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.
At this year’s TUC Congress, a notable motion was passed committing the trade union movement to mobilise against the Tories’ latest anti-strike legislation – up-to-and-including non-compliance. We need militant action to smash the bosses’ laws.
As in previous years, the recent Edinburgh Fringe Festival highlighted the squeeze facing artists under capitalism, with performers facing an uphill struggle to make a breakthrough in the industry. For culture to blossom, we need a revolution.
A new generation of communists is being forged by capitalism’s crises and catastrophes. “He who has the youth, has the future,” Lenin famously proclaimed. We call on radical young people to get organised and join us in the fight for revolution.