Nottingham: English Defence League loses control
7 December 2009
The English Defence League tellingly exposed themselves in Nottingham this weekend as the drunken football hooligans found the respectable image they have tried so hard to maintain in the media destroyed. John Bowman reports.
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English Defence League – no more Manchesters!
13 October 2009 – Learn the lessons for Leeds
Around 700 EDL thugs successfully marched through Manchester on Saturday 10 October 2009, despite brave efforts to stop them by antifascists. John Bowman reports.
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Stop the fascist BNP festival this August
Workers Power 337 – August 2009
We need to mobilise against the BNPs annual festival!
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Why anti-Zionism is not anti-Semitism
Workers Power 333: March 2009
Israel's supporters, or Zionists, are increasingly pushed onto the defensive as the horrible reality of Israel's treatment of the Palestinians hits the headlines. Breaking the ceasefire in December, Israel brutally attacked the almost defenceless population of Gaza, killing 1,330 Palestinians and injuring 5,450 in 25 days. But [i]Nat Silverstein[/i] believes Zionists have all but run out of justifications for Israeli war crimes, and as a result they wrongly argue that opposition to Israel means that you are anti-Semitic, i.e. racist against Jews more…
Migrant workers: myths and realities
Workers Power 333: March 2009
Migrant workers have been attacked by sections of the media, government ministers and even by trade unionists. [i]Marcus Halaby[/i] exposes the main myths more…
Spotlight on immigration and the downturn
Workers Power 330 November 2008
Labour's immigration minister Phil Woolas has made a splash in the press, talking about new policies to restrict immigration because of the economic downturn. writes Rebecca Anderson more…
USA: From civil rights to Black Power
Workers Power 330 November 2008
With the USA about to elect its first ever black President, the lessons of the great struggles for black liberation in 1960s America are as relevant as ever. In this article, first published in 1993 on the thirtieth anniversary of Martin Luther King's speech, Steve Clayton and Richard Brenner chart the rise of the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s, and the ideas of one of its most widely known and militant leaders, Stokely Carmichael
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Don't fall for the knife crime hysteria!
Workers Power 328 September 2008
As tabloids scream out more hysterical headlines over knife crime, John Bowman addresses the facts surrounding the panic and the impact that it could have on the oppression of Britain's youth more…
Report of the Anti Red, White and Blue demonstration
20 August 2008
A report from Workers Power members on the counter demo against the BNP's Red, White and Blue festival in Derby. more…
Enoch Powell was a racist
1968: the year the world caught fire
Forty years ago a speech was made that still excites mainstream politicians and journalists today. It wasn't about civil rights, Vietnam or revolution. It was Enoch Powell's "Rivers of Blood" speech. [i]Keith Spencer[/i] analyses Powell's racist populism and why its memory persists today more…
Militarist lie machine in overdrive
Workers Power leaflet to Stop the War demo 15 March 2008
With occupation and economy sliding into crisis...
Militarist lie machine in overdrive
• Troops out of Iraq and Afghanistan - military out of colleges and schools
• Not a penny or a person for colonial wars - no cuts in jobs, wages or services
• Support the resistance to US and British occupation
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Students hit back against militarism and war
12 March 2008
Students at University College London have agreed to ban the British armed forces from using their union premises to recruit officers and promote the military. [i]Jeremy Dewar[/i] congratulates them, while unpicking a distasteful racist backlash more…
Fight government attack on migrant workers
Workers Power 323: March 2008
Home Secretary Jacqui Smith and Immigration Minister Liam Byrne have unveiled a raft of new attacks on immigrants, reports Rebecca Anderson more…
France: union leaders betray struggle
Workers Power 321 – Winter 2007–08
After weeks of strikes against pension reforms and days of riots in response police brutality in the working class suburbs. Marc Lasalle analyses the latest social explosion in France
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Justice for Jean Charles de Menezes
Workers Power 320 – November 2007
On 22 July 2005, Jean Charles de Menezes was shot several times in the head by armed police at Stockwell tube station in south London.
Last month, the Metropolitan Police were fined just £175,000 for endangering public safety. Keith Spencer calls for justice
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Labour and Tories whip up anti-migrant racism
