Stephen Agnew reviews the recent documentary by UK rapper Professor Green, which provides a revealing insight into the alienation and extreme difficulties facing the working class in broken Britain.
The deadly disaster of the Grenfell fire, Andy Southwark writes, has demonstrated how truly cold and callous the market, the fat-cat landlords, and the Tories really are.
Luke Boulby of the Sheffield Marxists discusses the findings of a recent official report, which finds that the public is set to pay £200bn in order that private companies can line their pockets.
Events are moving quickly at the Eastham refinery as the dispute between Suttons bosses and their tanker drives escalates. Gilly Singh of the Liverpool Marxists reports from the picket lines.
Joe Attard of the King’s College London UCU discusses the record result in favour of national strike action amongst university academic staff. Workers and students must now unite and fight to defend pensions, pay, and public services.
Dan Langley reports on the latest campaign in Southwark, London, against parasitic developers who are exacerbating the housing crisis with their profit-driven plans to build luxury flats.
Mike Hogan in Liverpool reports on the continuing struggle of RMT union members to maintain safe conditions for railway workers and passengers. The rest of the labour movement must give the train workers their full support and solidarity in this fight.
Gilly Singh of the Liverpool Marxists reports on the strike of workers at the Eastham refinery, near Ellesmere Port, who are fighting back against attacks on their terms and conditions.
After a decade of crisis and austerity, the neoliberal consensus has come to an end. In this video, James Kilby discusses the history of the failed capitalist models of neoliberalism and globalisation.
This year’s conference of the Marxist Student Federation commemorates the 50th anniversary of the revolutionary events of 1968. Join us at the conference in London on 17th February!
A recent poll finds that young people today see capitalism as more dangerous than communism. But what has really sent the establishment into a frenzy is Marxist student Fiona Lali’s defence of communism on BBC Radio 4.
Corbyn’s initiative for a review of Labour’s democratic structures is a welcome break from Blairite bureaucracy. But it has one notable absence: the democratic accountability of MPs and councillors.