Category: Politics
Refuse to be slaves – defend the right to strike!
The Tories are hellbent on turning workers into slaves. They are rushing through legislation on so-called Minimum Service Levels t...
Hunt’s big business Budget: “This is class war”
Chancellor Jeremy Hunt received whoops and cheers in Parliament yesterday, as Tory backbenchers applauded his latest billionaires’...
School protests erupt across the country: Put staff and...
Students at the Farnley Academy in Leeds recently held a three-day protest in response to a draconian toilet policy introduced by ...
Scotland: Sturgeon succession race highlights bankruptc...
The contest for Scotland’s next First Minister and SNP leader is well underway, with three candidates vying for the top spot. Voti...
140 years after the death of Marx – The communists are ...
Today, 14 March, marks the 140th anniversary of the death of Karl Marx, the greatest thinker and revolutionary who has ever lived....
BMA pickets: Junior doctors show determination to win
For the first time since 2016, junior doctors organised with the British Medical Association (BMA) have moved into strike action, ...
Junior doctors strike back – Save our NHS with socialis...
Junior doctors are the latest workers to join the picket lines, with walkouts taking place this week, from 13-15 March. The NHS an...
Lineker, the BBC, and Tory culture wars: Establishment ...
The recent row between the BBC and footballer-turned-TV-presenter Gary Lineker has exposed the real role of the national broadcast...
Budget Day battle: Unity and escalation needed to win
Wednesday 15 March will see hundreds of thousands of workers out on strike. Following on from last month’s ‘day of action’ on 1 Fe...
Defend socialists against Tory harassment!
For the second time in less than 12 months, Harrow council has launched an attack on the democratic right to free speech and the f...
Strikes and industrial militancy in the 1970s
The current upswing in industrial militancy is unprecedented in the last 30 years. We have to go back to the 1970s to find somethi...
The Oakeshott Files: Cynicism, contempt, and COVID
October 2020Matt Hancock (Health Secretary): A bunch of absolute arses teaching unions areGavin Williamson (Education Secretary):...
SSP leader on Tories’ gender bill attack
Commenting on the use of the ’nuclear option’ against the gender recognition act, Scottish Socialist Party (SSP) spokesperson Coli...
New from Wellred Books: ‘Women, Family, and the Russian...
Why release a Marxist book on women and the Russian Revolution in the year 2023? The answer is that, more than 100 years after the...
Domestic labour, automation, and the fight for socialis...
Every year, on 8 March, people around the world celebrate International Women’s Day. In many countries, workers and youth go onto ...