Working class struggle

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It’s right to back Sharon Graham

With voting underway in the Unite union leadership election, this piece outlines why Sharon Graham's the best candidate
09 August 2021
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How defeat bred division

On 20 April 1968, leading Tory politician Enoch Powell made his infamous “rivers of blood” speech in which he attacked mass immigration from the Commonwealth. Quoting from the Latin poet Virgil, he proclaimed: “As I look ahead, I am filled with foreboding; like the Roman, I seem to see the River Tiber foaming with much...
02 July 2019
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Jamaica’s labour rebellion

Anger at low wages, unemployment and colonial racism provoked a series of strikes across the British Caribbean 80 years ago. Christian Høgsbjerg describes the events which solidified the working class.
30 April 2018
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The rich will be poor and the poor will be rich

The Pentrich Rising in June 1817 emerged from the economic crisis and political repression following the Napoleonic Wars. James Dean recounts the story of this early example of a workers’ insurrection.
31 May 2017
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The balance of class forces after the Brexit vote

The world changed a little after Britain voted to leave the EU. Socialist Review spoke to Charlie Kimber, editor of Socialist Worker, about the new challenges revolutionaries face in the current period.
06 September 2016
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Working class gets an injection

The junior doctors' strikes raise questions about how socialists should define the working class.
02 February 2016
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Confidence in the balance

Workers face a massive challenge in taking on the Tories' anti-trade union bill. Julie Sherry draws the lessons from the steady trickle of victorious localised disputes.
30 November 2015
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Them and us in history

Today when the working class is under sustained attack from the Tories, John Newsinger's new book on the class war in Britain is timely. Here he picks out the lessons from the explosive year of 1911.
30 June 2015