war.

Ukraine / Ukraine calls for Nazi-era tribunal against Russia

But if the USA backs this call, the tables could well be turned.

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.

Palestine / Amnesty International: Israel guilty of ‘apartheid against Palestinians’

Western NGO is forced to conclude that Israel has constructed ‘a cruel system of domination’ that is ‘a crime against humanity’.

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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

China / China investing massively to address climate change

China’s example shows the real way out of our climate disaster – but taken alone, even its great strides cannot be enough.

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.

Divide and rule / The Channel boat tragedy and Britain’s inhumanity to asylum seekers

Why is the plight of these desperate migrants being weaponised?

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.

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.

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.

Poetry / Poem: ‘Liberals’ & ’Death’

By Irish poet Kevin Higgins.

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?

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.

Education / No academic freedom to support Palestine

Bristol academic sacked for refusing to bow to the diktat of the zionist world lobby.

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.

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.

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?

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.

China / US appoints itself arbiter of ‘democracy’: one more act of anti-China propaganda

Invitation list confirms that to be counted as democratic one must be first and foremost a friend of the dictatorial US imperialist regime.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

USA / US state revokes child protection laws instead of creating decent jobs for adults

Wisconsin is planning to patch up the cracks in its faltering economy by getting children to work longer and later.

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.

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.

Economy / Scandalous levels of public service corruption in Britain

Is honest dealing by businesses and politicians compatible with capitalist society and the profit motive?

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.

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.

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.

China / No politicisation of Covid origin tracing: joint statement with CPC

The quest to understand the origin of Covid-19 must be pursued in the spirit of international cooperation, not used as a political football.

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?

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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

World history / Film review: Judas and the Black Messiah

A searing reminder of the need for class unity in the battle for socialism.

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.

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.

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.

Health / Imperialism fails the Covid test

Capitalism is proving itself to be systemically incapable of dealing rationally and humanely with the global pandemic.

USA / Derek Chauvin found guilty on all counts of George Floyd’s murder

A conviction that serves to underline the general impunity of imperialist state forces when carrying out their role as defenders of the status quo.

USA / Biden’s US ramps up hostility toward refugees, despite ‘humane’ promises

Joe proves his imperialist credentials by presiding over ‘business as usual’ in America’s war on migrant workers.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Housing / Ban extended, but evictions continue

Behind the toothless legislation is a government, and parliament, inextricably intertwined with the landlord class.

Media / Facebook employs propagandist to wage war on ‘disinformation’

Big tech is enthusiastically embracing the drive to war with Russia and China.

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.

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.

Health / Nutrition is a human right: we must demand decent food for all

Corporate-funded ‘nutrition’ studies are a perfect example of how the profit motive perverts the course of scientific enquiry.

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?

Cuba / Harpal Brar: Support Cuban medical disaster relief team for Nobel peace prize

Henry Reeve International Medical Brigade has saved thousands of lives across the world.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Economy / GameStop stops Wall Street

Activist amateur traders ‘driven by righteous anger’ very nearly broke at least one hedge vulture’s bank, causing panic on the stock exchange.

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.

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.

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.

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.

India / Rape and murder of dalit girls continues as Indian authorities turn a blind eye

Old caste prejudices from the feudal era are preventing Indian workers from coming together in class solidarity.

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.

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?

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?

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.

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.

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.

USA / Why are women being unnecessarily sterilised at a US immigration centre?

Disturbing facts have come to light in a for-profit immigration centre. What is the motivation behind these crimes against women prisoners?

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.

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?

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.

Syria / Dirty British propaganda war against Syria exposed

The war machine is facing a most welcome crisis of legitimacy.

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

Social wage / UBI: a recipe for universal misery

Our demand must be for meaningful work in a society free from poverty, unemployment and insecurity.

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.

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.

Economy / Hedge funds flourish on covid misery

As the vaccine race heats up, holders of the right pharma shares are making a killing out of insider trading.

Capitalist crisis / Rising inequality following the 2020 crisis of overproduction

Mushrooming inequality has the capitalist class spooked, for they fear the consequences.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Divide and rule / Statues come down: the toppling of the mighty

Good riddance to bad rubbish, but what next?

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.

