How the TUC betrayed the 1926 General Strike The historic General Strike in Britain began at one minute to midnight on May 3, 1926. It… Read More »‘A victorious army disarmed and handed over to its enemies’
A new book about Hungary’s wartime history makes grim reading, enlivened only by the courageous actions of those who resisted antisemitism and Fascist rule.
This book sees football as an inspiration, even a catalyst for change in society at large, rather than the other way round.
People remember where they where they were when they heard the news of the Aberfan disaster on the morning of 21 October 1966. A tip high above the coal-mining village near Merthyr Tydfil, South Wales, had slid down the mountain and slammed into a row of houses and a junior school, killing 116 children and 28 adults.
It is 40 years since the start of the longest, most bitter and one of the most fateful strikes in British history. In the spring… Read More »When miners took on the state in their fight for jobs and communities
Ken Loach’s new film is the third of a series that all feature a storyline that plays out against the backdrop of crumbling care services… Read More »Loach’s new blast against the system
Protest strikes can’t beat Tory anti-union onslaught. Starmer favours fiscal discipline, aka low pay. United action and political leadership is needed.
Elite sport is rapidly being captured by big money and re-purposed. Billionaires, oligarchs and corporations are now being pushed aside by oil-rich nation states who… Read More »No to sportswashing! Football should belong to the people
Pamfir – a film from Ukraine about a strong, rough but decent man who loves his wife and son, and whose dreams collide with the corruption at the heart of a rural village on the border with Romania.
Read More »A fight for survival
Tens of thousands of people protesting about climate breakdown joined a 4-day festival in and around Parliament and Westminster, organised by Extinction Rebellion, together with… Read More »Extinction Rebellion hit the streets
Twenty years ago Iraq was invaded by American and British forces in a disastrous and illegal war that has had endless repercussions since.
Junior hospital doctors, that is all doctors below the level of consultant, have begun a 3-day national strike for a 26% increase in salary to restore the real-term loss in their income that has occurred since 2008/9.
Read More »Junior doctors out on strike
Russians march in London, calling for “Victory for Ukraine, Freedom for Russia”, “Stop Putin, stop the war”.
On the anniversary of the Russian attack on their country, about 3000 Ukrainians and British supporters marched through Notting Hill Gate, London, to the Russian Embassy to protest at the cowardice and brutality of the invasion.
Whitehall was taken over by teachers, civil servants, university staff, train drivers, border force staff and many others on February 1 as over 500,000 trade unionists took action in support of pay claims and against understaffing and worsening conditions.
Read More »‘The working class is back’, says RMT leader
Thousands of nurses from more than 55 NHS Trusts have staged new strikes in support of their pay claim and plan joint action with ambulance staff next month as their bitter dispute with the Tory government continues.
Members of the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) took to the picket lines in the first of a two-day strike after rejecting the government’s pay settlement which amounts to a wage cut in the face of soaring inflation.
Read More »Tories have ‘left us out in the cold’, say nurses