And so begins the Trump era: with worldwide protests, pessimism, and polarization – full of combustible material, to put it mildly. The most anti-worker administration in decades has formally taken possession of the White House, and an avalanche of austerity and attacks on the working class is on the order of the day. A turbulent period of class struggle lies ahead.
On Saturday 21st January, millions of demonstrators took part in women-led marches across the world, protesting Donald Trump’s inauguration and the threat to democratic rights that he represents. We publish here a collection of reports and pictures from the mass protests against the newly-inaugurated US President.
The debate over the question of whether or not to renew the Trident missile system took a turn this weekend, when it was revealed that a Trident missile – in contrast to the Tories’ assurances in Parliament – had malfunctioned in a test-firing off the coast of Florida, accidentally heading in the direction of the USA.
In this talk from a recent Socialist Appeal day school, Daniel Morley discusses the question of Imperialism – what Lenin described as “the highest stage of capitalism”.
Andy Southwark takes a look at the history of housing in Britain and the mass struggles that have risen up time and time again in the fight for the basic right to a decent, affordable home. Today, the question of housing is a key issue, with the glaring contradiction of homelessness alongside empty mansions plain for all to see.
PCS and Unite members working for the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) took strike action on a freezing cold January morning this week. This was their fourth day of action in order to defend their jobs from on-going Tory attacks. James Kilby reports on the struggle of the EHRC workers against Tory cuts.
After months of speculation over the possible terms of Britain’s departure from the EU, Prime Minister May announced on Tuesday that she would abandon the single market if necessary, in favour of ending the free movement of labour. Whilst appeasing her party and her voters, she has left the Establishment gravely concerned about the uncertain future ahead.
This week, the global business elites are congregating in Davos, a Swiss ski resort, to discuss the state of the global economy at the annual World Economic Forum. Coinciding with this gathering of the Establishment, Oxfam have released their latest figures on the eye-watering inequality on a world scale.
We are now in an era that many imagined would be a period of prosperity for all. And yet, far from living in the technological utopia once imagined, we are increasingly living in a dystopian nightmare of eye-watering inequality and poverty amidst plenty. Hugo Robles looks at the contradictions of automation and machinery under capitalism.
The NHS is in crisis. Ambulances are queueing up waiting for free trolleys and beds in A&E departments. And the Red Cross is having to intervene in hospitals across the country. All this thanks to Tory policy. Labour must now go on the offensive and offer a socialist alternative.
The recapture of Aleppo by loyalist forces in December, represents a decisive milestone in the Syrian civil war, as well as for the crisis in the whole region. But, as Hamid Alizadeh discusses, it also has wide ranging consequences for world relations in the coming period.
In March 2017, to coincide with the centenary of the Russian Revolution, we will be re-launching the Socialist Appeal as a fortnightly paper. This represents a tremendous step forward for the Marxist Tendency in Britain, and has only been made possible by the hard work and sacrifice of all of our supporters.