The Stormont Stalemate Strike
Today across the north of Ireland, 170,000 workers are standing together on strike against real-terms pay cuts and the neglect caused by dysfunction at the highest levels of the Assembly.
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The Government Has Declared War on Workers — It’s Time to Fight Back.
Forty years ago, the Thatcher government attacked trade union rights. Union members at GCHQ Cheltenham were told to quit their union or be sacked. The trade union movement stood together to defeat this assault. As the Tories introduce new draconian anti-strike laws, it’s time to do it again.
Bombing Yemen Is Not Self-Defence
Regardless of what Western politicians claim, the bombing of Yemen is a defence of Israel’s attempted genocide in Gaza — and risks triggering a regional war.
Labour Has No Hiding Place on Palestine
The Labour Party’s support for Israel’s massacre in Gaza shows that Keir Starmer has learnt nothing from Tony Blair’s morally and politically disastrous Iraq War.
South Africa’s Case Was a Display of International Solidarity — We Should Support It
At the International Court of Justice, South Africa spoke on behalf of the billions of people who oppose Israel's genocide in Gaza — and put Western governments to shame for their deplorable complicity.
Policing the Silence
From Black Lives Matter to the death of the Queen, the fierce arguments generated by minute silences in football reflect how the game has become a battleground where fans contest their political and cultural identities.
The Slum Housing Scandal
True justice for Awaab Ishak, the baby who died as a result of prolonged exposure to mould, doesn’t just mean making slum landlords pay for their crimes — but actually confronting the housing crisis that creates them.
Five Fighting Ideas For a Socialist Wales
The Welsh Labour leadership election is an opportunity to examine the economic and social stress Wales finds itself in today — and to highlight concrete, socialist solutions for the country, writes Beth Winter MP.
Modernism for the Many
In the 1960s, Kate Macintosh designed modernist public housing for the elderly. Her buildings are monuments to what architecture can achieve when liberated from the constraints of the property market.
Bill Clinton Versus Organised Labour
Bill Clinton's neoliberal agenda deliberately gutted social security and facilitated the offshoring of manufacturing — a calculated betrayal of organised labour from which America's working class has never recovered.
Britain Feared the Paris Commune
Some of the cultural responses to the Paris Commune of 1871 — demonising revolutionaries and justifying soldiers' atrocities — demonstrate just how deeply elements of British reactionism run.
How New Labour Abandoned Workers
New Labour's neoliberal method of modernisation wasn't the only path the party could have taken at the end of the twentieth century — it chose to turn its back on the working class.