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.

USA / US workers force child migrant concentration camp to close

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

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.

France / Strike wave hits France

Workers are vigorously opposing their government’s attempt to rip up the French labour code.

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.

Working-class history / What did the Indian workers do for us?

Harpal Brar gives a short history of the significant contribution made by the IWA (GB) to the British working-class movement, and points the way forward.

Proletarian news / Industry matters: Amazon unveiled

Culture / Book: Go Set a Watchman

A poignant tale of the difficulties of breaking away from reactionary traditions.

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.

Industry / Industry matters: French ferry workers blaze a trail

USA / US Party for Socialism and Liberation announces its 2016 presidential campaign

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