John Russell comments on the latest wave of high street closures taking place across the country, as household names find themselves squeezed from all sides. As per usual, it is the working class who are forced to pay.
Daniel Harris of the Liverpool Marxists reports from a rally against the latest Tory austerity measures to be announced: cuts to free school meals that will effect a million children.
The Labour right wing have lept to their feet recently in support of Theresa May and her jingoistic rhetoric against Russia. This is a dress rehearsal for their future sabotage of a Corbyn Labour government.
The technology may have changed, Daniel Morley writes, but the dodgy practices used by Cambridge Analytica to influence political opinion are no different from those employed daily by the entire capitalist establishment and its liberal mouthpieces.
The hysteria whipped up against Russia by the Tories and Blairities over the poisoning of a double-agent has revealed how Britain has been reduced to an insignificant player on the world stage.
The NHS is in crisis, starved of the resources it desperately needs. The major pharmaceutical companies, however, are laughing all the way to the bank, making massive profits off over-priced drugs.
Everyday reveals another scandal or crisis. Wages stagnate whilst the bosses line their pockets. Capitalism is the source of all our problems. It’s time to consign it to where it belongs.
So acute is the UK’s housing crisis that Theresa May has even had to admit the problem. But the Tories are part of the problem and will do nothing to fix the broken system.
As Jennie Formby and Jon Lansman compete to replace Iain McNicol, the Labour right wing has been left licking its wounds. All attention now, Adam Booth writes, must be on democratising the party and fighting for a socialist Labour government.
The article below is being distributed this afternoon at a protest against the visit of Mohammed bin Salman, the leader of the rotten Saudi regime. Unsurprisingly, the Tory government is rolling out the red carpet for his arrival.
The recent attempts by the Tories and the right-wing press to attack Corbyn have backfired. Their blatant lies have only served to discredit them even further in the eyes of ordinary people. But their hysteria is only a taste of what is to come.
Iain McNicol, the general secretary of the Labour Party, announced his resignation late last week. This marks a further shift in the balance of power in Corbyn’s favour. Now is the time to overturn the expulsions carried out by McNicol.