THE QUESTION of what we owe to the capitalist system is important. In the anti-capitalist movement there is a tendency to argue that capitalism is simply a system of exploitation and oppression, and that nothing good has ever come out of it.
RESPECT SUPPORTERS turned out in force last weekend to campaign in the St Dunstan’s and Stepney Green council by-election in Tower Hamlets, east London.
RESPECT WON the best ever by-election vote in England for a party outside the three major parties when it fought the Leicester South parliamentary by-election.
The battle by civil service workers and their union, PCS, to resist these attacks is vital for every worker in Britain, particularly the millions employed in the public sector.
CIVIL SERVANTS are gearing up for a big fight against over 100,000 job cuts—and Socialist Worker’s backing for their campaign is proving a hit.
RESPECT’S RESULTS in the Leicester South and Birmingham Hodge Hill by-elections have rocked the political establishment.
LYNNE HUBBARD, a health worker who was active in the Hodge Hill campaign, told Socialist Worker, "In some areas of the constituency it was clear that we had won many of the people who were central to all the stop the war activity to Respect.
I ARGUED last week that a revolutionary party is not necessary for a revolution to begin—but it is necessary for that revolution to succeed.
Canary Wharf in east London is the site of the cathedrals of capitalism. It is the most concentrated area of wealth in Britain. Its only rival is the very heart of the City around the Bank of England.
I work as a cleaner, 9.30pm to 6am, five nights a week, Sunday to Thursday.
A GROUP of workers in Merseyside had a "miracle escape" two weeks ago, according to firefighters. The minibus they were travelling to work in crashed into a lorry.
THOUSANDS OF civil rights activists flock to a place where the state is systematically persecuting an ethnic minority. Idealistic young people are beaten and even killed by police in alliance with paramilitary gangs, who bomb churches and homes.
