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.
The Guardian recently published a trivial stink piece, claiming that revolutionary Friedrich Engels made exaggerated claims about the conditions of Manchester workers. Why do these liberal papers feel the need to criticise a theoretician who died over a century ago?
The latest discoveries from the Mars rover are our most promising signs of extraterrestrial life. But with funding for space agencies slashed, it’s unlikely we’ll retrieve these samples for decades. Other letters include: Sadiq Khan’s hypocrisy, and graduate visa trouble.
BBC Panorama’s undercover footage exposes deep-rooted racism, misogyny, and violence in the Met Police. While scandalous, this footage comes as a surprise to exactly no one – and hardly scratches the surface of this unsalvageable institution’s rot.
Britain is broken! In this issue of The Communist, our readers expose how the insatiable greed of the capitalists means that we are left to deal with toxic waste fires, council housing death traps, and soaring poverty.
In issue 33 readers expose Britain’s deep crises – from childcare burdens forcing grandparents into unpaid roles, to football clubs on the brink, unequal pay for the Lionesses, exploited Fringe workers, and job losses from Trump’s tariffs.
While claiming to be a party for workers, Starmer’s Labour has become a home for profiteers and parasites. While former homelessness minister (!) Rushanara Ali turfed out her tenants, Tulip Siddiq denies profiting from her auntie’s corrupt, murderous regime in Bangladesh.
“Just like last summer’s riots, the police have proven useless in fighting off the far right. More often than not, they have protected these thugs from counter-protests. Clearly they have better things to be doing – such as locking up hundreds of peaceful Palestine protesters.”
In this issue of The Communist, our readers cover the rising costs of food, housing, and childcare; Rachel Reeves playing the knight in shining armour for crooked car dealers; Palestine solidarity repression; and how to really fight oppression.
The billionaire press has shared no shortage of lies and distortions this week. From blaming the doctors who look after us for the NHS crisis, to yet more BBC hypocrisy in their coverage on Gaza, here our readers ‘read between the lines’.
Readers expose the deep rot in Britain’s capitalist institutions – from the police and MI5 to local councils. They reveal how justice, safety, and safeguarding come second to profit and private property. The system protects abusers, punishes dissent, and puts the most vulnerable at risk.
12 days ago, after being spooked by popular support for New York mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani, the Financial Times wrote in defence of billionaires. We respond to their false claims. Billionaires should not exist – we need a revolution against them and their system!
In this issue’s letters, our readers expose the failures of capitalism, from attacks on workers and the oppressed to the crimes of British imperialism. While record numbers of young people are seeking solace in religion, many more are searching for radical solutions.
Last month, our so-called ‘free’ and ‘impartial’ press went gung-ho for war – manufacturing consent for Israel and the US’s bombing campaign. As bombs rained down over densely populated areas in Tehran, media moguls were salivating this wanton death and destruction.
Our readers expose the brutality of capitalism: from, grieving mothers criminalised, nature destroyed for profit, evidence lost, and hollow protests that mask true betrayal.
The billionaire media and right-wing politicians would have us believe that the poorest in society are lazy freeloaders. But with unpaid wages at Sheffield Wednesday and in the food industry, readers of The Communist expose the real scroungers: the capitalists!
From modern slavery in Oxford, police violence in Ely, job cuts in Rotherham to course closures in Norwich and Greenwich — the real criminals wear robes, sit in boardrooms, and rule from Westminster. Our readers expose their crimes and shed light on the harsh realities facing workers and youth: poverty, repression, and climate catastrophe.
In the latest issue of The Communist, current and prospective RCP members share what led them to revolutionary communism. Our readers also expose the hypocrisy of bankers, denounce corrupt politicians, and celebrate the resilience of the Turkish working class.
In the latest issue of The Communist, our readers expose how the NHS is falling apart, the elderly are left destitute, students are extorted to live in pest-ridden flats, and workers are facing the sack because their employers can’t afford the minimum wage increase.
This issue, readers of The Communist dive into feudal-esque, loathsome landlords and bootless bosses who lord over us from on high – touting progress while dragging humanity backward. Don’t let the capitalists feed us to the wolves – let’s make their system extinct!
“I recently read the RCP’s article on Just Stop Oil and Youth Demand. It resonated with me as someone who has made the journey from Just Stop Oil and getting arrested for direct action, to revolutionary communism and class struggle.”
This week, we have allegedly witnessed history. For a glorious ten minutes, an all-female spaceflight took place! But while the billionaires throw money into the void and call it ‘progress’, back down on Earth things are only getting worse.
In the latest issue of The Communist, our readers sent us letters on the cold indifference from the bosses of King’s College London towards a student death, a conversation with an angry, anti-capitalist cab driver, the ‘Show Israel the Red Card’ campaign, and more.
In the latest issue of The Communist, our readers wrote to us about their disappointment with the capitalist media, factional strife within Farage’s Reform UK, Starmer’s plans to carve up the NHS, and the tribulations of trying to find employment in Britain today.
