Thousands of school buildings across the country are in a state of disrepair, at serious risk of collapse. The Tories are cutting maintenance budgets, and construction firms are cutting corners. The capitalists are putting profits before lives.
As Starmer’s Labour gets closer to power, the harsh reality of its ‘tough decisions’ is becoming clearer. This is provoking murmurs of opposition in the party and the unions – a harbinger of future splits and turmoil under a government of crisis.
Britain’s pub industry is getting hammered by the crisis of capitalism, as costs soar and workers’ budgets are squeezed. These important places for socialising and community life are calling last orders. We need public ownership of public houses.
Recent surveys show that belief in conspiracy theories is widespread in the UK population. The liberal establishment patronisingly point the finger at all manner of scapegoats for this. But it is they who are to blame. We must fight for revolution.
Yesterday’s by-election defeats spell doom for the Tories. The government is desperately attempting to put out fires. Despite a temporary truce on the industrial front, conditions are being prepared for an explosion of the class struggle.
Birmingham City Council is facing a particularly acute crisis, with workers and residents being made to pay for Tory austerity, corporate plunder, and the employers’ crimes. The trade unions must organise a militant fightback against austerity.
While other unions sign up to subpar pay deals, BMA members are continuing to battle on. With the Tories digging in, and the movement divided, doctors must prepare for a bitter struggle. To save our NHS, militant health workers must get organised.
Starmer’s Labour recently announced its programme for education. But as with other questions, the party is promising little but Tory-lite policies. To save our schools, staff and students must fight for a clear socialist alternative.
Two mouthpieces of British capitalism – The Sun and the BBC – have been tearing chunks out of each other this week, over allegations against news presenter Huw Edwards. This spectacle shows why we need a real alternative: a workers’ media.
This year’s Miners’ Gala was marked by a palpable sense of anger at the crisis of capitalism. Armed with revolutionary ideas, members of the International Marxist Tendency planted the red flag of communism at the Gala, with a focus on recruiting for revolution.
With a new leader at the helm, the SNP has promised supporters a strategy for winning independence. But no clear proposal has emerged, leaving the movement at an impasse. Workers and youth must embark on a revolutionary road.
Riots in France, and previously in Ely, Wales, reveal the explosive situation building up internationally and in Britain. Society is a tinderbox, ready to go up in flames. Marxist leadership is needed to channel this anger towards revolution.