Civil liberties / Stand with those being criminalised for opposing genocidal British imperialism

The example of repression and state criminality in Britain must be used to show the necessity of opposing and dismantling the entire imperialist system.

Civil liberties / Pro-imperialist alliance attacks communist symbols at Bristol university

A cornered animal is a dangerous animal.

Divide and rule / Divide and rule tactics are keeping workers powerless

Both far-right and Trotskyite provocateurs act as state agents to keep the working class bogged down in ‘culture wars’ tribalism.

Sport / Maccabi hooligans do not speak for jews

With its shameful response to the Maccabi fans ban, the British government is exploiting jewish suffering to protect itself, not protecting jewish people

Sport / A tale of two chants: Why Starmer now casts even the police as antisemitic

Why is the government so keen to let violent and racist Israeli thugs loose on Birmingham’s streets?

Civil liberties / The British government v Kneecap

This Irish rap group is making a habit of exposing the British establishment with its anti-imperialist lyrics and successful legal battles.

Divide and rule / The Manchester synagogue attack serves the forces of division

This attack comes at a time when the ruling class is working hard to create and deepen ethnic and religious antagonisms between workers at home and abroad.

Civil liberties / Practice tribunal acquits London doctor despite intensive zionist witch hunt

Dr Rahmeh Aladwan has defeated the first stage in a campaign to have her struck off for publicly opposing the Gaza genocide.

Disputes / Government and council investing heavily to defeat Birmingham bin strike

What is at stake is not merely the future of a few hundred workers, but the question of who should pay for the capitalist crisis.

Trade unions / The Spark: Transport strikes, the bin men, British steel and more

The first issue of our industrial news sheet examines recent cases of trade union leaderships failing their members and the wider working class.

British politics / The second coming of Jeremy Corbyn

Can the clown car be kept on the road for long enough to fulfil its function?

Divide and rule / Reform: scapegoating migrants to save capitalism

Nigel Farage is simply one more player in a game of ‘divide and rule’ that the British ruling class has been directing for 200 years.

Trade unions / No deportations! Defend the TfL workers!

The ruling class is working overtime to pit worker against worker. We must not allow it to succeed in its aim of neutralising our resistance.

Civil liberties / Healthcare Workers Against Censorship request meeting with Wes Streeting

‘I’m not going to allow independence of regulators or complexity of regulation to stand in the way of tackling this [‘antisemitism’ / anti-genocide speech] problem.’

Divide and rule / Glasgow protests demonstrate farce of ‘fascists’ v ‘antifascists’

Workers are being forced into culture wars paradigms to keep them busy fighting amongst themselves.

Civil liberties / Resistance is not a crime. Support Mo Chara! Support Palestine!

Workers, artists and political groups must demand our right to a voice, and to independent political action.

Trade unions / Stalin at the Durham gala: what is the DMC afraid of?

Why is a picture of Stalin banned by ‘labour movement custodians’ while genocide-supporting Labour leaders are feted?

Trade unions / Labour is the enemy of the working class!

Trade unions must break all links and dismantle their Labour-aligned bureaucracies.

British politics / Corbyn Project 2? What could possibly go wrong?

As the imperialists ramp up their drive into WW3, the Corbynistas are back demanding we all fiddle while Rome burns.

Trade unions / The Spark: Unions shilling for Labour on Ukraine, gender and more

The first issue of our industrial news sheet examines recent cases of trade union leaderships failing their members and the wider working class.

Civil liberties / Genocide abroad and repression at home go hand in hand

To clear the way for continued criminality and warmongering around the world, the ruling class needs to crush all domestic opposition.

Disputes / Birmingham bin workers smelling rats

Neither the council nor the unions seem in any hurry to bring this dispute to a conclusion. Workers are left wondering why.

Working-class history / Obituary: Anne Scargill

A shining example of proletarian leadership, Anne wonderfully proved Mao Zedong’s famous saying that ‘Women hold up half the sky’.

British politics / Starmer’s army

What’s really behind the ‘Strategic Defence Review’ and the government’s eagerness to get Britain ‘ready for war’?

