Across the world, establishment politicians and bourgeois economists are growing anxious about ageing populations and shrinking family sizes. The real problem, however, is not a demographic crunch, but the crisis of capitalism.
The catastrophic failure of the Ukrainian counter-offensive is provoking splits and divisions in the NATO alliance. Meanwhile, workers across the world are paying the price for this inter-imperialist conflict. The class struggle is set to intensify.
A confused motion is up for discussion at this week’s TUC Congress, calling for ‘solidarity with Ukraine’. Instead of backing the Tories and their imperialist aims, the labour movement must fight for an internationalist, class-based position.
The Dublin Lockout began 110 years ago, when the bosses joined forces to smash militant trade unionism in Ireland. Socialists today must learn from the inspiring example of James Connolly and Jim Larkin, and build a revolutionary leadership.
The much-hyped Ukrainian counter-offensive is rapidly running out of steam. As demoralisation creeps in, blame and recriminations abound. All the while, workers in Ukraine, Russia, and the West are paying the price for this imperialist carnage.
The Kremlin’s assassination of mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin reveals the instability of Putin’s regime. But those now hoping for a change of fortunes in the Ukraine War are misguided. Western imperialism is riddled with its own contradictions.
A comrade from the Irish Marxists explains why he left People Before Profit (PBP), Ireland’s largest self-styled ‘Marxist’ organisation, to join the International Marxist Tendency. Unsatisfied with a lack of attention to theory and the electoral reformism of PBP, Nathan explains why the IMT in contrast fits the bill as the serious, revolutionary outfit he had been seeking.
A recent report has documented the brutal repression meted out against migrants by the Saudi regime. The western imperialists, meanwhile, have willfully ignored the barbaric behaviour of their long-standing ally – exposing their stinking hypocrisy.
An ongoing inquiry into accusations of extrajudicial murders by British Special Forces in Afghanistan shines a light on the crimes of western imperialism. The fight for justice must be a fight to overthrow this entire barbaric system.
Record temperatures and wildfires have hit huge swathes of the planet in recent months. Only by taking power out of the hands of the bankers and billionaires can we plan society rationally, to avoid a complete climate catastrophe.
Across the world, all the key pillars of the establishment – from the institutions of bourgeois democracy, to the police, to the media – are being eroded and undermined by scandals, corruption, and crises. We need a revolution to overthrow the lot.
Today marks 70 years since the truce that brought a stop to the Korean War and divided the peninsula. Events surrounding the conflict revealed both the brutality and cynicism of US imperialism, and the crimes of Stalinism, leaving a historic scar.