Protesters defend the right to break Barclays Bank’s windows (Picture: Extinction rebellion) Climate group Extinction Rebellion (XR) marched and protested as seven activists appeared last
Guslagie Malanda as Laurence Coly stands in the dock, in Saint Omer, a film based on the real case of Fabienne Kabou Saint Omer begins
Ottawa’s refusal to ruffle feathers in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s new government, the most far-right in Israel’s history, is par for the course. Canada remains
Firefighters in the FBU have voted overwhelmingly for strike action. In the face of a decade of falling pay and constant cuts, it’s a desperate
A day of door-knocking in Burnley (Picture: The Labour Party/Twitter) The Labour Party has been desperate not to show support for strikes this week. Instead
Nadhim Zahawi finally gets the sack (Picture: UK Government/Flickr) Tax dodger Nadhim Zahawi has suffered a humiliating end to his ministerial career after prime minister
UCU strikers on a London rally in November (Picture: Guy Smallman) UCU union leaders have announced plans for 18 days of strikes by 70,000 workers
PCS strike at the DVLA in Swansea in January with Geraint Davies MP joining the pickets (Picture: PCS union on Twitter) Workers at the British
With the NEU about to embark on the largest round of school strikes in recent history, rs21 member George Emerson explains how his school won
Ukraine is being sized up by neocolonial vultures from BlackRock to the EU for a carve-up after the war is over. On the menu is
Last August, workers in an auto parts plant in Mexico voted to form an independent union. As their employer, VU Manufacturing, continues to try and
The war in Ukraine has overshadowed the ongoing battle between Armenia and Azerbaijan. But both conflicts show the Soviet Union is still unraveling — with
Justin Trudeau’s Liberal government has outsourced billions of dollars’ worth of contracts, including $100 million to McKinsey. Instead of shoveling money into the private sector,
Following recent victories at Yale and Northwestern, graduate student workers at the University of Chicago are voting on whether to unionize at the end of
NEU members at 23 independent girls’ schools strike against fire and rehire across England and Wales in February, last year. (Picture: Socialist Worker) It’s fighting
At a UCU rally at King’s Cross Station in December (pic: Guy Smallman) The big, united strike taking place this week feels as if it’s
As conditions worsen in Haiti, Ottawa remains steadfast in its provision of resources for the repressive Haitian National Police. This stalwart aid stands in stark
In his monumental collage series Projections (1964), American artist Romare Bearden encapsulated a century of African-American strife. Builders, matriarchs, and blues guitarists coalesce in lyrical
Health care workplaces have replaced steel mills and auto plants as the nation’s big employers. But while industrial workers once had mighty unions, hospital workers
Ron DeSantis’s crusade against “woke ideology” was always a thinly disguised assault on the rights of Florida teachers and their unions. His recent “Teacher’s Bill
Anti-racist activists join the March Against Racism in London, last year (Picture: Alisdare Hickson) Frightened, smuggled and abandoned—this is what happens to hundreds of unaccompanied
Protester on a trans rights demo outside Downing Street in central London earlier this month (Picture: Guy Smallman) Transgender rights are not a threat to
I have had what I have been privately referring to as a poetry block for several years: I can barely read it, I certainly can’t
Rishi Sunak’s government has emphasised its continued support for the Ukrainian war effort. But its meagre offerings have only underlined the declining influence of British
Last week saw a massive swell of protests, pickets and speaking truth to power. Here’s a round-up of just some of the inspiring events that
Across Eastern Europe, the war in Ukraine has reinvigorated narratives that present life under Soviet rule as akin to Nazi genocide. It’s bad history —
We all know that the rents are too damn high and that our cities’ efforts at providing affordable housing have been failures. The reason they
The United Packinghouse Workers of America was a beacon of “civil rights unionism.” And in the aftermath of Emmett Till’s grotesque lynching in 1955, the
Protesters against a massive police militarization complex in Atlanta have been slapped with domestic terrorism charges for throwing bottles and breaking windows. That should be
Sinn Féin has become the largest party on both sides of the Irish border. But the party’s effort to eliminate that border for good will
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