PA ban arrests now total 3,300 Five hundred and twenty-three more people were arrested in London on 10 April for holding signs saying “I oppose genocide, I support Palestine action.

Five hundred and twenty-three more people were arrested in London on 10 April for holding signs saying “I oppose genocide, I support Palestine action.

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May Day, Trump, and Avignon Around half of voters in the USA, and a sizeable minority of Republicans, now tell pollsters that they think Donald Trump is no longer mentally competent. And that was before Trump’s social media…

Around half of voters in the USA, and a sizeable minority of Republicans, now tell pollsters that they think Donald Trump is no longer mentally competent.

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Give the unpaid carers a break! On 13 April the government stated that it has started a review of over 200,000 Carer’s Allowance cases, and indicated that around 25,000 carers may get refunds or cancellation or reduction of debts.…

On 13 April the government stated that it has started a review of over 200,000 Carer’s Allowance cases, and indicated that around 25,000 carers may get refunds or cancellation or reduction of debts

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Doctors still demand restoration Resident doctors have completed our six-day walkout, 7 to 13 April — the fifteenth strike in our current dispute over pay and jobs. The government deal rejected by the resident doctor committee…

Resident doctors have completed our six-day walkout, 7 to 13 April — the fifteenth strike in our current dispute over pay and jobs.

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Universities strike over pay The Unite and Unison branches at Glasgow University struck together on Friday 10 April and will strike again on 24 April in pursuit of an improvement to the insulting 1.4% 2025/26 pay offer. Unions…

The Unite and Unison branches at Glasgow University struck together on Friday 10 April and will strike again on 24 April in pursuit of an improvement to the insulting 1.4% 2025/26 pay offer.

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April is National Poetry Month As befits the occasion: a film about a poet. Benediction (2021), directed by Terence Davies, who died in 2023 (see Solidarity 687), depicts the life of Siegfried Sassoon, best known for his poems…

As befits the occasion: a film about a poet. Benediction (2021), directed by Terence Davies, which depicts the life of Siegfried Sassoon.

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Hope after eight months Pay talks are due to take place this week between the bosses at the National Coal Mining Museum for England (in Wakefield) and the museum’s striking workers. This is the second round of talks.…

Pay talks are due to take place this week between the bosses at the National Coal Mining Museum for England (in Wakefield) and the museum’s striking workers.

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Challenges in where-to-work dispute The six weeks industrial action ballot of PCS members in the Ministry of Housing and Local Government (MHCLG) will close on 15 April. The PCS MHCLG National Branch Executive Committee (BEC) decided…

The six weeks industrial action ballot of PCS members in the Ministry of Housing and Local Government (MHCLG) will close on 15 April.

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“If you break your arm, come into work” Shifts on the gateline last a lot longer when every breath fogs up your glasses. But it would be irresponsible to breathe cold germs onto thousands of customers, not to mention my colleagues. The…

As I was told in training, “if you’re on probation and you break your arm, best come into work with a broken arm then get sent home.”

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Q&A: The Greens, Labour, and us Q. I understand that some Workers’ Liberty people, excluded from the Labour Party, have joined the Greens and are working with the Greens for the 7 May local elections. Why?

Q&A: The Greens, Labour, and us

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“Post-literacy”: the beam in our own eyes I agree entirely with Daniel Randall’s conclusion (Solidarity 764): “Today’s revolutionary left, in the spirit of Eleanor Marx, the Plebs League, and L’Ordine Nuovo, must strive, again, to establish…

We must strive, again, to establish cultures of deep literacy within the labour movement.

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The NEU Left after conference In the first NEU Left bulletin since annual conference, you might hope to find some reflection about how they lost conference votes, whether they misread the mood, and how they might develop more…

The first NEU Left bulletin since annual conference claims “There is a fight for the soul of the Union” but it’s not at all clear what the issues at the heart of it are or how they relate to any decisions made at conference.

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Why is a leading union faction promoting Galloway's party? If you want a leadership that is consistent and open about its commitment to women, migrant and LGBT rights and opposition to imperialism and racism. Please vote for and campaign for the Left slate…

Why is PCS Left Unity promoting Galloway's party? Republished from PCS Independent Left.

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Pushback at NEU conference The annual conference of the National Education Union (NEU), 30 March to 2 April in Brighton, came in the midst of online indicative ballots over education funding. Teachers and school support staff…

The annual conference of the National Education Union (NEU), 30 March to 2 April in Brighton, came in the midst of online indicative ballots over education funding.

