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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
Bosses at the University of Leicester are piling the pressure on workers to try to prevent strikes. UCU union members are set to begin three weeks of action on Monday of next week against bosses’ plans to make £11 worth of cuts. Bosses announced on Monday that they would deduct half a day’s pay for...| Socialist Worker
Nigel Farage has said the quiet part out loud. The Reform UK leader has pushed hostility to so-called “illegal” migrants and “small boats”. Now Farage says there has been “too little debate on legal immigration”. He has announced that a Reform UK government would abolish indefinite leave to remain (ILR) which allows migrants to build...| Socialist Worker
“The life of a tenant is just living by necessity and not by choice, having your huge life decisions be dictated on the whims of a landlord,” says Leila. She lived in one of the 30,000 households that were victims of “no-fault evictions” last year. A Section 21 no-fault eviction is the nightmare of any...| Socialist Worker
Workers at Whitefield School in Waltham Forest, east London, took to picket lines on Tuesday over unacceptable management, crumbling facilities and workloads. One NEU union member told Socialist Worker that bosses provide “no communication whatsoever” when they push through changes. “We are just put on the spot. It is wrong. And there is not enough...| Socialist Worker
Keir Starmer has been forced into a reluctant concession over his “iron-clad” support for Israel—and has finally recognised a Palestinian state. Britain, alongside Australia, Canada and Portugal, made the move last Sunday. It came shortly before France and Saudi Arabia were set to host a one-day summit on a two state solution at the United...| Socialist Worker
Workers at the University of Nottingham began four weeks of strikes on Monday against devastating job cuts. In April this year the vice chancellor threatened almost 4,000 administrative workers with redundancy. Hundreds have already left through voluntary redundancy. Striker Amy Hoddinott told Socialist Worker, “They got enough job cuts through voluntary redundancy—but they are still...| Socialist Worker
French far right figures Jean Messiha and Eric Zemmour joined the far right mass mobilisation on 13 September, invited by fascist Tommy Robinson. This sparked outrage among many French people in London, across France and anti-racists internationally. Many were horrified to see these figures marching alongside fascists in Britain. Messiha and Zemmour built their profiles...| Socialist Worker
Strikes and protests erupted in over 80 towns and cities across Italy on Monday. Trade unions called for a general strike for Palestine, with millions of workers now reportedly walking out. Transport has been brought to a standstill, with dock workers leading the way in boycotting Israeli goods. In Genoa, thousands of dock workers and...| Socialist Worker
Nick Dearden, of the Global Justice Now organisation, has written a book on one major section of international capitalism—the pharmaceutical industry. He demonstrates that the development of medicine is held back by the straitjacket of profit, not by a lack of new ideas. Since its inception, Big Pharma has been embroiled in scandal. The book...| 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
A revolutionary socialist newspaper| 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
Bombs, drones and F-35 fighter jet support| Socialist Worker
And Israel makes new threats against Iran| Socialist Worker
MPs have voted to proscribe Palestine Action in a grossly repressive and authoritarian move.| Socialist Worker
The British state’s ban of Palestine Action has given the police the green light to clamp down on Palestine solidarity. The police monitoring group Net Pol on Saturday said, “We have a report saying that two women walking up to a protest at BAE Samlesbury were stopped by Lancashire Police. “They were advised to remove...| 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
Around 250 racist thugs rallied against a hotel housing asylum seekers opposed by a small Stand Up To Racism counter demo.| Socialist Worker
Nazi Tommy Robinson wants to run riot in Epping, Essex, next Sunday 27 July. He has urged “thousands of patriots” to join an anti-refugee protest outside The Bell Hotel in the Essex town. His call came on Sunday night as up to a 1,000 fascists tried to lay siege to the hotel housing refugees. Far...| Socialist Worker
Socialism isn’t about state control. It’s about workers seizing control from the bottom up, writes Judy Cox| Socialist Worker
It’s remains vital to say, “Defend Palestine Action”—and to keep speaking up for Palestine and against state repression| 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
