A popular myth is that the British working class is too weak to carry out a revolution. Yet by examining the concrete facts, we find working class Britons are highly proletarianised and have taken the path of struggle many times in the past years. Will Collins examines this question further.
A recent poll found 80 percent of British adults feel the UK is divided. Two thirds blame ‘culture wars’ for this division – and point the finger at the media and the politicians for their part in exaggerating, or outright inventing, them!
Eight political prisoners locked up for the ‘crime’ of fighting the genocide in Gaza have been starved and left to languish by the British state. If they die, the blame will lie with Starmer’s government and the system it upholds. Free the Filton 24! Lock up the real terrorists!
With the prospect of a Reform victory looming, the ruling class will undoubtedly be mulling over the question: can we trust Reform? Farage, meanwhile, is making overtures towards the establishment, hoping to present himself as a ‘safe pair of hands’ for British capitalism.
Labour’s plan to scrap juries in criminal court cases has been scaled back amidst widespread backlash. But the state remains an apparatus made by the ruling class, for the ruling class. We can only defend our democratic rights through struggle.
The SNP government is proposing to issue its own debt bonds in the near future, in the hope of funding public spending through extra borrowing. Far from providing sovereignty and independence, this will put Scotland more at the mercy of the markets.
Labour’s Home Secretary has unveiled shocking plans to send asylum seekers to military barracks and subject them to dehumanising measures. But these plans are expensive, unworkable, and will fail to put the brakes on the government’s plummeting support.
A survey of 11,000 Reform supporters has revealed the shaky social coalition that Farage rests upon. With many respondents feeling economically insecure and valuing public services, a future Reform government would face the exact same conundrum as Labour.
Britain’s world reputation used to be one of a perfect gentleman. Then, in the 1990s, ‘Cool Britannia’ swept the world. But now, ‘Weird Britannia’ has taken its place: a crazed island full of phone thieves, drunken race rioters, and protesting grannies getting arrested.
Labour’s Blairite health secretary Wes Streeting is cynically using the cover of “slashing bureaucracy” to sack thousands of NHS admin staff. We can’t leave it to Westminster penpushers like Streeting to fix the health service. We need workers’ control!
On the eve of the Autumn Budget, the bond markets – the investors who bankroll the British state – are getting jittery. The capitalists are losing faith in Labour’s ability to carry out the necessary cuts to ‘balance the books’. But what alternatives do they have?
This weekend, Your Party’s founding conference will take place. Unfortunately, the potential to forge a radical, working-class mass movement has been driven into a ditch by the reformist leaders and their petty squabbling, at least for now. What’s the communist stance?