You can almost admire the skilful balancing act carried out by the Morning Star in its coverage of the TUC Congress (13-16 September). Pages of worthy articles by bureaucrats and uncritical…

Ideas for Freedom is a weekend of discussion, debate, and education, hosted by Workers’ Liberty.This year it will take place on 21-22 November at Camden School for Girls, Sandall Rd, London NW5 2DB.Sa...

On Saturday 5 September four or five hundred supporters of a new umbrella far right group, Patriot Platform, blocked a main road in Dover, stopping traffic.

It is the 70th anniversary of Béla Lugosi’s death. Ask just about anyone what Béla Lugosi is famous for, and you will probably get one or two replies: his performance as Dracula and his appearance in…

“Be on the right side of history” is an aphorism that has become all but meaningless through overuse. But even if it had not had its meaning wrung from it by social-media saturation, it ought to be…

The radio goes off, and you glance at it, wondering what they want from you. You are already out of service, running into the depot. This almost certainly means they’re finding more work for you. The…

Sharon Graham has been reelected as general secretary of Unite the union.

Ballot papers for the Scottish Labour Party leadership election will be issued from 28 August. The ballot will close on 17 September.

The only time I appeared on television was way back in 1976, as a representative of the Merseyside Anti-Fascist Committee. I helped to organise a programme on “racialism”, as racism was termed then,…

In France, the talk is of a "Zucman tax", not of a "wealth tax". France already has a wealth tax of sorts (but only on real estate). More to the point, it had a wider wealth tax from 1981 to 2017,…

With this paper, we are launching a three-month campaign to raise £15,000, ending at Ideas for Freedom on the weekend of 21-22 November. We have no big money backers or crypto-billionaires to help…

Unison members in local government will receive a pay increase of 3.3%, against a claim for £3,000 or 10%, whichever was the greater. Pay in local government has gone down by 25% since 2009, in the…

Quinn Slobodian's and Ben Tarnoff's book Muskism tells well the life so far of Elon Musk.

My article "Rosa Luxemburg on renewing Marxism" mentioned at the end the interest shown by Antonio Gramsci (1891-1937) in Rosa Luxemburg's 1903 Vorwärts article "Stillstand und Fortschritt im…

By 1867 Karl Marx was fairly well-known in the European and US workers’ movements, through his activity in the First International, founded in September 1864.

The SWP, publishers of Socialist Worker (SW), have published a new book on imperialism, Death Rides Out, by Tomáš Tengely-Evans, editor of SW.

As I write, Andy Burnham has been Labour Leader and Prime Minister for just over a month, and it is one month now until Labour’s 2026 annual conference on 27-30 September in Liverpool. There is…

Two former leaders of the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China, Lee Cheuk-yan and Chow Hang-tung, were found guilty by the Hong Kong High Court on 21 August of…

Writing about the crimes of a sex offender like Simon Levy, jailed on 13 August for killing two women and raping a third while on bail for sexual assault offences is difficult, but the Socialist…

Paul Conrathe, the right-wing Christian lawyer who has spearheaded legal cases against both abortion and trans rights, and whose firm acted for Stephen Flaherty, has written to the TUC following the…

A new UNICEF analysis, The Cost of Inaction on Girls’ Education and Women’s Labour Force Participation in Afghanistan, has found that female representation in the civil service fell from 21 per cent…

The row about Cambridge professor Jason Arday moved fast from reasonable questions to reckless vilification. “Black Leaders in Higher Education” , a group of Black professors, university managers,…

“Climate tipping points” (CTPs) are a key way to frame the dangers that human activity presents to the stability of the climate. Climatological and ecological earth systems that humanity relies on…

The new student Campaign against Fees, Cuts, and Debt is making plans for the coming term. A conference on 31 July and 1 August brought together activists from around the country. That campaign is…

The long running dispute of the PCS civil service union with the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) continues. The dispute is focussed on office closures and their…

Public consultations on updated plans for the Jackdaw gas field east of Aberdeen and the bigger Rosebank oil and gas field north of Shetland closed on 10 August 2026 (Jackdaw) and 17 August…

In August 1932 Reg Groves, Harry Wicks and Henry Sara were summoned to the regional office of the Communist Party of Great Britain. They were there to answer charges. The three, along with other CPGB…

Donald Trump is afraid of losing in the 3 November midterm elections which replace the whole of the House of Representatives and one-third of the Senate. At a recent rally he claimed “I’m going to be…

As the battlelines are relatively static, Ukraine and Russia are increasingly locked into a war to destroy economic, civilian targets. It is the wrong fight for Ukraine to choose, and is not one it…

In April of this year six members of the anti-war youth movement Vesna (“Spring”) were sentenced to between six and twelve years in prison. The charges against them included “disseminating false…

Western Sahara remains Africa’s last major unresolved colonial question. When Spain relinquished control of the territory in 1975, it handed the territory to Morocco and Mauritania despite an…

Fidel Castro, it is said, opposed personality cults and prohibited naming streets, public squares or institutions after himself. He likewise banned statues and monuments in his likeness. So we can…

Unite members at the RNLI lifeboat manufacturing site in East Cowes remain in dispute over the closing of the site and redundancies. Following our report in Solidarity 772 there have been two more…

Bus workers in Arriva North London have rejected a first management offer and are continuing their strikes. Their main demand is that all buses are fitted with sufficient and effective air…

The Israeli government has begun a tendering process for construction contracts in the so-called E1 area in the occupied West Bank. E1 is situated to the east of Jerusalem. If an Israeli settlement…

An anti-racist committee to campaign against the new Reform leadership of the local council has now been established as a subcommittee of Wakefield Trades Council, and based on affiliated trade…

Over a series of articles, I am going to examine Andy Burnham’s pledge on council house building which alongside devolution, is one of his signature policies so far. These articles will explore the…

The Memorandum of Understanding signed on 17 June by the US and Iran expired on Monday 17 August. It was billed as providing for a 60-day period of negotiations to bring an end to the war which began…

A Socialist Alternative campaign stall in Sheffield was attacked by a far right "auditor" on Saturday 15 August.

Since September 2025 polling for Reform has been falling gradually, from around 30% to around 25% now ( PollCheck, based on an average of several polls). The drop is significant but not so dramatic…