Billy Parry, chairperson of Unite’s national industrial sector committee for construction pays tribute to the late GEORGE GUYThe North West region of the construction section of Unite has received man...

EUROPE was plunged into darkness and suffered from intense crop failures and famines in the years AD536 and AD1258, after massive volcanic eruptions.When many people think of volcanic eruptions, they ...

“IF IT wasn’t for the weavers…” (Lyrics from a traditional Scottish folk song)Across these islands it can be hard work to trace our working-class history and, like other cities, Glasgow is littered wi...

THE Financial Times reports that the Trump administration is considering fresh Magnitsky sanctions on Alexandre de Moraes, the Brazilian Supreme Court judge who presided over the case that sent former...

MY 20 years’ service as a councillor at “the Grenfell Council” ended on May 7. I could no longer bear to be seen as complicit with the Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea Council’s ongoing failu...

NIGEL FARAGE has invited trade union leaders to attend Reform UK’s annual conference and claims he will lay out routes for unions to affiliate to his party. Reform, he insists, is now “the party of th...

Pivot from Mandelson: the advice from Global CounselA TOP consultant from Peter Mandelson’s lobbying firm Global Counsel suggested Business Secretary Peter Kyle was acting too like Peter Mandelson and...

MY INTRODUCTION to politics came in 2003, when I marched against the Iraq war alongside a million people in Britain and 36 million others around the world.The anti-war movement was right. The war was ...

TINY CUBA — the Jewel of the Caribbean, the Isle of Freedom, the Beacon for the Oppressed — is clinging by a thread to its independence and its vision.Revolutionary Cuba — defiant of the world’s most ...

SHADOW World Investigations (SWI) and Paul Holden, author of The Fraud: Keir Starmer, Morgan McSweeney and the Crisis of British Democracy, are today announcing a new investigative project about the t...

GAZA requires urgent international attention.What is happening in the besieged and devastated Strip at the moment by far exceeds an unfolding humanitarian disaster; it is a calculated geopolitical res...

THE Sunderland car plant is the largest of its kind in Britain. It employs 6,000 people directly, supports tens of thousands more in its supply chain, and is one of the few remaining anchors of high-q...

WHAT do those protesting long and loud about the police handling of Henry Nowak’s murder actually want?After all, the murderer, Vickrum Digwa, has now been convicted and will serve more than 20 years ...

SOMETIMES members in the union say to me, “Fran — why is PCS commenting on Palestine or Iran or Ukraine? Focus on the members.”I say this: “Because it’s the right thing to do so. Injustice has to be c...

KANYA KING CBE died on June 3 2026. She died peacefully, surrounded by her family and close friends, after a courageous battle with colon cancer. She was 62 years old.She should have had decades more....

THE Committee for the Defence of Iranian People’s Rights (Codir) has issued a warning that the exchange of missile strikes between Israel and Iran could result in a dangerous escalation of the conflic...

SINCE being first elected in 2017, Portsmouth South MP Stephen Morgan has shown little tolerance for those who disagree with or challenge him.On and off for more than a year, pro-Palestine activists w...

EXTREME weather with fires in the summer and floods in the winter, food shortages, with harvests failing every other year, poor health and growing poverty are all consequences of the climate crisis th...

THE publication of the interim report of the Milburn review into young people and work represents a sinister milestone in the ongoing neoliberal assault on the British welfare state.

FACED with mounting military expenditure in Europe, cuts in social spending to finance it, and political attempts to whip up war fever spreading across Europe to justify it, a major European internati...

THIS year marks the 150th anniversary of the Fownhope Heart of Oak Society, rooted — excuse the pun — in that very fine tradition of friendly societies, an early collectivism that protected people in ...

IN 2019, after a new constitution was approved by an overwhelming majority public vote, the Cuban government legalised independent international co-production for the first time. In 2022 I took two ca...

GIORGIA MELONI’S demand for an apology from Israel after Italian Palestinian solidarity activists were arrested on the multi-nation Gaza aid flotilla is a breach in the European Union’s wall of suppor...

A FEW weeks ago, Donald Trump told reporters that he expects the Cuban government to be gone by the end of the year. He called Cuba “a failed country” and added: “Other presidents have looked at this ...

