The government's new plans for SEND (Special Educational Needs and Disabilities) provision in England use the right words about inclusion, but the policies wrapped up in those words will not deliver. workersliberty.org/story/2026-0...

Impressions on the doorstep are unreliable, and it is foolish to draw many conclusions from them. But they are another bit of evidence to put alongside what we get from the media. workersliberty.org/story/2026-0...

For all students, international or home, maintenance grants must not only be reinstated, but increased to a decently liveable level and extended to all students. workersliberty.org/story/2026-0...

Quentin Deranque, a far-right activist, died from his injuries on Sat 14 Feb. He was no saint, but dies a martyr for the far right and the government, who are half mourning, half rejoicing at the opportunity to denounce "the violence of the far left". workersliberty.org/story/2026-0...

There is evidence that Northumbria University’s management is in league with five other universities to move staff out of the TPS pension scheme into worse provision. workersliberty.org/story/2026-0...

Women's Fightback: The protests in Iran in early January covered the range of grievances of the Iranian working and middle classes including lack of women’s rights. www.workersliberty.org/story/2026-0...

As of December 2025, eighteen higher education institutions were signed up to People and Planet's “Fossil Free Campus” campaign. workersliberty.org/story/2026-0...

Opinion: "Now, perhaps for the first time, a party to Labour’s left has proven itself to be a more viable vehicle to defeat the right. For many progressive voters, the prospect of voting with heart and head will be irresistible." workersliberty.org/story/2026-0...

Your Party: The Many (TM) won fourteen seats, Grassroots Left (GL) won seven plus two additional held by aligned candidates. TM declared this a “huge mandate”, but TM secured just 38% of first-preference votes, compared to GL’s 29% and independents’ 33%. workersliberty.org/story/2026-0...

The Labour campaign in the Gorton and Denton by-election was poor, even taking into account that it had to operate with three knives already in its back. workersliberty.org/story/2026-0...

The Gorton and Denton by-election has generated significant political shifts and cracks in the first-past-the-post system. workersliberty.org/story/2026-0...

Women's Fightback: The important issues about the Epstein files are the multiple injustices suffered by the young women and girls he abused. www.workersliberty.org/story/2026-0...

Excerpts from a speech by Standing Together’s national co-director Alon-Lee Green, speaking at a public meeting in London, organised by UK Friends of Standing Together on 18 February. workersliberty.org/story/2026-0...

The renewed war between the US, Israel, and allied Gulf States and Iran and its allies means more fear, uncertainty, and death for the peoples of Palestine and Israel. workersliberty.org/story/2026-0...

Statements and comments from the left and labour movement in Iran in the first few days of the US-Israel-Iran war starting 28 February 2026, and in the run-up to then. workersliberty.org/story/2026-0...

Editorial: Around 9.30am Tehran-time on the morning of Saturday 28 February Israeli and US forces began a bombing campaign against Iran’s clerical and military leaderships. www.workersliberty.org/story/2026-0...

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Women's Fightback editorial: The new year has brought a cascade of crises that expose the violence at the heart of the global order. www.workersliberty.org/story/2026-0...

After Gorton and Denton: What we need now is for the left, trade unionists and community activists to come together in a fight to beat Reform politically. www.workersliberty.org/story/2026-0...

The Housing and Local Government National Branch Executive Committee of the PCS civil service union has decided to re-ballot members for renewed industrial action. workersliberty.org/story/2026-0...

Building power through Jewish-Palestinian solidarity: Alon-Lee Green of Standing Together @UK_FOST speaking with Jasr Kawkby and Abdalrahman Amer in London, 18 February www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kfoo...

Across the country there are new and continuing disputes at universities. Fees, debt, loans, are no way to fund higher education. workersliberty.org/story/2026-0...

Housing Problems (1935), directed by Edgar Anstey and Arthur Elton, was one of the key films in the British documentary movement of the 1930s. workersliberty.org/story/2026-0...

The Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) and allies won 212 seats out of 350 in the 12 February election. BNP is an old, corrupt, and right-leaning party, so this is a poor outcome from the “July revolution” of 2024. workersliberty.org/story/2026-0...

