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1+ day, 3+ hour ago (11+ words) From street movements to state power: How modern fascism organises'Socialist Worker...
Greedy MPs award themselves inflation-busting pay rise
1+ day, 3+ hour ago (706+ words) MPs sitting in the House of Commons chamber (Picture: UK Parliament / Maria Unger) Greedy MPs are planning to grab "300 million in salaries and business expenses over the next year. They are awarding themselves a 5 percent pay rise. This includes an…...
Teach Yourself Marxism: What is commodity fetishism?
1+ day, 7+ hour ago (622+ words) Capitalism presents us with a huge variety of commodities (Pic: Wikimedia commons) A lot of the time we feel powerless to change the system or even our own lives. One explanation of that sense of powerlessness is what Karl Marx…...
Scottish UCU rallies against bosses' cuts
2+ day, 4+ hour ago (302+ words) The joint rally in Bristo Square, Edinburgh Over 200 university strikers and their supporters rallied in Edinburgh's Bristo Square on Wednesday. The joint rally was called by the UCU union branches at Heriot-Watt and the University of Edinburgh. UCU members at…...
Reform UK want to cut billions and implent austerity
2+ day, 4+ hour ago (611+ words) Reform UK has announced that it will implement sweeping austerity if the far right party wins office." At a press conference on Thursday Nigel Farage said that his party would carry out "the biggest cuts to the benefits bill ever…...
NEU union conference: motion condemns 'barbarous' imperial war
3+ day, 50+ min ago (392+ words) The motion called for wages and welfare, not weapons and warfare Education workers have slammed the British state's complicity in the United States-Israeli war on Iran. Delegates at the NEU union's conference in Brighton on Wednesday called out the Labour…...
'West must understand resistance is our right': The battle of Nabi Chit in Lebanon
4+ day, 7+ hour ago (842+ words) Mayor Sayyed Hani el Moussawi stands amid the wreckage of Nabi Chit (Picture: Guy Smallman) Nabi Chit, a small town in eastern Lebanon nestled in the fertile Bekaa Valley, has a long history of resistance. It is the birthplace of…...
Sensitive portraits show the power of community
4+ day, 8+ hour ago (174+ words) The exhibition showed the experience of the asylum seekers aboard the Bibby Stockholm barge in Dorset and the community that rallied around them. At a time when we are being pitted against asylum seekers by politicians and the mainstream media,…...
Israeli death penalty enshrines apartheid
4+ day, 5+ hour ago (806+ words) The Israeli parliament erupted in cheers at the thought of murdering more Palestinians on Monday. Lawmakers had just passed the death penalty law, meaning any Palestinian Israel deems guilty of murder "with the intent to deny the existence of the…...
NEU union conference: motion steps up fight to stop Reform UK
4+ day, 6+ hour ago (500+ words) Education workers will throw their "full weight" behind "stopping a Reform UK government" and campaigning against the fascists. Delegates at the NEU union's annual conference in Brighton this week discussed how to take forward the fight against racism days after…...