We are delighted to announce that Paul Burrows will be the first official Workers Party candidate in a British electoral contest.
Category Archives: British politics
Fight the Low Traffic Neighbourhood scheme in Birmingham
Birmingham city council knows how to waste public money. The Low Traffic Neighbourhood (LTN) scheme installed in Kings Heath is supposed to reduce the number of cars on the road, although in reality all it has done is funnel them onto fewer roads, increasing congestion and raising the emissions levels on those roads.
Tories agree to spend an extra £170 million feeding hungry children
The Workers Party welcomes the government’s latest U-turn – forced by the outrage of the working class generally and the high-profile campaigning of England football star Marcus Rashford in particular – over the plight of hungry children in Britain, but we believe the state should go much further in ensuring a decent start for all Britain’s children.
WPB TU group: Win trade unionists for socialism
The Workers Party of Britain Trade Union group discussed recently how to win more workers to trade unionism and more trade unionists to socialism.
Anglesey WPB: Welsh lockdown is a political game that brings profits to a few and severe hardships to many
Anglesey workers are increasingly angry at the situation that has been forced on them by the two-week lockdown in Wales, which is neither fair nor effective and threatens many with extreme hardship.
Open letter to Marcus Rashford from George Galloway and Joti Brar
The Workers Party of Britain applauds the England star footballer Marcus Rashford in his campaign and petition for free school meals for British children.
WPB TU group: No more subsidies for the Labour party!
The Workers Party of Britain is calling for rank-and-file trade union members to refuse to keep subsidising the Labour party – a capitalist party that represents the interests of the bosses, not those of the workers.
WPB members council: solidarity with Lance Corporal Al-Babati
The Workers Party of Britain believes that the war against Yemen by Saudi Arabia and directly supported by UK military personnel and equipment is unlawful and not in the interest of the Yemeni or British working people.
Statement: Lockdowns are neither effective nor fair, but a further proof of government failure to manage the health emergency effectively
The Workers Party of Britain condemns the new raft of lockdown restrictions brought into effect on Wednesday 14 October – initially targeting the north-west – as a stark admission of failure on the part of Boris Johnson’s Conservative government to deal with Covid-19 on a national scale.
Current and former world leaders demand freedom for Assange
Workers Party leaders have joined politicians and heads of state from around the world in calling on the British government to halt the farcical extradition proceedings of Julian Assange and set him free.