From deficits, funding cuts, and bankruptcies, to complicity in Israeli genocide, this week Scottish students will be turning up to a higher education system in turmoil. Strikes and struggle are on the agenda. Fight for your future! Join the Communists on campus!
With the SNP in permanent crisis, Corbyn and Sultana’s new party could fill the political vacuum among Scottish youth. This requires learning the lessons of Corbynism round one – which never planted its flag in Scotland – and offering a bold programme against austerity.
In this episode of Marxist Voice, Nelson Wan explains Ted Grant’s article ‘Will there be a slump?’, and how the Marxist method allows us to understand capitalist crisis today.
Palestine solidarity and calling out the genocide in Gaza has been criminalised by the British state. From Arsenal FC to housing officers, our readers show how this is the real two-tier justice system that exists in Britain today!
Tomorrow, thousands will descend on central London to protest the genocide in Gaza and repression of Palestine activists. As Netanyahu continues the genocide, famine, and fails to bring back the hostages, the fabric of Israel itself is tearing apart.
Tomorrow, thousands of workers and youth will take to the streets of central London in protest against the genocide in Gaza, and in solidarity with repressed pro-Palestine activists. This question has become a mighty headache for Starmer’s government.
RMT Tube strikes are due to start 5 September. The bosses clearly feel threatened, predicting an Autumn of Discontent as ballot victories multiply. Let’s give them something to tremble about! Victory to the RMT, for joint action across the public sector!
In the latest issue of The Communist, our readers recommend two books. One, James S. A. Corey’s sci-fi war novella ‘Livesuit’; the other, ‘Another Day of Life’ which sees Ryszard Kapuściński offer a first-hand account of the 1975 Angolan revolution.
Explosive pressures are building across Britain. Tensions over migration are increasing. State repression has failed to quell the Palestine movement. And strike action is on the agenda. At the same time, a growing layer is looking towards communism.
Over the weekend, the leadership of the RCP met to assess Britain’s ongoing political and economic crisis – a crisis fueling youth radicalisation, especially among students. We aim to organise and train these young people into class fighters.
Zack Polanski has just been elected Green Party leader, winning a whopping 85 percent of the vote! He has done so on a programme of taking on the billionaires, redistributing wealth, and calling out the genocide in Gaza. But this “hostile takeover” will face turbulence ahead.
Facing Bayrou’s austerity drive and a looming vote of confidence, France braces for mass action on September 10 — led by unions and La France Insoumise to ‘block everything.’ If it succeeds, the impact will go far beyond Emmanuel Macron’s fate.