Sunak’s government is stumbling from one calamity to the next, waiting to be put out of its misery. Workers will be glad to see the back of the Tories. But a Starmer Labour government offers no solution. We must build a communist alternative.
With debts and effluent piling up, the future of Thames Water hangs in the balance. And the working class is being asked to shoulder the costs: either through higher bills or a taxpayer-funded bailout. Fight for nationalisation without compensation!
The British establishment and its institutions are rotten to the core. Parliament is infested with rogues and reprobates. Capitalist politicians and their parties are hated. It is time to sweep out the lot, and build a communist alternative.
In the new issue of The Communist, our readers report on the latest developments taking place on the industrial front: from the fight for union recognition at the Coventry Amazon warehouse, to the renewed mandate for strike action by BMA members.
In recent weeks, student activists have occupied university buildings in solidarity with Palestine. Communists involved in the Leeds occupation examine the effectiveness of these methods, and the role students can play in the struggle against imperialism.
Tata bosses are deploying salami tactics against steelworkers in Port Talbot, taking advantage of union leaders’ foot-dragging to dismantle the plant. It is time to chuck out the rule book, and organise militant action to prevent a jobs massacre.
New Welsh Labour leader Vaughan Gething has assumed office as Welsh First Minister. But despite receiving the backing of the trade unions, he has done nothing to indicate that he will help the working class. Workers must rely on their own strength.
Outlining its plans for foreign policy under independence, the SNP has stated its ambitions for Scotland to be a member state of the UN, EU, and NATO – a trifecta of imperialist clubs. But these aims collide with commitments to nuclear disarmament.
Stalwart left-wing MP Diane Abbott has endured a lifetime of racist and sexist abuse. The latest sickening example of this, from a wealthy Conservative donor, has exposed both the hypocrisy of the Tories and the cynicism of Starmer’s Labour.
Across the country, public art funding is being slashed. Creatives attempting to produce political work are being blackmailed and censored. And jobs, pay, and conditions for performers are being eroded. Capitalism is killing culture
In an effort to distract from their own crises and crimes, and to demonise those protesting against genocide in Gaza, the Tories are promising to ramp up repression, in the name of ‘protecting democracy’. In truth, they are the real extremists.
This document, discussed and passed unanimously at the Revolutionary Communist Party’s founding congress in May, outlines the perspectives for the class struggle in Britain, and the tasks facing communists.