British politics / Starmer’s sleaze

It is becoming clearer by the day that Labour serves monopoly capital and is preparing for a civil war against the working class.

Trade unions / RMT union launches new campaign to end outsourcing on the railways

It is not their inability to think logically but their dedication to profit-generation that leads our rulers to destroy public services.

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.

Capitalist crisis / Starmer’s failing militarism

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

Health / A nurse’s view of the continuing sabotage of the NHS

Our health service is well advanced on the road to total privatisation.

British politics / No illusions in bourgeois democracy

The Labour party and all its ‘left’ hangers-on continue to work day and night to restore workers’ illusions in parliamentary elections.

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.

Civil liberties / The Labour party is the agent of increased political repression in Britain

Starmer’s government was installed to disarm working-class resistance and destroy the pro-Palestine movement.

British politics / Develop the anti-imperialist core of the Palestine solidarity movement

Growing anti-zionist sentiment must be developed into a consistent, scientific and class-conscious opposition to imperialism as a whole.

British politics / We must build our organisation and connect it to the masses

Party members must redouble their efforts to grow our organisation and draw the best elements of the working class towards it..

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.

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’.

Lay-offs and closures / The Grangemouth scandal

Failure to mobilise against job cuts at Grangemouth reveals the fraudulent nature of Unite and SNP leaders.

Trade unions / TUC leader endorsing Ukraine war is a betrayal of British and Ukrainian workers

Further proof that the gang in charge of the official organisations of working-class resistance have been completely bought off.

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.

British politics / A brief history of British Trotskyism

A plethora of groups with one real purpose: to confuse and disgust the working masses and keep them away from genuinely revolutionary politics.

Industry / Starmer government pushing fresh sell-off to hedge fund vultures

The Labour party grovels to Wall Street and the City of London.

Ukraine / Project Ukraine unravelling as Zelensky touts risible ‘victory plan’

The irreversible collapse of the proxy war against Russia is slamming the door in the face of Nato barbarism.

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.

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.

North Africa and Middle East / Lies, damned lies, and the British ‘Labour’ party’s imperial propaganda

Keir Starmer vows his government will continue to ‘stand with Israel’ as the zionists seek to expand their genocidal war across the region.

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

So where are the trade unions?

British politics / Labour gets ready to implement the ‘Liz Truss’ (Jeremy Corbyn) lock

It is not unpopular leaders that worry our ruling class, but the possibility of a genuinely popular intervention in the country’s political life.

British politics / ‘Labour landslide’ election narrative hides deepening crisis of legitimacy

The ruling class pulled out all the stops to ensure a stable parliamentary majority for Labour, but it rests on very shaky ground.

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 / Professor David Miller on zionist control of the Labour party

When it comes to the Labour party the term ‘state capture’ is correct.

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.

British politics / One communist’s perspective of a general election in Britain

A journey through the Corbyn project to the ranks of the revolutionary working class.

British politics / Election 2024: revisionists still propping up the Labour party

Even the CPB’s best theorists tie themselves in knots when trying to justify their party’s rotten position.

British politics / No big winners in local elections – Sunak calls general election in a panic

As loyal servants of imperialism, the Tories would rather see masses of their MPs wiped out than a few antiwar candidates get into Parliament.

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.

Palestine / The Palestinian resistance is changing the world

The entire settler-colonial project is on the rocks, and with it the Anglo-American imperialist domination of the middle east.

British politics / Galloway victory in Rochdale by-election reflects anger over Gaza genocide

The Workers party’s entry into the race transformed the northwestern by-election into a referendum on British complicity in Israeli war crimes.

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?

British politics / Tick. Tock. What did you do to stop the genocide in Gaza, Daddy?

I waited as long as possible, and then helped to empty an already toothless resolution of all its meaning, my son.

Civil liberties / Solidarity against police repression: Labour’s role in Gaza genocide

The Labour party’s control over movements of solidarity and ‘opposition’ in Britain is key to the present impotence of the working class.

