By Michael Roberts There is a new play in London’s West End at the moment. It’s called The Standard of Living by James Graham. The
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By Andy Ford This is the second part of an article on the eightieth anniversary of the beginning of the Chinese revolution in 1946. The
By Greg Oxley Ninety years ago this week saw what became known later as the ‘Battle of Cable’ street in East London. It was an
By Cain O’Mahony On September 11, on the 25th anniversary of the attack on the Twin Towers and other targets in the USA, we carried
By Cain O’Mahony To mark the 25th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, this two-part article looks at the growth of Jihadist fundamentalism, and how it
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North Sea oil fortune. Norway saved theirs. What happened to Britain’s?
By John O’Brien There is a question about modern Britain that has bothered me for some time. Britain and Norway both discovered extraordinary quantities of
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Grunwick strike, fifty 50 years on: Saris of Strength.
By Maureen Wade, chair, Birmingham UNISON retired members section. This month sees the fiftieth anniversary of the beginning of the Grunwick strike, and it is
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Ed Waugh’s play goes down a storm in Belfast
Report by John Pickard The key task for all socialists and trade unionists in Northern Ireland today is to build workers’ unity in the face
By Andy Ford In July 1946, eighty years ago, the first shots were fired in the Chinese Civil War on the North China plains. The
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The Battle of Corporation Fields
By Gary Hammond and Mike Whale (Hull and district Trades Council) On July 12 1936, the organised working class of Hull, 10,000 or more labour
