A motion for trade union branches Considering, government attacks on asylum seekers and immigrants through the racist and divisive system of immigration controls, we reject the continuous criminalisation and demonisation of all immigrants conducted by the media and politicians. This branch calls for support and solidarity for all asylum seekers and immigrants who face fierce […]
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Ashley Walker ISL At a time when climate change places additional pressure on water usage and threatens to create water scarcity, 20% of water pumped through Britain’s water infrastructure is lost to leaks [1]. According to the Environment Agency, in 2023 there were 3.6 million hours of spills, compared to 1.75 million hours in 2022, […]
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End the Genocide Stop Arming Israel Martin Ralph, ISL The anger of the students has made the encampment movement the most dynamic international protest movement in the world today in support of Palestine, against Israeli genocide, complicit governments and university support for the Israeli military. The student occupations in the US began to inspire the […]
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Ashley Walker, ISL First published June 2022 The liberation of transgender and gender non-binary people would help liberate us all, by challenging and helping to shatter the patriarchal and bigoted capitalist system we currently live in. The British government has recently launched two attacks on transgender and gender non-binary people, these being proposing to ban […]
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From Bill Hunter archives With a general election looming the need for change, as with the 1997 general election against the hated Tory government, remains widespread today. There is a growing desire for a workers’ alternative to Labour, as Starmer shifts Labour further to the right creating a party barely distinguishable from the Tories. An […]
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Margaret McAdam and Ashley Walker Based on data from 2023, around 12 million people, 18% of the population, live in absolute poverty, with a housing and homelessness emergency escalating as families struggle to bear the costs of permanently high prices including energy costs. An estimated 13% of households in England are in fuel poverty, and […]
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Martin Ralph Britain and many countries are against U.S. protectionist policies that create massive subsidies via tax breaks and other incentives to deepen the trade war with China. The economic shock waves emanating from this inter-imperialist trade conflict between U.S.A and China threatens greater conflict in the world capitalist system. The 2022 Inflation Reduction Act […]
Read MoreTransgender : Xenophobia : Debt recovery violence : Government snooping In this contribution to Life of the ISL Ashley shows how his recent work reminded him of the true oppressive face of capitalism, and that this view has been reinforced since, with many more oppressive developments by British capitalism. Stop Removing More Transgender Rights On […]
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Bill Hunter, 2005 This article written in 2005 by Bill Hunter concerns the invasion of Iraq and imperialist terror An Age of Barbarism: that is the true description of the epoch we are living through – the barbarism of a capitalist system in decline and decay. The 19th century began with the viciousness of the […]
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Support Wirral Clinical Support Workers – the Long Strike Recognise CSWs for the job they do – band 3 Martin Ralph Clinical Support Workers (CSW) at the Arrowe and Clatterbridge NHS hospitals began their action for the recognition of their skills and experience at the end of August with a 48-hour strike. Several hospital trusts, […]
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