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Kamal al-Fayoumi arrested as Egyptian regime retaliates to strikes

Prominent Egyptian trade union activist arrested and accused of "instigating unrest"

Left wins London student elections

The left has won the elections for the leadership of University of London Union - including Workers' Liberty member Daniel Cooper as Vice President.

NUT and PCS call for new pension strike on 28 March

The Executive of the National Union of Teachers (NUT), meeting on 9 February, decided to call for a new strike to defend public sector pensions on 28 March.

Barnet Unison strike over privatisation

Around 400 Barnet Unison members will take their fourth day of strike action, prompted by the privatisation of council services, on Thursday 9 February.

UCU pre-92 conf: UCU employees walk out over accusations of a scandal.

At the pre-92 UCU conference last Tuesday a sizeable majority of delegates - 66 to 41 - voted in favour of suspending industrial action over the USS dispute. But then controversy blew up.

Remploy workers fight bosses' two-tier workforce plan

Remploy workers have struck against a management attempt to impose a two-tier workforce.

Cleaner trade unionist sacked: reinstate Alberto Durango!

Cleaning worker and leading trade union activist Alberto Durango has been sacked by Incentive FM Group Ltd., the contractor which employed him at London's Heron Tower. Activists are mounting a campaign to win his reinstatement.

No to war and sanctions, no to the Islamic Republic: support Iranian workers!

Socialists should oppose the sanctions and any drive to war against Iran. We must step up our solidarity with the small and embattled working-class forces in Iran who are struggling for their freedom.

Public pensions: pin down the plans for action!

Activists in public-sector unions must fight to make their leaders translate vague talk of "further action" on pensions into definite plans. Time is short, and not on our side.

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Review of Robert's Service's biography of Trotsky

Service's biography is shoddy.

Sheridan from the sideline

Gregor Gall's new biography of Tommy Sheridan reviewed.

Does criticising the Iranian government make you like the Tea Party?

At the NCAFC student conference the SWP and its allies voted against a resolution opposing war on Iran - because it had been amended to express solidarity with Iranian workers and students.

Verse against the odds

A review of The Treason of the Intellectuals and other political verse by Sean Matgamna.

The Slansky Trial: introduction

In the Slansky show-trials of 1952 in Czechoslovakia, a group of high-ranking Communist Party members, most of them Jewish, were tortured into “confessing” to treason and colluding with the US and Israel. This is an important example of the use of the term “Zionists” to describe Jews in anti-semitic scapegoating.

Barak threatens to bomb Iran

On Thursday 2 February, Israeli defence minister Ehud Barak threatened an Israeli missile attack on Iran soon.

No to war! No to Iranian bomb!

We oppose the clerical-fascist regime in Tehran getting nuclear weapons. And we oppose a war which will be disastrous for the people of Iran and the whole region.

In memory of Leon Trotsky

A 1943 article by Victor Serge, originally published in Partisan Review.

Scottish labour movement must find its own voice

The conference organised by the United Left of the Unite union in Scotland lacked independent working-class politics.

Trotsky on trade union unity

An article by Trotsky relevant to union mergers today.

Scotland: for a democratic federal republic!

What we say about the Scottish independence issue.

Working-class politics and anarchism

A pamphlet bringing together polemics, debates and exchanges between Workers' Liberty and anarchist comrades in 2011.

How the "left" mourned Kim Jong Il

Socialists shouldn't shed tears at the passing of Stalinist tyrants

Islamist victories in Egypt. What now?

Conservative religious parties have won Egypt's elections. What will their rule mean?

The Kronstadt Uprising, 1921, by Karl Radek

The Kronstadt uprising, by Karl Radek. From the French Comintern periodical "Bulletin communiste", 1921

Socialist batters Thatcherites on national television

On 8 January, BBC1 programme The Big Questions saw a socialist labour movement activist take on Edwina Currie over Thatcher and Thatcherism.

Diane Abbott's comments were problematic, but "anti-white racism" is nonsense

Diane Abbott's comments on Twitter cannot meaningfully be called racist. We need to fight right-wing attempts to cook up an "anti-white racism". However, what she said was not unproblematic.

60th anniversary of the Slansky Trial: Stalinism, anti-semitism and "anti-Zionism"

Sixty years ago in a series of Eastern European Stalinist show-trials leading Communist Party members confessed – under torture – to being longstanding agents of imperialism. But they were also charged with being members of a Jewish conspiracy, betraying their country to “American imperialism” in order to serve the state of Israel.

18 February: New Unionism: how workers can fight back

Lessons from the great trade-union upsurge of the 1880s and 1890s for organising the unorganised today.

"The Treason of the Intellectuals": buy here and contribute to AWL fund drive

"The Treason of the Intellectuals, and other political verse" by Sean Matgamna includes political verse previously published in Solidarity and its forerunners. All proceeds from sales of the book, above printing and dispatch costs, go to the AWL fund drive.

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