Trade unions / TUC launches fake ‘campaign to defend the right to strike’

A campaign most workers are unaware of, aimed not at overturning anti-worker legislation but at garnering votes for the perfidious Labour party.

British politics / The tasks of communists in the Palestine solidarity movement

We must awaken workers to the need to struggle not only against zionist Israel, but against the entire imperialist system.

Leaflets / Open letter to CPB: Give up the Labour party and take the revolutionary path

Sincere communists must make a serious appraisal of their work at this time of deepening crisis and renewed struggle.

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.

Palestine / Palestine Solidarity Campaign punishes Manchester branch

The PSC wants to keep pro-Palestine activism within the bounds considered acceptable by the pro-zionist establishment.

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 / Victory to the Palestinian resistance; no cooperation with zionist war crimes!

These are the slogans that need to permeate the solidarity movement in Britain and dictate its actions.

Trade unions / Mass non-cooperation urgently needed to help end Gaza blitzkrieg

Workers have power to prevent Britain’s continued military, propaganda and logistical support for zionist massacres.

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

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

Trade unions / Which way forward for the trade unions now?

It is time to break out of suffocating ‘unity’ with those who serve our class enemies.

Trade unions / Why do so many trade union struggles in Britain fail?

Teaching union NEU led its members into months of strike action, only to capitulate and accept a below-inflation pay rise. Why?

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.

Ukraine / Stop the War’s capitulation hides truth about Ukraine, stops workers organising

It is time we in Britain got off our knees and organised a mass movement of real opposition to the imperialist war drive.

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.

Trade unions / Mick Lynch, Sharon Graham and the capitulating left

As the next election approaches, supposedly ‘radical’ trade unionists are lining up obediently behind Starmer and Labour, against the interests of their members.

Trade unions / Derby Silk Mill commemorations 2023: no communists allowed

How did the CPB appoint itself the gatekeeper of the British working-class movement?

British politics / Communist message to Silk Mill rally: Ditch the Labour party!

Don’t settle for social democracy when only scientific socialism has the answer!

France / Joti Brar: We are heartened and inspired by French workers’ fighting spirit

Unfortunately, even the most militant of Britain’s trade union leaders seem keen to end the strikes here as quickly as possible.

Trade unions / Model motion: Defy the anti-trade union laws

Within the current legal framework, workers’ right to strike in Britain has been all but annulled. This situation must be reversed by means of collective action.

Trade unions / Model motion: Break the link with Labour

The essential precondition for a successful struggle for decent pay is that our unions must break their connection with the imperialist Labour party.

Trade unions / Defy the anti-trade union laws!

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

Trade unions / The real trade union barons

Having been absorbed into the fabric of the state machine, most trade union leaders now work not to aid but to suppress their members’ struggles.

British politics / The Labour left still lost in its labyrinth

Starmer’s refusal to allow Corbyn to rejoin Labour has highlighted the true loyalties of the party’s supposed ‘left-wingers’.

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.

Trade unions / NHS pay offer exposes the limitations of trade unionism

The NHS dispute has brought into sharp focus the inability of modern trade unions in Britain to advance working-class aims.

Trade unions / After the strikes, what then?

As union leaders look for the exit, their members’ anger is being directed towards yet another diversionary ‘vote Labour’ campaign.

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?

Civil liberties / Minimum Service Bill is the latest salvo in the class war against workers

No cooperation with union-busting anti-strike laws! 

British politics / What is really meant by the demand for a ‘general election now’?

It is true that Rishi Sunak’s appointment was undemocratic. But what do those calling for his ousting really want?

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.

British politics / Labour is the party of Nato, the party of war

Throughout Labour’s history, in and out of government, its leaders have always been unabashed cheerleaders for the crimes of imperialism.

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 / Build the Workers Party of Britain

The primary goal facing us today is the breaking of all bonds between the Labour party and the working class.

British politics / Ninth party congress: We must connect our movement with the masses

Important foundations have already been laid. Now we must expand and build on those in a principled and serious way.

