Theresa May is desperately clinging to office, suffering one crisis on top of another. She is hoping that the constant storms will subside – but they will not. The whole Corbyn movement must continue going on the offensive in order to drive the Tories out and put Labour to power on a socialist programme.
In the first video from a series by the Marxist Student Federation examining the myths about Marxism, Fiona Lali of the SOAS Marxists looks at the question of “human nature”, which is commonly used as an argument for the impossibility of socialism.
Things in Venezuela are changing by the day, sometimes by the hour. This week, a police officer commandeered a helicopter and attacked government buildings, calling for the overthrow the Maduro government. This marks a gear change in the opposition’s counter-revolutionary tactics.
Staff and students at Stoke Newington school in Hackney, London, were united on the picket line yesterday, as teachers in the NUT went on a day’s strike in protest against proposed cuts at the school. With a weak, chaotic Tory government in Westminster, now is the time for all unions to go on the offensive against austerity.
After a thin Queen’s Speech and long negotiations, Theresa May and DUP leader Arlene Foster finally appeared outside Downing Street earlier this week to shake hands on the deal that will keep May in power – for now. The Prime Minister and her Tory government are facing an existential crisis. Their weakness must be pushed home by the entire labour movement: to kick out the Tories and put Corbyn in Downing Street.
The wave of discontent against Tory austerity and attacks should be providing the trade union movement with a ready source of fresh recruits. Rather than expanding, however, UK trade union membership is shrinking. Union leaders need to pursue a fighting strategy and bold policies if they are to stem the tide.
The growing far-right nationalism of the sub-continent spilled out onto the streets of Leicester on Sunday 19th June as India and Pakistani cricket fans clashed. Hindu nationalism, on one side, and Islamic fundamentalist groups, on the other, are gaining ground, dividing working class diaspora communities.
A recent study on tax evasion and inequality has revealed just how much of the top 0.01%’s fortunes is hidden away in foreign bank accounts. This clearly shows how the capitalist system has reached a dead end. These injustices and inequalities can only be abolished through socialist revolution.
For several months now, the right-wing opposition in Venezuela have been taking to the streets with violent riots in an attempt to destabilise and overthrow the democratically elected Maduro government. Jorge Martin examines the turbulent political situation in Venezuela and discusses the future of the Bolivarian Revolution.
Last Saturday saw the latest in a series of far-right demonstrations in the wake of various terrorist attacks, this time in central London. However, on this occasion, the racist, Islamophobic EDL were humiliated, with their small protest significantly outnumbered by the anti-fascist counter-demonstration.
Alan Woods, author of “Bolshevism: the Road to Revolution”, discusses the “June Days” of the 1917 Russian Revolution, when tensions in Petrograd began to rise and the masses turned towards the Bolsheviks and their slogan of “All Power to the Soviets!”
In Britain we have experienced a fundamental break in the situation. The UK is now one of the most unstable countries in Europe. With May and the Tories in crisis, we are faced with the possibility of a Corbyn government. This, Rob Sewell explains, will open up a new turbulent stage in an already volatile process.