Leicester sweatshops keep their heads down despite covid panic

Workers rights highlights

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.

17 Jul 2020 ,
Pay and conditions / Conditions at Yodel: report by a worker

Workers in the logistics industry are being sweated at ever-more intense and unendurable rates.

26 Jun 2020 ,
Pay and conditions / BA threatens to sack its entire workforce

After rinsing the furlough scheme, the airline is now insisting that its staff should accept huge pay cuts or be sacked.

16 Jun 2020 ,

Economy / British trade agreements after Brexit

By pinning all their hopes for Britain’s future on a US trade deal, our rulers are taking us out of the frying pan and into the fire.

10 Jun 2020 , Proletarian
Pay and conditions / Barclays spies on its own staff

The banking giant is using ‘Big Brother tactics’ to monitor staff and keep their noses to the grindstone.

6 Mar 2020 , Proletarian
Pay and conditions / Amazon is bad for your health

What a surprise: working too hard and too long leads to unsafe working environments.

4 Mar 2020 , Proletarian
Disputes / Wirral’s binmen to strike?

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

3 Mar 2020 , Proletarian
Pay and conditions / Offshore oil workers under threat

Will trade unions now get off the back foot and start to mobilise their members into an active campaign of resistance?

26 Feb 2020 , Proletarian
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.

4 Feb 2020 , Proletarian
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.

2 Feb 2020 , Proletarian
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?

29 Dec 2019 , Lalkar
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.

10 Nov 2019 , International Socialist
Society / The true level of unemployment

Joblessness is being underreported by a factor of 200 percent.

26 Oct 2019 , Proletarian
British politics / Capitalism can’t solve society’s problems, but working people can

In the immortal words of Karl Marx: “Workers and oppressed peoples of the world, unite! You have nothing to lose but your chains; you have a world to win!”

1 May 2019 ,
Sri Lanka / May Day message from Sri Lanka

JVP calls for Sri Lankan workers to unify and struggle for socialist transformation in answer to the recent barbaric attacks on their country.

1 May 2019 ,
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.

28 Oct 2018 ,
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.

3 May 2018 , Lalkar
Disputes / Support the McWorkers: class against class!

Organisation is a vital weapon in the fight for our rights.

12 Feb 2018 ,

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The reactionary nightmare of ‘gender fluidity’

We do not advocate and we cannot allow the bourgeoisie to impose this divisive ideology upon us.
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The blatant hypocrisy of the USA’s lies about China’s Uighur muslims
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JK Rowling’s stance against the thought police
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Why gay rights is not a class issue
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Workers in eastern Europe and former Soviet states prefer socialism
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Comrade Joti interviewed by Caleb Maupin
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Identity politics are anti-Marxian and a harmful diversion from the class struggle
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Marxism in the 21st century: is it still relevant?
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Mao Zedong on contradiction
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Mr Jones: anti-Soviet propaganda gets thumbs up from Ukrainian president

Workers rights highlights

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.

Pay and conditions / Conditions at Yodel: report by a worker

Workers in the logistics industry are being sweated at ever-more intense and unendurable rates.

Pay and conditions / BA threatens to sack its entire workforce

After rinsing the furlough scheme, the airline is now insisting that its staff should accept huge pay cuts or be sacked.

Economy / British trade agreements after Brexit

By pinning all their hopes for Britain’s future on a US trade deal, our rulers are taking us out of the frying pan and into the fire.

Pay and conditions / Barclays spies on its own staff

The banking giant is using ‘Big Brother tactics’ to monitor staff and keep their noses to the grindstone.

Pay and conditions / Amazon is bad for your health

What a surprise: working too hard and too long leads to unsafe working environments.

Disputes / Wirral’s binmen to strike?

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

Pay and conditions / Offshore oil workers under threat

Will trade unions now get off the back foot and start to mobilise their members into an active campaign of resistance?

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.

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?

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.

Society / The true level of unemployment

Joblessness is being underreported by a factor of 200 percent.

British politics / Capitalism can’t solve society’s problems, but working people can

In the immortal words of Karl Marx: “Workers and oppressed peoples of the world, unite! You have nothing to lose but your chains; you have a world to win!”

Sri Lanka / May Day message from Sri Lanka

JVP calls for Sri Lankan workers to unify and struggle for socialist transformation in answer to the recent barbaric attacks on their country.

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.

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.

Disputes / Support the McWorkers: class against class!

Organisation is a vital weapon in the fight for our rights.

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