Militancy and international solidarity, as seen across Europe recently, is not alien to the labour movement here in Britain. British workers have taken strike action to halt the imperialists’ war machine before: in the 1920 Jolly George cargo vessel incident.
‘Iron Ladies’ is a new documentary billed as “a celebration of the iron-willed women who maintained the 1984/85 Miners’ Strike as they fought for the future of their communities”. In selected cinemas now, this is a must-watch for budding revolutionaries.
In the latest instalment of our series on the revolutionary press, we turn to the Chartist movement. Their paper, the Northern Star, played a key role in transforming the movement into a genuine revolutionary force, and paved the way for Lenin’s conception of the revolutionary press.
Back in the 1960s, Harold Wilson’s Labour government supported American imperialism’s bloody invasion of Vietnam. Today, Starmer’s government is even more subservient to Washington. We need a clean break with reformist betrayals!
The Labour Party was originally formed as a working class party. But since it first came to power over a century ago, its leaders have ruled on behalf of the capitalists. In this article, James Kilby explains how this happened, and the lessons for today.
Former Labour deputy prime minister John Prescott died yesterday. The ex-union official played a key role in Blair’s government, serving as a left cover for New Labour’s big business agenda. The lesson for the left is clear: beware of false friends.
As Starmer’s government nears its fourth month, we are republishing for the first time online an article by Ted Grant, which compares the second and third Labour governments, and explains why reformism leads to betrayals of the working class.
100 years ago, British intelligence, the Tory Party, and the bosses’ press colluded to bring down the first Labour government. The ‘Zinoviev letter’ affair reveals the murky machinations of the capitalist state, which will go to any length to defend its interests.
The Great Miners’ Strike, 40 years ago, saw working-class women fighting alongside striking men. This experience of united struggle began to cut away at sexism, providing a glimpse of how socialism could transform relations between men and women.
This May, the Marxists in Britain are launching the Revolutionary Communist Party. 80 years ago this week, in the midst of the war, an organisation of the same name was founded – an organisation whose legacy and heritage we defend today.
The Great Miners’ Strike of 1984-85 began on this day 40 years ago. For twelve months, the miners battled against the Thatcher government and the British state. Four decades later, we talk to two former miners about their heroic struggle.
New musical ‘Cable Street’ does an excellent job of portraying the eponymous 1936 battle, when the working-class community in East London rose up to block Mosley’s fascist thugs in their tracks. These inspiring events are full of lessons for today.