Since September, Marxist students have been running campaigns to get elected as delegates to the national conference of the National Union of Students. Several Marxist candidates have been successful, with many campaigns yet to come next term. Help us fight for socialist policies in the student movement! Join your local Marxist society today!
Last Wednesday, US President Donald Trump declared that he would officially recognise Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. This reveals the real nature of the so-called peace talks – the fact that the Western imperialists have never supported the oppressed Palestinian people. On a capitalist basis, Hamid Alizadeh notes, there will never be an agreement in Israel and Palestine.
Over the past few weeks, a series of local Labour council candidate selections have prompted various outcries of a Momentum-led ‘Labour purge’ in the mainstream media. Reza Mohammadi of the Hornsey and Wood Green CLP discusses what really happened: this was no purge, just democracy and accountability in action.
At the end of last month, Donald Trump created controversy once again as a result of his trigger-happy behaviour on Twitter. The ensuing response has revealed the fragility of the ‘special relationship’ between the UK and USA, and has demonstrated the weakness of the Tories and the British Establishment in the wake of Brexit.
We publish here two articles analysing the latest developments in Venezuela. In the first, Jorge Martin looks at the upcoming municipal elections in Venezuela, which have provided a platform for revolutionaries to oppose the bureaucracy. In the second, Lucha de Clases in Venezuela provide an in-depth analysis of the October regional elections and the perspectives going forward.
The Local Government Employers in England and Wales have offered a two-year pay deal to unions representing a million council workers. This offer, however, falls far short of what is needed. Public sector unions need to unite and fight for the pay rise that workers deserve.
As 2017 draws to a close, we can look back on a year of dramatic events in world politics. What the emerging global movement against capitalism needs is a conscious organised expression, grounded in the revolutionary ideas of Marxism. Help support the work of Socialist Appeal in building the forces of Marxism by donating to our Festive Fighting Fund today!
Fraud in the recent national elections in Honduras has resulted in mass demonstrations against the hated regime of President Juan Orlando Hernández (JOH). The state apparatus is splitting along class lines, with layers of the police refusing to obey the orders of their commanders. IMT comrades from Honduras report on the revolutionary developments taking place.
A Unison-led demonstration was held outside King’s College London on Friday 1st December as part of an on-going campaign to bring the university’s cleaning staff in-house. Around 100 staff and students were present, demanding justice for the cleaners. Joe Attard of the KCL Marxists reports on the latest events in the cleaners’ fight for decent pay and conditions.
On Friday 1st December, dozens of trade union activists gathered in the East Ham Working Men’s Club to commemorate the 45th anniversary of that famous labour movement victory, the Pentonville Five. Ben Gliniecki reports on the contributions made, including by speakers such as Len McCluskey, and the lessons of this historic struggle for today.
Investment banking giant Morgan Stanley recently published a report that warned its clients about the possibility of a Corbyn-led Labour government. Such an outcome, the bankers described, would be a “worse threat to business than Brexit”. The Labour leader responded by saying to the financial firm: “we are a threat”. But what kind of movement and programme do we need to really threaten the capitalists?
A new report from Credit Suisse has confirmed that the richest 1% of the population owns more than half of the world’s wealth and is grabbing an ever bigger share of the pie every day, all at our expense. Jonathan Lees of the Leicester Marxists looks at the growing economic inequality under capitalism and discusses the need for a revolutionary way forward.