Britain

Just a year into Labour prime minister Keir Starmer’s rule in Britain and his ‘huge parliamentary majority’ has fallen apart. Elected with the lowest share of the electorate of any government since universal suffrage was […]

The British Labour party suffered a humiliating defeat in the 1 May local elections, exposing the deep unpopularity of the Keir Starmer government. But far from cutting across electoral support for Nigel Farage’s right-populist Reform […]

On 18 May, up to half a million people marched against the slaughter in Gaza and the starvation policy imposed on the Strip by the right wing Israeli government. Days later, the UK Labour government […]

A supposedly ‘historic’ trade deal between the US and UK was signed on 8 May, the first the US had agreed with any country following the chaos unleashed by Trump’s sweeping tariffs in April. Many […]

Fight for a united working-class struggle against all oppressions and for socialism The Supreme Court ruling on Wednesday 16 April 2025 proves yet again that minority rights are not secure in a society in which […]

This is a government focused on serving its capitalist masters. That was one clear message from Labour’s Spring Statement. The second is that the working class must organise to defy the expectation that it will […]

Taking place in a ‘new era’ of unprecedented political volatility and turmoil, epitomised by Trump’s second presidency, 290 attended the Socialist Party’s three-day congress in Coventry, 15-17 March 2025. “The most important meeting of the […]

Below are three reports of recent successes won by Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales) members in union elections.   Victory for socialist Marco Tesei in University and College Union Left must organise to fight […]