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Opportunism, sectarianism and the new workers' party

A reply to the Socialist Party on the SWP's open letter 29 June 2009

Dear comrades,
Your reply to the SWP’s Open Letter fails to address the urgency of the situation facing the working class today. more...

It's time to create a new working class party

A response from Workers Power to the Socialist Workers Party's ‘Open Letter to the Left’, 10 June 2009

Workers Power welcomes the Socialist Workers Party’s Open Letter to the Left, It’s Time to Create a Socialist Alternative. more...
FOR A NEW WORKERS PARTY


The Left debates its future

New pamphlet from Workers Power 2 July 2009


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Lindsey workers win: lessons of the strike

1 July 2009

The victory of workers at the Lindsey oil refinery who have successfully defended their jobs against an attack on trade union militants have shown the labour movement the way to save jobs. Andy Yorke looks at the lessons more…

Iran protests need a new direction – general strike now!

23 June 2009

Simon Hardy argues that the street demonstrations need a new strategy to win more…

Which way forward for the unions?

Bulletin to the National Shop Stewards Network conference

Over 10,000 power construction workers this week gave the bosses a taste of their own medicine in defiance of the anti-union laws. Their fight for jobs for all was a dramatic reversal from the strikes against migrant workers earlier this year. Here we look at the lessons for the class, and outline a perspective for taking the struggle forward.
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2009 CWU conference

Full coverage

Workers Power has produced an in depth report of this years CWU conference, covering the key motions and debates. more...

   

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Contents
- Build a new workers' party – now
- Labour party in crisis
- Europe moves right and social democratic vote collapses
- Labour suffers historic defeat as working class abandons party en masse
- The silent jobs massacre
- London tube strike - build for all out action to win!
- Global crisis brings Britain’s car industry to a shuddering halt
- London post: let’s strike while the iron is hot
- Unite: Linamar on strike – 20,000 construction workers to follow
- Swine flu risk aggravated by profiteering
- Lambeth housing in crisis
- Obama's speech in Cairo
- Eelam drowned in blood
- Pakistan: a country heading towards disaster
- Communist party in India punished for capitalist policies
- Down with US threats to North Korea
- The Socialist Party: capitulating to nationalism
- Turning point in the miners' strike – the Battle of Orgreave


Credit Crunch & Economic Crisis