British weather is known to be volatile, and the political climate is beginning to match this. With financial worries, imperialist tensions, and political instability to contend with, Starmer is feeling the heat. The communists, meanwhile, are making hay while the sun shines!

Recently, figures such as Zohran Mamdani to a new left party in Britain have garnered widespread support. So it is timely that the In Defence of Marxism magazine, with articles themed around reformism and revolution, has launched today! We reproduce the editorial here.

As Israel’s genocidal campaign in Gaza escalates, the British establishment is clamping down ever-harder on Palestine activists. The labour movement must mobilise against imperialism and repression, and organise to overthrow the war criminals.

Across the Empire, British imperialism enacted and perfected the policy of ‘divide and conquer’ – whipping up ethnic and religious sectarianism to hold back mass struggles. In this article, Sarah Vedrovitch presents the examples of India, Ireland, Nigeria, and Sri Lanka.

With the recent rise of artificial intelligence, the capitalist press has gone into overdrive, peddling wild fantasies about the future of work. But are the bots coming for white-collar jobs? And what does this all mean for the class struggle?

Reform has set its sights on winning over working-class voters in Wales, by tapping into anger at Welsh Labour and the establishment, and promising to bring back jobs and industry. But can Farage’s party deliver on these plans? And can we trust the liberals to fight Reform?