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Labour wins local support – now make them fight the cuts

Joy Macready takes stock of the results ot the local council elections and asks where now for Labour?   Thursday 3 May proved to be a red-letter day…

No sunshine for Eurozone as crisis returns

The Eurozone crisis is the main immediate threat to world economic stability and could spark another worldwide recession. Now the 6 May elections have added a new political…

A rout for the parties of austerity – an opportunity for the left

The Greek elections have demonstrated a massive popular rejection of the governing parties who support the EU-IMF austerity memorandum that has caused so much suffering to ordinary Greek…

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Coalition in crisis – it’s time to go on the attack!

THE COALITION took a drubbing in the local elections. The Tories and Lib Dems lost 741…

Bring racist police to justice

The recent police killings of Mark Duggan and Anthony Grainger expose the racism rife in…

17 June – March for Anthony Grainger

The #justice4grainger campaign is growing – and it will not stop until it gets justice.…

UK Economy: the Great Depression

Britain is experiencing “the deepest recession and weakest recovery for 100 years,” according to Michael…

Free Marian Price

VETERAN IRISH Republican Marian Price has been imprisoned without trial since May 2011. This harks…

Say no to Olympic guns

By Marcus Halaby   THE HEADY combination of big business, land development, local and national…

Events

Sri Lankan left in flux as JVP splits - prospects for a new party
23 May, Indian YMCA, 41 Fitzroy Sq, London

Theory

How should we organise against capitalism: Networks or a Party?

The great recession has tested working class parties to the limit. Almost every social democratic and labour party has repositioned itself in favour of cuts and austerity. For…

What’s wrong with the union lefts today?

Simon Hardy and Jeremy Dewar take a critical look at the broad left strategy…

Capitalism against democracy

Not since 1989 has the demand for democracy been so loud across the world. But everywhere police and governments are trying to repress our movements. The big question…

Marxism Today – the Gramsci Enigma

Luke Cooper on Gramsci’s Marxism (followed by discussion and summing up below)   …

The G20 didn’t stop the economic crisis: what comes next?

No matter what they try, nothing seems to work… The world leaders have gathered at the G20, and European leaders are having regular summits, but the economy is…

International

No sunshine for Eurozone as crisis returns

The Eurozone crisis is the main immediate threat to world economic stability and could spark another worldwide recession. Now the 6…

Free Marian Price

VETERAN IRISH Republican Marian Price has been imprisoned without trial since May 2011. This harks back to the British government’s widespread…

Support the self-determination of the Balochi people!

PAKISTAN’S MILITARY has intensified its fifth operation in Balochistan, battling a resistance movement against national oppression. Thousands of Balochi political activists…

Student strikes rock Quebec and Chile

Students in Québec, Canada have been on strike for three months against the government’s attempts to raise university tuition fees, while…

The Arab Left: Paying the price for Stalinism

The Arab Spring of 2011 inspired millions around the world through its acts of heroism. But now the revolutions have stalled.…

Anti-Racism

Bring racist police to justice

The recent police killings of Mark Duggan and Anthony Grainger expose the racism rife in the police force. Conditioned to see young, black men as drug dealers…

Economy

UK Economy: the Great Depression

Britain is experiencing “the deepest recession and weakest recovery for 100 years,” according to Michael Saunders, an economist at Citigroup. Output has not recovered even half of…

Pensions

PCS: New strategy needed

By Rebecca Anderson   The issue of overriding importance at this year’s conference of the Public and Commercial Services (PCS) union  will again be the battle to…

Education

NUT leaders dither as teachers lose out

By Bernie McAdam, Sandwell NUT The National Union of Teachers (NUT) Conference this Easter made abundantly clear to its leaders that more national strike action was needed…

Anti-Fascism

EDL join forces with BNP splitters

The British Freedom Party and the English Defence League has announced a merger reports Dan Edwards THE FASCIST English Defence League (EDL) has joined forces with the British…

Democratic Rights

Bring racist police to justice

The recent police killings of Mark Duggan and Anthony Grainger expose the racism rife in the police force. Conditioned to see young, black men as drug dealers…

Health Sector

NHS: All out with Unite on 10 May

The fight to save the NHS starts with the pensions strike on 10 May, argues NHS worker Dara O’Connell   A HUNDRED thousand health workers in Unite…

Environment

A Fracking disaster in the making

THE CAPITALISTS’ LUST for oil and gas knows no boundaries. From wars to extortion, economic sanctions and environmental disasters, these are all just unfortunate blips in the profit…