TfL is seeking suppliers to provide solar panels, which it says will eventually provide around 5% of the power needed for the Tube. It’s a small step in the right direction. Those of us who want to ...
This morning, we visited the rather splendid Lviv office of the Trade Union of Education and Science Workers of Ukraine.The office is in the House of Scientists, a stunning neo-baroque building that ...
During a solidarity trip to Ukraine, railway writer and trainer Janine Booth spoke with a Ukrainian train driver. On Saturday morning, we met with Volodymyr, a train driver on the state-owned railway, ...
This week, a delegation of UK educators and union activists is visiting Ukraine in solidarity with educators in a country at war. Reports will be posted on this blog. This morning, we visited a ...
No film recommendation this week, but a moan about something that really gets on my nerves. I have just watched Child 44 (2015), a film based, very loosely, on the apprehension of Andrei Chikatila, a ...
A new open letter signed by 2,000 Israeli citizens, some living in Israel, others abroad, calls for intensified international pressure on Israel. The letter’s authors are undoubtedly motivated by ...
What should we call on voters to do in safe Democrat states in the USA’s Presidential election? It perplexes me that, despite repeatedly being asked, those in Workers’ Liberty who are for a Democrat ...
Last week’s Socialist Worker rejects the Taiwanese people’s right to self-determination. In an article headed “Analysis: US and China draw battle lines in Taiwan”, Thomas Foster offers a veneer of ...
This is the second of our blog posts reporting from the solidarity delegation to Lviv in Ukraine. On Thursday afternoon, we visited a secondary school, Lyceum no.83. We were shown around the school by ...
When Karl Marx wrote the Communist Manifesto in 1848, socialism had only begun to emerge as an ideology. The meaning of socialism, communism and related ideas were heavily contested and unfinished.