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Britain’s supermarkets are rationing the sale of eggs, and farmers are warning of shortages of many fruit and vegetables to come. Empty shelves and rapidly rising prices are increasingly revealing the need for a National Food Service.
A new generation is being drawn into action by capitalism’s crises. School students have been at the forefront of the movements against climate change and oppression. We call on young activists to join us in the fight for revolution.
Shaun Morris discusses the Civil War in Ireland, and the continuing struggle for a socialist united Ireland today.
Promoted by some activists as a means of combating oppression, identity politics is increasingly being used by the establishment to attack the left and the labour movement. Workers and youth must fight back with revolutionary class struggle.
As the class struggle sharpens in Britain, with industrial action spreading from one sector to another, Marxist students are getting organised to build solidarity for striking workers. Students and workers – unite and fight!
Britain’s winter of discontent has begun. With nurses, ambulance staff, and border guards all taking action, the country is set for its biggest month of strikes in decades. And the struggle is set to intensify, as the Tories threaten repression.
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Staff at the Environment Agency, responsible for regulating UK waterways, are set to take action short of strike, in a struggle over pay and conditions. This must be linked to bold demands for public ownership of the country’s natural resources.
Britain’s class divide is palpable this Christmas. While the working class faces Dickensian conditions, the Tory Scrooges are presiding over a fresh wave of austerity. But workers are fighting back, with a winter of discontent already underway.
With Royal Mail bosses digging their heels in, CWU members across the country will be walking out on six more dates in the run-up to Christmas. Socialist Appeal spoke to one striking postal worker on the real issues at stake in this struggle.
The run-up to Christmas will see mass action across Britain’s health service, with nurses, ambulance staff, and others set to strike. The NHS and its workforce are at breaking point. We need a united fightback for clear socialist policies.
Britain’s energy industry is the source of endless scandal. While suppliers plunge customers into debt and darkness, Tory incompetence is adding to rising bills for ordinary households. We need socialist planning, not parasitic profiteering.