That debate is warming up about Labour government policy is good. That some of it is focused on "fiscal rules” is bad. workersliberty.org/story/2026-0...

The accident at Chernobyl nuclear power station was generated by extreme bureaucratic mismanagement and lack of accountability at design and operational level. The response after the accident was shaped the same way. workersliberty.org/story/2026-0...

Throughout history, music has been used to inspire, to control or to resist. Fascists have aggressively curbed the creative freedom of musicians by way of censorship and threats. workersliberty.org/story/2026-0...

Diary: Working on the day of Tommy Robinson’s rally is naturally going to bring some politics to the fore among co-workers. Every trainload brings boisterous customers draped in union jacks and St George flags. workersliberty.org/story/2026-0...

We live in a time where there is no such thing as a “safe seat” for the two main parties that have dominated British politics for the past century. workersliberty.org/story/2026-0...

The first strike day for adult social care workers at the Central Hill Dementia Day Centre, on Thursday 14 May, was rock solid, with not a single person crossing the picket line. Unison expects the same for the week of strike action starting 28 May. workersliberty.org/story/2026-0...

PCS conference sets a new course workersliberty.org/story/2026-0...

In 2025, the Unite union policy conference heard of bus cab temperatures over 40ºC, and at least three drivers who were hospitalised from heat exhaustion. Empowering workers to exercise our rights to refuse unsafe work is our main line of defence. workersliberty.org/story/2026-0...

The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC)’s new Code of Practice (CoP) will now be considered by the UK government and is likely to be in place by the summer, unless MPs move in Parliament to reject it. workersliberty.org/story/2026-0...

On 14 May, a Solidarity Guard organised by Standing Together, a binational (Palestinian-Jewish) left-wing social movement active in Israel, mobilised to defend Palestinian residents, workersliberty.org/story/2026-0...

On 16 May Trade Unions Fighting the Far Right (TUFF) held a protest in Trafalgar Square in opposition to Tommy Robinson’s Unite the Kingdom (UTK) march and rally. workersliberty.org/story/2026-0...

Those that continue to suffer most are the Iranian workers and those displaced by Israeli occupation of southern Lebanon. Israeli and US bombing only brings misery.

We will work to open up space for sharper left policies to be pushed through, and rebuild an active left in the Labour party capable of pushing and calling to account whomever replaces Starmer.

New issue of Solidarity out now. Open up Labour democracy! Link: www.workersliberty.org/publications...

Forty years ago the Challenger Space Shuttle exploded shortly after lift-off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, killing the crew on board. The tragic loss of life also brought a major setback for the NASA space programme. workersliberty.org/story/2026-0...

From this issue of Solidarity, we will be running an article each week on basic Marxist texts, with the aim of encouraging and providing helpful material for discussions and classes on those texts in Workers' Liberty local groups. workersliberty.org/story/2026-0...

Two peoples, Palestinian Arabs and Israeli Jews, inhabit the territory of Israel-Palestine. Both see it as their homeland. One has a state with a powerful military. The other is subjugated, occupied, dispossessed. workersliberty.org/story/2026-0...

The reality of living and working conditions for the working class in Kurdistan and the negative effects of war. workersliberty.org/story/2026-0...

The US-Israeli bombing campaign has left the Iranian working class in a desperate position, while the fascistic, Islamist dictatorship remains in place and has been able to ramp up repression against regime opponents. workersliberty.org/story/2026-0...

A Q&A on Reform and immigration workersliberty.org/story/2026-0...

Earlier this year, the Communist Party of Britain issued a statement calling for tactical voting against Reform. This, they explained, could involve a Labour vote but only where the candidate is “left”. workersliberty.org/story/2026-0...

The English Revolution of the 17th century is often described by Marxists as “incomplete”. Unlike other historical revolutions that dismantled old hierarchies, the English settlement ended in a compromise. workersliberty.org/story/2026-0...

Anyone who has picked up The Socialist, newspaper of the Socialist Party (SP), in recent years will have noticed its repeated demand for “a new mass workers’ party, based on the trade unions on a socialist programme.” workersliberty.org/story/2026-0...

