Things are coming to a head for UCU members in higher education, with national ballots due to open next month in the long-running disputes over pensions and pay, workload, job security, and inequality. We say: Vote Yes – and prepare for battle!
Since Starmer has become Labour leader, he has undergone a witch-hunt against the left of the party, including Socialist Appeal, in an attempt to make the party a safe pair hands for capitalism. In this talk Rob Sewell, editor of Socialist Appeal, explains why Marxism can never eradicated from the Labour movement, and why we need to build a Marxist tendency that will represent Labour and youth.
With petrol pumps across Britain running dry, and gridlock on the roads, the Tories are lurching from one crisis to another. The anarchy of the market is causing chaos to workers’ lives. All the ingredients are being prepared for a social explosion.
The Labour right wing has won a series of important votes at this year’s party conference, provoking anger and outrage amongst left delegates through their bureaucratic antics. Amongst this mess, the ideas of Marxism have gained a strong echo.
The horrific murder of Sabina Nessa has once again shone a light on the issue of violence against women – a scourge that is intensifying as the crisis of capitalism deepens. To end oppression, we must fight to overthrow this whole rotten system.
After a year’s hiatus, Labour’s annual conference begins this weekend. The event is set to be a showdown between Starmer, on one side, and grassroots members and left unions, on the other. The left must boldly take the fight to the right.
Internationally, the new generation is drawing increasingly radical conclusions. Explicitly anti-capitalist sentiments are on the rise, as is support for socialism. To channel this anger, we need a revolutionary organisation and clear Marxist ideas.
With the new academic year well underway, the Marxist Student Federation is busy organising activists on campus: hosting Marxist society events and reading groups, and linking up with staff to defend education. Join the revolution! Join the MSF!
Across the UK economy, prices are rising and businesses are facing shortages. It is clear that the anarchy of the capitalist market cannot provide society with life’s necessities. The case for socialist planning has never been so clear.
Faced with mounting crises on all sides, the Tories are once again whipping up anti-migrant hysteria in an attempt to distract from their own crimes. The labour movement must fight for open borders and an international socialist alternative.
The right-wing Unison bureaucracy are continuing to block the union’s new left leadership: denying democracy; sabotaging initiatives; and aiding the victimisation of union president Paul Holmes. Activists must mobilise against these antics.
The Labour right wing have carried out a brazen attack on press freedoms, explicitly denying Socialist Appeal journalists entrance to the party’s upcoming Labour conference on political grounds. We urge readers to rally against this injustice.