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We publish here a contribution by John McInally, an experienced trade union activist from the PCS, about the perspectives for the labour movement in Britain. We need to build a strong socialist opposition to the Tories and Labour right wing.
The IMT rally to celebrate the life of Leon Trotsky, 80 years after his assassination, was a great success, with thousands participating and donating from across the world. The revolutionary ideas of Trotsky have never been so relevent.
Elections are coming up for the Young Labour national committee, with primaries underway to decide which candidates are backed by Momentum. We urge readers to vote for the ‘Marxist Voice for Young Labour’ platform.
Tickets are now available for Revolution Festival 2020, a three-day online festival of Marxist ideas. With a wide range of incredible discussions and excellent speakers, this is set to be a fantastic event. Buy your ticket today!
PCS members at the Tate galleries are on strike this week against job cuts. While management receive six-figure salaries, workers in the culture sector are facing redundancy. The labour movement must fight back against these attacks.
With their new ‘Better Health’ campaign, the Tories are once again looking to shift the blame for their callousness and incompetence onto the working class. But it is they who are responsible for the death of thousands.
Pressure is building on Mayor John Biggs and Tower Hamlets council after a third week of strike action by local council workers. The Labour leadership has remained silent. But the grassroots of the labour movement are fully behind the strike.
John Hume – founding member of the SDLP in the North of Ireland, and key architect of the Good Friday Agreement – died recently, on 3 August. The establishment has been full of posthumous praise. But his lasting legacy has not benefited the working class.
Under pressure from below, the government has cracked, pledging to restore predicted grades for A-level students. This should give confidence to all those looking to fight back against the Tories. We must overthrow their entire rigged system.
Outrageous proposals to ‘reform’ the planning system will give a free reign to property developers, whilst removing any accountability to local communities. The housing crisis is not the fault of the planning system, but the profit system.
As the economy contracts, the availability of paid work is in decline. Yet workers today also have less leisure time. Under capitalism, all the gains of productivity fall to an elite few. We need a socialist plan to end unemployment and overwork.
In this recent talk by Fightback, the Canadian section of the IMT, comrade Adam Zeineddine discusses the way forward for the Lebanese revolution.