British politics / Britain steps up diplomatic hostility towards China

In banning the Chinese ambassador from Parliament, Britain is ramping up its pro-war stance.

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

Keir Starmer has already vowed to ignore the motion passed by an overwhelming majority of conference delegates.

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.

British politics / WPB storms Batley: ‘We intend to replace Labour as party of working class’

George Galloway’s party took 22 percent of the vote and sowed chaos in the ranks of the Labour party in July’s West Yorkshire by-election.

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.

British politics / Liverpool scandal: Starmer cheers as the government sends in the commissioners

Labour and Tory are two sides of the same dud coin; we should be grateful to Starmer for demonstrating this so clearly.

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.

British politics / Jeremy Corbyn suspended from the Labour party

Sir Keir Starmer is doing everything in his power to ram home the lesson that Labour will never serve working-class interests.

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.

British politics / Workers party sets a course despite lockdown

Weeks of lockdown have been used by the Workers party to speak to more than half a million people.

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?

Disputes / Wirral’s binmen to strike?

Outsourced waste collector Biffa is playing fast and loose with its workers’ pay.

British politics / George Galloway: ‘The idea that the organs of the state are impartial is dead’

Does this herald a moment when the working class in Britain gets back up off its knees and starts to fight again?

Iran / Stop the US drive to war with Iran

Red salute to axis of resistance General Soleimani; imperialists out of the middle east!

British politics / The Brexit election and the birth of the Workers party

As Boris prepares a fresh assault on the trade unions, what does the election result mean for workers?

British politics / The Brexit election and the death of Project Corbyn

What lessons can workers take from the last four years?

British politics / Brexit delayed again as general election called

Following years of Parliament’s refusal to implement the referendum result, can an election break the deadlock?

Climate change / The TUC and climate change: don’t mention the wars

Unions tail-end middle-class eco protests and stoke illusions in ‘green’ capitalism.

British politics / Boris’s Brexit bombshell

Can the warring remainer factions get themselves together and block Britain’s EU exit before 31 October?

British politics / Interview: What does our party stand for?

Responses to a Turkish journalist about Britain, Brexit, Boris, the workers’ movement and the wider world.

British politics / Will Boris bottle Brexit?

Johnson is loud in declaring himself ready for a no-deal EU exit, but is that just an electoral ploy?

British politics / BBC’s anti-Corbyn hatchet job fails to land blow

If Corbyn’s allies can't fight back against the Israeli lobby within their own party, what chance will they have against the power of British imperialism?

British politics / Thousands of Labour voters and members angry over Brexit

While the media focus on ludicrous ‘antisemitism’ allegations, workers are more interested in hearing JC explain his Brexit U-turn.

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.

British politics / British workers demand Brexit … TWICE!

The Brexit party’s win in the 2019 EU election has thrown the Tories into unprecedented chaos.

British politics / EU election: a second Brexit referendum. Do we really need a third?

Britain’s Labour-Tory two-party political monopoly is cracking under the pressure of Brexit.

British politics / Vote Brexit on 23 May!

British workers have demanded Brexit, and the failure to deliver it is exposing to them the fraud of our so-called parliamentary democracy.

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.

British politics / Galloway, Farage and the Brexit party

British workers are set to keep demanding Brexit at the upcoming EU elections.

British politics / Antisemitism is cover for a much deeper divide in Britain’s Labour party

Breakaway MPs hope that smearing Corbyn will obscure the fact that they are remnants of an old political order bankrupt of ideas.

British politics / Brexit betrayal reveals the sham of bourgeois democracy

Parliament has shown itself to be in direct opposition to the will of the people it theoretically represents.

British politics / ‘Neither Brexit nor austerity’ – the People’s Assembly and the yellow vest movement in Britain

Pitting austerity against Brexit is misleading workers into supporting the interests of British imperialism and dividing rather than uniting workers in struggle.

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.

British politics / Five years without Tony Benn – Stop the War laments

With friends like these, the working class doesn’t need enemies.