Health / We are not battery hens: covid outbreaks in the meat packing industry

Why are so many workers in the meat processing industry succumbing to the coronavirus?

Social wage / The plight of the homeless after lockdown

‘Business as usual’ as rough sleepers are thrown back onto the streets.

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.

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.

Palestine / Under cover of Covid-19: Israel tightens the screws on Palestine

Israel’s violent suppression and annexation of Palestine continues unabated, but with it so grows the just resistance of the Palestinian people.

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.

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.

Civil liberties / Julian Assange: The truth will set him free

Many questions remain to be answered about the conduct of Julian’s defence.

Industry / End British export of rubber bullets

British arms manufacturers continue to profit from these lethal ‘crowd control’ weapons.

Social wage / UBI: the ‘right’ to be idle or the right to work?

What does the call for a universal basic income really mean?

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.

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.

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.

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.

Capitalist crisis / A call to arms: This May Day, fight together against imperialism

Workers’ parties sign international revolutionary anti-imperialist manifesto.

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.

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.

China / Isabel and Michael Crook show love for China with Covid-19 relief

Comrade Michael praises the ability of the Chinese system to mobilise resources in the public interest as Wuhan emerges victorious from its lockdown.

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.

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?

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?

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.

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.

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.

Health / Covid-19 treatment handbooks issued compiling frontline experience

China's gift to the world is hard-won knowledge: ‘The real remedy for epidemics is not isolation, but cooperation.’

France / Macron wages war on French workers, making pension ‘reforms’ by subterfuge

Striking workers were duped into moving their battle into parliament. Can they regain the momentum they had on the streets before?

Health / The anti-China coronavirus panic

What is really behind the media hysteria over Covid-19? And what can the virus tell us about the state of our NHS?

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’.

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.

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.

China / China will beat the coronavirus

While western hysteria is out of all proportion to the real scale of the emergency, the Chinese response has been swift and stunning.

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.

Europe / How the EU is demolishing pensions

We need to stand together in resisting the drive to make workers pay for the economic crisis of capitalism.

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.

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.

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.

France / French class war continuing as neither side looks ready to back down

Macron continues to push EU-backed pensions attack while unions have called for a general strike and total oil refinery blockade.

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.

France / French strikes expand and deepen as more workers join the fray

A class war is underway in France and the workers show no sign of backing down. Victoire aux grévistes!

France / Support the French strikers!

France’s militant unions are joining forces with yellow vest activists in a serious challenge to Macron’s EU-backed assault on living standards.

France / France goes on strike: can Macron survive?

As militant trade unionists prepare to join yellow vests on the streets, the class struggle in France is moving into a new gear.

Society / The double victimisation of capitalism’s female victims

Locked up for being poor, their children uprooted and set adrift ... while privatised prison services rake in the cash.

France / One year on: the yellow vests and the class struggle in France

What has fuelled the rise and sustained the popularity of the gilets jaunes movement in Britain’s nearest neighbour?

Education / Sabotage of state schools

Growing privatisation and austerity is eroding the hard-won right to an education for our children.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Society / The true level of unemployment

Joblessness is being underreported by a factor of 200 percent.

China / Building a prosperous and environmentally-conscious society

A first-hand view of China’s march forward.

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.

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.

Venezuela / The successes of the Bolivarian housing mission in Venezuela

Bringing solidarity to a heroic people as they resist imperialist siege.

Education / Our schools need more than money

It is not only cuts that are devastating and gutting our schools but privatisation and outsourcing.

Education / 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.

USA / US workers force child migrant concentration camp to close

Homeware staff strike against their employers’ profiting from privatised detention camps.

Divide and rule / Racial profiling revealed in Home Office visa processing

African academics are routinely being denied entry to attend conferences and seminars in Britain.

Education / 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.

Social wage / ‘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.

Divide and rule / 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.

Housing / 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.

Housing / 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.

Health / 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?

China / China’s resistance to the US trade war

Defensive measures by the People’s Republic are accelerating the very process the US has been trying to halt.

Education / 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.

Divide and rule / Fighting the forces of fascism: persuasion, not force, is key right now

What should meaningful antifascist work look like in present-day Britain?

