Israel keeps up killings with West's green light
As Palestinians return to the ruins of Gaza, unexploded bombs and starvation await while Israel stalls any ceasefire negotiations.| Socialist Worker
Defend Our Juries (DOJ) has announced a “significant escalation” in actions against the ban of Palestine Action. Activists in 18 towns and cities will take part in what DOJ describes as “the most widespread mass civil disobedience in modern British history” next month. DOJ plans Lift The Ban protests in Edinburgh, Cardiff, Oxford, Leeds, Aberystwyth,...| Socialist Worker
The most powerful storm of the year so far hit Jamaica on Tuesday this week. Hurricane Melissa is classed as a category five storm, the maximum strength. While Jamaica often faces tropical storms, this is set to be the most powerful storm to reach land on the island since records began. It will bring...| Socialist Worker
The Italian state is cracking down on the Palestine solidarity movement. On Saturday, the police detained five activists, with three being imprisoned, during a protest outside the Pharmaexpo in Naples. The protest was organised by the Naples for Palestine network and the SI Cobas trade union, which which helped organise the previous general strikes for...| Socialist Worker
As Palestinians return to the ruins of Gaza, unexploded bombs and starvation await while Israel stalls any ceasefire negotiations.| Socialist Worker
In Northern Cyprus, left candidate Tufan Erhurman won in a landslide victory last week against the hard right Turkish-Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar. Cyprus is divided between the internationally recognised Republic of Cyprus, in the south, and the Turkish republic in the north, recognised only by Turkey. Following a nationalist coup in 1974 that aimed to...| Socialist Worker
Donald Trump’s tour of south east Asia this week was about more than trade deals to benefit the United States economy. The US president was also there to rattle his sabre at China. Trump wants to use his threat of sky-high trade tariffs—taxes on imports from the region—to force more countries into alignment with him...| Socialist Worker
UCU and Unite union members at Imperial College in London struck on Monday and Tuesday this week over pay and conditions. Workers at Imperial were offered a pitiful 2 percent pay rise. They are fuming that the offer was imposed on them and say the university doesn’t see workers as a priority. UCU member David...| Socialist Worker
Donald Trump likes to posture on the world stage as a peacemaker. But that isn’t how it looks in Latin America. He’s just ordered the USS Gerald R Ford, the US’s largest aircraft carrier, to join a growing military build-up directed against president Nicolas Maduro in Venezuela. The US already had 10,000 troops, eight warships,...| Socialist Worker
Green councillors in Scotland have defected, but as sections of Your Party push to the right, Glasgow show intervening is essential.| Socialist Worker
Sabrina Mukarker Zeidan is a Palestinian photographer based in Bethlehem. She spoke to Socialist Worker about her work under occupation. Can you talk about some of the stories behind the images you feel most powerfully capture life in Palestine? Most of my photography addresses what I witnessed as a child and what I have witnessed...| Socialist Worker
In the wake of Yasser Arafat’s death, John Rose assesses the legacy of a leader who embodied the Palestinian struggle for liberation| Socialist Worker
Despite relocations and restrictions, anti-racists chucked the fascists out of Tower Hamlets and outnumbered Tenconi's Ukip demonstration.| Socialist Worker
As Israel's use of bombs becomes restrained it is turning to tactics of divide and rule in Gaza, funding gangs opposing Hamas to sow chaos.| Socialist Worker
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The road to the Southport atrocity was paved by the system, from schools to mental health services, failing the family of Axel Rudakubana| Socialist Worker
The Birmingham bin strike is at a critical stage after Labour sent cops to break up the picket lines of workers| Socialist Worker
A survivor of one of the deadliest attempts to cross the English Channel has spoken out about the way the state abandoned them.| Socialist Worker
Reform UK can feel like an unstoppable juggernaut. But up and down the country, anti-racists are out campaigning to stem the rise of the far right party.| Socialist Worker
Tweed jackets. Make Britain Great Again hats. People chanting, “Send them back.” Nigel Farage arriving on a JCB digger. These were the scenes at far right party Reform UK’s rally in Birmingham on Friday night. The rally was a launch of Reform UK’s council and mayoral election campaigns on 1 May—and was a masterclass in...| Socialist Worker
Labour are failing people and Reform UK are benefiting. We need to expose Reform for the racists they are and resist their rhetoric| Socialist Worker
But Reform UK will not fall apart by itself, anti-racists must organise against it| Socialist Worker
The authoritarianism of the US state was on show in LA on Saturday. Thomas Foster reports from a barrage of rubber bullets, tear gas and flash-bang grenades| Socialist Worker
In this new Netflix documentary, a timeline of events unfold during the period of the “crack epidemic” which began in the early 1980s in US cities.| Socialist Worker
The city of Philadelphia has seen two days of militant mass protests after the police shot and killed Walter Wallace, a 27 year old black man on Monday.| Socialist Worker
The current revolt in LA is not a novelty, but a continuation of a city's struggle against a racist system| Socialist Worker
Socialism isn’t about state control. It’s about workers seizing control from the bottom up, writes Judy Cox| Socialist Worker
Donate to a socialist voice against Starmer Keir Starmer knows where he stands: on the side against workers, disabled people, refugees, Palestine activists and trans+ people. We also know where we stand. We say it is the billionaires and their system, not refugees, migrants and Muslims, who are to blame. We campaign for a free...| Socialist Worker
