The Left’s clear victory in the Labour NEC elections must be used as a platform for sweeping changes across the Party, Adam Booth writes. We need mandatory reselection and socialist policies.
The collapse of Carillion has come as a shock to the company’s workers and the public who rely on its services. But it seems that Westminster politicians and City bankers were fully aware of the dodgy dealings going on at the construction and outsourcing giant. The failed firm is a damning indictment of the parasitic capitalist system.
Adam Booth looks at the speculative mania developing around Bitcoin and other digital currencies, which is a reflection of the general crisis of capitalism.
Are the terms ‘socialism’ and ‘communism’ interchangeable? Thomas Soud from the Warwick Marxists sets out to answer this question.
The labour movement in Britain today, Ben Gliniecki writes, can learn important lessons from the ‘New Unionism’ movement in the 1880s, which set out to organise the ‘unorganisable’ through militant action and radical demands.
Ben Curry looks at Theresa May’s botched cabinet reshuffle, which has further exposed the weakness of the Prime Minister and her government. The only thing keeping them together right now is the threat of Corbyn entering Downing Street.
Higher education is increasingly being run like a business. But the education market is failing, with students seeing rising fees and the government facing the prospect of unpaid student debts. Fiona Lali discusses the crisis engulfing the higher education system in Tory austerity Britain.
Waves of heroic protests have spread rapidly to towns and cities throughout Iran over the past two weeks. But, as Farshad Azadian reports, the rhetoric of Western leaders in support of the ‘Iranian people’ has nothing to do with concern for the suffering of the Iranian people and everything to do with assuring their own imperialist interests.
Strike action taken by McDonald’s workers last September has forced management into conceding the highest wage rise for 10 years. Moses Levi in Cambridge looks at the recent victory for McDonald’s staff, and discusses the way forward in the struggle for decent pay.
Gerry Ruddy explains the history of the border in Ireland, and discusses the contradictions facing the governments in Britain and Ireland as a result of Brexit.
Adam Booth reviews The Jungle, a moving but devastating play that depicts events at the Calais refugee camp – once home to thousands of migrants fleeing the horrors of war and poverty.
As the New Year begins, Alan Woods looks back at the major political developments of the past year – and ahead to the turbulent and revolutionary events in store in 2018.