Divide and rule / Teach children to kick against gender stereotypes, not gender itself

The party of the working class must above all be the purveyor of truth.

Housing / 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.

Pollution / 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.

Civil liberties / Julian Assange facing extradition to the United States

Why is the WikiLeaks founder being targeted now, and what happens next?

Society / Hunger on the rise in Britain, despite economic ‘recovery’

In-work poverty testifies as to who really paid to bail out the banks in 2008. And while hunger is on the rise, one-third of food produced every year is wasted.

Disputes / Privatisation directors’ fat salaries come from ripping off health service workers

Sodexo and Mitie are the latest hospital outsourcing companies to face industrial action by staff over terrible pay and conditions.

Disputes / Left-Labour-controlled Newham is not such a New Jerusalem

Despite working for a Labour council and a Corbynite mayor, council workers in Newham face pay cuts and bullying.

Venezuela / Twitter censors Venezuelan embassy in Britain

Twitter is helping the US and its comprador coup plotters conduct the media war against Venezuela’s legitimate and popular government.

Climate change / Yellow vests v Extinction Rebellion

Climate protestors’ leader accidentally gives away the ruling class’s agenda.

Civil liberties / Free Julian Assange and Chelsea Manning!

Injustice and oppression will never be defeated unless at every turn they are resolutely resisted, whatever the cost.

France / Reaction of the rich to the Notre Dame fire tells a lot about the world we live in

Two of Europe’s wealthiest men pledge €300m to restore Notre Dame, while 8.8 million people continue to live below the poverty line in France.

Divide and rule / Why gay rights is not a class issue

It is not ‘homophobic’ for socialists to focus their attention on those contradictions that concern the whole working class in its struggle for socialism.

Social wage / Fire Brigade Inc

Cuts and outsourcing are part of the slow drive towards total privatisation of this essential service.

Lay-offs and closures / Interserve: another outsourcing giant hits the wall

In the pursuit of monopoly profits, another building corporation turned ‘public service provider’ has gone bust – and the public will be picking up the tab.

France / Call from France’s first yellow vest assembly

Even as it sinks out of sight in the British media, France’s popular rebellion is continuing and gaining momentum.

Health / How to squeeze the NHS and get a gong

Private drugs companies seize on a ‘loophole’ in NHS rules to vastly overprice medicines.

Disputes / Brum bin strike concludes with a payout

A new deal was concluded in March to appease workers’ anger at secret payouts to GMB members during the 2017 strike.

Divide and rule / The reactionary nightmare of ‘gender fluidity’

We do not advocate and we cannot allow the bourgeoisie to impose this divisive ideology upon us.

Health / Smartphones v doctors: NHS destruction moves up a gear

A ‘new era of personalised care’ where mobile apps replace overworked GPs.

Social wage / Privatisation undermines the probation service

The government has reneged on its promise to step in if the privateers failed to deliver.

Divide and rule / Asda continues to flout equal pay rulings

Automation and unequal pay are just two of the tools being used by retail giants to divide workers, reduce costs and win the cut-throat war of competition.

Science and technology / China charts new territory: the dark side of the moon

Workers of all countries felt a justified surge of pride when the PRC’s lunar probe made a successful landing on the dark side of the moon.

Media / Assange nominated for the Nobel peace prize

Irish peace campaigner calls for the WikiLeaks’s founder to be recognised for his services against warmongering imperialism.

Disputes / South Western railworkers win battle to keep the guard on the train

Safe and affordable public transport for all. Support our rail workers!

Divide and rule / The fake emergency of the Channel boat refugees

Why is such a fuss being made about the arrival of a few desperate migrants on the shores of one of the richest countries in the world?

Disputes / Refuse, resist! Brum rubbish collectors ready to strike as council talks fail

Brummie binmen are days away from an all-out strike, clashing once again with a Labour council that has rewarded scabs and blacklisted strikers.

Health / Newcross Healthcare: rinsing the public coffers

The true face of privatisation in our public services, where greed and abuse are rewarded and people come last.

USA / The migrant caravan and the US mid-term elections

Crude jingoism deployed to boost President Trump’s Republican party at the expense of the desperate poor of Central America.

France / France’s yellow vests fight on, despite concessions

Social unrest in France is being driven by workers’ anger at continuous attacks on jobs, wages and living standards.

