The basis for 20th-century social democracy in Britain is gone, argues ANDREW MURRAY – but there are measures a Burnham government could take that would break with neoliberalism
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Building solidarity with the anti-fascist resistance in Ukraine
by David Ayrton
TONY BURKE pays tribute to a dedicated trade unionist and true internationalist who helped organise workers from Britain to Bangladesh
NASUWT leader MATT WRACK says schools are crying out for serious investment — and there are other immediate changes a new prime minister could and should enact
Keir Starmer’s resignation speech seemed to be coming from a different universe, or maybe it was just a fanfaronade of falsehoods, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
Starmer will be judged on his record, but it would be wrong to view him in isolation from the crisis of the British political establishment, says the COMMUNIST PARTY in its official statement on the PM’s resignation
Over 1,000 hostile US sanctions remain in place on Venezuela, while Britain continues its colonial theft of gold, writes MATT WILLGRESS
THE TUC conference in Liverpool last month adopted an emergency motion from the National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers (RMT) opposing Nato’s war drive in Ukraine.
This decision provides the basis for developing a better understanding of the emergent danger of fascism in Europe, through the most glaring example currently in Ukraine.
RMT is the first British trade union to clearly identify the fascist-backed coup this year in Kiev as the mechanism of monopoly capitalists of the EU and US to pursue their drive towards super-exploitation, imperialism and war.
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