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July 18, 2025

Victory to Birmingham Bin Strike!

Labour has abandoned workers on strike. By ISL Birmingham City Council (BCC) Unite bin workers went on strike on 6 January because 170 affected workers face cuts in their wages of up to £8,000 a year. Then, as the council and...

Unions, immigrant rights, and civil liberties: For a class-struggle left wing in the U.S.

By ERNIE GOTTA Unions have been at the forefront of the opposition to raids by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and President Trump’s growing authoritarianism....

Labour’s Rightward March and the Need For a New Party of Struggle

By International Socialist League As the Labour Party continues its unrelenting shift to the right—often echoing the rhetoric and policies of the far right—a...

Starmer Proscribes Palestinian Action in An Alarming Abuse of State Laws

By Jim Stead On 4 July 2025 the British parliament proscribed Palestine Action with just 26 MP's voting against, Jeremy Corbyn (independent left MP) asked, unsuccessfully, for the proscription vote to be taken in three...

Observations on the General Strike of July 9 2025 in India

By Mazdoor Inquilab It had been 4 years since the last major general strike by central trade unions in 2021. Since 2010, there had been a general strike once every year by trade unions until...

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We condemn the attack against Fredis Marrugo, leader of SINALTRAINAL Cartagena and the PST

On July 6, the leader of the Cartagena branch of the National Union of Agri-Food Workers (Sinaltrainal), a member of the Regional CUT executive...

Trump, hands off Brazil! No amnesty for the coup plotters, lackeys of imperialism! Bolsonaro to jail!

By the Unified Socialist Workers' Party – Brazil On the afternoon of Wednesday, September 9, the president of the world's leading imperialist power, Donald Trump,...

The historic rate hike of the telephone monopoly in Cuba

Statement by the collective “Socialists in Struggle” On the morning of May 30, 2025, the Cuban people woke up to the news of a disproportionate increase in the prices of mobile telephone rates. The...

No borders, no binaries!

By RIO NERO During the 2024 election cycle, immigrants and transgender people became the primary targets of a scapegoat campaign that was launched by the Republican Party and deepened by the Democrats, which now...

‘The Encampments’: A timely film for the Palestine movement

By LENA WANG “The Encampments” (directed by Michael T. Workman and Kei Pritsker, 2025) documents the surge of Palestine solidarity activism at Columbia University and beyond in the spring of 2024. The film faithfully...

Trump, the Gulf monarchs, and genocide in Palestine

By M.A. Al GHARIB U.S. President Donald Trump’s recent visit to Middle East astonished many observers in sidelining Israel. Trump agreed to a captive release deal with Hamas, an end to the hostilities with...

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Victory to Birmingham Bin Strike!

Labour has abandoned workers on strike. By ISL Birmingham City Council (BCC) Unite bin workers went on strike on 6 January because 170 affected workers face...

Unions, immigrant rights, and civil liberties: For a class-struggle left wing in the U.S.

By ERNIE GOTTA Unions have been at the forefront of the opposition to raids by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and President Trump’s growing authoritarianism. Anti-ICE mobilizations have included thousands...

Labour’s Rightward March and the Need For a New Party of Struggle

By International Socialist League As the Labour Party continues its unrelenting shift to the right—often echoing the rhetoric and policies of the far right—a growing number of voices are...

Oppression

Unions, immigrant rights, and civil liberties: For a class-struggle left wing in the U.S.

By ERNIE GOTTA Unions have been at the forefront of the opposition to raids by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and President Trump’s growing authoritarianism....

Scottsboro Boys: A lesson in defense campaigns

By BRIAN CRAWFORD “No crime in American history—let alone a crime that never occurred—produced as many trials, convictions, reversals and retrials” as the case of the Scottsboro Boys,” wrote Douglas...

Trump and ICE wage terror on immigrants

By N. IRAZÚ The immigrant movement is now at the center of struggle within the United States. It is the spearhead of Donald Trump’s racist and anti-worker policies. In his...