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JOHN McINALLY
MAJOR CONCERNS: Campaigners protest in Westminster ahead of
Features / 28 November 2024
28 November 2024
JOHN McINALLY argues trade unions and socialists must demand properly funded healthcare instead of a change that, combined with neoliberal capitalism, will see working-class people pushed towards suicide
Campaigners in support of voluntary euthanasia protest outsi
Features / 24 September 2024
24 September 2024
JOHN McINALLY warns that Labour’s hasty push for legislation ignores the international evidence of expanding eligibility criteria, potentially normalising the ‘social murder’ of working-class people under the guise of compassion
Campaigners against voluntary euthanasia
Features / 16 August 2024
16 August 2024
Labour must fight to ensure any new laws do not become tools for social cleansing of the poor and disabled, argues JOHN McINALLY, as some begin considering NHS savings that could come at the cost of working-class lives
Anti-auserity march
Features / 14 July 2024
14 July 2024
JOHN McINALLY calls for militant trade unionism and overt socialist politics to counter the new government’s pro-capitalist agenda and a looming authoritarian turn that threatens to muzzle working-class resistance
General secretary of the Public and Commercial Services (PCS
Features / 13 January 2024
13 January 2024
At the helm of Britain’s eighth-largest union for a quarter of a century, he is rightly seen as one of the most principled and effective class fighters of our times, writes JOHN McINALLY
Ukraine pic 12.23
Opinion / 14 December 2023
14 December 2023
After fuelling the fire of the conflict and then promising Kiev support until victory, the West is pressing Zelensky to cut a deal — one that will now favour Russia. What a disgraceful waste of human life this has been, writes JOHN McINALLY
A Ukrainian soldier shelters in a trench on the frontline in
Opinion / 13 August 2023
13 August 2023
JOHN McINALLY points to parallels between the inter-imperialist conflict that erupted 109 years ago today and the current war in Ukraine
Ukraine stop war
Features / 16 April 2022
16 April 2022
JOHN McINALLY argues that last weekend’s Stand With Ukraine demonstration attracted wide trade union support, but promoted a reactionary agenda that will not help end the war
Russians arrest peace protester 24.2.22
Features / 24 February 2022
24 February 2022
The ultimate test in such circumstances is what position do socialists adopt — do they echo the condemnations of the “enemy,” do they “take sides” with this or that imperialist bloc or power or,do they stand firmly against imperialism, asks JOHN McINALLY
protest 1
Features / 22 May 2021
22 May 2021
JOHN McINALLY argues the British trade union movement can maintain unity by adopting an independent class position and fully supporting the democratic right of Scottish workers to pursue national self-determination