China / Huawei executive arrest – a provocation too far

The US's persectution of Meng Wanzhou represents a dangerous escalation of its trade war against China.

Civil liberties / Branding the wage slaves

British companies are starting to experiment with microchipping their staff as a way of keeping tabs on their movements.

Social wage / WH Smith gobbles up another 74 post offices

Another step towards the complete dismemberment and privatisation of the mail service.

Divide and rule / Letter: Identity politics v class politics

If our political activities don’t threaten imperialism, we need to think again about what we are doing.

Social wage / A third of British children live in poverty

A decade of austerity is taking a heavy toll on Britain’s families.

Housing / Grenfell Tower – another long and winding public inquiry

Privatisation, subcontracting and the drive to maximise profits led to the inferno, but the ruling class will be hoping the inquiry can come up with a scapegoat or two on whom to pin the blame for its crimes.

Divide and rule / Identity politics are anti-Marxian and a harmful diversion from the class struggle

Refuse to allow our movement to be hijacked by hostile class forces!

Housing / The housing crisis is lining private landlords’ pockets

Housing benefit is acting as the ‘landlords’ bonus’, while provision of emergency temporary accommodation by private landlords is the ‘icing on the cake’.

Social wage / Bristol bus protest highlights failing public transport in Britain

Workers must demand renationalisation as the first step towards affordability, planning, and the sanity of a socialist economy.

Pay and conditions / University of Manchester support staff to strike against pension attacks

Cleaners, caterers, security and admin staff are fighting to defend their right to a dignified retirement.

Pay and conditions / Glasgow: Teachers take to the streets

Pay and conditions in the profession continue to decline, leading to a retention and recruitment crisis in our schools.

Social wage / Universal credit: forcing the needy into ever more desperate poverty

The government can look after the interests of the capitalists or the interests of the workers; it cannot do both.

Housing / Residents resist social cleansing in Cambridge

The CPGB-ML supports tenants in Montreal Square, who are trying to save their community from redevelopment.

Housing / The housing crisis shows that capitalism is due for demolition

Housing should be a right not a privilege, yet capitalism has proven itself incapable of providing a decent home to every worker.

Society / Meaningful employment is a right for all

Useful work well done for collective benefit brings personal fulfilment. A society that can't provide such work to its members is not fit for purpose.

Education / Decent education for all

If we want a society worth living in, education should be high-quality, free, universal, lifelong and publicly provided. Profit-taking has no place in classrooms.

Sweden / Shootings, killings, cars on fire – what’s going on?

All a sign of the irretrievable decadence of bourgeois society.

Ireland / Gangsters employed by the state to assist slum landlords

In Ireland, as in Britain, the housing crisis is deepening while the government backs up the vultures feeding off the misery of poor.

India / Arbitrary arrests in India

The BJP government is the embodiment of bigotry, divisiveness and murderous activity.

Disputes / FE lecturers ballot over derisory pay offer

It is not the job of workers to square the accounts of their employers.

Energy / Government plans to push fracking through the back door

If we want to save our planet, we’ll need to get rid of capitalism.

Pay and conditions / Theft of steelworkers’ pensions

Successful campaigners lose up to half their entitlement, shafted after all by caveats in the small print.

Pay and conditions / Bosses’ pay soars

While Labour business rep worries over ‘undermining public trust in business’!

Housing / Property tycoon hikes rent by 10 percent

The decimation of social housing proves once more the inability of the market to provide even for people's most basic needs.

Education / School exclusions create prisoners, not reformed pupils

With ever more social problems manifesting in the classroom, and support staff and services being axed, draconian methods of ‘behaviour management’ are on the rise.

Germany / The events of Chemnitz and the role of (east) German fascism

How is it that there are riots against immigrants in the heart of the former German socialist republic?

Disputes / Support Birmingham’s homecare workers

Before Labour councillors privatise the service completely.

British politics / Fascist tactics: How Jeremy Corbyn’s detractors are plotting to remove him

The Labour leader’s opponents don’t care about antisemitism. They’ll just do anything to remove Corbyn.

