The 1944 strike wave: ‘the right to strike is part of the freedoms we fight for’
By Cain O’Mahony [photo shows “Bevin Boys” – conscripted miners in Cramlington, Northumberland] Eighty years ago, there was a political storm across Britain as trade unionists foughtRead More
Further thoughts on the economics of imperialism
By Michael Roberts Back in 2021, Guglielmo Carchedi and I published a paper on Historical Materialism called The Economics of Modern Imperialism. The paper focused exclusively onRead More
US to sanction IDF unit for rights abuses – too little, too late
By John Pickard The Biden administration has set some alarm bells ringing in Jerusalem by its threat to impose sanctions on a unit of the Israeli DefenceRead More
Labour’s official policy to use the private health sector
Letter from Steve McKenzie, Unite Community member Health service campaigners in the Erith and Thamesmead constituency, on the outer edge of South East London, wrote to theirRead More
Scottish Labour candidate suspended: the background lies in UNISON
By Yunus Bakhsh The suspension of Labour’s candidate for Gordon Brown’s old seat of Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath is a bit of a rarity, in that it appearsRead More
Editorial: Labour government will hit the ground stumbling
As the Labour right wing consolidated its grip on the Party and Keir Starmer binned the ten pledges that got him elected, there were many on thatRead More
Cass Review: Transphobic fist in a velvet glove.
By Ray Goodspeed The last week has seen an orgy of spiteful glee from the conservative right and their allies in the right-wing media as they claimRead More
India: Modi and the rise of the billionaire Raj
By Michael Roberts A general election in India starts today. 970m Indians, more than 10% of the world’s population, will head to the polls in what willRead More
Engels on the trade unions, nearly 150 years ago
Letter from Steve McKenzie, Unite Community member In a letter to August Bebel in 1875, Karl Marx’s close friend and collaborator, Fredrick Engels, was highly critical ofRead More
Open letter from NHS staff to Health Secretary and NHS England CEO
Dear Victoria Atkins and Amanda Pritchard, We are writing as NHS staff members to express our dismay and disbelief at your decision to cut back mental healthRead More
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