In Tunisia’s recent parliamentary elections Nida Tunis (Call for Tunisia) secured 85 MPs in the 217-seat parliament, with the former governing party Ennahda (Islamic Renaissance) trailing with 69 seats. The party is now projected to win the presidential elections in December, with its leader Beji Caid Essebsi — former politician of the old regime —...
Tory home secretary Theresa May is giving police and intellegence services widespread new powers to snoop into our computers. The planned anti-terrorism and security bill will allow security forces to link data to smartphones and laptops through the IP address, the internet protocol that connects a device to the internet at a given time. The...
The sight of militant pensioners and disabled people wearing Freedom Rider T-shirts while noisily protesting is now commonplace across South Yorkshire. For the last nine months the South Yorkshire Freedom Riders have been fighting to get free train travel reinstated for older and disabled people. The Labour-dominated South Yorkshire Passenger Transport Executive’s (SYPTE) decision to...
Anyone living in Tower Hamlets is used to the east London borough being at the centre of political storms. From the fight against the fascist National Front in the 1970s, through the Wapping printers’ strikes and dock strikes in the 1980s, the battle against the Nazi British National Party (BNP) in the 1990s, to the...
The OBE was invented as a way of tying ordinary people to a system in deep crisis, writes John Newsinger, while the man who came up with the idea was part of a cover up into the sexual abuse of children.
The 1914 Christmas truce has been sanitised and commercialised. But as Chris Fuller explains, the generals were terrified of where it could lead, and resolved to crush any similar fraternisation.
Hong Kong's Occupy movement has inspired and engaged vast numbers of young people. Au Loong Yu, a revolutionary socialist, assesses its strengths and weaknesses following pitched battles with the police.
There is a strong tradition of intervention in elections from the revolutionary left. Charlie Kimber learns from the experiences of Marx, Engels and Lenin, while confronting the reality of today.
Lam Chi Leung is a revolutionary socialist based in Hong Kong. He spoke to Sally Kincaid and Sally Campbell about the future of the Umbrella movement one month on.
Bankers were crowing at the end of October when it was revealed that “only” 25 Eurozone banks failed stress tests conducted by the European Central Bank (ECB). The tests, which looked at how banks would cope with adverse economic conditions, highlighted particular problems for the troubled Italian economy, where nine banks failed, but gave the...
Unite’s decision to call off a local government strike in October is well known. Less well publicised has been the union’s role at Luton-based Monarch Airlines, where its members suffered massive pay cuts and wholesale redundancies in the past month. Monarch is a medium-size airline, its 42 aircraft flying 6 million holidaymakers to the Mediterranean...
Support is growing for a “People’s Inquiry” into the Rotherham sex abuse scandal. Barrister Michael Mansfield QC has already agreed to help such an investigation after the launch of a trade union campaign calling for “Justice for the 1,400 – don’t let the racists divide us”. The justice campaign has been welcomed after the horrific...