Divide and rule / Prison report reveals truth about Britain’s dreadful concentration camps

If one can judge a society by how it treats its prisoners, British imperialism continues to plumb new depths of baseness and depravity.

British politics / Profiteers of war: how working-class kids die to keep the rich rich

A former soldier's compelling call for non-cooperation with imperialist war.

British politics / Is Corbyn racist?

What is behind the relentless campaign against Corbyn’s ‘antisemitism’ and ‘terrorist wreath-laying’ in our national media?

Media / How Wikipedia is used to prop up the imperialist lie machine

The internet encyclopaedia is an important front in the information war being waged by our rulers.

USSR / How do socialists approach the veil?

Boris Johnson's comments do nothing to elighten anyone or further a debate, but those of his opponents are not much more sensible.

Health / NHS cost-cutting managers’ plan will axe a raft of routine operations

Calling these procedures ‘unnecessary’ won’t stop people needing them, however; it will merely ration them according to the ability to pay.

Media / The ongoing ‘fake news’ debacle

In the name of suppressing ‘fake news’ the bourgeoisie seeks to suppress inconvenient truth.

Health / Save our NHS

Only by clearly understanding our rulers’ determination to dismantle the NHS and by coordinating our efforts to save it can we hope to succeed.

Health / NHS: government forced to recognise reality

The NHS needs more money for services and staff, not simply to create further profits for the bloodsucking privateers.

Media / Bringing Julian Assange home

John Pilger on the significance of WikiLeaks and the rage of US imperialism against its founder.

Social wage / Poverty on the rise as Birmingham’s Labour council freezes burial fees

Rates of child poverty are soaring in Britain’s major cities; Labour councils are as impotent and callous as all the rest.

Health / Saving the NHS: the method and success rate of the petition ‘activist’

All sound and fury signifying nothing much.

Media / Cambridge Analytica and the drive toward internet censorship

Corporate abuse of the internet is being used to justify censorship of independent media.

World history / Fifty years since the murder of Martin Luther King Jr

A leader, one of many, murdered because they came to identify capitalism as the cause of the misery of the US masses.

Industry / Privatised rail industry totters

The resistance of rail workers to safety-cutting measures is bringing the question of renationalisation back onto the political agenda.

Disputes / University workers sold down the river

With friends like the University and College Union leadership, who needs enemies?

France / France fights back against Thatcherite ‘reforms’

French workers have only to see what has been done to the British working class in recent decades to understand the ramifications of their present fight.

Divide and rule / The Windrush scandal

For once, the British public is being given an insight into the misery that is daily inflicted by the UK's racist and draconian immigration regime.

British politics / Birmingham Worker candidate speaks out on behalf of working-class youth

What can British youth do about the poverty, exclusion and alienation they face today?

British politics / Birmingham Worker candidates fighting for women and children

Communist candidates highlight the role of the Labour party in implementing austerity on behalf of the ruling class.

Poetry / Poem: They Say that Both Sides are to Blame?

Media lies keep the working class divided and weak. What's the way out?

British politics / The infamous ‘antisemitic’ mural

Jeremy Corbyn has apologised for failing to notice an East End mural’s antisemitism and now supports its removal. Is he right?

Media / The ‘independent media’ that exist to attack independent media

The enemy’s supposed to hate it: Beeley and Bartlett under attack again.

Housing / Housing shortage in the midst of plenty

It is not the right to buy that workers need, but the right to a home.

Health / GP incentives – a dangerous tool of NHS privatisation

“I will use treatments for the benefit of the ill in accordance with my ability and my judgement, but from what is to their harm and injustice I will keep them.”

Pay and conditions / Council workers win skirmish with Manchester outsourcing cowboy

The involvement of Labour councils in the outsourcing racket should make unions think twice about their generous donations to the party's coffers.

Health / Time to prise the leeches off the NHS

Why is it that increased funding doesn't result in better services in today's health service?

Leaflets / Hands off lecturers’ pensions

A decent pension for all workers is a right, not a privilege.

Leaflets / Housing: a crisis of capitalism

What must be done in order to provide decent homes to all workers?

Lay-offs and closures / The collapse of Carillion

Financial and political commentators are suddenly ‘discovering’ that PFI and the privatisation of services might not be such a good deal after all.

