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Yesterday was May Day, or International Workers Day. On every continent the advanced layers of workers and youth celebrate interna­tionalist ideas and the struggle of the Labour movement. Here we take a look at the historical origins of this day of struggle.

Civil servants strike tommorow against Gordon Brown's attacks on public sector pay. While many of those striking earn less than the European minimum, Brown pays out twenty times the average civil servants wage to private consultants. This underlines the need for PCS members to keep the union a fighting one, by electing Left Unity candidates to the next NEC.

On friday PCS, the civil servants trade union, published the results of a survey of candidates in the upcoming local elections. The results showed support for the unions demands, exposing the Blairite leadership as out of touch with the views of the Labour Party rank-and-file. Tommorow 200,000 civil servants will take strike action to defend jobs and protect public services.

After the biggest civil service strike in UK history earlier this year,  200,000 civil servants will once again take industrial action on May 1st, continuing their campaign to save jobs, defend pay and protect services.

The weekend of the 21st and 22nd of April saw Socialist Appeal hold their annual National Conference. Delegates and visitors from all around Britain attended, including a high number of young people. On Saturday the Youth Commission met to discuss the past year and the tasks facing them in the next period.

Wellred bookshop has published, in three volumes, Trotsky's classic The History of the Russian Revolution. It is fitting that Wellred has issued the book on the 90th anniversary of these world-shattering events by one of its leading participants.

Video Interview with John McDonnell MP, who talks about his campaign for the leadership of the Labour Party and how his policies differ from that of New Labour. John talks about Socialism of the 21st century, and the role of the Labour Party in workers’ struggle.

Michael Roberts takes a look at the role played by the US Federal Reserve Bank and what its chairman, Ben Bernanke, has had to say about the inequality of income in capitalist society.

Behind the term "private equity" hides good old "asset stripping". It is not about making things. It's about making money from money, buying up companies, stripping them and selling them off with a mountain of debt. Or to use a simpler term, it's capitalism.

25 years ago Thatcher exploited the crisis of the Falkland Islands to the Tory government's advantage. What position should the Marxists have taken? Here we provide an analysis by Ted Grant published at the time that answered this question. 

Sacked Amicus Press Officer and deposed former editor of the Amicus Unity Gazette, Des Heemskerk, has won his tribunal case for unfair dismissal from his job in the union.

After the continual undermining of working conditions, and now a break-down in employer-union negotiations, the 2,000 workforce of GCFG will take strike action next Thursday, 5th April.