“Preparing for the General Strike on November 11 requires the greatest possible unity of action among the organising bodies to establish neighbourhood, workplace, and campus committees across the country—as has already been proposed by the Tenants' Union and various other trade union, feminist, environmental, and social organisations.”

“Alan Thornett, who has died aged 89, was the best-known militant in the British car industry during the decade when the industry settled the fate of British trade unionism.”

Last week was the end of the New York City's honeymoon with Mayor Zohran Mamdani as he confronted controversies over the anniversary of the October 7 Hamas attack on Israel and an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) shooting of an immigrant.

The day of action on 6 October was exceptional. With over 90 per cent of universities blockaded, according to the Union étudiante, and 1,800 secondary schools blockaded, according to the Union syndicale lycéenne, the movement is, from the outset, stronger than the 2006 movement against the CPE – the last major, successful youth movement. The future of this movement is perhaps even more significant.

The 17th World Social Forum was held in Benin in early August. While it remains an irreplaceable forum for debate, this session was a failure in terms of both numbers and political participation.

The first round defeated the left. Michael Löwy warns: democracy is at risk and, however contradictory, Lula is the only option for stopping fascism's “suicide train.” Braking it means buying time to build other political horizons.

“Socialism is the rule of the working class. Planning is an instrument of the democratic workers' state for organizing production for human need under its collective political and social rule and the transition to a classless society.”

Perhaps paraphrasing Marx and Engels in the Communist Manifesto, when they described the revolutionary process that swept through Europe at the end of the 1940s as a spectre, we could describe the counter-revolutionary cycle that is sweeping through Our America in these 2020s as a phantom, albeit of the opposite kind .

Labour leader Andy Burnham made his first leader's speech to Labour Party conference on 29 September 2026. It was warmly received. Following this Dave Kellaway discusses how there is still some life left in 'Old Labour' policies.
Some organisations and individual commentators in the movement define Andy Burnham as ‘Starmer continuity', ‘Starmer 2.0' or use the phrase ‘new boss same as the old boss'. His conference speech and actions since taking office shows that this sort of analysis is (…)

“The social tension that housing introduces into the lives of the majority has become political tension thanks to the successful intervention of the Tenants' Union, the eviction of Maricarmen as a foundational event and the pressure in the street. Today, Spanish politics is inevitably moving towards another moment and the vote in Congress is a step in that transition.”

Pedro Sánchez has announced that he is bringing forward the date of the elections, which will now take place on 29 November. This call for elections comes against a backdrop of major protests over the housing crisis, which have sparked a significant resurgence of mobilisation amongst the left and the working class in the face of a structural problem that is becoming increasingly urgent.

The notion of the Left contains a dual dimension. For more than a century, both its opponents and its supporters have agreed in describing the Left as the “party of movement,” the natural gathering place of “all progressive forces” and all advocates of “change.”

The attempt to ostracise the AfD has failed.

“As migrants and refugees in diaspora and in exile from Iran, who have our loved ones suffering in the Iranian state's prisons and facing its gallows, we salute the signatories of the open letter to “Iran's political prisoners, trapped ‘between two blades of a scissors'”, published in The Guardian on 20 August 2026. With us stand comrades and organisations from across the world who see this struggle as bound up with their own.”

Ukrainians are facing a fifth winter in wartime conditions. Solidarity is needed as much as ever

Jason Arday, the youngest Black professor at Cambridge University was found dead on 14 August 2024 at his home after a vicious campaign against him by the mainstream media.

MIDTERM U.S. ELECTIONS are traditionally predictably unpredictable, the main question being how much loss the party of the sitting President will suffer. Conventionally that should go double or triple for the Republicans this November.

Fifty years ago, the student uprisings of June 1976 radically altered the terrain of the anti-apartheid struggle in South Africa. They laid the foundations for the mass resistance of the mid-1980s, as they opened up new possibilities for solidarity between students, workers, parents, and teachers, and galvanised nationwide resistance beyond Soweto. Until today, the events of June 1976 remain a global symbol of resistance to apartheid and genocide beyond South Africa.

Since the end of May, day after day, Albanians have been protesting in Tirana against a luxury tourist complex that US president Donald Trump's daughter, Ivanka, and son-in-law, Jared Kushner, plan to build with an Albanian investor. At first, there were only a few hundred demonstrators, but it has now become a mass movement.

On 3 January 2026, the United States launched a military operation against Venezuela, resulting in the capture and detention of President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, and their transfer to the United States. During this attack, carried out using 150 aircraft, around a hundred people lost their lives, including 32 Cubans who had attempted to protect the country's presidential palace; the remaining victims were Venezuelans. A few hours after this intervention, Donald Trump announced that Washington now claimed to be temporarily in control of Venezuela and would exploit its oil resources.