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Go beyond the false ‘choices’ over Brexit

The Daily Express newspaper declared it was Theresa May’s “finest hour” as she defended her Chequers deal on Brexit last weekend.

Brexit didn’t drive Jaguar cuts

One thousand Jaguar car workers in the West Midlands are to be put on a three-day week

Liberals do not have any answers to crisis

Ten years after the collapse of Lehman Brothers, it’s a matter of controversy whether the global economic crisis it helped to precipitate is over.

Survey shows we have to fight for our anti-racist ideas

Despite the racist onslaught from the politicians and the press, a majority of people think immigration has had an overall positive impact on Britain

Bold strikes mean cleaners are winning big

Cleaners across London have got bosses running scared.

Why battles over working hours are key to capitalism

Bosses won’t let us benefit from advances in technology unless we fight them, argues Tomáš Tengely-Evans

Union leaders aren’t doing enough to unite workers in action

If the ambitions of the trade union movement are going to be realised then we need to go beyond sectional battles

Health is a class issue

Women in Britain die earlier than women living in most other European countries, according to Public Health England (PHE).

EU border force Frontex - now with guns to use on migrants

When the Syrian regime begins its latest bloody assault on its own people, politicians in Europe will be ready to feign sorrow for the victims.

The Labour right are attacking the real anti-racists

Something remarkable is happening in the Labour Party. The right is trying to seize the mantle of anti-racism.

‘Community’ is no way to fight against oppression

Sharing a religion or ethnicity doesn’t mean everyone has the same interests, argues Sadie Robinson

Unions must lead action against the Tories

There is a glaring gap between the scale of the Tory crisis and the level of resistance from unions.

Corbyn’s retreat shows Labour’s limitations

Jeremy Corbyn has spent his political life campaigning against oppression, imperialism and racism. His first act after being elected Labour leader in September 2015 was to join a protest in solidarity with refugees.

Car bosses’ Brexit threats expose their weakness

Alistair Farrow looks at why car industry fat cats say they might move production abroad after Brexit

Lies and smears are used by Zionists to erode support for oppressed

Claims that Corbyn personally is an antisemite have gone hand in hand with attempts to cast anti-Zionism—opposition to Israel’s racist founding ideology—as antisemitic.

‘People’s Vote’ over Tory Brexit deal would divide the working class

Theresa May danced on a tightrope over Brexit this summer.

Don’t dismiss Zionism

Jeremy Corbyn has been accused of antisemitism for saying a group of Zionists—people who support Israel’s founding ideology—didn’t understand “English irony”.