Oppose deportations to Iran!
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Six Iranian refugees are now in their fifth week of a hunger strike to demand asylum in the UK and protest against mistreatment by the Home Office.
Solidarity 3/202, 4 May 2011
Syrian revolt at a turning point
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The confrontation between the Syrian police state and the popular movement is now in a decisive phase.
Your chance to hear leaders of Egypt's new workers' movement speak in Britain
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On 19 and 20 May, leaders of Egypt's new, independent trade union movement will be speaking in Britain.
Hamas-Fatah agreement
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The Palestinian secular nationalist party, Fatah, has reached an agreement with the Islamists of Hamas to form an interim Palestinian government and to organise a general election.
Libyan rebels fight for life
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Qaddafi has been draping himself in the battle flags of the past and appealing to international opinion in order to achieve a ceasefire which would provide a cover for the complete elimination of the rebel positions in Misrata.
Tunisia: we should push for a workers' government
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On 24 February there was the movement that we call here “Casbah 2” — more than 300,000 people demanding that Ghannouchi go. On 27 February Ghannouchi and the other Rally for Constitutional Democracy (RCD) ministers resigned.
30 June and after
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Teachers, civil servants, and other workers are set to strike on 30 June against the coalition government’s increases in pension contributions, cuts in pension provision, and raising of the pension age.
A new wave of university cuts
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From the Tory-Liberal government’s huge cut in government money for university teaching budgets will follow, for all universities unable to compete in the £9000-fee top end of the market, big cuts in courses; and for all universities, a re-gearing to market criteria.
Socialism must mean more democracy
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The AWL is right to demand “democracy at every level” of society
Anarchism, direct action and class struggle
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“A riot is the language of the unheard” (Martin Luther King)... Currently “direct action” seems to be used mechanically for any action outside the once standard, ignored, tedious and silent marches.