In the latest issue of The Communist, readers discuss the proliferation of ‘recession indicators’, how charity shops are being swamped with rubbish dumped on them by Amazon, and the reality today of a university students’ summer ‘break’.
‘I attended an anti-racist counter-demonstration last Saturday, by myself. All I had on me was The Communist and some leaflets. But I was able to stand out from the moralism of the main organisers, and won over a group of young people to communist ideas.’
“After reading Trotsky’s writings on art and literature, I came to oppose the idea of ‘art for art’s sake’, which tries to separate art from society. I came to realise that all art has social content, and so I naturally began to channel political ideas into my work.”
Last week, war criminal and former prime minister Tony Blair published a 5,700 word essay lambasting Starmer and the Labour Party. This diatribe is a more-or-less clear expression of the (impossible) demands of the capitalist class upon the Labour government.
This month saw the return of the Met Gala – a glorified catwalk where the opulence of the rich and powerful is trotted out. This year’s event was partially overshadowed by labour protests, celebrity snubs, and a grassroots ‘ball without billionaires’.
In this issue’s installment of ‘bastard bosses of the week’, readers of The Communist discuss organising in the charity sector, corner-cutting managers, William Hill redundancies, and more!
In the latest issue of The Communist, readers expose the hefty price tag that comes with funeral-planning, and the nightmarish companies making cosmetic products out of corpses. We also cover NASA’s moon landing, the climate crisis, and more.
In issue 44 of The Communist, readers discuss Royal Mail’s abysmal performance since privatisation; traders making bank gambling on the world’s conflicts, wars, and economic chaos; Starmer dragging his feet on renters’ rights; and more.
‘Sir’ Keir Starmer recently proclaimed “I have the most working-class Cabinet in the history of this country” – a bold claim! In reality, Starmer, Reeves, Phillipson, Rayner, and Lammy have all broken from their class backgrounds to serve the capitalist class.
In Issue 42 of The Communist, readers discuss the “30 year debt sentence” facing university graduates, the hypocrisy of recent comments made by Manchester United owner and billionaire Jim Ratcliffe, how unemployment feeds into the mental health crisis, and more!
The full weight of ‘Broken Britain’ is bearing down on adult and children social services, leaving them crumbling in the face of rising demand and deep austerity. Saving these services requires thoroughgoing socialist measures, writes one social worker.
The supposedly ‘progressive’ left-leaning ‘New Statesman’ recently reported on the RCP’s hugely successful Revolution Festival. Sitting comfortably in their liberal bubble, these sneering journalists can’t make heads or tails of the real, revolutionary mood in society.