As we received texts telling us of Royal Mail’s attempts to run a major scabbing operation around the country, many of us on the picket line last week were reminded of the 1980s.
Elected on a wave of revulsion with the Tories in 1997, New Labour today is in crisis. The party faces wipeout at the next election. Opinion polls predict it could lose 17 of its 44 MPs in London alone.
The victims of the West’s wars have become beggars on our doorstep. Desperate people trying to escape persecution on the other side of the globe saw their temporary shelters destroyed by the CRS French riot police last week.
One activist agreed to take us to a secret location near Calais university, where a group of Iranian students were hiding.
Abu Jabr is not someone you would normally find among the Calais asylum seekers.
What a pathetic, spineless bunch our managers are.
The occupation in August and ongoing campaign by the Vestas workers has electrified both the climate change movement and the struggle for jobs.
After a particularly messy break up, a close friend phoned me to gleefully request I buy her the "All men are bastards" knife block, which she had discovered when typing the phrase into Google.
Every Sunday at 11am, Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez welcomes Venezuelans to "Alo Presidente" on the country’s state-run television and radio stations.
Marxism is not a rigid set of rules into which facts must be squeezed to fit – it is a tool for understanding and changing the world. Reality has always thrown up surprises and new challenges.
Socialist Worker offers a guide to painlessly raising huge amounts of money and cutting costs.
No platform for Nazis Michael Rosen, broadcaster
