After the 23rd and 24th August 2023 elections for the president, legislators and councillors, the Zimbabwe African National Union – Patriotic Front (ZANU–PF) retained power, continuing its 43-year old reign since independence in 1980. The Zimbabwe Electoral […]
Outside this year’s Tory conference in Manchester, 3,000 members of various health unions, mainly consultants and junior doctors, gathered. They set out their determination to keep up strike action throughout the autumn and winter if […]
It seems that few weeks go by without a new stage of widening social polarisation and fracturing divisions developing within US society and US capitalism. On 3 October, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, […]
The Rutherglen and Hamilton West by-election was a massive vote of no confidence in the main pro-capitalist parties. Despite intense attention from the media and the political establishment, and major resources expended by Labour and […]
According to capitalist mainstream history, 1923 was the year of hyperinflation and the failed Hitler putsch. This narrative equates German history, first and foremost, with fascism. Yet 1923 was also the year that Germany was […]
As we go to press, Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has declared that Israel is “at war” after Hamas launched rockets across the border between the Gaza Strip and Israel and Hamas fighters entered Israel. […]
Angela Saini’s recent book is really a misnomer. While its title – The Patriarchs: How Men Came to Rule – seems to promise an explanation of how women came to be treated as unequal, second-class […]
The current strike wave, which erupted more than a year ago with national strike action by railworkers in the RMT union, marks the beginning of a new era in the class struggle in Britain. At last […]
Last week’s historic 3-day strike by over 22,000 members of the trade union, UNISON, in Scotland, working in schools and early years, was an expression of the pent up class anger felt by council workers […]
By 1983 , Militant, the predecessor of the Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales), was growing ever more influential, especially through the Labour Party Young Socialists (LPYS) and on Merseyside, as well as other places. […]
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