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Siân Ruddick looks at the role of the police in maintaining class rule| Socialist Worker
Tory Home Secretary expands cop's powers to stop and search without suspicion. It will lead to more police racism| Socialist Worker
Rage at the Labour government ran through the People’s Assembly national demonstration in central London on Saturday.| Socialist Worker
Labour plans to boost military spending will make the world more dangerous—and working class people pay the price with austerity.| Socialist Worker
The US's plan to use the Ukraine war to boost US imperialism hasn't worked as Russia turns to the US's main rival China.| Socialist Worker
Around 350,000 people took to the streets of London on Saturday as Israel bombards Iran and slaughters Palestinians in Gaza.| Socialist Worker
Trump has targeted the centre of burgeoning global capitalism, the Middle East, but his plan to increase US power might not all go his way.| Socialist Worker
The far right want women to be docile, submissive and easily controlled. But women have always fought back.| Socialist Worker
The Iranian nuclear facility Natanz has been destoryed as part of Israel's "Operation Rising Lion"| Socialist Worker
Arthur Townend answers your questions on Israel, Iran and imperialism| Socialist Worker
It’s a cliche now that we live in an increasingly dangerous and unstable world. Financial markets anxiously calculate “geopolitical risk”. Europe’s biggest war since 1945 rages in Ukraine. Before our eyes Israel is organising a genocide. And, to cap it all, Donald Trump has been re-elected on an “America First” platform. These developments represent the...| Socialist Worker
Thomas Foster answers six vital questions about what kind of society is Iran—and why Israel and the West want to destroy it| Socialist Worker
Nigel Farage’s far right, racist party Reform UK is the big winner of the local elections, as the party is set to win hundreds of seats| Socialist Worker
MPs have voted to hand the Labour government control of the British Steel plant in Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire| Socialist Worker
Joseph Choonara spoke to Socialsit Worker about the breaks and continuities of neoliberalism as Trump's trade war esculates| Socialist Worker
A new report into Reform UK has insights about the far right party, how to campaign against it and the potential for a left alternative| Socialist Worker
The support for Reform UK in the local elections last week is major threat. So is the response from Labour| Socialist Worker
Far right demonstrations took place in towns and cities across Britain on Saturday. They were met with anti-racist counter-protests| Socialist Worker
John Prescott was a militant in the National Union of Seamen. He threw his principles overboard| Socialist Worker
Tulip Siddiq, Labour's former anti-corruption minister, is on trial for allegedly using family ties to obtain state-owned land.| Socialist Worker
Housing secretary Angela Rayner pledged to build 1.5 million houses. Her efforts to buy them has led to her downfall.| Socialist Worker
Campaigners are organising local meetings to discuss what the new left electoral party should look like| Socialist Worker
On the 75th anniversary of the assassination of the Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky, Sue Caldwell asks if his ideas can help activists fighting for another world today| Socialist Worker
Why do women’s sports, from the world stage to local level, get different treatment to men’s sports? The pressures on women don’t fade away| Socialist Worker
England penalty scorer Chloe Kelly told the BBC, “I’m so proud to be English.” The footballers have had to fight racism, sexism and homophobia.| Socialist Worker
Thomas Foster went undercover in the party in Essex. He exposes the rotten core of racism and hard right hatred at the heart of Reform UK.| Socialist Worker
If tens of thousands of people can organise a mass movement and confront the state then why do we need a revolutionary party?| Socialist Worker
After being released from prison, Robinson is looking to revive a fascist street movement to remain relevant amid Reform UK's rise.| Socialist Worker
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In the United States, police brutality towards working class people has meant adopting methods, tactics and lethal equipment from the military.| Socialist Worker
The American capitalist class has a long history of opposing efforts at union organisation, often using brutal and murderous methods.| Socialist Worker
Around 2,500 fascists marched in central London on Saturday in a sign of how mainstream politicians have boosted the far right.| Socialist Worker
Socialist Worker spoke to a young offenders social worker about the findings and criminalisation of black children.| Socialist Worker
Despite boasting £190 billion of investment, Labour's spending review is more of the same, pushing vile racism as public services crumble.| Socialist Worker
Reform UK spivs are trying to sell the party's latest tax scheme for the rich as a policy to benefit the working class.| Socialist Worker
The protests against the attacks on Iran were called by the Stop The War Coalition and the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament| Socialist Worker
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A four day political festival | 3-6 July | Central London| Socialist Worker
The far right party is now outflanking Labour over the cost of living crisis. But Yuri Prasad argues racism remains central to its new tune.| Socialist Worker
Donald Trump has bombed Iran in a terrifying move that will unleash more death and destruction across the Middle East.| Socialist Worker
The Middle East is a melting pot of imperialist tensions. Global rivalries have combined with regional power struggles to produce ongoing instability.| Socialist Worker
Words won't stop the US’s support for Israel and its war| Socialist Worker
The much-hyped US pressure on Israel has produced precisely zero change in Israel’s starvation regime in Gaza.| Socialist Worker
