Debate in UK deepens over Jew-hatred in Labour Party

Vol. 82/No. 31 - August 20, 2018

LONDON — “Jewish Trump fanatics” are responsible for a raft of made-up stories about Labour Party anti-Semitism, national executive member Peter Willsman charged at the committee’s meeting July 17. This explosion of Jew-hatred, recorded and publicly released, is part of…


Woman’s right to abortion is debated in Northern Ireland

Vol. 82/No. 29 - August 6, 2018
Rally for women’s right to abortion in Belfast July 7. “No airfare, we want health care!” chanted protesters. Because abortions are banned in Northern Ireland, unlike in the rest of the U.K., women seeking abortions are forced to fly abroad to have the procedure.

BELFAST, Northern Ireland — “What do we want? The right to choose! When do we want it? Now!” chanted hundreds demonstrating outside City Hall here July 7. The youthful rally, organized by Alliance for Choice and Rally for Choice, was…


UK health workers beat back attack by hospital bosses

Vol. 82/No. 27 - July 23, 2018
Contingent of striking hospital workers from Wigan, England, march in London June 30 on 70th anniversary of National Health Service. Their strike beat back bosses moves to privatize their NHS jobs and open attack on wages, working conditions and against health care.

WIGAN, England — “We’re so proud, everyone’s walking around work with massive smiles, because we’ve won,” hospital porter Stuart Horrigan told the Militant after members of the Unite and UNISON unions gained an important victory here. In face of escalating…


UK hospital workers wage second strike, call further action

Vol. 82/No. 25 - July 9, 2018
Hospital workers march in Wigan, England, June 9 during 48-hour strike over jobs transfer, new two-tier pay.

WIGAN, England — “New starters would be getting less money,” striking hospital worker Sharon Pemberton told a June 9 union rally here. Hospital bosses “want to divide us into two tiers, but we are on strike together, united and determined.”…


London march marks 1 year since Grenfell Tower fire

Vol. 82/No. 25 - July 9, 2018
London march marks 1 year since Grenfell Tower fire

LONDON — Thousands of working people joined a silent march through North Kensington June 14 marking one year since a massive fire destroyed the Grenfell Tower block, killing 72 people and leaving hundreds homeless. While the big-business media repeated police…


Widespread support for 2-day U.K. hospital workers strike

Vol. 82/No. 23 - June 11, 2018

WIGAN, England — “I am proud of what we have done. They thought we were the small people. They thought they could get away with this outsourcing, but we’ve showed them we are not minions,” Amanda Grimes, a cleaner and…


Grenfell Tower fire survivors demand housing, fire safety

Vol. 82/No. 20 - May 21, 2018

LONDON — Marking 10 months since the Grenfell Tower fire, where 72 people were killed and hundreds left homeless, thousands of survivors and supporters marched here April 14. Every month survivors mobilize to demand government action. This was the biggest…


Communist League in UK kicks off election campaign

Vol. 82/No. 18 - May 7, 2018

MANCHESTER, England — “We need something like that here,” Beryl Mahomet said April 5 after she looked at the Militant’s coverage of the successful strike by teachers in West Virginia. Hugo Wils, Communist League candidate for Tameside Council in Stalybridge…


Correction

Vol. 82/No. 18 - May 7, 2018

The article “Lessons of 1979-83 Grenada Revolution Debated in UK,” in issue no. 16 incorrectly said that Fidel Castro’s remarks about Bernard Coard’s “Pol Pot-type group” were presented at a rally in Havana. Castro’s remarks were presented in a 1985…


Lessons of 1979-83 Grenada Revolution debated in UK

Meeting participants rebut counterrevolutionary leader’s pretext: ‘It was a tragedy, we all made mistakes’
Vol. 82/No. 16 - April 23, 2018

LONDON — “No, I did not murder Maurice Bishop. No, I did not order his death,” said Bernard Coard in opening his talk to a March 27 meeting here. Coard was trying to rationalize his treacherous leadership 35 years ago…