France / Macron secures second term, despite unpopularity and ‘ocean of abstentions’

Where is the force capable of harnessing the anger and militancy of the French working class?

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?

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.

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

Why is the plight of these desperate migrants being weaponised?

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?

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.

Pay and conditions / Keep on trucking: supply lines chaos as Covid and Brexit effects combine

The obvious answer to the present shortage of skilled labour is to invest in training and to improve pay and conditions in the areas concerned.

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.

World history / Film review: Judas and the Black Messiah

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

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.

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.

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?

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.

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

Good riddance to bad rubbish, but what next?

USA / Rebellion: fractures in America deepen after murder of George Floyd

Will ‘taking the knee’, removing some statues and charging four policemen be enough to dampen the protests that have rocked the imperialist heartlands?

China / Hong Kong and the British government’s servile stupidity

Our rulers are tying us ever more firmly to the war chariot of US imperialism.

Social wage / The plight of the homeless after lockdown

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

Industry / End British export of rubber bullets

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

USA / US burning as working-class communities rise up against police brutality

As Irish republicans used to say: when the law makers are the law breakers, there is no law.

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 / The persecution of Latinos in the USA

How did there come to be so many people of Latin-American origin in the USA, and why are they so vilified by the ruling class?

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.

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.

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?

Austria / Populist Austrian chancellor forced out despite election win

Despite fuelling their anti-immigrant rhetoric, the imperialists are nervous of populist leaders in Europe who favour rapprochement with Moscow.

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.

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.

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?

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.

Palestine / Zionism is a racist and antisemitic tool of imperialist policy in the middle east

It is not the anti-zionists who are guilty of antisemitism, but the zionists themselves. Accusations meant to silence opposition to Israel’s fascistic nature must be resisted.

British politics / Real antifascist work means engaging with workers, not dismissing them

Every possible effort must be made to win duped workers away from backward ideas that act against their own class interests and help to keep them enslaved.

British politics / The ‘people’s vote’ is Britain’s Euromaidan

Sponsored by finance capital, privileged workers and small business owners jointly demand that Brexit be overturned and the neoliberal status quo be reasserted.

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

All a sign of the irretrievable decadence of bourgeois society.

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?

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.

Namibia / European holocaust had roots in Africa, now Namibia is suing Germany

The genocide committed against the Namibian Herero and Nama people sheds light on the Nazi holocaust of jewish and other European peoples in WW2.

British politics / Is Corbyn racist?

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

Palestine / Israel officially declares itself to be a racist state

But still thinks people will believe it to be a democracy!

Europe / Populist victories throughout Europe

What does it mean that populist governments are being elected in Europe? Is there a danger that fascism is on the rise?

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.

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.

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

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

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

While the true interests of vulnerable children are callously disregarded.

Germany / On the election result in Germany

In Germany, as elsewhere, increasing numbers of poor workers are expressing their dissatisfaction with the status quo.

Palestine / What more can we do for Palestine?

“In our thousands, in our millions, we are all Palestinians.”

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.

British politics / ‘Anti-zionism is not antisemitism’

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

USA / The rise of Donald Trump: a revolt against the establishment

The anger of poor white workers in the US may be misdirected for now, but it is real and it is growing.

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.

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.

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.

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.

British politics / Who is to blame for the refugee crisis?

Why is it that so many more refugees are heading for western Europe than was the case five, ten or twenty years ago?

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!

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.

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.

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.

Working-class history / Fred Hampton, American revolutionary, 1948-1969

In August 2008, Fred Hampton should have turned 60. Owing to his political activities, however, he was assassinated by his US state forces aged just 21.

British politics / Editorial: Jade Goody is a product of capitalist society