This year marks the 40th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster. At 01:23:45 on the 26th of April 1986, Reactor Number 4 at the Nuclear Power Plant near Pripyat exploded. It remains the worst accident in the industry's history. workersliberty.org/story/2026-0...

A review of Nancy Holmstrom's From a Marxist-Feminist Point of View workersliberty.org/story/2026-0...

Fighting between Pakistan and Afghanistan has continued despite peace talks mediated by China. workersliberty.org/story/2026-0...

In some ways, Labour’s abysmal performance in the Scottish Holyrood election was even worse than its performance in the Welsh Senedd election and the English local authority elections. workersliberty.org/story/2026-0...

The Covid 19 pandemic was a crisis of workplace safety. Around 15,000 workers to lost their lives and many hundreds of thousands still suffer life altering post-covid conditions.  workersliberty.org/story/2026-0...

In January 2026, as protests swept Iran and the Islamic Republic responded with mass killings, the international left faced a choice about whose voices to amplify and whose to render invisible. The choice it made is the subject of this essay. workersliberty.org/story/2026-0...

Can crap jobs be eliminated in a socialist society? workersliberty.org/story/2026-0...

On the doorstep with Lambeth Greens workersliberty.org/story/2026-0...

Some local groups roughly on the “Gaza Independent” wavelength and backed by Jeremy Corbyn’s Your Party scored fairly well on 7 May. “Gaza Independent” politics are not finished, but it looks bleak for YP. workersliberty.org/story/2026-0...

Sectarian or communalist tension is nothing new in Ireland. What is novel, and worrying, however, is the rise of generalised anti-migrant sentiment and activity in recent years. workersliberty.org/story/2026-0...

Working in a Tube station makes it abundantly clear how threadbare emergency services in Britain are after decades of unsustainable cuts. workersliberty.org/story/2026-0...

Adult social care workers at the Aspire Dementia Day Centre in Lambeth, south London, will be on the picket lines to defend the service from closure. workersliberty.org/story/2026-0...

Four of the “Filton Six”, Palestine Action activists who broke into an Elbit Systems facility in Filton in 2024, have been found guilty at retrial of property damage, and sentenced to prison. workersliberty.org/story/2026-0...

Unruly schools, part 3 workersliberty.org/story/2026-0...

Across the sector, students are discussing how best to be organised on campus to fight the cuts, and to take up the fight against fees and the mountain of student debt. workersliberty.org/story/2026-0...

On 1 May, over 4,000 demos were held across America for a national day of “no work, no school, no shopping” against Trump. It was mainly organised by the coalition May Day Strong, but many unions and the AFL-CIO confederation backed the demonstrations. workersliberty.org/story/2026-0...

The binational (Palestinian-Jewish) left-wing social movement Standing Together is preparing to confront racist mobs on “Jerusalem Day” (14 May), an annual far-right provocation against Palestinians. workersliberty.org/story/2026-0...

The National Conference of the PCS civil service union will meet on 19-21 May in very uncertain domestic and international political times. There is no sense that the Left Unity “leadership” of PCS grasps the range and scale of risks. workersliberty.org/story/2026-0...

Immediately Birmingham needs a broad, inclusive anti-cuts campaign capable of pressuring the commissioners to allow the deal, and the government to restore funding. workersliberty.org/story/2026-0...

There was some disruption of the trade union May Day in Nottingham this year, but by a maverick left faction rather than the far right. workersliberty.org/story/2026-0...

In Kent, of the 57 Reform councillors elected in May 2025, ten have resigned or declared themselves “independents”. In Shropshire the council has had three leaders in a year. workersliberty.org/story/2026-0...

Socialists and trade unionists should see the breakthrough results for Reform in the 7 May elections as an urgent political warning. workersliberty.org/story/2026-0...

New issue of Solidarity out now: Make unions fight the far right! Link: workersliberty.org/publications...

Labour after Starmer: reopen Labour democracy! workersliberty.org/story/2026-0...

The History of May Day www.workersliberty.org/story/2017-0...

France's municipal elections of 15 and 22 March 2026. Articles by Socialisme ou Barbarie workersliberty.org/story/2026-0...

Three letters from Trotsky to a Palestinian Jewish sympathiser workersliberty.org/story/2026-0...