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Since its launch last month, the Enough is Enough campaign has gathered momentum, organising large rallies in London, Manchester, and Liverpool. To tackle the cost-of-living crisis, the movement must fight for a bold socialist alternative.
A recent student suicide has once again shone a light on the disastrous impact that mounting debts, rents, and insecurity have on young people’s lives and mental health. Only clear socialist policies can tackle this problem at its root.
Liz Truss has won the Tory leadership race, becoming Britain’s latest prime minister. She will inherit an array of crises: from soaring energy prices and ‘stagflation’, to a rising tide of industrial action. Revolutionary explosions impend.
We are excited to announce the launch of this year’s Revolution Festival. With 32 amazing talks on Marxist ideas, and hundreds attending, this is the event for all those looking to get organised in the fight for revolution. Get your ticket today!
This week saw further action by postal workers and telecoms workers in the CWU. This shows the way forward for the trade union movement: to unite the struggles with coordinated action against the bosses and their crisis-ridden system.
Across the country, the trade union movement is awakening and workers are moving into action. And there is the prospect of members in Britain’s biggest union, Unison, joining the battle. The need for fighting leadership has never been greater.
Every day brings ever-worsening forecasts of disaster for ordinary people, as bills rise and vulnerable families are pushed into fuel poverty. Whilst millions freeze, energy bosses are raking in mega-profits. We say: expropriate the billionaires!
Parasitic landlords are profiting from scarcity, as rents spiral out of control. Tenants are being pushed into a desperate situation – or even out onto the streets. To solve the housing crisis, we need expropriation and socialist planning.
Strikes are breaking out across Britain’s bus network, as drivers fight for decent wages and conditions. And recent victories in the North West provide a vital lesson for the whole labour movement: militancy pays.
Former ‘Newsnight’ host Emily Maitlis has rocked the boat by accusing the Tories of influencing political coverage at the BBC. In truth, however, the whole mainstream media acts as a mouthpiece for the ruling class. We need a workers’ media.
Today saw the start of a wave of action by workers at Royal Mail, in the largest strike yet in the rising tide of class struggle. To win, these battles must be united into a mass fightback against the bosses – and for bold socialist policies.
Hundreds of dock workers have brought Britain’s busiest port to a standstill, in a dispute over pay. This shows the potential power that workers hold – a power that must be harnessed through militant struggle for a bold socialist alternative.