The recent Supreme Court ruling on the legal definition of a woman shows again how tenuous minority legal rights are in a system based on the exploitation of the majority by a small elite, who ...

In most countries, following the collapse of Stalinism in 1989-91, the working class is still without its own mass political organisations. Syriza and other ‘new left formations’ were initial attempts ...

When the theatrics and fantastical hyperbole now indelibly associated with the Trump presidency are set to one side, the tariff war launched on April 2 boils down fundamentally to an attempt to ...

Many people voted Labour at the general election because they were sick and tired of the Tories, and austerity that left services crumbling and our standards of living falling. Any hopes in Labour ...

Retail and distribution union Usdaw’s Annual Delegate Meeting (ADM) in Blackpool this year takes place ten months since the fall of 14 years of Tory rule, with a Labour government which many Usdaw ...

Public Debate! We had a hard time persuading a Plaid Cymru councillor to take part. Would Labour send someone to represent the council? In the end, they didn’t. But the room filled with people ...

Unison, GMB and National Education Union members at St Luke’s primary school in Tower Hamlets are taking joint strike action to fight eight teaching assistant redundancies. Teaching assistants have ...

The strike by Veolia bin workers in Sheffield, members of Unite, fighting for union recognition, is now entering its tenth month. Resolve remains firm among the strikers, whose morale has been boosted ...

As the Socialist goes to press, it has been reported that government pay review bodies will recommend that teachers and NHS staff should be given pay rises of about 4% and 3% respectively, up from the ...