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.
The mood for change in Scotland, the discontent Scottish people have for Westminster and Holyrood, is finding its expression in the rise in support for the Scottish Nationalist Party. However, the supplantation of bourgeois rule from London by a capitalist class closer to home will do nothing to change the fundamental conditions of ordinary working people.
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.
The RMT is campaigning hard to defend Section 12 of the fire precautions act that was recommended following the Kings Cross Fire of 1985. The government is determined to water down the legislation, which the efforts by RMT-sponsored MP's has thus far prevented.
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.