Liz Lawrence puts forward a number of key arguments to support trade unionists arguing for support for the forthcoming convoy in their unions.

Secondary school pupils are taking action; the government is cracking down. The situation in the national education system has been deteriorating for years. Successive governments and various ministers, led by Blanquer [Minister of Education 2017-2022], have accelerated the destruction. The lack of resources is becoming increasingly unbearable note the NPA-A

A UNISON activist calls for immediate action against injustice and for UNISON and other unions to change their strategy on transgender rights.

On Wednesday, 23 September, the police evicted Maricarmen in Madrid write Anticapitalistas.

In early August, the otherwise listless campaign for the State Duma began to attract some public attention writes Oleg Shein

Manchester City’s case has revived an old Everton joke about how quickly financial rules hit the pitch, and how differently regulation behaves when it meets wealth on City’s scale writes Simon Pearson

ACR is happy to publish this press release from Palestine Solidarity activists in Hackney Campaigners are calling on opponents across Britain of Israel’s genocide in Gaza and its apartheid system to take part in Hackney Council’s consultation on whether the London borough should end its 58-year twinning relationship with Haifa, Israel’s third largest city. The […]

To quote James Connolly, a ‘carnival of reaction’ has been brought to the traumatised generations of Garvaghy Road, says the Republican Socialist Platform.

The British government’s new limited sanctions on Israeli settlements are far too little, far too late argues Roland Rance.

Martin Allen shows that, though the link between degrees and skilled jobs is diminishing, young people still want to pursue higher education, at least partly for its own sake and as a cultural phenomenon

Ian Townson looks at what Marx said about Slavery and sets out the case for reparations

According to a recent National Police Chiefs’ Council report, violence against women and girls (VAWG) now adds up to twenty percent of all crime and is seen by police as a national emergency. In response, writes Sandra Wyman

John Richardson reviews Red Poets 32 – the latest magazine from the Red Poets (Beirdd Cochion) in Cymru

September 18, 2026 “Vladimir Putin is about to boost his criminal assault on Ukraine, and those of us who support the Ukrainian people’s right to resist and determine their own future must in turn intensify our effort.” With these words, David Acosta, spokesperson for the International Solidarity Convoy to Ukraine, announced the launching of the […]

Capitalism no longer needs to persuade us that it represents reality. Increasingly, it survives by making reality difficult to hold still writes Simon Pearson

Dave Kellaway reviews the David Olusoga BBC documentary Finding Britain's Slave Traders. Available on I Player.

Simon Pearson reviews Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor's book, End Times Fascism: And the Fight for the Living World. Allen Lane, 2026.

Duncan Chapel on the debate on how the left relates to the Green Party

Professor of international relations Gilbert Achcar argues for new ways of promoting the Palestinian cause, drawing on his recent book and in an interview with Dina Ezzat

Knowledge and concern about the climate crisis has grown exponentially in the past 25 years. But not among ultra-conservative and fascist political forces such as Donald Trump’s MAGA (Make America Great Again) movement in the United States, Alternative for Germany (AfD) and Reform UK in Britain. notes Phil Hearse.

Strategies of ResistanceNew expanded edition of selected writings By Daniel Bensaïd Edited by Alex de Jong Just £15 from Resistance Books here “Daniel Bensaïd was one of the most creative, imaginative and sharpest minds in the contemporary history of Marxism, in France and beyond.” Michael Löwy. CONTENTS: Introduction:  Daniel Bensaïd, melancholic revolutionary; 1.  What it […]

A statement of the Executive Bureau of the Fourth International issued 16 September 2026

Dave Kellaway reports back on a meeting where we showed a film produced for the National Emergency Briefing to highlight the ecological crisis

On Sunday 4 October 1936 the British Union of Fascists (BUF), led by Sir Oswald Mosley, staged a provocative march in the East End of London deliberately designed to intimidate the local Jewish population writes Ian Townson.

A new milestone was reached in the Erdoğan regime’s homophobic crackdown on Sunday 13 September. writes Uraz Aydin

John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt blamed Israel for America’s Middle Eastern fiascos. But from Iraq to Iran, Washington has had its own reasons for war in the Gulf. explains Gilbert Achcar

AI’s leaders have reason to be alarmed. Public safety cannot depend on preserving America’s lead - writes Simon Pearson

Martin Allen examines the crisis facing young people not in employment, education or training (NEETs) and evaluates the latest Burnham government policy proposals

Dave Kellaway reviews the Ana Mendieta exhibition at Tate Modern from 15 July 2026 to 17 January 2027 and also explores what the gallery caption does not tell us.

Sweden voted yesterday on whether to bring the far right formally into government. The left of centre has a one seat lead but the final result may take a few days. Much of the far right programme has already arrived - writes Simon Pearson on the eve of the election..

The plans to turn the old Truman Brewery right next to Brick Lane into a data centre show everything that is wrong with capitalism and the priorities it has argue Simon Hannah and Terry Conway

Gilbert Achar is interviewed here by the Rosa Luxembourg Stiftung website on the twenty-fifth anniversary of the attack on the Twin Towers.

Establishment parties resent devolution and hate it even more when the right of self-determination is strengthened — as it was in the May elections argues Alan Thornett

Alan Todd writes on the growing fascist threat and how we should be organising against it

Next’s shop workers established equal value without securing equal basic pay. Labour’s consultation must confront the limits of the rights it promises to strengthen, writes Simon Pearson.

Helmut Born gives an initial response to the far right Afd breakthrough in the Saxony-Anhalt region of Germany

25 years on, Gilbert Achcar reflects on the US response to 9/11 and its enduring impact on the region. Interviewed by Jannis Hagmann for Qantara website

Read the OECD's July note twice and the sentence still sits oddly on the page: the triple lock "puts upward pressure on public expenditure and adds significant fiscal risks" (theguardian.com/busines…). Fiscal risk to whom, exactly? Not to the pensioner still on the pre-2016 basic rate, whose income the OECD's own report barely mentions notes Duncan Chapel.

Working people have created trade unions in almost every country on earth to fight for their rights at work. Simon Hannah looks at their strengths and weaknesses.

An important public meeting in defence of Ukrainian power workers took place on 27 August 2026 in London. Philip Inglesant reports from this meeting and discusses the wider issues in the campaign to free the workers.

On 19 August, Eleanora Folan, better known to nearly 100,000 followers as Stats for Lefties, announced her election to the Green Party Council as female representative for the Eastern region. She had been backed by Greens for Palestine. By 4 September she had been suspended — as a member, and thus from the seat explains Chris Brooks.

Lauren Taylor reports back on the first ACR summer residential event

Alan Thornett focuses on the local elections in England, which were disastrous for the governing Labour Party,, and the implications of subsequent developments for Labour's environmental policy.

Dover on Saturday saw the largest uniformed action of fascists since the 1930s. The movement needs to take it seriously says Dave Kellaway

Joshua Cole reports on four days of Bolsheviks, Grunwicks, the manosphere and a karaoke Internationale.

Richard Pearson shows how British Governments look to limit welfare for the poor but maintain welfare for the rich

London & Eastern Health RISC Chair Mark Dunne has been removed from his job by a hostile employer. Mark Boothroyd asks what his union, Unite, is doing to mount a campaign of public leverage?

Simon Pirani writes about the case of Bohdan Syrotiuk, a Ukrainian Trotskyist sentenced to 15 years in jail for writing about the war

Britain’s borrowing costs matter. But a global bond sell-off driven by war and energy prices does not contain an instruction to cut the triple lock. That part is politics. Simon Pearson explains.

An article from Cymru’n Codi on the surge of data centres being built in Cymru