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Around half a million workers took strike action across Britain on 1 February in the biggest wave of strikes for over a decade.
This not only involved people withdrawing their labour and mounting picket lines at their own place of work, but often participating in vibrant demonstrations and (...)
On 1 February more trade unionists in Britain will be on strike than have done so on any single day for many decades.
The civil service union, PCS, was the first to call out over 100,000 members across 124 government departments – all those members in departments who had met the ridiculously (...)
Nearly 170 years ago, Britain was at war with Russia and Karl Marx was convinced that the Prime Minister, Lord Palmerston, was colluding secretly with the enemy.
During his research in the British Museum Marx examined hundreds of British diplomatic documents. His conclusion, according to his (...)
Rishi Sunak’s attempted introduction of new anti-strike laws isn’t the first time we’ve seen a Conservative government seek to limit workers’ rights to take industrial action. This timeline of the past five decades explains how the UK got to where it is today. Workers have gradually lost all powers (...)
I only made the second half of the Stop the War Coalition (STWC) trade union conference on 21 January, but I think I got a pretty good sense of the event’s politics. It was broadly what I expected.
What was said about opposing war and militarism in general, and increased militarisation and (...)
Across the British state, writes Mike Picken, there is a growing opposition to the Conservative UK government’s unprecedented blocking of a Scottish Parliament legislative Bill on transgender rights passed last month – the Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill.
After weeks of misleading (...)
Anti*capitalist Resistance call for international solidarity on 1 February as the trade union movement resists Tory anti Trade Union legislation.
The working class of Britain have suffered over a decade of austerity and low wages. Pay for many workers has reduced by over 20% in real terms (...)
This week, the UK government announced their intention to block the Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill, which was recently passed overwhelmingly in the Scottish Parliament, from becoming law. We, the undersigned, wish to make clear our strong opposition to this intervention and to any (...)
Terry Conway reports on the latest developments in the ongoing strike wave in the United Kingdom, as workers fight for higher pay while the Conservatives prepare new anti-union legislation.
The battle of working class organisations in Britain against the reactionary Tory government has a new (...)
Fourteen years on from the collapse of Lehman Brothers, writes Michael Chessum, the financial crash of 2008 feels like the introduction to a much wider moment of political and economic crisis.
Society is about to face another collapse in living standards, but it has yet to recover from the (...)
We will soon be approaching one year since Russia launched the genocidal all-out invasion of Ukraine on 24 February. This new year provides us with an vantage point to consider what has happened and our approach in the period ahead. It is one in which Labour must do all in its power to help (...)
This sounds like a dramatic title, but in truth, it is not. What we are witnessing before our very eyes is the death of the NHS.
The waves of COVID and flu washing through a debilitated health system starved of funds for more than a decade and with a workforce depleted and depressed means (...)
I spent part of Xmas morning with strikers. I don’t remember this happening before in all my decades of political activity. I didn’t actually have to leave the house as this was a zoom meeting organised by the civil service union PCS to bring solidarity to their members in different sectors (...)
On August 22, 2022, coinciding with the 231st anniversary of the start of the Haitian Revolution, the most recent wave of popular mobilizations against the pro-imperialist regime of the Haitian Baldhead Party (PHTK) began.
High inflation—29 percent annualized as of June—and economic contraction (...)
125 nurses from Portugal have signed an open letter of solidarity with the unprecedented strike that, since 15 December, has been promoted by British colleagues in response to more than a decade of disinvestment in the public service and the loss of real wages.
Recalling that many of these (...)
Trans rights campaigners and their allies throughout the labour movement were delighted to receive a present before the Christmas holidays start – and a very welcome present it is, at a time of increasingly fierce attacks on trans people in the mainstream and social media, and a marked increase (...)
Ambulance services are facing unfair criticism for a situation which is not of their making. The workforce is in crisis, with system-wide pressures seriously hampering their ability to do their jobs.
Emergency service workers are set to strike on December 21 2022, to demand better pay. The (...)
Many asylum applications are rejected on grounds that dismiss the dire situations in applicants’ countries of origin.
After yet another tragedy in the Channel, there is no doubt that something needs to be done to improve the processes overseeing asylum seekers coming to the UK, through whatever (...)
Tempest member Phil Gasper discusses the work and politics of the prominent and dedicated British Marxist John Molyneux.
The Marxist writer and activist John Molyneux died in Dublin on December 11 at the age of 74. John was a longstanding member of the International Socialist Tendency, first (...)
Nurses describe what it is like to work on the NHS frontline – and what the cost is to them.
As nurses prepare to strike for the first time, an A&E nurse and lecturer in Organisational Behaviour in Healthcare writes about the stress, fear, grief and guilt they feel every day working on the (...)
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