Starmer’s national broadcast: reasserting Labour as second eleven for capitalism

Keir Starmer’s national broadcast and the new Labour Party political broadcast were both aired this week, and both were equally dire. They were devoid of politics, full of truisms, and based entirely on the issue of competence — sending a clear message that the only thing Starmer’s Labour would do is the same as the […]

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The Brexit saga continues: Workers’ movement must act independently!

Joint statement between Socialist Party Northern Ireland and Socialist Alternative in England, Wales and Scotland (both part of International Socialist Alternative) Last year, politics was dominated by the constitutional crisis of Brexit. The seriousness of the Covid pandemic and the global economic crisis has meant that the Brexit process has very much taken a back […]

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The struggle for a living wage in Sweatshop Britain

Workers in Leicester are being paid as little as £3.50 an hour to manufacture garments for huge multi million-pound fast fashion brands like Boohoo. This production takes place in unsafe environments where workers are coerced into accepting completely intolerable conditions. If you ask anyone, they will tell you that they think that this putrid exploitation […]

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