Green Shoots

“We do not know whether the green shoots of recovery some observers claim to have seen in the late spring will wither in the summer heat. But they are unlikely to blossom this year or, for that matter, next.” The intervening time is more than enough for the invisible hand – and the iron fist that [...]

This just in: Vestas workers occupy factory

Workers at Vestas wind turbine plant on the Isle of Wight have occupied against the closure, in defense of 600 jobs and the future of the planet. They need your soldiarity. Messages to savevestas@gmail.com

You can’t fire a torpedo without breaking a few eggs

I’m sure we all heard BNP fuhrer Nick Griffin talk about sinking ships full of black people on the news t’other night.  That should go a long way towards dispelling people’s illusions about them being anything other than a squad of Nazi scum.  But what a lot of people might have missed is the damage [...]

A World To Win

I’ve just come back from Marxism 2009: Festival of Resistance (and spent about 15 hours alternating between bed and the bath to recover).  Not sure I can express just how invigorating it has been to be part of something like this – thousands of people from all over the world coming together to fight for [...]

Norman Strike goes to Orgreave

The diary of a striking miner, republished one day at a time 25 years after the event.  Today, the Battle of Orgreave: There was the coke works in the distance, squatting on the land and belching out smoke from Yorkshire coal. A black line of police spread across the yellow field in front, with horses [...]

Bread and Roses

watch the whole of this inspiring film on Youtube Cleaning is just one of the jobs, without which our day-to-day survival would be impossible, which is generally carried out by agency workers – on a low wage, with little to no protection or representation, out of sight and out of mind.  Often, these workers are migrant [...]