Left win in UNISON
The election of Andrea Egan as UNISON General Secretary has implications for the whole movement
Review | The Starmer symptom
Pat Stack reviews Mark Perryman’s essay collection on Starmer’s betrayals and Labour’s deepening crisis
Your Party needs to bury Labourism
The new left party may be breaking with Labour, but it must also break from Labourism
Is this the end of Labour in Wales?
What are the forces behind Labour’s decline in Wales and how can new movements might shape it?
Red Friday – why workplace organising outdoes left union officials
The build-up to the 1926 General Strike highlights the dangers of a strategy based on left-wing union leaders.
As Reform grows, we urgently need a left electoral alternative
As two-party politics collapses and Reform UK rise, we need an alternative at the polls.
London housing crisis – Peckham fights back
Peckham protesters are standing up to one of London’s biggest housing developers
Is this the end of austerity? Making sense of Britain under Labour
Can Starmer and Reeves deliver lasting change—or will their plans flop under scrutiny?
Building Fortress Britain: Labour’s policies on immigration
Labour intensifies deportations, workplace raids and migrant exploitation.
Labour’s budget – no end to increasing inequality
Social services gutted, green transition neglected, public money funnelled to private business.
Rent hikes won’t fix the housing crisis
The new Labour government has made big announcements on housing policy, but there’s very little there to benefit tenants.
Rachel Reeves and the ‘maxed out credit card’
Kate Deer takes a critical look at the new government’s claims that Britain has ‘maxed out its credit card’.
Election – threats from the right, big new chances for the left
Colin Wilson provides an analysis of the election, including the unreported detail of successes for a new kind of left
Making Gaza the issue in the general election
Jonny Jones argues for making Gaza a central issue in the general election as part of starting to build a serious opposition to Starmer’s Labour.
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.
Kick out the Tories, prepare to fight Starmer
Colin Wilson analyses the 2 May council and mayoral elections in England.
1974 – an end and a beginning
Willie Black looks back at 1974. A pivotal year both in Britain and across the world – high points of workers’ struggles, but also the beginning of five decades of neo-liberalism
Rochdale by-election highlights Labour’s bankruptcy on Gaza
Rochdale – a significant victory, but not the left alternative we need.
The Tory meltdown continues
Rachel Iboraii celebrates the Tories’ latest by-election losses and looks at what this tells us about the prospects for the upcomin general election.
What the hell is Labour doing?
Despite a commanding lead in the polls, Starmer is still running scared from the Tories.
Sunak suffers, Starmer stalls – the council elections in England
Rachel Iboraii celebrates the Tories’ losses in last week’s council elections in England, and questions why Labour isn’t profiting more from the government’s woes.
South Korea: updates from recent struggles
A South Korean socialist talks about union struggles, parliamentary politics and Me Too
Will Starmer’s Labour be better than the Tories?
Pat Stack discusses Starmer’s attacks on Corbyn and his legacy, and the question of what attitude socialists should take to the Labour Party’s rightward lurch and a potential Starmer government.
Growing strike wave can beat Hunt’s attack on workers
Thousands of workers are set to strike before Christmas.
Build the strikes, break the Tories
Kick out the Tories, build strikes and protests so from Day One under Labour we stop Starmer imposing austerity.
Municipal politics and the revolutionary left
Danny Schultz reviews Paint Your Town Red, by Matthew Brown and Rhian E Jones, finding an interesting discussion of the possibilities of radical local politics.
Sharon Graham wins stunning Unite victory
Graham recognises the need to focus on rebuilding workplace power to reverse union decline.
Labour: socialists and witch-hunters
Ian Allinson and Rachel Eborall take up the issue of Starmer’s purges in the Labour Party and respond to Conti and Woody’s claim that the party represents the progressive petty bourgeoisie.
Starmer’s purges and the problem with Labour
Finlay Conti and Gus Woody look at the Labour Party’s history to understand the meaning of Starmer’s purge, what it tells us about Labour’s inability to represent the working class, and how Marxists go forward from here.