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While workers struggle to maintain living standards in the face of rampant inflation, the bankers are awarding themselves record bonuses. As Marx stated, capitalism is misery for billions, and riches for billionaires. The real war is a class war.
A recent investigation at Imperial College has revealed an endemic culture of bullying against staff and students, fomented by university bosses. To end this toxic environment, we must fight against marketisation and for democratic control.
Prince Andrew, recently embroiled in a sexual abuse scandal, has reached an out-of-court settlement with his accuser. Far from clearing his name, this development will only deepen the crisis rocking the monarchy. Abolish this rotten relic!
University students and staff are taking part in a day of action today in response to attacks on higher education. We need to mobilise against marketisation, kick profit out of our campuses, and make the billionaires pay for this crisis.
The conflict in Ukraine has provoked panic and confusion across society. This is a clash between reactionary powers. Marxists oppose both sides. Socialists must fight against the imperialists and warmongers, and for world revolution.
Due to years of privatisation, austerity, and attacks on workers, hospitals are struggling to keep up with the demand for treatment, with waiting lists swelling to record numbers during the pandemic. We need socialist policies to save our NHS.
Last weekend, young workers from across Britain’s transport system gathered for the annual RMT young members’ conference. With strikes breaking out on the railways and Tube network, it is vital that the unions organise coordinated action.
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has led to fears that the conflict will escalate into WW3. This hysteria is being whipped up by Western imperialism and its servants, in order to sow confusion. Marxists must cut through this barrage of lies.
‘Sir’ Keir Starmer has cynically used Russia’s attack on Ukraine as an excuse to attack the anti-imperialist left, and to prove his loyalty to the establishment. The labour movement must fight the enemy at home, not the ‘enemy within’.
University staff in the UCU are in the middle of their latest wave of strike action against attacks on pensions, pay, and conditions. But education bosses are digging their heels in. Only escalated action can secure victory for the workers.
Refuse collection drivers in Coventry, organised in Unite, are nearing the end of their seventh week of strike action. And with the council going to great efforts to break the strike, the mood amongst the workers is growing increasingly militant.
Vladimir Putin shocked the world this morning by launching a full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Despite many ‘strong’ words, Western leaders have been exposed as impotent. Only revolutionary class struggle can end the horrors of capitalism and war.