British politics / Brexit: Parliament does the hokey-cokey

Splits and back-tracking by politicians combine with rampant media hysteria as Brexit day approaches and the ruling class searches for a way out.

British politics / Bring on the no-deal Brexit!

The ruling class is desperate to find a way out of its Brexit impasse, but hamstrung by its divisions.

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.

British politics / Brexit paralysis – government and opposition in a shambles

As withdrawal day approaches, Parliament is at a standstill, and all sides equally at a loss as to how best they should proceed.

British politics / Challenges facing communists in Britain today

Objective conditions for the creation of a revolutionary movement are improving, but much work needs to be done to take advantage of those conditions.

British politics / Venezuela solidarity falling short

British workers have the power to give real solidarity to Venezuela, which is in the front line of the struggle against the imperialist enemy.

Disputes / Support the Glasgow women’s strike for equal pay

But beware the Labour wolf in sheep's clothing!

British politics / The mixed message of the IHRA definition of ‘antisemitism’

Anti-zionism and opposition to the fascist activities of Israel must not be conflated with antisemitism.

British politics / Why is Corbyn under attack?

It is not his alleged ‘antisemitism’ that offends the ruling class, but his refusal to give unconditional support to Israel.

Pay and conditions / Bosses’ pay soars

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

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.

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.

British politics / The myth of Labour party antisemitism

On the zionist-backed campaign against Jeremy Corbyn's leadership of the Labour party.

British politics / Celebrate and struggle on May Day: International Workers’ Day

We urgently need to reclaim the British working-class movement for socialism.

Leaflets / No to Nato warmongering; stop WW3! Hands off Syria!

The timing of the imperialist missile strikes on Syria reveals their hopes of saving the defeated jihadis to inflict further suffering on the Syrian people.

British politics / Socialism anyone? How much further is left for the CPB to fall?

The self-identifying communists of the CPB leadership are plumbing new depths as they seek to prettify every pro-imperialist policy of the Labour party.

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?

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.

Leaflets / Why hasn’t Stop the War stopped a war yet?

Fifteen years after the 2 million-strong demo against the invasion of Iraq, why is the anti-war movement’s record so dismal?

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 / Editorial: Message to Birmingham’s bin workers

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

While the true interests of vulnerable children are callously disregarded.

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.

Housing / Labour council pushes ahead with housing segregation in Haringey

The disgrace of social cleansing in London.

British politics / Not so strong and stable after all: May loses Brexit gamble

The poisoned chalice of the British premiership.

British politics / ‘Socialist’ McDonnell shocked by communists on May Day

Reactionaries shun the hammer and sickle as the devil shuns holy water!

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.

British politics / Chilcot report: devastating exposure of the British establishment

Blair hung out to dry in an attempt to divert attention from the continuing crimes of British imperialism.

British politics / Crisis in the Labour party

With every day it is becoming more apparent that war criminals are eminently more acceptable to the imperialist Labour party than a mildly anti-war leader.

British politics / ‘Anti-zionism is not antisemitism’

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

Industry / Industry matters: TUC touts for the EU

British politics / Health warning: capitalism kills

Latest assaults on society’s most helpless.

British politics / Corbyn’s attempts to reform the Labour party rebound

Lessons in the futility of trying to make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear.

British politics / Jeremy Corbyn: ‘resurgence’ of left social democracy may be shortlived

Labour's new leader is already succumbing to pressure to give up his long-held positions on Britain's membership of Nato, the EU and more.

British politics / Jeremy Corbyn: ‘Left’ Labour’s great white elephant

All the wishes in the world cannot turn the imperialist Labour party into a vehicle for workers’ emancipation.

Film and TV / We Are Many: new film prettifies leaders of the anti-war movement

We have the power to change the world, but are we allowing that power to be diverted?

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.

Theatre / Shrewsbury 24: United We Stand review

Culture, education and entertainment are brilliantly combined in Neil Gore's moving and insightful play.

Working-class history / Downton Abbey, the Jolly George and Stop the War

Please, if we ask you nicely, will you? Pretty please?