In the midst of the pandemic, some parts of the economy are booming. Speculative investments are continuing in a frenzied fashion. The latest celebrity-driven fads, NFTs and SPACs, are among the insane expressions of this whirlpool of speculation.
Things are heating up in Scotland as elections approach. Former SNP leader Alex Salmond continues to clash with his successor, and has formed a new party. Holyrood and Westminster, meanwhile, are on a collision course over independence.
The Tories recently announced plans for an overhaul of the UK military, with increased spending on arms and nuclear weapons. ‘Patriotic’ Starmer has welcomed these proposals. Instead, Labour and the unions must offer a socialist response.
Boris Johnson has asserted that “greed” and “capitalism” are to thank for the UK vaccination programme’s success. This is a bad April Fool’s joke, however. In reality, capitalism’s greed has killed tens-of-thousands. We need socialist planning.
Following years of austerity and failed policies, commissioners are being sent in to run Liverpool City Council. Workers should have no trust in these Tory agents. The labour movement must fight back with a mass campaign against the cuts.
Unite members at coffee company Douwe Egberts are the latest workers to organise against fire-and-rehire proposals by callous bosses. A united and militant struggle is needed across the labour movement against this scandalous scourge.
100 years ago, the ultra-left leaders of the German Communist Party prematurely launched a revolutionary offensive. This proved to be a fiasco, wrecking the authority of the party. The 1921 ‘March Action’ contains important lessons for today.
Unite members at SPS Technologies – owned by billionaire Warren Buffet – are taking all-out strike action against the bosses’ ruthless fire-and-rehire attacks. The labour movement must offer their full solidarity and support.
Mass vaccination offers the clearest route out of the COVID crisis facing humanity. Yet the barriers of private ownership and the nation state stand in the way of achieving this. The capitalist system is killing us. It must be overthrown.
Socialist Appeal supporters are deeply saddened to hear the news of the death of Hans-Gerd Öfinger, a lifelong revolutionary Marxist and a founding member of the German section of the IMT. We send our solidarity to his family and comrades.
The Paris Commune of 1871 remains an inspirational episode in the history of the class struggle. Revolutionaries must study the lessons of the Communards’ heroic efforts to build the first workers’ state.