Junior doctors have voted overwhelming in support of strike action, with 98% voting Yes to a full walk out. All of this on a 76% turnout – a vote for action that would smash even the Tories’ new anti-union laws. The scene is now set for a showdown between doctors and the government.
Only months into the new government, and the Tories are already facing an almightly backlash over their attempts to introduce further cuts and austerity measures. An explosive situation is developing in Britain – a vertible Winter of Discontent.
The election of Jeremy Corbyn as leader of the Labour Party shocked the establishment, and galvanised socialists, not least in radicalised Scotland. But can Corbyn win back workers and youth – who have abandoned Labour for the SNP – in Scotland?
Josh Booth, the newly elected Cheshire Young Labour rep, reports on the recent North West Young Labour (NWYL) conference – one of the first tests of the popularity of Corbyn’s ideas within the formal structures of the Labour Party since his election. The victory of the left in the NWYL elections is an indication of things to come.
Last Friday, Paris was the scene of mass slaughter in which at least 129 people were shot down in cold blood. These atrocities mark a new and sinister development in the steady expansion of attacks attributed to or claimed by the so-called Islamic State. There is dynamite in the very foundations of our society.
The attacks in Paris have aroused the revulsion and anger of millions of French workers and youth. The fear of new attacks is palpable. The French and international labour movement must respond by reviving the goal to end capitalism and its “horror without end.”
The events in Paris last week are a wholly reactionary attack against ordinary working people. The Marxists condemn the murderous gang which carried out these attacks and we express our solidarity with the people of Paris. The struggle against terrorism is a struggle against imperialism, and for socialism.
In the past couple of weeks, unprecedented events had been unfolding in Afghanistan, as hundreds of thousands of people protest in the streets of Kabul. This is the reflection of massive discontent with the neverending American occupation as well as with religious fundamentalism.
In this talk from the International Marxist Tendency’s World School 2015, Niklas Albin Svensson discusses the degeneration of the Socialist International, the betrayal of the Social Democratic leaders in the face of imperialist war, and the Zimmerwald Conference, where the idea for the Third – Communist – International was born.
On 10th November, the 11-day old government of the right-wing coalition in Portugal was ousted by the left-wing parties in parliament. The scene is set for a period of political and social turbulence and struggle in Portugal. Nina Christou reports from Lisbon.
The campaign to discredit and sabotage Jeremy Corbyn has reached new levels of absurdity, following his “disrespectful” bow at the Remembrance Day service. Central to their attacks has been Corbyn’s opposition to Trident, the UK’s nuclear weapons system. James Kilby looks at the issues behind Trident and nuclear weapons.
Yesterday evening, November 11, Labour Young Socialists held a London-wide rally at which around 100 students and young workers assembled to discuss what left-wing youth should do now that Jeremy Corbyn is leader of the Labour Party. The Marxists highlighted the need to defend Andrew Fisher and other Corbyn supporters who have been attacked by the Labour bureaucracy.