The fire that partly destroyed Notre Dame is a tragedy for anyone who cherishes the cultural, artistic and architectural achievements of humanity. To protect our past, we need to fight for a socialist future.
The bulk of the time at this year’s NUS conference was spent discussing how to save the union from financial ruin. The only way forward is to transform the union with fighting leadership and bold socialist policies.
In this talk from last year’s Revolution Festival, Ben Gliniecki looks at the current collapse of the liberal status quo, providing a Marxist analysis of liberalism’s rise and fall.
Accusations of anti-semitism against the left and Netanyahu’s recent electoral victory have brought the issue of Israel and Palestine sharply to the fore. It is important to provide a clear Marxist analysis on this question.
Recent events in Brunei, a dictatorship propped up by British imperialism, have once again demonstrated how the liberal values of the capitalist class are nothing more than a facade.
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was arrested last week in London, with a warrant put out by the US for his extradition. Assange’s case has become yet another stick for the Labour right wing to cynically hit Corbyn with.
All the latest figures from the global economy are pointing in the wrong direction. A growing sense of alarm is developing amongst the capitalist class. It is time to put their system out of its misery.
Another privatisation scandal in the NHS has demonstrated once again how the Tories and the bosses are determined to dismantle our healthcare system. The unions and Labour must organise a fightback.
UCU members in further education have taken action over pay, as part of a fight against austerity and attacks. This must be linked to a political struggle – against the Tories and for a socialist Labour government.
Today marks the latest international day of action for the student climate strike movement. The task ahead is to channel the energy and radicalism of the strikes into the labour movement and fight for a socialist alternative.
Speaking at the recent Peterloo day school in Manchester, Mike Hogan of Liverpool Wavertree CLP discusses the lessons from the struggles waged in the 1980s by Liverpool city against Thatcher and the cuts.
Tomorrow, 13th April, marks the 100th anniversary of the brutal suppression by British imperialism of a protest in colonial Punjab, India. To this day, no British government has ever offered a formal apology for this bloody crime.