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The truly unquenchable greed of our imperialist rulers has reawakened the anger and will to resist among the working class in Britain. The refreshed, and refreshing, willingness of many groups of workers to take strike action, from bus drivers and railway staff to Amazon workers, postal staff and even criminal barristers seems to have shocked … [Read more…]

Royal Mail postal workers, already on strike on 26 and 31 August in a dispute over pay, have now also voted overwhelmingly for further industrial action over working conditions. The Communication Workers Union (CWU) reported that almost 99% of its members voted in favour of taking further strike action on a 72% turnout. Clearly the … [Read more…]

The global internet sales and home entertainment giant, Amazon, has seen the British section of its massive 1.5 million worldwide workforce take unexpected steps into militant resistance as a result of a derisory pay offer. Amazon does not recognise any trade unions in Britain for the purposes of pay and conditions bargaining although some of … [Read more…]

Following the pandemic, the whole world is finding itself in a situation of economic chaos.  Living standards of working people are falling precipitously almost everywhere in the world.  Countries such as Lebanon, Sri Lanka, Pakistan and Ghana are already bankrupt and unable to purchase essentials needed by their populations – medicine, food and energy especially. … [Read more…]

In Holland farmers have for months been blocking roads, dumping manure in front of the homes of politicians, and setting haystacks alight, as well as mobilising massive convoys of tractors and other farm vehicles to disrupt the movement of traffic. Their protest is fuelled by the fact that measures being taken by the Dutch government … [Read more…]

Eric Levy, a veteran of the anti-imperialist movement, died on 20 July 2022 at the age of 94.  Some of us had known him since the 1960s. Born in 1928 in Manchester, spending his childhood in Egypt, he was an active participant in the working-class movement in America, before moving to London in 1958, where … [Read more…]

Former US ambassador calls on Britain and the USA to ‘come to the rescue’ of the world … ‘again’. Robert Wood Johnson, US ambassador to the United Kingdom from 2017 to 2021, recently wrote an article for the Daily Telegraph of 5 August 2022 entitled ‘Britain and America must save Europe from humanitarian disaster’. One … [Read more…]

On the 20 August 2022, in Patriot Park, Kubinka near Moscow, the inaugural gathering of the International Anti-Fascist Congress (IAFC) was opened.  Organised by the Russian Ministry of Defence (MOD) with the stated aim of uniting “the efforts of the international community to combat the ideology of Nazism in all its manifestations,” the Congress began … [Read more…]

Since Russia began its Special Military Operation (SMO) in Ukraine, not only Trotskyite and revisionist outfits, but also quite a few communist parties have denounced Russia. Further, they have asserted that the conflict in Ukraine is an inter-imperialist war in the outcome of which the proletariat has no interest; that Russia is not defending its … [Read more…]

(By Nina Kosta and George Korkovelos) The British in Greece English historian Elizabeth Barker writes that during WW2, the British government “continued to behave as if Greece was its fiefdom“. The only military aid that Britain gave to Greece was Italian loot from North Africa, while at the same time undermining efforts to buy modern … [Read more…]