Labour’s hollow response to antisemitic violence
The government’s response to the antisemitic attack in Crumpsall reveals a cynical conflation of Jewish identity with Zionism
Race against time: how do we challenge the new far right?
Report on Saturday’s huge far right march in London, its roots and how the left can challenge and defeat them
Why anti-border politics is class struggle
Opposition to borders is central to class struggle and anti-capitalist politics
‘We Are All Foreign Scum’
Internationalism and anti-imperialism link 1960s protests against the Vietnam War and those in solidarity with Palestine today.
Authoritarianism with a dash of identity politics: the crime and policing bill
If passed the Crime and Policing Bill will limit human rights and the right to privacy from the state
From Ballymena to Coolock – anti-immigrant protests in Ireland
Racism has always been part of unionism – now racist protests are gaining a foothold in the South.
Review | Lifeline to Freedom
Leftist Czech refugees to Britain in the 1930s had to cope with hostility from the British government, but also the zigzags of the Communist line laid down in Moscow.
Labour and immigration
Keir Starmer’s Labour seems inspired by Enoch Powell’s Rivers of Blood speech
The battle of Los Angeles: the first weekend
American socialists report from the streets of California.
Chicago teachers – winning against the US right
Chicago teachers have won a new contract which improves pay and conditions but also defends school communities including migrants and LGBTQ+ people.
Labour’s immigration White Paper: a brief explainer
Here is what the Immigration White Paper means policy-wise
Class and oppression
Some on the left say we should prioritise class struggles over issues of oppression. But fighting oppression is at the heart of socialism.
Minority Rule, Race and Class
What would a working class politics look like that takes account of racism?
Liberation delayed: the trap of ‘war on woke’
How can we generate our own meanings and oppose right-wing moral panics about identity politics?
Left wing pitfalls: against neoliberal identity politics and class reductionism
Coalitions of the oppressed show the power of solidarity, but ruling classes use race and nationalism to divide workers. Shanice McBean explores how the left can overcome these divisions.
Migrant farm workers fight for justice in Britain
A report on a migrant farm worker’s protest and the campaign for rights for workers on seasonal visas
Building Fortress Britain: Labour’s policies on immigration
Labour intensifies deportations, workplace raids and migrant exploitation.
New circuitries of apartheid: politically analysing hostile technology
The extractive circuits of imperialism under the tech-economy’s hype and bluster.
Chris Kaba verdict shows the police have a licence to kill
The police defend capitalism and we need to fight with a revolutionary response
Working class unity means anti-racist unity: no compromise with racist state power
rs21 members make the case for an anti-racist politics that combats all forms of oppression and exploitation
Comrades face deportation after Palestine camp in Athens
Greece pursues deportations processes against 9 EU citizens for participation in a Palestine encampment.
Debate – a response on settler colonialism
If we are to overthrow capitalism, we need to engage with what stabilises it.
Dover’s dodgy defector
Keir Starmer’s acceptance of hard-right Natalie Elphicke into the Labour party has shocked and dismayed many. East Kent resident Danny Bee explains why he’s not happy at having her as his Labour MP.
Long hot summer?
London, Glasgow, Manchester – a brief flash of activity or the start of a long hot summer?
Video | Abolition Revolution
Why do we have a police force in the first place? How does policing uphold racism, capitalism and colonialism?
Haiti: “The truth speaks for itself”
As violence escalates in Haiti, we republish this statement by Robert Roth which identifies US and UN intervention as the source of the crisis.
The Courtaulds strike of 1965 – Black workers fighting back
Sue Sparks of the IS History Project uncovers the history of one of the first Black workers’ strikes against racism in the 1960s.