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All men are created equal? We believe that all men are created equal – yet around the world today our brothers and sisters are in chains. Our souls cry out in anger and pain when we see slave markets re-born in Libya, in the 21st century. How has humanity arrived at this shameful and humiliating … [Read more…]

Housing workers Housing workers in both Knowsley and Manchester are resisting attacks on wages and conditions, happening in both cases under Labour council rule. In Knowsley social housing repairs are contracted out to Vivark Ltd and Knowsley Housing Trust whilst the council tries to shuffle off responsibility. Vivark workers have seen their conditions of employment … [Read more…]

Each year London’s Stalin Society holds a meeting in December celebrating the occasion of the anniversary of Stalin’s birth. This year the meeting was addressed by a British teenager, who made the following significant contribution: When we discuss the significance of Stalin to young people today, we need to recognise that in Britain most young … [Read more…]

This year the working class and the oppressed classes of the whole world are celebrating the centenary of the great October socialist revolution. There may be people who imagine that as a result of the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 there is nothing to celebrate, but that would be a profound error. The … [Read more…]

On 27 October the long-running dispute between the Spanish central government and the regional Catalan government came to a head, with the central government suspending Catalonia’s autonomous regional government for persisting in unconstitutional activity and the latter, unconstitutionally, declaring itself to have seceded and formed an independent sovereign state. Demonstrations rallying hundreds of thousands of … [Read more…]

The US President, Donald Trump, has been rattling his sabre at a quite alarming rate over the last few weeks regarding both Iran and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. No one becomes the President of the United States without the support of at least a portion of the imperialist ruling elite but again, he … [Read more…]

With the Daesh blockade of Deir Ezzor broken, the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) continues to make progress in freeing the Euphrates valley from Daesh, whilst continuing the struggle to liberate Idlib governorate from the grip of the al-Qaeda-related al-Nusra Front and establish full control of the M20 highway running north-east from Palmyra to Deir Ezzor. … [Read more…]

On 5 September Moscow proposed a draft resolution for the UN, to send lightly armed UN peacekeepers to protect OSCE (Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe) monitors patrolling the front line between the Donbass republics and the Ukraine military. From Poroshenko the response was predictable. The junta said Moscow’s proposal was “strange”, rejected the … [Read more…]

Despite being under siege from US imperialism and the local comprador bourgeoisie, who have been severely stepping up their acts of sabotage of the Venezuelan people’s economic interests, the people of Venezuela delivered through last month’s regional elections a resounding No to US imperialist attempts to interfere in their country’s internal affairs. A record 61.4% … [Read more…]

Many workers in the lucrative care home industry have for years been denied the minimum hourly rate (currently £7.50) for ‘sleep-in’ nightshifts, instead being fobbed off with a flat rate to cover the whole night. In theory the government is committed to enforcing payment of the minimum wage in this sector. In practice, however, the … [Read more…]