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Britain

Fight the racists and bigots

Far right populist and fascist groups are mounting a widespread offensive across the UK and in the Republic of Ireland, using anti-immigrant racism and anti-trans bigotry as their calling cards. Read more...

Britain’s Winter of Discontent

Britain is facing a “winter of discontent” in the shape of the biggest wave of strikes for many years. Read more...

UK: The bankers’ budget - robbing the poor to pay the rich

JEREMY HUNT has delivered a new austerity budget that offloads £55 billion of tax rises and spending cuts onto the backs of the poor and working class. Read more...

UK: fight for a workers’ government

fight for a workers’ government
02 NOVEMBER 2022
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After Truss - now for the rest

BREXIT HAS claimed its fourth prime minister in six years. Liz Truss promised “growth, growth, growth” — and the markets replied “no, no, no”. Read more...

This was what Brexit was really about

At first sight, Kwasi Kwarteng's "mini-budget" looks like nothing more than pandering to the Tory members who voted for Liz Truss. Read more...

UK: The mourning and the myth

Hour after hour of obsequious commentary, constant updating on the progress of the coffin towards London, an uninterrupted procession of has-beens and would-be's boosting their own importance by recal Read more...

Britain’s strike heatwave

Britain is having a record hot summer - not just in terms of the 30-40 degree temperatures that have turned normally green lawns and pastures into brown scrublands – but in terms of a “hot summer” of Read more...

UK: Johnson gone - but Tories hang on

Boris Johnson has resigned as leader of the Conservative Party, but not yet as prime minister. Read more...

UK: Rail workers — escalate to win!

Britain's railway network was twice brought to a standstill on June 21 and 23 as 40,000 rail workers walked out in the first national strike for 30 years. Read more...

UK: After the TUC demo: coordinate strikes to beat inflation

On Saturday 18 June, tens of thousands of people marched through central London to demand action to fight the growing cost of living crisis. Read more...

Inflation: make the bosses pay!

Inflation is back in the headlines. Even Tory MPs are raising the ‘cost of living crisis’ in the House of Commons. Read more...

Labour Party: Locking the left out for good?

KEIR STARMER’S first annual conference as Leader started from the assertion that ‘Labour is back in business’ – the business of serving Britain’s ruling class. Read more...

We need a world health service

The NHS is no longer the best healthcare system in the world. Read more...

UK: Why we are relaunching WORKERS POWER

With this issue, WORKERS POWER is resuming publication after six years – replacing RED FLAG which appeared for 39 issues during the four and a half years of Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership of the Labour Pa Read more...

UK: The crisis of Ulster Unionism deepens

Ulster Unionism is experiencing a profound crisis right now. Read more...

Palestine: huge demos must be followed up by mass action

Hundreds of thousands have flooded the streets of Britain over the course of 10 days in May, outraged at Israel’s onslaught on Palestinians first in East Jerusalem, then in Gaza, and then inside the b Read more...

UK: Kill the Bill!

As the second covid lockdown draws to a close, social tensions are rising. Read more...

UK: Unionism in crisis as Loyalists lash out

For over a week, Loyalists have been attacking the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) in riots in Belfast, Derry and other parts of Northern Ireland. Read more...

UK: Boris Johnson's Brexit heralds race to the bottom

Whatever a narrow majority of the electorate imagined they would get when they voted to Leave the European Union, the strategists who planned Brexit knew exactly what they wanted. Read more...

UK: Labour in crisis over repression of Corbyn supporters

On 29 October 2020, Jeremy Corbyn, Labour Leader from September 2015 to April 2020, was suspended from party membership and had his membership of the Parliamentary Labour Party withdrawn. Read more...

Labour Party suspends Jeremy Corbyn from membership

Jeremy Corbyn has been suspended from the Labour Party for pointing out that the party bureaucracy obstructed attempts to deal with genuine cases of antisemitism, and his political opponents dramatica Read more...

Britain: Tories could unleash a second wave by reopening schools

As schools and colleges across the country reopen, the National Education Union (NEU) has accused Tory ministers of being “negligent in the extreme”. Read more...

UK: Keir Starmer declares war on the Left

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Britain: Relaxing the Lockdown? We’ll need workers' control

Boris Johnson is due to announce the relaxation of the Covid-19 “lockdown” on Sunday. The Times reports ministers are worried there is a danger workers will become “addicted to it”. Read more...

UK: Keir Starmer’s election: the end of the Corbyn revolution

The election of Keir Starmer as Labour leader, with 56.2% of the vote, represents a clear victory for the right in the party. Read more...

UK: Stop the Extradition of Julian Assange

Wikileaks publisher Julian Assange is now on trial at Woolwich crown court in south-east London to decide whether he will be extradited to the United States, where he faces 18 charges of breaching the Read more...

Johnson’s victory, Corbyn’s defeat, and the battles to come

A DECADE OF political crisis, the last half of which saw three general elections, two referendums, and three Tory prime ministers, has ended with Boris Johnson in Number Ten. Read more...

UK Election: A failure of strategy

LABOUR’S SHATTERING DEFEAT at the hands of Boris Johnson is a bitter day for millions of class conscious workers and most young people. Read more...

UK: Fight to win - then fight for power!

After three years of wrangling over Brexit, parliament has voted for a snap general election on 12 December.

The battle lines for the election are clear. Read more...

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