Academies: the next stage of commoditising education

Rhoda Stannett takes a look at the continuing trend of academisation in the UK, and the rapid privatisation of children’s education
Secessio plebis: the ‘world’s first general strike’

In the wave of mass industrial action across Britain, this article look back in time to a momentous piece of working class history, and to what could be the world’s first general strike
Solidarity – not charity

Nathan Hennebry writes on how the failures of bourgeois charity are highlighting the need for working-class people to take matters into their own hands
Imperialism’s information war and the importance of insurgent communication

“Because class struggle inevitably extends into the domain of the Internet, this means that there is an urgent need for professionally organised, insurgent communication”, writes Oliver Dodd
Beyond pay: the role of the NEU strikes in the fight for socialism

“NEU members should work hard to build a striking agenda that champions the cause of all working people”, writes Efrem Craig
The state of trans healthcare in Britain

Rose Raistrick argues why more needs to be done to improve NHS access to trans healthcare
In workplaces and the streets we will defend our rights

The Venezuelan left-wing labor federation CUTV, affiliated to the World Federation of Trade Unions, issued a response to a statement of the CBST, the government-aligned union federation.
Class conscious and militant politics are the answer for the youth and working people of Scotland

YCL General Secretary Johnnie Hunter explains why it is critical to examine the recent rise in industrial action and SNP’s referendum announcement from a class standpoint
Organising migrant women

Judith Cazorla writes on the situation of migrant women in Britain and why we as communists need to do more to engage with them
On the conception of freedoms: towards a socialist theory of human rights

“Socialists must disengage from the bourgeois conception of human rights”, writes Ethan Chan