This year’s Young Labour conference comes in the wake of the transformation in the Labour Party that began with the election of Jeremy Corbyn. The overall picture of the conference confirms that there has been a shift to the left in the Labour Party and its youth organisation. Now is the time to put socialism back on the agenda.
In the fifth and final part of his series looking at the Marxist view of history, Alan Woods explains the significance of the Russian Revolution as the first attempt of humanity to break free from class society, and outlines the possible futures for society: socialism or barbarism.
Alan Woods analyses the result of three recent elections, all of which bear witness to highly significant processes that are now moving with great speed. These processes are not confined to one or two countries, but are manifestations of the same global phenomenon of increasing economic, political and social instability.
Following two days of strike action by the junior doctors and a refusal by the government to budge, Jeremy Hunt has announced the imposition of the new contract. The scene is now set for an escalation of junior doctors struggle, with three further 48-hour strikes now announced, with the first next week on 9th March.
China, from Permanent Revolution to Counter Revolution, a new book written by John Peter Roberts and published by Well Red books, charts the development of the Chinese Communist Party from its founding to the reintroduction of capitalism. We publish here the foreword to the book by Fred Weston of the IMT.
Like many council estates around the country, Cressingham Gardens in Lambeth, London, has fallen into a state of disrepair, with Lambeth council claiming that they do not have the money to maintain it. Nathan Taylor reports on the campaign to save Cressingham Gardens and its residents from eviction.
On Saturday 27th February, tens of thousands gathered in London for Britain’s largest anti-nuclear demonstration in a generation, organised by the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament. Socialist Appeal supporters were present, calling on workers and youth to “fight the madness of capitalism”.
In a desperate attempt to hold his party together, Cameron has risked everything by allowing a referendum on EU membership. In doing so, he has set loose forces that are beyond his control – forces that could lead to an implosion in the Tory Party and an acceleration of the disintegration of the EU.
In this fourth – and penultimate – part of his series on the Marxist conception of history, Alan Woods – editor of In Defence of Marxism – traces the history of feudalism from its rise to its inevitable downfall in the age of the bourgeois revolutions.
A media storm has surrounded this year’s Oscars in Hollywood, as a result of the lack of ethnic diversity in the nominations for the acting categories. Similar criticisms have also been levelled at the Brit Awards, the main musical awards in the UK. Owen Walsh explores the question of diversity within the culture industry.
University vice-chancellors’ average salaries ballooned to £272,000 last year, a £12,000 increase on 2014. As higher education faces cuts, staff see stagnant wages, and students rack up debt to pay £9,000 per year fees, university management are laughing all the way to the bank.
A number of British universities have demanded that they should be exempt from the Freedom of Information (FoI) Act. The FOI Act has been recently used by student campaigners to highlight the inequalities within higher education salaries, and now university management is trying to squash such campaigns.