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.
The NHS was established 75 years ago today. Decades on, however, it is creaking at the seams, due to austerity and privatisation. Junior doctor Will Collins looks at how the NHS was founded, and how the capitalists have pushed it to the brink.
To mark the 75th anniversary since the NHS was founded, Socialist Appeal comrades working in healthcare are calling on nurses, doctors, and hospital staff to join us in campaigning to kick out the profiteers and save our NHS with socialist policies.
The UK water industry is facing a deep crisis, with Thames Water at risk of bankruptcy. From the railways to the energy sector: privatisation has been a disaster for ordinary people. We say: Expropriate the monopolies! Make the billionaires pay!
Temperatures show no sign of dipping. And neither does the class struggle. Strikes are set to take place in schools, hospitals, train stations, and councils in the coming weeks. To win, we need mass coordinated action and bold socialist policies.
Junior doctors recently returned to picket lines at NHS hospitals across England and Wales, with a growing mood for escalation. Radical junior doctors must get organised to spread these demands and raise the need for revolutionary ideas.
The summer festival season is well underway. And with it comes the usual horror stories of dangerous safety issues, rip-off prices, and endless reappearances by ageing bands. Capitalism is suffocating the music industry. Only socialism can save it.
Junior doctors are back on strike this week, as the Tories refuse to yield to their demand for full pay restoration. With other struggles in healthcare continuing, it is vital that the unions coordinate action to kick capitalism out of our NHS.