Health / NHS crisis bites deeper

Workers taste the bitter fruit of capitalist market ‘reforms’.

Media / Blunt hatchets: Guardian attempts to discredit real journalism on Syria

As the criminal war against Syria faces an all-out defeat, the guardians of liberal opinion are going all-out to bring independent-minded readers back into line.

Pollution / Air pollution in Britain at scandalously high levels

And all for the sake of the profits of the automobile industry.

Health / GPs resisting wholesale privatisation of NHS surgeries

It’s not just hospitals that are under fire.

Education / Stop academisation of our schools!

End the plunder of educational resources by the enemies of the people.

Media / Media on trial

Independent journalists expose the lies of the liberal imperialist media such as the BBC, Channel 4 and CNN.

Divide and rule / British media go all out to spread racism and islamophobia

While the true interests of vulnerable children are callously disregarded.

Health / The ongoing decimation of the NHS

Nurses leaving en masse and operations rationed.

Education / The insanity of school league tables

From cheating in public schools to expulsion of ‘weaker’ students in state schools – competition in education is the enemy of true excellence.

Housing / Grenfell Tower: tragedy or crime?

What was behind the devastating fire in north Kensington in June?

Housing / Labour council pushes ahead with housing segregation in Haringey

The disgrace of social cleansing in London.

Housing / Editorial: The housing crisis

The horrific fire at Grenfell Tower in London, which has killed so many working-class people, demonstrates the terrible reality of housing in Britain today.

Housing / What did the October Revolution do for us? 2. Housing

The second in our series of articles examining the impact of the October Revolution of 1917 on the lives of workers in Britain.

Sport / Hillsborough 28 years on

Will the victims get justice at last?

Britain / Terrorist atrocity in Manchester

The MI6 connection.

British politics / Editorial: Our demands

USA / Obamacare: going, going …

Assessing the impact of ‘Trumpcare’.

Trade unions / The fight-back of the low-paid

‘Precarious’ workers are doing it for themselves.

Working-class history / Remembering Comrade Clement Murphy-Shaw

An exemplary life given to the promotion of progressive and humanitarian causes.

France / French elections produce … more of the same!

An opportunity further to upset the applecart in Europe has been lost, but the imperialists’ glee is likely to be short-lived.

Health / Cloak and dagger: the operation to kill the NHS

The campaign to destroy the NHS is reaching its final stages: how did we get here and what can we do?

Education / Education under attack

Capitalism in crisis is wrecking our children’s future; it’s time to wake up and fight back.

British politics / Birmingham council in financial crisis

A strike by binmen and other workers is inevitable.

Society / Letter: So you want to be a hero?

A reader puts some pertinent questions to any young person thinking of joining the armed forces.

British politics / How the scabs were ditched, and other dirty laundry of 1989-90

The latest release of cabinet papers gives us a further insight into the secret doings of our ruling class.

USSR / What did the October Revolution do for us? 1. The NHS

The Great October Revolution, which created the world’s first socialist state, and whose centenary is celebrated this year, brought with it the first ever system of universal provision for all members of society, and amongst the most important of those gains was that of free and complete healthcare.

Divide and rule / Yes to Brexit; No to xenophobia

Workers must hold tight to the motto Unity is Strength, and utterly reject the siren songs of racism and xenophobia.

Disputes / Shrewsbury 24: Amnesty International shows its true colours

Even forty years later, the ‘human rights’ champions are still not prepared to tell the full story of their collusion with Labour in keeping Des Warren locked up.

Disputes / Editorial: Junior doctors vote to reject new contract

Health secretary Jeremy Hunt vows to impose new conditions anyway as privatisation plans ramps up another gear.

Education / Kids’ strike over school tests

Kids boycott SAT tests as parents demand: ‘Let our kids be kids’.

Disputes / No to the new doctors’ contract; save our NHS!

Hunt declares victory for the government; BMA’s Malawana declares ... nothing.

Civil liberties / Police lies revealed at Hillsborough; Orgreave must be next

Inquiry reveals police guilt for 96 unnecessary deaths in Sheffield, and highlights the militarised and anti-worker culture that grew out of the political policing of the miners’ strike five years earlier.

