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Social care: rise to the challenge!

28 Apr 2020 |

Sacha Ismail

“Me and my colleagues in care work are risking our lives for just over £8 an hour… Whether it’s PPE shortages, faulty tests, or low sick pay, key workers are treated like collateral” Nadia Whittome MP (who has returned to her old job during the crisis) “The big challenge is not to go for the lowest...

"An ethos of equality is our only firewall"

28 Apr 2020 |

Hannah Pollin-Galay

Hannah Pollin-Galay (above right, in the white t-shirt, on a protest she helped organise blocking the entrance to the headquarters of Netanyahu's Likud party) is a supporter of Omdim B'Yachad (Standing Together), a left-wing Arab-Jewish social movement in Israel. She spoke to Daniel Randall from...

WPUK response to Natalia Cassidy article

27 Apr 2020 |

Woman’s Place UK

Woman's Place UK wrote to Workers' Liberty requesting that we publish the letter below. It is a response to an article by Workers' Liberty activist Natalia Cassidy, " Anti-trans feminists blinkered on Tories ", and refers to a video by Workers' Liberty activist, Zack Muddle, " Fighting for trans...

Against Israel's new coalition

27 Apr 2020

Maisam Jaljuli and Asaf Yakir are activists in Omdim B'Yachad (Standing Together), a left-wing Arab-Jewish social movement in Israel. They spoke to Daniel Randall from Solidarity about their struggles. DR: What's your assessment of the newly-formed coalition government, and how can the threat of...

Memories of Tony Reay

26 Apr 2020 |

A Lewisham AWL member

Tony Reay, who died on 23 April, was a campaigner, trade unionist and socialist. For most of his adult life he worked closely with Workers’ Liberty comrades in the civil service trade unions, first the CPSA and then the PCS. He was based in Lewisham for the past 30 years and was hugely respected in...

Still searching for socialism

26 Apr 2020 |

Will Sefton

Review of "Searching for Socialism: The Project of the Labour New Left from Benn to Corbyn".

Debate on left MPs joining Starmer's team

26 Apr 2020

Solidarity has expressed concern about the fact that left-wing MPs, including internationalist campaigners Nadia Whittome and Lloyd Russell-Moyle, have taken positions in Keir Starmer’s ministerial team. We have called on them to continue organising with the grassroots activist left; to continue to...

Liz Truss addressing the Women and Equalities Select Committee

Anti-trans feminists blinkered on Tories

25 Apr 2020 |

Natalia Cassidy

This article has been responded to by WPUK , which in turn has been replied to here . On 22 April, Minister for Women and Equalities Liz Truss addressed Parliament's Women and Equalities Select Committee, laying out her priorities. The Tory minister's comments and plans were met with much support...

Covid-19 and the politics of trauma

24 Apr 2020 |

Andrew Francis

When anti-austerity politics had finally begun to gain a lot of traction a few years ago, there was a figure thrown about that austerity had caused "120,000 unnecessary deaths". Personally I avoided using that figure and that argument, partly because it was probably inaccurate, but mostly because I...

Workers Memorial Day: make a stand for workers’ rights

24 Apr 2020 | Tubeworker

Workers Memorial Day, an international day which remembers workers who’ve lost their lives at work, and promotes struggles for safer workplaces today, takes place on Tuesday 28 April. We’ve lost workmates to this pandemic. Several bus workers have lost their lives, as well, of course, as dozens in...

Pandemic: indict the Tories!

22 Apr 2020 |

Martin Thomas

The TUC has called for a public inquiry into PPE [Personal Protective Equipment] supplies, to start before the end of 2020. The unions and the Labour Party should be indicting the Tories and demanding different policies now, not just in 2021!

No pay cut, no jobs lost!

21 Apr 2020 | Tubeworker

Mayor Khan has taken to BBC Radio London to announce that TfL may run out of money to pay staff by the end of the month, and may need to cut services unless the government steps in. It’s right that Khan should appeal to the government for funding; this is something he should’ve been doing loudly and...

Annexation of West Bank from 1 July?

21 Apr 2020 |

Ira Berkovic

Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel's incumbent hard-right Prime Minister, and Benny Gantz, the leader of the Blue and White Coalition (usually called “centrist”, but perhaps better understood as soft-right) have reached an agreement for a coalition government, with the premiership rotating between them on...

The SWP and high-stakes testing

21 Apr 2020 | Class Struggle

By Duncan Morrison For the last four years members of the Socialist Workers’ Party have fought militantly AGAINST the National Union of Teachers (NUT) and then the National Education Union (NEU) balloting its members to boycott SATs and the other high-stakes test in primary schools. That’s right,...

The Communist Manifesto: study guide

21 Apr 2020 |

Paul Hampton

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Inequality kills

21 Apr 2020 |

Editorial

This virus threatens the worse-off much more than the rich. Neither the scientists nor we know exactly how to combat the virus in general terms, but we do know what can and must be done to shield the worse-off. In some countries, the first cases of Covid-19 were among better-off people who’d...

Getting safe and equal

21 Apr 2020 |

Michael Elms

The Safe and Equal campaign ( safeandequal.org ), is continuing to gather steam. A journalist from Left Foot Forward , briefed by our campaigners, confronted Business Minister Alok Sharma on the key issue of our campaign: the fact that many workers only have access to paltry Statutory Sick Pay when...

What next for Momentum?

21 Apr 2020

Socialists across the country are discussing candidatures for the upcoming elections to the National Coordinating Group of Momentum. The NCG was set up after an office “coup” abolished all previous democratic structures in Momentum. Left slates have run in previous elections, and won good numbers of...

More nationalism shoved down our throats

21 Apr 2020

The Tories have moved the May Day 2020 bank holiday to 8 May, to commemorate “Victory in Europe” in the Second World War. The plan was for nationalistic “commemorations” across the country. Though the pandemic will tone it down, you can be sure the nationalist jubilee will be marked. We should...

Howie Hawkins

21 Apr 2020

After the withdrawal of Bernie Sanders, we are supporting the US presidential campaign of Howie Hawkins. Hawkins, a long-time socialist and associated with the socialist group Solidarity (USA), is running for the Green Party nomination, due to be decided in July 2020. For Hawkins’ campaign, see here...