Having struggled through the COVID catastrophe, heroic NHS staff are now working flat out to treat the millions on waiting lists. At the same time, private health providers are looking to profit from this crisis. We say: Nationalise the lot!
The Tory government recently announced plans to bring in voter ID requirements for UK elections. This is yet another measure designed to curtail the democratic rights and participation of ordinary people. Labour must expose this sham.
Daniel Morley looks at the question of consciousness from a Marxist perspective.
Elections are underway to choose the NEC of Unison, Britain’s largest union. A left slate is standing under the banner #TimeforRealChange. It is vital that Unison members get organised and forge a fighting leadership.
Last week, local residents in Glasgow successfully resisted an attempted Home Office deportation. This inspiring example shows the way forward in the fight against the Tories’ hostile environment – through mass mobilisation and class solidarity.
Having won another term as London Mayor, Sadiq Khan now faces huge challenges. The Tories are intent on punishing working-class Londoners for their support for Labour. Austerity and attacks are on the agenda. A militant fightback is required.
Mass demonstrations were seen in cities across the country over the weekend, as workers and youth took to the streets to condemn the crimes of Israeli imperialism, and to show support for the Palestinian liberation struggle. Intifada until victory!
As Israeli air strikes continue, a mass movement has erupted across the world – in solidarity with the Palestinians, and denouncing the crimes of Israeli imperialism. Only revolutionary struggle can put an end to this barbarism.
Unite assistant general secretary Howard Beckett has scandalously been suspended from the Labour Party. This is an act of war. Instead of attacking the left, the Labour leadership should be fighting the Tories and their racist policies.
40 years ago, civil servants undertook a 21-week-long strike against the Tory government, over the issue of pay. John McInally, former PCS vice-president, looks at a struggle that defined civil service trade unionism for decades to come.
The partition of Ireland took place a century ago, but the sectarian divisions conjured up by British imperialism remain to this day. With sectarianism rearing its head once again, it is vital that we learn the lessons of this period.
The latest imperialist aggression by the Israeli state has killed dozens in Gaza and wounded hundreds more. The only way forward for the mass of Jewish and Palestinian workers and youth is the revolutionary overthrow of capitalism.