The Workers Party of Britain denounces Network Rail’s plan to cut up to 2,500 rail jobs, condemns transport secretary Grant Shapps threat to criminalise strikes and welcomes the overwhelming mandate for national strike action delivered by an RMT ballot of over 40,000 rail workers. A magnificent 89 percent voted for strike action on a turn out of 71 percent.
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Spring Appeal launched
New Spring Fundraiser launched! The Workers Party is committed to a wide range of campaigning as well as our bread and butter grassroots work in communities and the labour movement.Continue reading “Spring Appeal launched”
Nato and Russia, a brief history
For thirty years NATO has been conducting a slow-motion war which was from the very beginning aimed at first containing and then balkanizing Russia
Batley East candidate announced
Aziz Daji has been announced as the Workers Party candidate for Batley East in West Yorkshire when local elections are held in May 2022.
Support the Barts strikers!
The Workers Party of Britain warmly welcomes the decision by hundreds of hospital porters, guards, catering staff and cleaners to go on strike for the first two weeks of February.Continue reading “Support the Barts strikers!”
Batley and spin
The real achievement of this election is that we’ve shown the whole country that there is a new party, one that intends to replace Labour as the party of the working class.
Victory to the Devonport strikers!
The Workers Party of Britain denounces outsourcing giant Serco for endangering the health and welfare of tug crews at Devonport naval base, and salutes the decision of workers to takeContinue reading “Victory to the Devonport strikers!”
WPB calls for abolition of income tax for low-wage workers
The Workers Party of Britain advocates an increase in the personal tax threshold for the poorest-paid working people.
The end of Project Corbyn
Corbyn’s Labour leadership campaign of 2015 was a miracle to behold. He surfed a wave he was himself generating which in turn built the wave ever higher. And he swept his centrist opponents away in a landslide victory. How, then, did it all go so wrong in just a few years?