Health / Sudden death of the ‘weekend effect’

One of the key planks in the government's propaganda offensive against junior doctors has been exposed as a total nonsense.

British politics / ‘Anti-zionism is not antisemitism’

Statement on ‘Labour’s problem with antisemitism’ from the Jewish Socialists’ Group.

Social wage / Budget 2016: attacking the poor will not fix the economy

Chancellor Osborne is finding that there is no escape from the world capitalist economic crisis.

Health / Public health: a matter of private profit

The proposed junior doctors’ contracts and cuts to student nurse bursaries are part of the drive to turn our hospitals into profit-taking enterprises.

Society / Letter: We need a council tax rebellion

Society / Joint enterprise murder convictions judged unsound

All those who have been unjustly jailed should be freed, and should be compensated for their lost years.

Korea / Socialist Korea refuses to be intimidated by imperialist sanctions

The DPRK will not be denied the right to develop the necessary technology to defend itself and to improve its people’s lives.

Germany / On the New Year’s Eve events in Germany

Racism will not be ended by political correctness, but by a united working-class movement for socialism.

Social wage / Disgraceful neglect of the disabled in Britain

Official government policy: nobody knows you when you’re down and out.

Social wage / New bill could pave the way for the final destruction of social housing

Is this the end of social housing in Britain or the start of a fight-back?

Korea / DPRK conducts successful H-Bomb test

US imperialism steps up pressure on Korea and China in an effort to preserve its role of no 1 playground bully.

Health / Junior doctors’ fight to save our NHS betrayed

Health / The junior doctors’ contract and the US corporate takeover of the NHS

Dr Bob Gill explains the unreported and sinister drive behind the push for changing junior doctors’ contracts.

Pollution / VW emissions scandal

Capitalism will always put the need for maximum profit above the people’s health – or even saving the planet.

Disputes / Letter: Boycott the General Medical Council

The medical profession needs a new, independent governing body, capable of acting in the true interests of patients.

France / Paris terror attacks: Further proof that we need to overthrow imperialism

Jihadi terrorism is the bastard child of the union between blind religious fanaticism and imperialist market fundamentalism.

Divide and rule / The human cost of prisons for profit

A Proletarian reader recounts his best friend’s descent into despair and eventual suicide while imprisoned on an indeterminate sentence. This article has been previously published in the Morning Star.

Social wage / Benefit cuts: Who are the real parasites in our society?

Stealing from the poor for the benefit of the rich.

Leaflets / Black and white: unite and fight!

Workers of the world, unite. You have nothing to lose but your chains. You have a world to win!

USA / Baltimore uprising reveals working class’s revolutionary potential

When revolutionary science and organisation come together with the power and anger of the US’s poor, there will be no stopping them.

British politics / Election circus over, the class struggle continues

Workers don’t need Labour's ‘kinder’ cuts and ‘ethical’ wars; we need communist organisation to take on the ruling class and win.

Divide and rule / General election results: the Scottish context

The faith of the Scottish workers in the SNP will inevitably be dashed.

Ireland / Sinn Féin stands alone against austerity

North and south of the border, Sinn Féin is proving to be the only large party that takes a sincere interest in the welfare of the masses.

Media / Letter from Comrade Isabel Crook in China

Veteran revolutionary expresses her appreciation for factual analysis in a world dominated by lying imperialist media.

Social wage / Wonga watch

Workers’ indignation needs to be justly roused against this humiliation of our class.

Working-class history / The Victorian origins of workfare

Where did the government get the idea of subsidising free labour for big companies like Tesco?

British politics / Forget the jubilee, join the revolution!

The Queen is not ‘ours’, but theirs. She is of and for that tiny handful of ruthless exploiters who keep the world’s people in poverty and servitude.

Divide and rule / Rage against capitalism: working-class youth fight back

The working class needs a general staff that can enable it to direct its anger in a constructive way.

Civil liberties / YOUTH UPRISING 2011: Bourgeois ideologues battle for control of the working-class movement

Protesters under attack from state repression, rabid propaganda and rotten ideology.

Theatre / Play: The Power of Yes by David Hare

Explaining nothing, this play is aimed merely at letting off some steam without getting any nearer to a solution to society’s systemic problems.