The Labour right wing have taken advantage of the lockdown to go on the offensive against the left. The sacking of RLB by Starmer is only the latest declaration of war. Grassroots activists must educate, agitate, and organise a fightback.
Keir Starmer has removed left-winger Rebecca Long-Bailey from the Shadow Cabinet, once again using anti-semitism smears to attack the left. The pretence of ‘unity’ has been shattered. Activists must prepare for battle.
We continue our series on the English Revolution by republishing Alan Woods’ response to a BBC documentary on the English Civil War. Subscribe to Marxist Voice to listen to Alan Woods’ podcast on this revolutionary episode.
Boris Johnson has announced that the UK will emerge from its “long national hibernation” on 4 July, as the economy reopens, against scientifc advice. The Tories are openly split, under the conflicting pressures of saving profits and lives.
Under pressure from the mass movement, Sadiq Khan has launched a review into London monuments. Beyond these gestures, however, nothing has been done to challenge the racism in the Metropolitan Police. Racist police practices continue unabated.
A strong campaign by footballer Marcus Rashford has forced a U-turn from the Tory government, achieving more than Starmer’s sterile leadership has in months. Workers need a real opposition that will take the fight to the Tories.
The British establishment is attempting to divert the movement against racism down safe-channels – turning the struggle into a polarising ‘culture war’, and offering tokenistic gestures. Instead, we must fight for socialist change.
Britain’s care homes have become a killing field for coronavirus. Cuts to the NHS have pushed patients into social care, causing further contagion and fatalities. To fight the pandemic, the whole sector needs to be nationalised.
This weekend’s “counter protests” descended into farce as the far right defended the statue of Churchill by drinking, giving nazi salutes and assaulting innocent bystanders. The labour movement should meet these thugs with force and drive them off our streets.
Top-flight football is restarting this week in Britain. But this decision is motivated not out of concern for clubs’ fans, but for their owners’ profits. We need to kick profit out of the ‘beautiful game’.
Today is the three year anniversary of the Grenfell tragedy and we are still no closer to justice. Meanwhile, thousands of lives are still at risk from the same flammable cladding. We must organise and fight to ensure people’s safety.
The UK has the highest relative number of excess deaths due to COVID-19 in the world. This is down to the incompetence of the Tory government, who have put profits before lives.