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Something, but too little, too late The Policing Minister, Sarah Jones, announced in Parliament on 26 March the long-awaited launch of the inquiry into the events at the Orgreave coking depot just outside Sheffield during the 1984-5…

Orgreave Inquiry: The “submission window” closes on 22 May 2026, and the inquiry is due to report by spring 2028.

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How cuts are structured into Stormont In the last column, we considered the crisis-ridden nature of the power-sharing institutions, their inbuilt sectarianism and their tendency towards regular collapse. In 2017, the institutions were…

The priority for the labour movement must be, in the short-term, ensuring that the crisis is not resolved through cuts to pay or services or “revenue-raising” measures which squeeze ordinary workers but through greater funding.

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Don’t demonise working-class youth Few things get the right wing media into a lather more than outbreaks of social disorder involving working class teenagers. It’s an added “bonus” for the Mail,Express, etc when some “offending”…

Few things get the right wing media into a lather more than outbreaks of social disorder involving working class teenagers.

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A crisis of unruly schools? This is the first of a series on schools. This part looks at trade union disputes about student behaviour. Later parts will look at positive ideas for school culture. The 2026 conference of the…

This is the first of a series on schools. This part looks at trade union disputes about student behaviour. Later parts will look at positive ideas for school culture.

Reform UK is a lie-factory Among your co-workers, neighbours or family, you probably know people who may vote for Reform UK. How to answer them? This article lays out some of Reform UK’s policies and what we as socialists…

Among your co-workers, neighbours or family, you probably know people who may vote for Reform UK. How to answer them? This article lays out some of Reform UK’s policies and what we as socialists advocate instead.

Antisemitism picture is more complex Dale Street’s article in Solidarity 764 reviews the latest report from the Community Security Trust (CST), a Jewish community organisation. Incidents which CST categorised as “Extreme Violence”…

Daniel Randall responds to Dale Street’s article on the latest report from the Community Security Trust.

Making antisemitism virtuous Why did so much of the global left immediately, the very next day, celebrate the crimes against humanity committed by Hamas on 7 October 2023? Why do such people consistently back clerical-fascist…

Dale Street discusses Eva Illouz's 8th October: Genealogy of a Virtuous Hatred.

War, ceasefire, and war again The negotiations between representatives of the Trump administration and the Islamic regime of Iran, which had begun in Pakistan after a temporary ceasefire, ended without result after one day, on…

War, ceasefire, and war again

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Organise a union fightback Up to the Iran-US-Israel-Lebanon war, you couild expect 2026 to be dim but not terrible for working-class household finances. No longer. Because of Universal Credit rises and the scrapping of the…

Up to the Iran-US-Israel-Lebanon war, you couild expect 2026 to be dim but not terrible for working-class household finances. No longer.

The left after the fall of Orban Viktor Orbán, authoritarian right-wing prime minister of Hungary since 2010, suffered a humiliating defeat in the 12 April election. While about two percent of the votes still need to be counted, the…

Viktor Orbán, authoritarian right-wing prime minister of Hungary since 2010, suffered a humiliating defeat in the 12 April election. But what about the Hungarian left?

A radical-feminist take on motherhood In Of Woman Born, originally published in 1976, and being discussed by the London Socialist Feminist Book Club on 19 April, influential poet and feminist Adrienne Rich examines motherhood as an…

In Of Woman Born, originally published in 1976, influential poet and feminist Adrienne Rich examines motherhood as an institution.

Where just 421 people own 40% of rural land Land ownership in the UK is among the most unequal in the industrialised world, yet this is seldom reported. Even more rarely, in England at least, is it made a matter for political debate. Scotland…

Land ownership in the UK is among the most unequal in the industrialised world, yet this is seldom reported.

The local vote mystery What advice will the Morning Star be giving socialists when it comes to voting on 7 May?

What advice will the Morning Star be giving socialists when it comes to voting on 7 May?

Talking with the far right in Sheffield Conversations with those attending the far-right protest revealed recurring themes. Most people agreed with us on economic issues, like nationalisation, welfare and pay rises, but the main sticking…

Talking with the far right in Sheffield

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Statement from the Haft Tappeh Sugar Cane workers

Organise a union fightback Up to the Iran-US-Israel-Lebanon war, you couild expect 2026 to be dim but not terrible for working-class household finances. No longer. Because of Universal Credit rises and the scrapping of the…

Strong campaigns on pay can lay the basis for the audacious and coordinated action which will be needed if capitalist economic troubles escalate into full-scale crisis.