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Farage with Union Jack in the European parliament

Be concerned – Reform is coming

We need to work out how to facilitate the flourishing of forms of culture and identity conducive to new coalitions, new common-senses and a mass socialist politics of “freedom dreams”

Why cutting welfare hurts non-claimants

The Tories are proposing yet more attacks on welfare benefits, and on sick and disabled people – and Labour’s obsession with ‘hard working families’ plays up to their divisive rhetoric. Ian Allininson argues that cuts to welfare are intended to lower wages.

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.

Rishi Sunak grinning at a baby, and on right, Sunak at a conservative party conference stage.

The Tories’ pro-natalism agenda

Colin Wilson unpacks the right-wing agendas behind the new Tory childcare policy.

Here We Go! Forty years on from the outbreak of the Great Strike

Forty years ago today British miners began industrial action in what became the longest and most bitter strike of the twentieth century. Here Brian Parkin, a former Research Officer for the National Union of Mineworkers, gives a brief introduction to this pivotal strike.

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.

Resisting the Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Act

Ian Allinson discusses the ways workers can resist the government’s latest repressive anti-union legislation.

Autumn statement 2023: let it burn

Last week’s autumn statement was widely seen as the opening of the Tories’ general election campaign. but do the Tories have a coherent economic strategy that can rescue them?

Sunak wants to kill our planet

Gus Woody argues that the Tories’ latest environmental U-turns are part of a cynical power grab that all socialists should resist. Yesterday, Rishi Sunak announced that he was watering down many of the already meagre measures the Government was taking to the breakdown of the environment. These included delaying the phase out of the sale […]

A group of lawyers holding placards which read 'restore funding to legal aid'

The Law Under Attack

Cuts to legal aid have destroyed working people’s access to justice, David Renton reports.

Sunak fiddles while Rhodes burns

Pete Cannell and Brian Parkin take a critical look at Sunak’s recent oil and gas announcement. This piece was originally published on the SCOT.E3 blog. On Monday Rishi Sunak flew to Aberdeenshire by private jet to announce that at least one hundred new North Sea drilling licences will be granted in the autumn.  A policy described […]

Image is a close-up of a crowd holding a variety of union flags including PCS and RMT, with placards saying "Protect our right to strike" and "Defend the Right to Strike". The people in the shot apear diverse in age, gender and race. In the centre of the shot, a person in a yellow shirt with the word 'RESIST' on it raises their left fist.

‘Lack and longing’: an interview with Satnam Virdee and Brendan McGeever

Satnam Virdee and Brendan McGeever answer questions about race, nation, working class struggle and the breakdown of Britain’s democratic settlement.

Raiding our pensions?

A new threat to our pensions – Kate Deer explains why we should be up in arms about Jeremy Hunt’s Mansion House speech.

Boris Liar Johnson

An account of Boris’s ungainly exit from British politics.

Voter suppression and protest repression: the Tories’ attack on democracy

The government is swiftly and systematically destroying the rights on which ordinary people rely: to vote, to protest, to strike.

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.

Hunt’s budget – comfort for the rich, crumbs for us

Jeremy Hunt claimed he was delivering a budget for growth, but as Jonny Jones explains, for most of us it means worsening living standards. 

People hold placard reading "trans bodies are not a political playground"

Stand together against attacks on trans people

Over forty local vigils for Brianna Ghey are planned. Stand together against the transphobes.

Medics in scrubs with placard reading "Jeremy Hunt: taking the NHS for a ride"

Growing strike wave can beat Hunt’s attack on workers

Thousands of workers are set to strike before Christmas.

Suella Braverman, Home Secretary, poses in front of two union flags in front of panelled wood walls.

Cruella Braverman and the 101 (more) Draconian Measures

Our answer to restricting protest must be to go on protesting.

A photo of Rishi Sunak in front of a microphone from HM treasury.

Britain’s new PM Sunak is as wealthy as the king — and as distant from the people

Britain has a newly-unelected prime minister. Gareth Dale looks at how we got here, and what to expect from the coming months.

RNT, Unite, UNISON, anti-raids, climate and LGBTQ protesters unite on the picket line at Edinburgh Waverley station

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.

Kwarteng with Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey

Tory budget gambles on class war – we can beat them

A major attack – but Tories are divided and markets in crisis while strikes and protests grow.

‘Keep warm this winter – make trouble!’

As Liz Truss becomes prime minister , we look at some of the battles she will face and how best to resist the Tories.

Trans+ Pride March, central London, September 2020

The right-on-right battle behind the ‘war on woke’

The ‘war on woke’ scapegoats trans people and migrants – but also reflects deep divisions on the right.

Grafitti of Jonson in a party hat with his mouth open

Tory crisis – kick them while they’re down

The government is descending into farce as Johnson refuses to admit that his time is up. The Tories are in crisis, and a mounting political strike wave can break them.

Health worker carries placard reading "Heroes shouldn't have to use food banks"

NHS in crisis – fightback on pay can help save it

Health campaigner Gill George analyses the crisis facing the NHS – both nationally and in Shropshire, where she lives – and the campaigns to fight back.

Street art - Johnson in clown make up

By-elections weaken Johnson – pay strikes can kick him out

Two by-election losses are the latest disaster for Johnson’s failing premiership, comments Rachel Eborall.

Gas flame under pan

Let them burn oil – Sunak and energy bills

Rishi Sunak’s latest U-turn in response to the cost of living crisis shows the Tories scrambling for a response.