A strong showing for Trotskyist currents in the elections provide a golden opportunity for revolutionary forces, but they must overcome historic weaknesses, argue two Argentinian socialists, CM and ICB.
Following a row about Unite's role in the selection of Labour parliamentary candidates, Ed Miliband announced a special conference to re-examine Labour's relationship with the unions. Ian Taylor looks at the tensions between Labour and the unions but also the forces that push them together.
This month marks the third anniversary of the start of the Egyptian revolution. Simon Assaf examines some key lessons while Anne Alexander spoke to three Egyptian revolutionaries.
After years of vicious repression, US workers rose in 1934 in a series of magnificent struggles, transforming the nation's industrial landscape. John Newsinger reviews a new book about one of the most significant, that in Minneapolis.
Ireland has been hailed as an austerity success story. Kieran Allen examines the reality behind the hype and the prospects for resistance from below.
The year 1923 was a decisive year in the history of the international movement. It was the point at which the revolutionary movement sweeping Europe after the victory of the Bolsheviks in 1917 finally broke and began to ebb. And it was also the time at which the Soviet bureaucracy began to firmly consolidate its...
A chorus of condemnation has greeted David Cameron’s launch of an inquiry into trade union tactics in the wake of the Grangemouth affair. Unite the Union has described it as a Tory election stunt and rightly called for a refusal to cooperate with it. Frances O’Grady of the TUC said that it is “simply part...
The deal between the so-called P5+1 (the permanent members of the UN Security Council plus Germany) and Iran represents a recalibration of power relations in the Middle East. On the surface the deal, which temporarily eases some of the sanctions on Iran in return for a suspension of is nuclear programme, is a dramatic breakthrough....
The end of November saw the release of the government’s statistics on winter deaths. Cold weather is a killer in the UK. An estimated 31,100 “excess winter” deaths occurred over the winter of 2012-13, up from 24,000 the previous winter. Most of these deaths occurred among those aged 75 or older. Excess winter deaths are...
This article considers the US health care system as it stands, and then considers what the Affordable Care Act and the Patient Protection Act, (known as Obama Care) will do to improve it. We begin with two statistics, one the US establishment don’t mind talking about and a second one that they remain silent about....
Has the neoliberal ideological offensive succeeded in winning the battle of ideas in society? Not according to recent surveys, writes Mark L Thomas. Two new polls suggest that the majority of workers reject the free market and firmly believe in social democratic values.
The obvious question, given the popular hostility to neoliberalism, is why isn’t there a higher level of fightback especially in the workplace against austerity and an unprecedented assault on working class living standards? The class struggle in Britain remains shaped by the major defeats imposed on the working class in the 1980s by both the...
