On 24 June, Julian Assange was released from Belmarsh Prison and was able to return to Australia (his country of origin). He had been detained since 2019, at the request of the US government, with a request for extradition, accused of “revealing secret information”. Who is Julian Assange and what is the significance of his […]
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By Jane Kevern; an almost retired locum GP There is still no end to the blockade; additional atrocities are occurring – people collecting food aid being targeted, injured and killed; reports of healthcare workers abducted, humiliated and tortured; an imminent ground offensive by the Israeli army into the “safe zone” of Rafah, the Israeli military […]
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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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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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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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King Charles billionaire, head of state and army and veto over parliament By International Socialist League The British royal family is popularly perceived as a benign institution, an image important to and encouraged by the ruling class, enthusiastically supported by a bourgeois media sowing lies that royalty are humble folk “just like us” and that everyone […]
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Defend the NHS Martin Ralph The NHS management and government want nurses in England to accept 4% for last year and 5% for this coming year. It won’t stop staff leaving and will make waiting lists longer. This is a pay cut as RPI is 13.8% and food inflation is 18%, which is on top […]
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Peter Windeler speaking on behalf of Stockport Trades Council 27 January 2022 As you may be aware, Trades Councils bring together trade unions in particular localities to fight and defend workers’ rights and working conditions. Although I am now a representative on behalf of teachers, in the 1980s I was a representative of bank workers […]
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