International
  • Get paid to go on strike?
    Get paid to go on strike?
    KD Tait

    In the recent spate of school strikes across London, the National Education Union has been offering teachers up to 100% of their pay lost due to strike action. While there will be some money lost to their pension contributions, this essentially amounts to a cost-free strike.

WORK & TRADE UNIONS

  • Get paid to go on strike?
    Get paid to go on strike?
    KD Tait

    In the recent spate of school strikes across London, the National Education Union has been offering teachers up to 100% of their pay lost due to strike action. While there will be some money lost to their pension contributions, this essentially amounts to a cost-free strike.

  • Employment Rights Bill: Labour waters down their proposals
    Employment Rights Bill: Labour waters down their proposals
    KD Tait

    The delay in Labour’s Employment Rights Bill, originally promised as a flagship piece of legislation aimed at strengthening workers’ rights, is a betrayal of the workers and trade unions who put the party into power.

  • Birmingham bin strike: Test for Labour
    Birmingham bin strike: Test for Labour
    Rebecca Anderson

    The Tories are up in arms, demanding Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner intervenes in the Birmingham bin strike. Their aim? Convene a Cobra meeting and break the strike by drafting in private sector scab labour.

LABOUR PARTY

REVOLUTIONARY STRATEGY

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INTERNATIONAL

  • Israel resumes Gaza genocide
    Israel resumes Gaza genocide
    Dave Stockton

    By Dave Stockton On 18 March at 2.10am Israel restarted bombing the homes of civilians across Gaza, ending the two-month ceasefire. Its pretext was that Hamas would not agree to an extension of stage one, which would allow Israel Defence Forces to remain in the Strip indefinitely, while all the hostages are released. As we…

  • Syria: Only workers and democratic forces can halt sectarian pogroms
    Syria: Only workers and democratic forces can halt sectarian pogroms
    Jeremy Dewar

    By Jeremy Dewar Three months after the fall of Assad, the new Syrian regime, led by interim president Ahmed al-Sharaa of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), is facing its stiffest test: a test that goes to the core of the HTS’ sectarian and anti-democratic politics. While part of the threat originates from former forces of the…

  • Free Mahmoud Khalil, defend free speech on Palestine!
    Free Mahmoud Khalil, defend free speech on Palestine!
    Workers Power

    A Columbia University SAW-UAW writes on the repression of the Palestine solidarity movement

  • No Zionist ‘peace’ in Gaza
    No Zionist ‘peace’ in Gaza
    Dave Stockton

    By Dave Stockton As we go to press, stage one of the Gaza ceasefire is due to end on 1 March. However, Netanyahu’s war cabinet has been repeatedly delayed negotiations on stage two, which should have started on 4 February. The Israeli prime minister has also held back the release of Palestinian detainees, many held…

  • Congo bleeds in scramble for rare earths
    Congo bleeds in scramble for rare earths
    Jeremy Dewar

    By Jeremy Dewar In less than three weeks the Rwandan-backed M23 militia swept through the mineral-rich provinces of North and South Kivu, in eastern Congo, leaving a trail of destruction. Over half a million people have been forced to flee in terror, many not for the first time. In late January, the M23 ‘rebels’ surrounded…

REVIEWS & CULTURE

BOOKS & PAMPHLETS

Palestine: A Marxist Introduction charts the struggles of the Palestinians against colonial oppression, invasive settlement, mass expulsion and war.

Find out more about Palestine: A Marxist Introduction

The 1984–5 miners’ strike was the decisive class battle of postwar Britain. This pamphlet analyses the origins of the dispute, Thatcher’s strategy, and why the miners lost.

Find out more about the 1984 Great Miners’ Strike

The need to chart a way out of capitalist climate breakdown and war has never been more urgent. Our international programme is a contribution to this strategic debate.

Find out more about A Manifesto for Socialist Revolution

FREE PALESTINE

  • Israel resumes Gaza genocide
    Israel resumes Gaza genocide
    Dave Stockton

    By Dave Stockton On 18 March at 2.10am Israel restarted bombing the homes of civilians across Gaza, ending the two-month ceasefire. Its pretext was that Hamas would not agree to an extension of stage one, which would allow Israel Defence Forces to remain in the Strip indefinitely, while all the hostages are released. As we…

  • No Zionist ‘peace’ in Gaza
    No Zionist ‘peace’ in Gaza
    Dave Stockton

    By Dave Stockton As we go to press, stage one of the Gaza ceasefire is due to end on 1 March. However, Netanyahu’s war cabinet has been repeatedly delayed negotiations on stage two, which should have started on 4 February. The Israeli prime minister has also held back the release of Palestinian detainees, many held…

  • Sweden: Support the dockers’ arms blockade!
    Sweden: Support the dockers’ arms blockade!
    Workers Power

    ArbetarmaktSwedish section of the League for the Fifth International The following statement was published by our comrades and sent to the union. On Tuesday 4 February, the dockers’ union launched a six-day blockade of all types of weaponry for Israel. This is really exemplary – exactly the kind of action that the workers’ movement needs!…

CLIMATE & ENVIRONMENT

WOMEN & LGBT+

  • The femicide pandemic
    The femicide pandemic
    Millie Collins

    By Millie Collins In 2023, every 10 minutes, a woman or girl was intentionally killed by a partner or family member. A report recently released from the UN showed that gender-related killings, or femicide as it is now commonly known, is on the rise around the world. While there has been some public outcry, this…

  • Women face a rising tide of reaction
    Women face a rising tide of reaction
    Rebecca Anderson

    By Rebecca Anderson Trump’s second term has brought into sharp focus the fact that progressive changes that seemed irreversible can be reversed, sometimes with the stroke of a Sharpie marker pen. The accumulation of rights for women and other oppressed groups is always presented as a slow but steady march from the vote to equal…

  • Child sexual exploitation scandal
    Child sexual exploitation scandal
    Millie Collins

    Racist myth-making obscures real causes of violence against women and girls.

RACE & MIGRATION

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