The Russian Revolution was a great emancipatory event for the working-class until the Stalinist counter-revolution crushed it. But the real histories of (1) the revolution; (2) those who made it and ...

An interview with RMT’s London Transport Regional Organiser Jared Wood by LBC presenter Nick Ferrari is doing the rounds in WhatsApp groups across the job. In some drivers’ groups, it is being ...

In the run-up to the Budget on 30 October, there has been a raft of speculative media stories about tax rises by the Labour government not “working”; and a push by Labour MPs and others for an easing ...

Israel has continued to conduct air strikes against targets throughout Lebanon. The bombing campaign is expanding; on Saturday 12 October, the town of Deir Billa in northern Lebanon was targeted for ...

Israel’s war has reduced most of Gaza to an uninhabitable wasteland, pockmarked by tent cities housing desperate and starving refugees. Israel continues to issue evacuation orders, but the designated ...

Mass anti-government protests, led by families of hostages, have continued in Israel, with demonstrators blocking a major highway in Tel Aviv on 11 October. Although demonstrations foreground the ...

According to the Morning Star of 8 October: “In Birmingham, Muslim leaders were joined by Jewish rabbis, Christians and representatives of other faiths and none for a candle-lit vigil in the city ...

The SWP has, since the mid-1980s anyway, argued for the destruction of Israel and as “running through Cairo”, i.e. achieved by a rising of the Arab working class in the surrounding states, ...

Palestine Action activist Madeleine Norman has been in debilitating prison conditions for three weeks, after being labelled an “escape risk” while on remand. Norman is currently on remand in HMP ...

Tens of millions will vote for him, but I don’t think that Donald Trump can win a majority of the popular vote in the US presidential election. There is too much against him, and he has never won the ...

On 26 September Russia attacked the Ukrainian defenders outside the town of Kupiansk. The Russians were aiming to take territory east of the Oskil river in the eastern part of Kharkiv oblast. The ...

Shamefully, the civil service union, PCS, is quiescent in the face of cuts and devalued pay because an undemocratic, incompetent, “Left Unity” cabal of full time officials and senior lay ...