LIKUD and other nationalist members of the Knesset violently disrupted a parliamentary conference organised by Hadash’s communist lawmakers against ethnic cleansing of Palestinian communities — only t...

FEDERAL investigators at the Justice and Treasury Departments have reportedly launched a sweeping inquiry into Cuba solidarity organisations, raising the danger of a revival of McCarthyite tactics to ...

WHEN British Gas held its AGM in London on May 31 1995, its top boss, Cedric Brown, faced an unusual protest. Members of the GMB union had engaged the services of a 20-stone saddleback sow named Cedri...

IT ALL started with a call to my family in a displacement camp in northern Gaza.Since internet lines rarely stay connected, I managed to send a message to the widow of my cousin, who was killed along ...

RAUL CASTRO was born on this day in the small Cuban village of Biran in Holguin Province in 1931.If there was ever a time when we needed to celebrate the life and contribution of this heroic revolutio...

TRADE unionists have every reason to welcome the new Employment Rights Act 2025. After years of anti-union legislation, restrictions on industrial action and attacks on workplace rights, measures that...

THE country’s upgrade to secondary emerging market status, coupled with regional-leading macroeconomic growth and deep institutional reforms, is unlocking large-scale opportunities for international i...

WAR-DRIVEN austerity is a storm about to hit Europe. Indeed, the first gales are already blowing through the political system.Energy prices are due to rise 13 per cent this autumn, a rise directly cau...

THE people of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have long had to contend with the forces of neocolonialism staging coups, assassinating its popular leader, fomenting conflicts and stealing the re...

IN THE past six weeks hostile pressure against Mexico from Washington has increased significantly, with a combination of lawfare and covert action.The first public information indicating such action e...

FOR those unfamiliar with the intricate machinery of Israeli politics, the unanimous 110-0 vote to dissolve the Knesset on May 20 appears to be an earth-shattering event. On the surface, it looks as i...

IN RESPONSE to recent developments in Venezuela under imperialist siege, international solidarity activists should adopt a stance that does not inadvertently reinforce Washington’s drive for dominatio...

IT’S REALLY important Reform doesn’t win the Makerfield by-election. It is standing on a hard-right platform including promises to deport any foreign nationals who fail its “economic test.”This means ...

THERE’S an old African proverb that says: “Until the lions have their own historians the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter.”This came to mind last weekend when I watched a one woman p...

IF YOU go looking for rats you will find them. Rats are so ubiquitous here in Washington, DC — and I am referring specifically to the rodent variety — that I saw one trotting along the pavement the ot...

THOUGH it feels largely forgotten today, the creation of the Climate Change Committee (CCC) in 2008 was a huge victory for the climate movement.It was one of the key parts of the Climate Change Act (C...

MAY Day is the most important public celebration in Cuba. This year, which marked the 100th anniversary of Fidel Castro’s birth, carried special significance in light of heightened US aggression. Over...

A RECURRING headline here in the more left-leaning mainstream media is the precipitously downward slide of President Donald Trump’s approval ratings. They are in freefall, they crow, hitting new lows ...

“WHAT cared the Spanish planters in Cuba, who burned down forests on the slopes of the mountains and obtained from the ashes sufficient fertiliser for one generation of very highly profitable coffee t...

CURRENTLY, neither workers’ history, workers’ rights nor the trade union movement is something that is taught in the formal education system.Schools and colleges are supposed to equip young people wit...

THERE is only a very small select group of people that I regret never having had the opportunity to sit down and talk politics with. One of those is Chris Hani, the South African Communist Party leade...

OVER 60 years ago now, the Beeching cuts or as it was better known the “Beeching Axe” ripped up whole sections of Britain’s railway network.In his first report for the government in 1963, Richard Beec...

OVER the last year, a creative team from the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama has been exploring the importance of the arts within the social and political record of human experience.Tasked wi...

AFTER an hour’s lively discussion first thing in the morning, following two hours of thoughtful and passionate debate yesterday afternoon, over a series of proposed rule changes which would have led t...

OUR best hope for progressive policies in this Senedd term? The TUC Cymru position paper “How We Build a Wales that Works for Everyone” provides the platform that we can build unity around. And it is ...

AT THE height of the 2022-23 strike “wave,” nurses, paramedics, doctors, civil servants, teachers and many others took part in the largest surge of industrial action seen in decades.What distinguished...