Angry demonstrations have broken out all over Israel, composed of new young activists. After the first demonstrations, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced a new plan to distribute economic aid to people. He is acting under […]
“We have been the key workers during the pandemic, but now the Labour-led council is sacking and reappointing all of us on worse terms and conditions. They are attacking us at the earliest opportunity”. These […]
Like every aspect of the government’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic, Rishi Sunak’s “plan for jobs” is more headline than substance, and doomed to fail in its stated aims. The Tory chancellor’s summer statement set […]
In November 1975, the UK queen’s representative in Australia, Governor-General Sir John Kerr, dismissed the elected Labor prime minister. He replaced Gough Whitlam with the leader of the right-wing Liberal Party, Malcolm Fraser. Documents just […]
Small steps back by the regime is combined with continued repression Events are beginning to speed up in Iran again as protests increase. A brief attempt to intimidate the thousands of Haft Tappeh sugar cane […]
‘And so today, I am announcing the suspension of active campaigning and congratulate Joe Biden, a very decent man, on his victory’. Bernie Sanders (April 8, 2020) The Bernie Sanders campaign for the Democratic Party […]
Twenty-five years ago, in July 1995, 8,000 Bosnian Muslim refugees were slaughtered in and around the Bosnian town of Srebrenica – one of the final atrocities in the 1992-95 Bosnian war. The designation of Srebrenica […]
On July 1 the vote for amendments to the Constitution of Russia ended. The real goal of voting was to extend Putin’s rule until 2036 and give the illusion of widespread support of the population. […]
The fiftieth anniversary of the election of the Popular Unity government takes place on 4 September 1970 and represents an opportunity for the international working class movement to remember what this victory represented and draw […]
A fantastic virtual meeting of up to 300 trade union reps, workers, campaigners, socialists, and international visitors took place on the 4 July as the National Shop Stewards Network (NSSN) held its 2020 summer conference. […]
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