On the emergency Palestine solidarity protest in London outside the Israeli embassy (Picture: Guy Smallman) “Israel is targeting everybody, no one knows when they’ll be next,” says Arrej—one of 2.3 million Palestinians facing the Israeli state’s murderous onslaught on the Gaza Strip.  “The…

Sweatshop bosses profit from fast fashion and low pay (Picture: Flickr/ Artem Beliaikin) Does fighting to improve wages and health and safety cost jobs? That’s a big question in Leicester where thousands of garment workers have been sacked after campaigners exposed shocking conditions in their factories…

NHS workers meet at Leighton Hospital to prepare to strike for pay justice (Picture: Unison North West) Hundreds of NHS workers are set to go on strike next week after “years of being underpaid”. More than 450 healthcare and imaging assistants at Mid-Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust will walk…

Anti-racists should take to the streets (Picture: Guy Smallman) It’s time to get ­organised, shut down the Home Office, and hit back against home secretary Suella Braverman’s vile attacks on refugees. Stand Up To Racism (SUTR) has called a Stop the Home Office demonstration on Saturday 4 November…

Labour leader Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves on their way to back big business (Picture: Keir Starmer on Flickr) The speeches and decisions at Labour Party conference in Liverpool this week made clear its leaders want to win the backing of bosses and business.  With Union Jacks plastering its stage…

Marina Abramović at MoMA Art museum (Picture: Antonio Zugaldia) It’s taken a mere 255 years for the Royal Academy of Arts to host an exhibition by a woman in its main galleries. Now the mighty Marina Abramovic holds that dubious honour. And the major retrospective of the performance artist’s work…

Bolsheviks in the Left Opposition in 1927 They “incarnated an epoch,” wrote Victor Serge of the ­revolutionary and working class militants of the Left Opposition in his novel Midnight in the Century. They fought for “a renewal of the ideology, morals and institutions of ­socialism” against…

A Republican revolt pointed to the exit for Kevin McCarthy as Speaker AT THE height of the struggle against apartheid in South Africa during the 1980s, the African National Congress raised the slogan, “Make South Africa Ungovernable!” Today it’s the Republican right that wants to make the US ungovernable…

People march in solidarity with the Palestinian resistance in Manchester last weekend The Israeli state is humiliated, shaken and scared. It has vowed to extract bloody revenge for its defeats last weekend. “We need to break the ­enemy’s bones,” ran a commentary in the Israel Hayom newspaper last…

A Palestine solidarity protest in London (Picture: Guy Smallman) Palestinians have struck a huge blow against Israeli settler colonialism. In the face of escalating violence from the Israeli state, Palestinian fighters launched an unprecedented attack from the Gaza Strip on Saturday 7 October. Read about…

PCS members responded enthusiastically to the 15 March national strike (Picture: Guy Smallman) Those pictured do not necessarily support the views in this article Socialist Workers Party members were among the founder members of Left Unity (LU) in the PCS over 20 years ago. Here we explain why we have…

Palestinians need a wave of solidarity with their national liberation struggle (Picture: Guy Smallman) All of us are proud. Today was a rewriting of history—our history. I can hear the bombing now. In Tel Aviv, Gaza and everywhere is all under fire. We are watching what we thought would never, in our…

A Palestine solidarity protest in London last year. Another is planned on Monday night (Picture: Guy Smallman) In the face of escalating violence from the Israeli state, Palestinian fighters launched resistance attacks on Israeli towns, cities and settlements on Saturday. And they have won huge military…

At a NEU union demonstration in February (Picture: Guy Smallman) Teachers in England are pressing for strikes because a government “error” will mean devastating cuts.  The Department for Education admitted it miscalculated its funding plans. An original plan of a 2.7 percent increase per pupil for…

Anti-refugee protesters Picture: Stand up to Racism Llanelli Racist propaganda and far right anti-refugee agitation have led to a fire at a hotel and assaults on the offices of a Labour MP in Llanelli, near Swansea. It’s time for trade unions and anti-racists everywhere to wake up to the violence unleashed…

On the Barts NHS workers’ strike rally at the Royal London Hospital (Picture: Guy Smallman) A group of nurses at east London’s Barts NHS trust are so furious with low pay and understaffing that they’ve joined the Unite union—and struck last week. Cleaners, porters, kitchen staff, auxiliaries…

A toast to one rule for them and another for us (Picture: Channel 4) Can you be even more angry about the Tories partying in 10 Downing Street during the pandemic? Is it worth making a television programme about it? On the evidence of Channel 4’s Partygate, the answer to both is yes. It’s not the…

Young SNP activists joined the protest against the Tory leadership hustings in Perth last year As voters go to the polls in the Rutherglen and Hamilton West by-election, the profound crisis consuming the Scottish National Party (SNP) shows no sign of abating.  The crisis was triggered by Nicola Sturgeon’s…

On the NHS workers’ strike rally at the Royal London Hospital  (Picture: Guy Smallman) Hundreds of strikers from across London rallied at the Royal London Hospital on Wednesday in a major show of strength.  Cleaners, porters, kitchen staff, auxiliaries, technicians and nurses who are part of the…

A still of Settela Steinbach from the film shot at the Westerbork transit camp The confusingly named BBC history series The Rise of the Nazis has reached the period after the Second World War. It looks at the Nuremberg trials and how the rulers of Britain, the US and Russia dealt with leading fascists…

Andrew Schofield, Aron Julius, Nathan McMullen in Boys from the Blackstuff Alan Bleasdale’s BBC series Boys From the Blackstuff was one of the most iconic TV dramas of the 1980s. First broadcast in 1982, it follows a group of unemployed Liverpudlian workers nicknamed “boys from the blackstuff”…

Kaiser Permanente health strikers in Roseville, California (Picture: SEIU on Twitter) The US is in a deep political crisis just as workers’ struggle hits new levels—including the biggest health strike in the country’s history. On Tuesday evening the most reactionary elements of the right wing Republicans…

Home secretary Suella Braverman endorses the thinking and policies of the far right Conservative home secretary Suella Braverman flew to Washington DC last week to announce that “uncontrolled and illegal migration is an existential challenge for the political and cultural institutions of the West.” She…

RMT union members on the Tube had fought doggedly for action (Picture: Guy Smallman) Union leaders have once again told workers to prepare for strikes, only to demobilise them at the last moment. The RMT union has suspended London Underground strikes set for Wednesday and Friday this week. It’s a rotten…

Prime minister Rishi Sunak at Tory Part Conference (Picture: The Conservative Party on Flickr) Racism, attacks on the poor, warmongering, bashing strikers and veneration of the fossil fuel economy. That’s the Tories’ programme that Rishi Sunak and his acolytes pushed at the Conservative party conference…