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.