Mass anti-government protests, led by families of hostages, have continued in Israel, with demonstrators blocking a major highway in Tel Aviv on 11 October. Although demonstrations foreground the ...

Israel’s war has reduced most of Gaza to an uninhabitable wasteland, pockmarked by tent cities housing desperate and starving refugees. Israel continues to issue evacuation orders, but the designated ...

Shamefully, the civil service union, PCS, is quiescent in the face of cuts and devalued pay because an undemocratic, incompetent, “Left Unity” cabal of full time officials and senior lay ...

“What would you settle for?” It’s not an odd question to ask. E from a depot down the other end asks me after reading a union bulletin in the messroom. Every time pay talks are due, people want to ...

Israel has continued to conduct air strikes against targets throughout Lebanon. The bombing campaign is expanding; on Saturday 12 October, the town of Deir Billa in northern Lebanon was targeted for ...

In the run-up to the Budget on 30 October, there has been a raft of speculative media stories about tax rises by the Labour government not “working”; and a push by Labour MPs and others for an easing ...

RMT members have returned yet another resounding mandate in the nearly three-year-long-and-counting dispute over jobs, pensions, and agreements. Members voted by a 98% majority, on a 57% turnout, to ...

On 26 September Russia attacked the Ukrainian defenders outside the town of Kupiansk. The Russians were aiming to take territory east of the Oskil river in the eastern part of Kharkiv oblast. The ...

The people of Gaza face multiple humanitarian crises, which will be worsened by the onset of winter. According to the commissioner general of Unrwa, the United Nations agency responsible for the ...

According to the Morning Star of 8 October: “In Birmingham, Muslim leaders were joined by Jewish rabbis, Christians and representatives of other faiths and none for a candle-lit vigil in the city ...

The SWP has, since the mid-1980s anyway, argued for the destruction of Israel and as “running through Cairo”, i.e. achieved by a rising of the Arab working class in the surrounding states, ...

With the American elections on a knife edge, it is worth asking why that is the case. Whatever one thinks of Kamala Harris and the Democrats, Trump represents something that is far, far worse. And yet ...