Eleanor Marx: A Life
Rachel Holmes, Bloomsbury, 2014
ISBN 9780747583844
£21.99 Read more...

The lost story of a strike that shook London and helped launch the modern labour movement

Silvertown
John Tully, Monthly Review Press/Lawrence & Wishart, 2014
ISBN 9781907103995
£15.00 Read more...

There is renewed debate about rank and file trade unionism among sections of the far left at the moment. Read more...

The result of the referendum on independence in Scotland, 45 percent voting Yes for independence, 55 percent voting No, showed a clear majority against independence. Read more...

The Scots have an inalienable democratic right to separate from the UK if they wish. Read more...

Andy Yorke reviews four left books on Scottish independence:

The Case for an Independent Socialist Scotland, Colin Fox, SSP Read more...

More than one million workers across England, Wales and Northern Ireland struck on Thursday 10 July against the government freeze on pay and the 20% decline in real wages since the Tory-LibDem coaliti Read more...

IN OCTOBER, Irish police kidnapped two young Roma children from separate Roma families. The parents and children were forced to undergo DNA tests, which proved... they were, indeed, related. Read more...

This is undoubtedly a horrific act, committed in front of ordinary civilians including children. We sympathise with the family of the victim and those traumatised by witnessing such appalling scenes. Read more...

Any expressions of sorrow for the death of Margaret Thatcher, or praise for her qualities or achievements from any representative of the workers’ movement, are a sure sign of past or future betrayals. Read more...

The Socialist Workers Party, the largest revolutionary socialist organisation in Britain, and one of the largest in the world, is presently convulsed by the most serious crisis in its history. Read more...

The government’s policies are making things much worse, writes John Bowman, particularly for the most vulnerable Read more...

• All out on 30 November
• Joint strike committees in every town
• Workers and students unite – forward to a general strike Read more...

The left in Britain needs a new strategy, argues Simon Hardy, and that must mean a new attempt to unite and build a new anticapitalist organisation Read more...

Resolution from Workers Power on the political situation after the riots Read more...

The News of the World, once flagship paper for the Murdoch Empire was shut down amid allegations of corruption and illegal phone hacking which goes right to the heart of the state, writes Simon Hardy Read more...

The Royal Wedding in Britain was used by police to arrest many activists pre-emptively to stop protests at the wedding, Simon Hardy reports on the dangerous policing methods being used Read more...

It was a long time coming, but yesterday London was crammed full of people for one of the largest demonstrations in years. Read more...

Images of students occupying the Headquaters of the Conservative party in London were beamed around the world as fury of cuts to education and increased tuition fees spilt out onto the streets Read more...

Editorial from Workers Power Britain on the need to organise resistance to the coalition government cuts Read more...

Keith Spencer makes a case-study analysis of a 'Great Power' that was at the centre of the global financial whirlwind: Britain Read more...

Afghani prisoners are brutally tortured by British troops and the Afghan secret police on a daily basis, a new court case has revealed. Read more...

• No to all cuts coalitions!
• For a workers’ united front against the cuts!

The big story of the 2010 General Election is that millions of working class people voted for Labour to keep the Tories out. They succeeded in denying the Tories a majority – but they may not have stopped them from forming a government. Read more...

Anticapitalist - Workers Power candidate in South London fighting for defence of public services and for a new party Read more...

The resignation from the Socialist Workers Party of 42 members of the Left Platform, including leading figures such as Lindsey German and John Rees, delivers an important opportunity for SWP and Left Platform members alike to reconsider critical elements of their political tradition. Richard Brenner explains Read more...

Both Labour and the Tories are playing a game of smoke and mirrors with the electorate, covering up the huge cuts they will introduce in office argues Keith Spencer Read more...

The British SWP is in crisis with a faction fight, expulsions and a major dispute on tactics for the period ahead. Richard Brenner surveys the dispute and examines the linked issues of party democracy, the united front, industrial policy and the fight for a new workers’ party Read more...