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October 26, 2025

Britain

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...

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...

Duping Workers: British Labour’s Anti-Working Policies

By International Socialist League Who is hardest hit by Chancellor Rachel Reeves’ budget? Certainly not...

Labour’s landslide victory will not solve our problems; Build a new party against imperialist Labour

By ISL Keir Starmer became the British prime minister on 6 July after the Labour...

United Kingdom, France, and Germany: The Working Class Makes Its Voice Heard

The European working class is reacting against the deterioration in its standard of living....

OSAC: A shining example of communities fighting austerity 

The results of the UK elections of 5 May revealed the continued shake-up of loyalties to the old established parties and showed increased for...

International Socialist League Statement on the EU referendum

   Which way to vote in the EU referendum on 23 June has split Tory, Labour and trade unions (to a lesser extent) and...

Youth fight casual contracts (interview with an activist)

   SV interviewed Joanna Walker who lives in Liverpool. A 25-year-old who works in the hospitality industry, she has been on the minimum wage...

Left Unity: A retreat by the majority

   Approximately 150 delegates attended the Left Unity national conference in November (75 on Sunday). Voting was based on one person one vote with...

Retreats by Corbyn means workers will have to fight Labour

   The Labour Party conference and subsequent events have seen many retreats by the Labour lefts because of pressure from Cameron, the Labour right...

Labour: set the budget & make the cuts

   Momentum is a new organisation created and strictly controlled by the Corbyn wing of the Labour Party. Rather than organise an open and...

Corbyn and the fight against austerity and war

   The Labour conference and the parliamentary vote on bombing Syria has shown, for all who have eys to see see, that left Labour...

Kathy Laird, farewell to a friend, fighter and comrade

Kathy died on 9 December 2015 during the day, while she was resting; she was 62 years old. It was shocking news, almost unbelievable,...

Cambridge: The right to housing, not just Labour promises!

Cambridge has become a den of housing and landlord speculators because the demand for housing is not being met, and there is a...

Left Unity: is everything possible?

Left Unity applauds Jeremy Corbyn’s victory against the right wing, and their main article on his subject is entitled “everything is possible”. What...

Anti-austerity feelings make Corbyn leader. But can Labour defeat austerity?

The landslide victory of 59.5 per cent (higher than Tony Blair received in 1994) and the 251,417 votes for Jeremy Corbyn was due...

Bill Hunter – 1920 – 2015

“To celebrate as a Trotskyist is the biggest thing I have...” speaking at an International Socialist League meeting in May 2010. Bill was...

The battle of Lime Street – August 2015

Massively outnumbered by anti-fascists, the neo-Nazi National Action Group “called off” their planned march through the city of Liverpool. The neo-Nazis having previously...

Jeremy Corbyn reflects anti-austerity feeling. But the fight against austerity must also fight Labour

The Labour party failed again to win the general election. The scale of the defeat was a shock for most people and importantly,...