Earlier this year workers at SIMCLAR of Irving, Ayrshire, were told that the electronics plant would be closed with immediate effect. Despite orders being on the books the bosses showed no shame in dismissing the entire workforce. Members of the COMMUNITY trade union responded with a campaign to save their jobs, including occupation of the plant.
The real question to be asked is not whether the British sailors were in Iranian or Iraqi waters. The real question is who benefits from this "provocation". The incident would seem to fit in well with the plans that imperialism has to strike at Iran's nuclear development plan.
A strike wave erupted in Egypt in the early months of this year, a nation whose government is a key US ally in the middle eastern region.
This year marks the 25th anniversary of the Falklands war. Here we republish the late Phil Mitchinson's article, written in 2002, in truncated form. The war that broke out between Britain and Argentina over the ownership of the Falkland Islands required an analysis by Marxists that considered carefully the national question and the Marxist attitude to war.
Contrary to the official mythology about Churchill, by 1944 he was already losing support among the people of Britain. This article by Ted Grant, written at the time and based on local election results, shows that the workers were becoming radicalised. This was to be confirmed in a dramatic way just after the war when Labour won a landslide victory.
The announced income tax cuts in reality are being taken back by increased tax rates for some of the poorest households while the richest income earners would benefit the most.
More words of wisdom from our regular columnist, Elmer Whitefeather.
John McDonnell MP and candidate for the leadership of the Labour Party Great Britain, speaks at this Trades Council meeting in Islington, London, about the ideological battle against globalisation and privatisation.
Yesterday was the 4th anniversary of the invasion of Iraq. Rob Sewell takes a look at the political fall-out and its implications for New Labour.
MacKinnon Mills workers face yet another attack from their bosses, this time taking the form of mass redundancies.
In the same way that the revolutionary movement depends at critical moments on the quality of the leadership, so the outcome of a war, such as the war in Iraq, can be decisively influenced by the political and military leadership of the bourgeoisie. Bush is now acting against the interests of the class he is supposed to represent.