Workers' Liberty

The story of the Chinese revolution of 1927, is a story of how a working class developed in China, how its struggles interlaced with those of the nationalist bourgeoisie, how the young Chinese Communist Party misled those struggles and why, ultimately, they were defeated.

David Broder reviews Fawwaz Traboulsi’s A History of Modern Lebanon (Pluto Press)

By Martin Thomas

Two of Iraq’s major union federations have formed a united front to fight against oil privatisation and the government’s attempt to outlaw the oil unions.

By Robin Sivapalan

DALE STREET reviews The Blair Years — Extracts from the Alastair Campbell Diaries

By Rhodri Evans

Over the last several months, a crisis originating at the lower end of the US mortgage market has become, at least incipiently, a world credit crisis.

The government is considering proposals to prosecute men for buying sex; in this they are following the model of “vice control” used in Sweden.

On Tuesday 11 September the TUC Congress, the annual gathering of delegates from all Britain's unions, voted for united action by all the public sector unions to beat Gordon Brown's decree that public

Will Kate McCann become another Lindy Chamberlain? The only reasonable answer is that we have no way of even making an intelligent guess.

The Tories are trying to bring back a toned down version of National Service. The original version, under which all young men had to do two years military service, was abolished in 1963.

It’s all very quiet. You won’t have read a lot about it in the press, heard much about it on TV, or even been told much about it by your union, if you’re a union member. But at the Labour Party conference starting on 23 September, Gordon Brown plans to end 107 years of working-class political input through the Labour Party. Not just to add “a further attack on Labour Party democracy” to the many made since Neil Kinnock’s time. Not just to introduce “more of the same”. Not just to add a further ailment to the already very sick state of working-class political representation in the Labour Party. This is a death blow.

Metronet

By an RMT member

Following the debate on trade union freedom, the other big debate at TUC conference [by the time Solidarity went to press] was on public services and public sector pay.

If looks could kill...

by Colin Foster

What is the government going to do with illegally striking prison officers? Send them all to jail?

Local government employers have upped their pay offer to trade unions in an attempt to stave off industrial action.

CWU postal workers will strike again this month (September) in their dispute with Royal Mail over pay and over the bosses' drive to transform the industry radically, with large job cuts, on free-marke

At four in the morning on 24 August, Zimbabwean police carried out a raid on the homes of Women of Zimbabwe Arise (WOZA) members in Bulawayo, taking six women and a one year-old baby into custody.

General Pervez Musharraf’s eight year grip on political power in Pakistan looks increasingly precarious.

This summer the Iranian regime carried out a fresh wave of torture and executions, keeping up its record of systematic human rights abuses, including killings of children, political dissidents, gay pe

The stated purpose of the USA’s troop “surge” in Iraq which started early this year was to damp down the country’s conflicts enough that the current US-friendly Iraqi government (or, maybe, a

In the Scottish Parliamentary elections held in May this year the Scottish National Party emerged, albeit by the narrowest of margins, as the biggest single faction within the Scottish Parliament.

By MARTIN THOMAS

The Weekly Worker group invited an AWL member to debate Iraq (or was it Iran? their story is not clear) at their recent summer school.

By Sacha Ismail

Sofie Buckland reviews Atonement

Bruce Robinson asseses the life and work of Max Roach

Feminists Against Borders will hold their first meeting, “Moving gender”, as part of the Gatwick No Borders Camp, Friday 21 September, 10am-1pm, Ruskin House, 23 Coombe Road, Croydon.

The International Federation of Iraqi Refugees has issued the following appeal.

By Sofie Buckland, National Union of Students executive (pc)