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The Labour right wing have carried out a brazen attack on press freedoms, explicitly denying Socialist Appeal journalists entrance to the party’s upcoming Labour conference on political grounds. We urge readers to rally against this injustice.
Asset-stripping capitalists Melrose are preparing to close down the GKN Automotive factory in Birmingham, putting over 500 jobs on the scrapheap. The only way forward is to strike and occupy, and to demand nationalisation and workers’ control.
With conference just over a week away, Starmer and the right wing are going into overdrive with their purge, threatening left delegates with expulsion. The stage is set for one of the most tense and explosive Labour conferences in decades.
New Unite general secretary Sharon Graham was elected on a pledge to democratise the union – including a promise to investigate potential collusion between officials and blacklisting bosses. Grassroots members must fight for democratic control.
The US Supreme Court has voted to uphold a new Texas state law that drastically limits access to legal abortions. This attack on reproductive rights – under threat from the rotten capitalist system – must be met with working-class resistance.
Director Steve McQueen’s recent documentary into the 1981 New Cross fire shines a light on the racism inherent within the police force, whilst also pointing the way forward in the fight against racism today – through united class struggle.
Battles are breaking out across the labour movement, with Starmer purging socialists from the party, and the Unison bureaucracy sabotaging the union’s left-wing NEC. The left must make a stand and clear out these agents of the establishment.
Unison President Paul Holmes is fighting back against a vicious witch-hunt by the right wing. Unfortunately, the employers and union bureaucracy have been supported by the sectarian antics of the Socialist Party. We say: solidarity with Paul!
GMB members at delivery company Yodel are balloting for strike action over pay and conditions. With supply chains already at breaking point, UK lorry drivers hold huge power. The unions must mobilise workers to hit back against the bosses.
With a tsunami of austerity and attacks looming, the TUC is meeting this weekend to discuss the way forward for workers in Britain. The trade unions need a fighting programme, and a militant, unified resistance to the Tories and bosses.
On this day 20 years ago, Al Qaeda terrorists shocked the world by bringing down the Twin Towers. Two decades on – after waging a long, bloody war – US imperialism has been humiliated in Afghanistan, opening up a new era of instability.
New government plans to shake up social care do nothing to tackle the root of the problem: privatisation and profit. And it is workers who are being made to foot the bill. We say: expropriate the capitalists and fight for public ownership!