Members of the National Union of Teachers (NUT) at St Paul's Way Community School in the East London borough of Tower Hamlets have given a substantial boost to the campaign to win the reinstatement of their victimsed NUT rep, Adrian Swain. In an indicative ballot, conducted by post, 81% of NUT members said 'yes' to ...
CS distributed this leaflet at the march and rally organised by the 'No cuts at King's' campaign and the UCU union. Click image for the front of the leaflet. Click here for the reverse side of the leaflet.
Tens of thousands have shown their solidarity with the people of Gaza. From Birmingham to St Albans and from Oxford to Newport there have been spirited local protests. As our reports show, one of the features almost everywhere is the influx of young people, especially young Muslims, into the anti-war movement London Like elsewhere the London demonstration ...
January 18 saw one of the hardest fought federal state election campaigns in Germany’s recent history. For months, the question of who would govern Hesse with its six million inhabitants (and its capital, Frankfurt) made big waves across the whole country. At the centre of it all was the young left party, Die Linke. CS ...
Dave Isaacson reviews Mark Steel's What’s going on? (Simon and Schuster, 2008, pp252, £12.99) Mark Steel is one of Britain’s most prominent socialist comedians, known not just on the stand-up circuit, but also for his appearances on television and radio (not least his ‘Mark Steel lectures’ series) and as an author. Before this book he had ...
Barack Obama invokes the traditions of the first and second American revolutions and the 1960s civil rights movement. As Ted North shows, this has created huge popular expectations One would have had to be hiding deep in the Amazon to have avoided the news that Barack Obama is now the 44th president of the United States ...
Chris Strafford reports on last weekend's demonstrations. Additional reporting from around the country by Tony Greenstein and Mohsen Sabbagh With over 1,000 now dead in Gaza, demonstrations have been taking place across the world in protest against the massacre. On Saturday January 10 more than 100,000 marched from Hyde Park, past the Israeli embassy, to Kensington ...
Ted North explores the background to unrest against a state regarded as endemically corrupt Recent explosive events in Greece were not a revolution. Nor were they a half-revolution. But they were in their own way a quarter-revolution. And all sparked by a single bullet. On December 6 2008 a police ‘special guard’ shot and killed ...
Ben Lewis introduces what is to be a short series of newly translated articles Ninety years ago, on January 15 1919, one of the greatest revolutionaries of the 20th century, Rosa Luxemburg, was killed by the Freikorps - a freelance paramilitary outfit formed by rightwing officers after the defeat of Germany in World War I. They ...
CSer Cat Rylance looks at the faltering revolution in Bolivia and explores possible avenues for advance The inspirational Bolivian revolution of 2003-05 united a movement of oppressed peoples that brought 500,000 insurgents onto the streets of the capital, La Paz, removed the neoliberal rightwing president, Gonzalo Sánchez De Lozada, and ultimately led to the election of ...
As the Socialist Workers Party’s annual conference looms, James Turley urges SWPers to settle accounts with the enemies of democracy and principle The Socialist Workers Party faces its most important annual conference this month. Long-time leading light John Rees and his closest allies, Lindsey German and Chris Nineham, are at loggerheads with the central committee majority ...
Stop the War Coalition and others have called further demonstrations across the country against the invasion of Gaza by the Israeli army. Over 400 hundred people have been killed since the military action began, thousands have been injured, the death toll is set to rise even further as the Gaza strip is one of the ...
Israel, backed and armed by the imperialist powers, has launched a barbaric attack on the Gaza strip. The death count is constantly rising, as Israel turns its full military might on the besieged population. Medical supplies are diminishing by the hour with little chance of supplies entering Gaza any time soon, as the cowardly Egyptian ...