It is the 80th anniversary of Hiroshima on Wednesday 6 August
Boris Johnson’s attack on the burqa has left some liberals with a problem.
Would a minimum price for alcohol benefit working class people and reduce the harm done by excessive drinking?
Highly damaging leaks from a meeting at Downing Street have demolished Theresa May’s claim she will deliver a smooth Brexit for all.
Lib Dem leader Tim Farron is trying hard to rebrand the party’s image after it jumped into bed with David Cameron.
Ordinary people are told that it is in their interests to support the European Single Market. In reality the single market was designed to nurture and protect giant corporations.
Should we limit how many migrants are allowed in?
Workers have no interest in maintaining controls on migration—they exist to protect the powerful and should be scrapped
The world’s rich have plenty of wealth that we could use to end austerity.
Most people will be understandably horrified by Isis’s latest atrocity, the burning alive of Jordanian military pilot Moaz al-Kasasbeh.
People in Greece are furious that austerity is being imposed on them in exchange for bailouts of the government’s debt to the bankers.
Socialist Worker believes that Nazis should never be allowed to speak publicly or organise openly.
Not all workers are exploited in the same way—but capitalism still needs their work, and that gives them power to hit back
Common sense tells us that immigration needs to be curtailed but in reality all controls aim to drive a racist wedge between workers with identical class interests
It’s time the Tories saw a real fight. They are under pressure. People blame them and their cuts for the chaos of their flooded homes. Polls show that 60 percent of people think that they have handled the floods badly.
Revolution is being hotly debated since Russell Brand wrote an article in the New Statesman calling for the overthrow of the current political system. And Brand’s argument that we need a revolution to get rid of our system riddled with “lies, treachery and deceit” has received a lot of support. It’s no surprise so many people feel that to get rid of inequality we will need a revolution.
It’s the 21st century and women are still oppressed. For all the talk of equality, we still haven’t achieved it. Women in Britain are still paid, on average, less than men. Women still do more housework and childcare. And women are far more likely to suffer domestic abuse and violence.
Revulsion at the way multinationals use cheap labour reached a new height in the wake of the factory collapse in Bangladesh last month.
Socialist Worker opposes all immigration controls. They exist to police working class people and spread racist division.
The biggest selling newspapers in Britain are viciously right wing. The Sun has the highest circulation, selling around 2.7 million issues a day. Its nearest competitor, the Daily Mail, sells just over 2 million.
It sometimes seems impossible to imagine life without capitalism.
Many people, including some in anti‑fascist groups, have responded to Anders Behring Breivik’s murderous rampage by calling for fascist organisations to be banned. Still more want the authorities to ban their marches.
