Once again, the crisis of the prison system is back in the headlines, following Burnham’s early prisoner release fiasco. With intense overcrowding, staff morale in crisis, and a probation service at breaking point, this situation is intractable under capitalism.
Andy Burnham’s first foreign visit was to Ukraine, speaking of a “just and lasting peace”. But he wants no such thing. Britain and the European powers are cynically prolonging this bloodshed for their own imperialist interests, using ordinary Ukrainians as cannon fodder.
Since taking over as Andy Burnham’s foreign secretary, Ed Miliband has continued Labour’s cynical ploy to appear somewhat critical of Israel. But we don’t buy it. Elsewhere, Trump’s troops harbour resentment, and world shipping faces headwinds.
With the UK set to record the hottest summer on record and 2027 set to be the hottest year ever recorded, the question must be asked, where is the climate movement? Will it return? And what lessons can we draw from this struggle?
With global turmoil, Farage’s by-election victory slipped under the radar. In truth, neither Reform nor the political establishment came out of the Clacton charade well. But is Farage a spent force? Are we seeing a return of the two-party system?
Country music icon Dolly Parton has died at the age of 80. Across a decades-spanning career, she wrote over 3,000 songs, each carrying her unmistakable signature: a plainness that was never simple; a sweetness that never tipped into saccharine sentimentality.
SNP leader John Swinney has called another ‘anti-far right summit’ in the wake of the racist violence this summer, and the rise of Reform. But this talking shop of class collaboration will solve nothing – we need a revolutionary alternative.
Marx and Engels didn’t develop their ideas in a vacuum. They built on centuries of philosophical development, including the revolutionary ideas of the English materialists. Georgina Ryan explores how thinkers like Francis Bacon, Thomas HobbesGeorgina Ryan explores how thinkers like Francis Bacon, Thomas Hobbes and John Locke challenged religious explanations of the world and helped lay the foundations for modern science and, ultimately, Marxism.
The situation in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir is on a knife edge. This mass movement is a continuation of the revolutionary unrest that swept through Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, and Nepal over the past two years. And it now faces a crossroads: the bloody path of compromise, or onwards down the road to revolution.
The United States Treasury Department announced this week that it will double the buying of its own bonds. But these desperate measures will solve nothing; they will only pave the way for more crisis – and attacks upon the working class.
Fuelled by geopolitical shocks and the breakdown of globalisation, the world capitalist system is wracked with instability and uncertainty, which is itself contributing towards the economic crisis. What does this mean for the class struggle?
At the recent RCI World School, we caught up with two leading members of our International. In Germany, the rise of the right is churning up radical anger amongst the youth. In the United States, the Minneapolis uprising has revealed the need for class leadership.