Liverpool says: No child will go hungry!
Daniel Harris of the Liverpool Marxists reports from a rally against the latest Tory austerity measures to be announced: cuts to free school meals that will effect a million children.
A Blairite trailer for a Very British Coup
The Labour right wing have lept to their feet recently in support of Theresa May and her jingoistic rhetoric against Russia. This is a dress rehearsal for their future sabotage of a Corbyn Labour government.
Cambridge Analytica holds a mirror up to the mainstream media
The technology may have changed, Daniel Morley writes, but the dodgy practices used by Cambridge Analytica to influence political opinion are no different from those employed daily by the entire capitalist establishment and its liberal mouthpieces.
Socialist Appeal national conference: celebrating revolutionary times
Last weekend saw the annual conference of Socialist Appeal supporters. The enthusiastic mood on display reflected the echo that Marxist ideas are finding amongst workers and youth. Join us in the fight for revolution!
Bellicose Tory rhetoric belies British establishment impotence
The hysteria whipped up against Russia by the Tories and Blairities over the poisoning of a double-agent has revealed how Britain has been reduced to an insignificant player on the world stage.
May vs Putin: The mouse that roared
This week’s news has been dominated by bellicose rhetoric towards Russia from the Tories and Blairites. But the hysteria belies the fact that Britain’s position on the world stage has been seriously diminished.
Re-inflating the bubble: a balance sheet of 10 years of crisis
One decade on from the financial crisis, Niklas Albin Svensson examines the precarious state of the world economy today. Another deep slump is being prepared.
Nationalise Big Pharma
The NHS is in crisis, starved of the resources it desperately needs. The major pharmaceutical companies, however, are laughing all the way to the bank, making massive profits off over-priced drugs.
Karl Marx: 1818 – 1883
135 years ago today, on 14th March 1883, Karl Marx passed away. This year also marks the 200th anniversary of Marx’s birth. We are commemorating Marx’s life and ideas with our upcoming “Marx in a Day” event.
Stephen Hawking, black holes, and the evolution of the universe
“All individual beings must perish, but the wonderful diversity of the material universe in all its myriad manifestations is eternal and indestructible. Life arises, passes away, and arises again and again. Thus it has been. Thus it will ever be.”
Rebellion in the ranks defeats rotten UCU deal
UCU members have rejected the sell-out cooked up by union negotiators. This shows where the real power lies – with militant, organised workers on the ground. The fight continues.
#NoCapitulation – We have the bosses on the backfoot
Rui, a UCU member at Oxford University, describes how the lecturers’ strike has developed and grown over the past few weeks. Momentum is with the workers. The union leadership must not waste this with a criminal sell out.