Strike action by UCU members is continuing this week and next, with university workers determined to fight for victory. Marxist students are organising solidarity campaigns to support their staff – and to fight the marketisation of education.
With the Tories mired in crisis, the ruling class is increasingly building up ‘Sir’ Keir Starmer as a possible future occupant of Number 10. But the Labour right wing has nothing to offer workers and youth. We must build the forces of Marxism.
Yola Kipcak combats the reactionary ideas of postmodernism, which rejects the possibility of understanding the world, emphasises the need for a rational, scientific approach in the form of Marxism.
Left-wing Unison president Paul Holmes was sacked from his job at Kirklees Council earlier this year, following a two-year witch-hunt. This has sparked a grassroots movement of resistance. Activists must escalate the struggle to defend Paul.
‘Sir’ Keir Starmer’s recent letter in praise of NATO is designed to impress the establishment whilst chastising the left. Instead of offering apologies for western imperialism, the labour movement must fight for socialist internationalism.
To avert total collapse during the pandemic, the ruling class threw trillions at the capitalist system. But far from stabilising the situation, this money has fuelled speculation and inflation. And now the chickens are coming home to roost.
According to a recent report by global poverty charity Oxfam, the biggest killer throughout the pandemic has not been COVID-19, but inequality. Capitalism is the real disease. The only cure is to expropriate the parasitic billionaire class.
Starmer and the right wing are continuing their purge of left-wing activists from the Labour Party. Socialist Appeal supporters and grassroots members in the North East are the latest victims of this scandalous witch-hunt.
Scaffolders at the British Steel site in Scunthorpe – organised in Unite – are continuing to strike in their struggle for pay equality. To stop this race to the bottom, we need nationalisation and workers’ control. Victory to the scaffs!
The latest wave of industrial action on campuses begins today, with UCU members out on strike once again in the struggle for decent pensions, pay, and conditions. It is vital that workers and students unite and fight to defend education.
Last Saturday saw protests across the country for a day of action against the cost of living crisis that is bearing down on the working class. Demands for reform do not go far enough. We need to fight inflation with socialist policies.
We provide here a reading guide for Lenin’s classic philosophical text, which explains the principles of materialism from a Marxist perspective, and defends them from various idealist attacks.