After seeing their own struggle last year grind to a halt in the face of a hostile press and a vicious Tory government, the junior doctors have now declared support for other NHS workers, backing the nurses in their fight for decent pay. Nurses, doctors, and all workers: unite and fight to #SaveOurNHS!
Twenty-two people have been killed and 59 injured in the most deadly terrorist attack on British soil since the London 7/7 bombings. We condemn this barbaric atrocity and offer our solidarity to those in Manchester in these turbulent times. We must fight against both fundamentalism and right-wing demagogy – and against the capitalist system that breeds them both.
This year’s national conference in Brighton of the PCS public sector union, taking place this week, will once again be a critical meeting for the union and its members. Public sector workers have been in the front line for decades now fighting against attacks on public services. All public sector unions must unite and mobilise against Tory cuts.
Within hours of the launch of the Tory manifesto, the Conservative lead over Labour in the polls was slashed by half. The political ground has begun to shift. With the polls narrowing, Labour has everything to play for. The whole Corbyn movement must now mobilise in order to deliver a mortal blow against this Tory government.
The Labour Party under Corbyn’s leadership pledged today that tuition fees would be entirely abolished in time for students starting university in the autumn of 2018. Today is the last chance to register to vote. Students and young people must mobilise, vote for Labour, and fight for a Corbyn-led government on a socialist programme.
In this recent video from a meeting of the London Marxist societies, Josh Holroyd of the Socialist Appeal editorial board discusses the upcoming election in Britain and explains the steps needed for Corbyn’s Labour to defeat the Tories.
Socialist Appeal and the International Marxist Tendency invite all our readers to REVOLUTION 2017 – a three day festival of Marxist ideas in London, celebrating the centenary of the Russian Revolution of October 1917 and discussing the relevance of Marxism today. Book your tickets now!
In the second of his four-part series about the horrific crimes committed by the capitalist class throughout history, Fred Weston discusses the monstrous fascist regimes of Hitler’s Germany and Franco’s Spain – and how the “democratic” bourgeois Establishment in Britain preferred these brutal dictatorships to the possibility of a workers’ government.
Alongside the proliferation of exploitative zero-hour contracts, there is now also an increasing use of “short hours” contracts, under which workers may be required to work at short notice, with only a minimum guarantee of hours annually. This demonstrates yet again the lengths the bosses will go to in order to circumvent workers’ rights.
The election of Donald Trump in the US and the rise of Marine Le Pen in the French presidential elections has naturally been received with alarm by millions of people around the world. Some have even warned of a new rise of fascism. Rob Sewell – editor of Socialist Appeal – asks: what is fascism? And does it pose an imminent threat today?
The recent local elections provide important lessons for the labour movement as a whole. Instead of helping to implement and administer Tory austerity locally, Labour councillors need to be mobilising the entire labour movement and leading a mass campaign to fight against the cuts.
Labour’s campaign to boot out the Tories is gathering momentum. Despite a concerted effort by the Tories, the right-wing press, and the Blairites to discredit Jeremy Corbyn, the Labour leader and his campaign are cutting through the web of lies and slanders by appealing directly to workers and youth with a bold and radical programme.