Recent years have seen demand for weight-loss medication soar, with Big Pharma firms making fat profits in the process. But expensive drugs are no alternative to genuine access to healthy diets and lifestyles. Capitalism is to blame.
With budgets already under attack, schools and colleges are being forced to step in to deal with the severe effects of austerity, child poverty, and the mental health crisis. Students and staff must organise to fight this rotten system.
Struggles are breaking out across the country, as the bosses and Tories go on the offensive against the working class. Socialist Appeal comrades are actively participating in these battles. We provide here the latest reports from the workplace.
This year’s party conferences have brought home the degeneration of the Tories and Labour’s big-business turn in equal measure. Back in the real world, British capitalism is crumbling. The ‘mole of revolution’ is preparing to burst to the surface.
As part of the Tories’ austerity agenda, provision of education for those with special needs and disabilities is coming under increasing pressure. This is yet another symptom of the dire crisis facing schools and public services under capitalism.
Dozens of Socialist Appeal comrades from across the north joined the protest outside the Tory conference last Sunday, forming a communist bloc with bold revolutionary slogans. Capitalism is crumbling. It’s time to overthrow their system.
A young girl was brutally stabbed to death this week by one of her male peers. The scourge of violence against women is clearly worsening, encouraged by reactionary demagogues like Andrew Tate. Only revolutionary class struggle can end this disease.
An explosive crisis is brewing on campuses across the country. Universities face a perfect storm. And staff and students are paying the price, with teaching and learning conditions under attack. We must fight to kick capitalism out of education.
Britain’s high-speed rail ambitions are rapidly being scaled back, with the Tories now hinting that the Birmingham-Manchester section of HS2 could be binned. This farce reveals what a joke promises of ‘levelling up’ are under capitalism.
With inequality widening and austerity sharpening, calls are growing for greater taxes on the wealth and profits of the elites. But demands to ‘tax the rich’ do not tackle the root of the problem. Instead, we must expropriate the billionaire class.
Across Britain, the institutions of the capitalist state are falling apart. There is no trust in the police. The army is plugging gaps everywhere. The courts are backed up, and the prisons are bursting. And all as the class struggle intensifies.
With his party sinking in the polls, Rishi Sunak is looking to whip up a climate culture war. Workers must have no trust in either the Tories and their cynical claims, nor the liberals and their impotent demands. We must fight for revolution.