Workers party hosts popular rally against LTN scheme in Birmingham

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Environment / Workers party hosts popular rally against LTN scheme in Birmingham

An excellent example of socialists connecting with the community in order to advance their interests and raise their understanding.

7 Aug 2021 ,
Working-class history / Remembering the 2011 youth uprising

Ten years on, the poverty, inequality and injustice that led to an outpouring of rage on England’s streets have only worsened.

6 Aug 2021 ,
Lay-offs and closures / Chester Road closure: No to GKN’s industrial vandalism!

A 270-year-old British manufacturer is being slowly dismantled by asset-stripping vultures, destroying vital jobs and engineering capacity in the process.

4 Feb 2021 , Proletarian

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.

18 Jul 2019 , Birmingham Worker
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.

4 Jul 2019 ,
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.

24 Mar 2019 , Proletarian
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.

20 Jan 2019 , Sputnik
Lay-offs and closures / FT leaks plans by Jaguar Land Rover to axe 5,000 jobs

The joy of capitalism: unemployment is the workers’ reward for enriching the company's owners.

21 Dec 2018 , Birmingham Worker
Lay-offs and closures / Support Asda Queslett workers’ fight for jobs

Don’t let machines come before jobs, nor profit before people.

19 Dec 2018 , Birmingham Worker
Disputes / Birmingham: Two-faced council breaks promises to binmen and residents

Birmingham’s militant binmen deserve our full support as their dispute looks set to break out again this Christmas.

1 Dec 2018 , Proletarian
British politics / British workers demand Brexit!

It is not in our class interests to allow the referendum result to be overturned.

27 Sep 2018 , Proletarian
Disputes / Support Birmingham’s homecare workers

Before Labour councillors privatise the service completely.

19 Sep 2018 , Birmingham Worker
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.

14 Jun 2018 , Proletarian
British politics / Should workers vote in Birmingham’s council elections?

The answer to this question lies not in absolute principles, but in the day-to-day tactics of the class struggle.

2 May 2018 , Birmingham Worker
British politics / From Gaza to Balsall Heath – international man of peace

Sammi Ibrahim is standing as a communist candidate in local elections in Balsall Heath, Birmingham.

29 Apr 2018 , Birmingham Worker
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?

29 Apr 2018 , Birmingham Worker
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.

29 Apr 2018 , Birmingham Worker
Disputes / Birmingham’s binmen conclude their strike … for now

A ‘new’ deal has been offered that appears to make some concessions, but which demands more work for the same money.

1 Dec 2017 , Proletarian
Disputes / Binmen on strike in Birmingham

More council cuts = more rats! Birmingham’s refuse workers are mounting strong resistance to the latest austerity plans of the city’s Labour-led council.

1 Aug 2017 , Proletarian

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Birmingham highlights

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.

Lay-offs and closures / Chester Road closure: No to GKN’s industrial vandalism!

A 270-year-old British manufacturer is being slowly dismantled by asset-stripping vultures, destroying vital jobs and engineering capacity in the process.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Lay-offs and closures / FT leaks plans by Jaguar Land Rover to axe 5,000 jobs

The joy of capitalism: unemployment is the workers’ reward for enriching the company's owners.

Lay-offs and closures / Support Asda Queslett workers’ fight for jobs

Don’t let machines come before jobs, nor profit before people.

Disputes / Birmingham: Two-faced council breaks promises to binmen and residents

Birmingham’s militant binmen deserve our full support as their dispute looks set to break out again this Christmas.

British politics / British workers demand Brexit!

It is not in our class interests to allow the referendum result to be overturned.

Disputes / Support Birmingham’s homecare workers

Before Labour councillors privatise the service completely.

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.

British politics / Should workers vote in Birmingham’s council elections?

The answer to this question lies not in absolute principles, but in the day-to-day tactics of the class struggle.

British politics / From Gaza to Balsall Heath – international man of peace

Sammi Ibrahim is standing as a communist candidate in local elections in Balsall Heath, Birmingham.

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.

Disputes / Birmingham’s binmen conclude their strike … for now

A ‘new’ deal has been offered that appears to make some concessions, but which demands more work for the same money.

Disputes / Binmen on strike in Birmingham

More council cuts = more rats! Birmingham’s refuse workers are mounting strong resistance to the latest austerity plans of the city’s Labour-led council.

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Workers in eastern Europe and former Soviet states prefer socialism

Palestine solidarity motion deepens division in the Labour party’s ranks

Marxism v liberalism: HG Wells talks to Stalin

Housing and architecture in the Soviet Union

Anglo-American plot to assassinate Julian Assange on London’s streets

The reactionary nightmare of ‘gender fluidity’

The IRA plan to kill Michael O’Dwyer

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