Racism seems to be reviving now, but in a complicated way. workersliberty.org/story/2026-0...

How Khomeini established clerical fascist rule over a population which had risen up against the Shah’s dictatorship. workersliberty.org/story/2026-0...

Left-wing ideas had been common in the movement against the Shah of Iran. How did they get sidelined? workersliberty.org/story/2026-0...

The High Court has upheld the lawfulness of the EHRC’s “interim update” from April 2025 on single-sex toilets and changing facilities. workersliberty.org/story/2026-0...

The housing crisis in Britain was drastically worsened by the “right to buy” legislation in the early days of the Thatcher government. workersliberty.org/story/2026-0...

The “Epstein files”shows us how the rich rule workersliberty.org/story/2026-0...

In the late 1930s Trotsky, who was himself of Ukrainian Jewish background, backed Ukrainian self-determination against Russia, Germany, Poland, and all overlords. workersliberty.org/story/2026-0...

The TUC says the new Employment Rights Act ends "fire and rehire", the practice of firing workers only to re-employ them on worse terms. Whilst the Act makes the practice more difficult, it includes significant loopholes workersliberty.org/story/2026-0...

On January 13, 2026, a dangerous new chapter of the Syrian conflict began. The "Islamic–Daesh Syrian Government," led by Ahmad Shar’a (also known as Mohammad al-Jolani), launched a massive military offensive. workersliberty.org/story/2026-0...

Trump has a strategy to undermine the electoral process. workersliberty.org/story/2026-0...

The only proven solution is direct public investment in social housing: funding councils and to build genuinely affordable homes at scale. Without this, the crisis will continue, no matter how much planning policy is rewritten. workersliberty.org/story/2026-0...

Scottish Labour is set to win just 15 seats at Holyrood on 7 May. SNP will be the largest party and Reform will be the official opposition. workersliberty.org/story/2026-0...

In the early 2020s hydrogen fuel was all the rage and projected to make up 20% of the world energy mix by 2050. The outlook is much less optimistic now. workersliberty.org/story/2026-0...

If you haven’t voted yet in the Your Party CEC election, please consider Ruth Cashman for the London Region #1 + transfer to GL.

Sinn Féin’s Finance Minister in the Northern Ireland Executive John O’Dowd, has published a draft budget. It is not a radical left set of proposals, nor even a particularly social democratic one, despite how Sinn Féin presents itself. workersliberty.org/story/2026-0...

Management at the National Coal Mining Museum has completely cut of communication with Unison since the rejection of the last pay offer. workersliberty.org/story/2026-0...

In Gaza, Israeli airstrikes continue. 580 people have died since the nominal ceasefire came into effect, with around 1,500 wounded. Food and medical supplies remain restricted. workersliberty.org/story/2026-0...

The introduction of electronic or in-person balloting for union votes, and the removal of the 50% turnout threshold for industrial action votes, have been put back to "no earlier than August 2026". How this will all turn out depends on union action. workersliberty.org/story/2026-0...

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Just as the icy waters seemed to be closing over his premiership and the abyss seemed to beckon, Starmer’s visit to Beijing has prompted some unusual praise from the Morning Star. workersliberty.org/story/2026-0...

In Greens, in YP, and in Labour, we will press for unity in action by activists across all three parties in mobilisations, for example, against the far right, or to support strikes. And for dialogue and debate. workersliberty.org/story/2026-0...

The labour movement needs a coherent political response to the far-right based on working-class solidarity — unity with migrant workers, reversing cuts, for public services, housing, jobs, for an offensive to take wealth and power from the rich. workersliberty.org/story/2026-0...

Corbyn faction ups stakes in YP. For all the talk of a “member-led” party, Corbyn now appears unwilling to accept members’ decisions, seeking instead to mobilise the inactive to secure control. workersliberty.org/story/2026-0...

We’ll get social reforms when we have a working-class movement with clear socialist ideas and active on the streets and on the picket lines for much more. workersliberty.org/story/2026-0...

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Since 2023, close to 40 homes in Silwan, a Palestinian neighbourhood in occupied East Jerusalem, have been demolished. workersliberty.org/story/2026-0...