Reinstate George Gore
The victimisation of a shop steward at a Liverpool factory shows that bosses are still determined to break up organised workers where they can.
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Ko Leik Pya works as a teacher and writer in the UK and Myanmar. He writes here under a pseudonym.
The victimisation of a shop steward at a Liverpool factory shows that bosses are still determined to break up organised workers where they can.
After decades of deindustrialisation, the next Labour government can reboot the areas left behind – by laying foundations for a digital industrial revolution.
This month’s Red Library explores Europe’s borders, from Ireland to the Balkans, and the prospects of a pan-European left.
As the Palace of Westminster crumbles around it, parliament is in need of similar renovation works.
When the Nazis occupied Jersey in 1940, they met unexpected enemies: Marcel Moore and Claude Cahun, socialist artists and queer pioneers.
The results of the notorious “Stalinist Stanford Prison Experiment,” DAU, were finally shown to the public this spring. What does this blurring of fantasy and reality achieve?
A century ago, the Addison Act made working class housing a responsibility of the state – and paved the way for the construction of hundreds of thousands of council homes.
Vienna’s pleasantly dated atmosphere provided the backdrop for the rise and fall of the far-right Freedom Party, a product of Austria’s undigested fascist past.
This month’s Manchester International Festival shows how the city’s cultural industries too often provide a gloss to its growing inequalities.
After years of British government complicity in Saudi Arabia’s brutal war on Yemen, the court of appeal has suspended arms sales. But the fight for justice is far from over.
Now that Boris Johnson is Prime Minister, the risk is that all of politics becomes enveloped by his persona. Labour can only prevent that by fighting him with clear socialist policies.
A no deal Brexit led by Boris Johnson would mean a blitz of privatisation and deregulation. The left must fight back from day one.
An opponent of the minimum wage who has spent his entire career bashing trade unions, Boris Johnson as Prime Minister will benefit only the rich.
The far-right Sweden Democrats became the country’s third largest party in last year’s election. A new book uncovers their unrepentant Nazi past.
Commentators have hailed the EU’s Ursula von der Leyen as a climate visionary. But her proposed ‘European green deal’ falls woefully short of what’s needed.
A truly international Green New Deal movement, committed to decarbonising the world economy in an equitable way, is our only chance to stop climate change.
The Liberal Democrats are posing as a ‘progressive’ alternative to Labour. But their leading lights are as pro-austerity as ever.
Britain’s working-class festivals are as much about a vision of the future as they are a product of the traditions of the past.
Artist and writer Laura Grace Ford on her zine Savage Messiah, counter-culture and unearthing the kernels of possibility in working-class life.
Last week’s International Social Forum was a landmark for Labour – showing that the party was serious about working with forces from the Global South to correct economic injustices.