A recent report found that one in ten women murdered in the last 15 years were killed by their son. Strikingly, most of these women were acting as carers for their adult children, filling in for services at breaking point.
In the latest issue of The Communist, we received a letter from an arms factory worker, an exposé of an abusive Labour minister, a report from a strike at a Manchester restaurant, as well as experiences from the frontlines of the NHS crisis.
Starmer’s Labour is promoting anti-immigration campaigns on TikTok and leaving Ukrainian refugees at risk of deportation. Meanwhile asylum seekers die due to Home Office negligence. Here, readers of The Communist shed light on the latest anti-migrant attacks by the ruling class.
We publish here a letter from Ben Curry, a Socialist Appeal supporter in Leeds, who provides a concise explanation for how the Tories, despite all expectations, have managed to win the election and take power with a majority in parliament. As Ben writes, it is not ordinary workers and youth who are to blame for this outcome, but the leaders of the Labour movement.
We publish here a report from a worker who recently spent three months upon a cruise-liner, who explains the horrific and exploitative conditions within this highly profitable section of the tourism industry. Whilst workers toil below the deck, the owners reap in the profits.
Bourgeois critics are lining up to insult, patronise and demonise Russell Brand for daring to demand an alternative to the current system. This says a lot about the Establishment’s fear of anyone who dares to mention the word “revolution”. Ben Gliniecki reviews Brand’s book Revolution and asks: how can we fight for a real change in society?
Delivery drivers are the constant butt of jokes that label them as sexist, racist and homophobic; but this portrayal by tax avoiding comedians only helps in isolating a group of poorly paid workers. Here we publish an account of the real daily life of one driver.
We publish here a letter from Nico Baldion, a Socialist Appeal supporter in London, who writes about the proposals to demolition the Cremorne Estate, a one of the few remaining council estates available to working class families in the otherwise extremely wealthy Borough of Kensington and Chelsea.
The decision of Lawrence & Wishart to demand that the Marxist Internet Archive (marxists.org) take down the collected works of Marx and Engels from their website has sparked justified outrage across the internet. Such works should not be a source of profit for publishers, but a freely available source of revolutionary education for workers and youth.
John Dunn of the Justice for Mineworkers campaign makes a New Year’s resolution: don’t forget the crimes of capitalism and the ruling class; learn from history and begin organising the fightback for a socialist society.
We publish here a letter from John Dunn, former miner and current supporter of the Orgreave Truth and Justice Campaign, who – in light of news that the police lied in the “Plebgate” saga regarding comments made by Andrew Mitchell MP – explains the case of the miners at Orgreave in 1984 that were far greater victims of false police allegations.
We publish here two letters from young workers in Edinburgh, which provide personal accounts of their experiences of unemployment and temporary work – experiences that are only too common for a vast number of youth these days. The first letter describes the degrading experience of being unemployed and on Jobseekers’ Allowance, whilst the second discusses the insecure and exploitative nature of temporary, part-time summer jobs, many of which use “zero-hour” contacts.
We publish here a letter from a call centre worker, entitled “We accept you, We accept you, One of us, Gooble Gobble, Gooble Gobble, one of us”, which describes the methods of indoctrination that big business uses to try and passify workers and set them against one another. Call centre workers are some of the most exploited in the UK and are an area of services industries that are in need of unionisation in order to fight back against such exploitation.
Policies of austerity – the response to the crisis of capitalism – are inflicting pain on millions and leading to real human suffering. We publish here two letters from Socialist Appeal supporters, who outline recent scientific research that show the devastating human cost of capitalism.
Over two weeks after the death of Thatcher, and over one week since her funeral, letters are still coming in describing the celebrations that took place in former mining areas in response to the death of the “Iron Lady”. We publish here two letters from Bob Stothard regarding the mood and feeling amongst working families in Easington, an ex-mining town in Co Durham.
As the big day approaches, the hysteria builds up to a crescendo. The
21st December 2012 is seen as being the next date of the ‘end of the
world’, according to the ancient Mayan calendar. Yes, this time the
world is really supposed to end, we are told, and apologies for all the
previous false alarms.
The Ashes & Diamonds exhibition will be on show at Wortley Hall, see www.wortleyhall.org.uk from November
7th – 12th.
From the leaders of the labour
movement, in particular the Labour Party, the idea that the Tory cuts
are “ideological” is often put forward. The idea is that the Tories are
doing this out of ideological commitment against the welfare state. This
is misleading. The cuts are a product of the crisis of the Capitalist
system.
In ancient Rome, when things got a bit tricky, the Emperor would splash
out on a series of games complete with gladiators, mock battles, lions
eating Christians and other fun for all the family, The idea was to
distract people from the realities of life and keep them happy – at
least until the Goths arrived for their annual bout of pillaging,
sacking and raping. Nowadays, such carnage is not possible – even on X Factor. So we have the next best thing, yet another royal wedding.