2+ day, 12+ hour ago   (738+ words) You could hear them long before you could see them. Scores of striking low paid NHS workers were shouting their defiance on megaphones outside Guy’s hospital in central London on Thursday. “Band two, no way… we want decent pay,” they…...

4+ day, 22+ hour ago   (560+ words) ICR strikers rally on Friday I don’t often get moved to tears when reading Socialist Worker. But a paragraph in the report from the Institute of Cancer Research picket line did it for me last week (SW, 2 September). I had…...

5+ day, 19+ hour ago   (858+ words) Andy Burnham appointed John Healey as chancellor (Pic: Flickr) Chancellor John Healey sought to dampen working class people’s expectations of “change” on Monday as he reassured big business and the bond markets. He said the British economy had “turned a…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (603+ words) Elon Musk, the paymaster of Rupert Lowe’s Restore Britain The so-called March for Life will take place in London on Saturday 5 September. This is a dangerous movement for all those who value choice, equality and bodily autonomy for women and…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (1363+ words) Trade unions are hugely important for building resistance to oppression, climate change and inequality. But the British labour movement sometimes seems to spend more time commemorating the glorious defeats of the past than supporting the struggles of today. Workers in…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (716+ words) Strikers met with a group of Palestinian students and their teachers Strikers from the Institute of Cancer Research were invited by Manchester and Trafford Trades Councils for a bumper meeting last week, bringing together strikers from across the city. We…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (654+ words) The right wing seized on the appointment of Jason Arday as a Cambridge professor as “proof” that society is not a meritocracy, where appointments are gained solely on ability. Equal opportunities policies tick diversity boxes by promoting the undeserving, it…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (599+ words) The Russian revolution was one that was intimately concerned with questions of environment, conservation and ecology. In his 1908 novel Red Star, set on a utopian socialist Mars, the Bolshevik scientist Alexander Bogdanov imagines a conversation between two Martians concerned about…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (714+ words) The debt crisis could throw Trump’s plans off track (Pic: Reuters) The federal government debt in the US is massive and is posing an increasing threat to the world economy. That debt now stands at around 100 percent of US GDP…...