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As working conditions become more uncertain and exploitative, new militant unions are flourishing to represent workers in precarious sectors. The larger traditional unions can learn an important lesson from these radical, fighting examples.
Role-playing computer game Disco Elysium has won plaudits for its political plot and subversive structure. It’s nihilistic outlook, however, reflects the pessimism of the past – not the revolutionary desires of today’s younger generation.
The coronavirus has become the catalyst for a crash on the stock markets, with drastic slumps everywhere on ‘Black Monday’. The epidemic is a historical accident that has exposed the deep sickness in the capitalist system.
The Democratic primary campaign is now a two-horse race between Sanders and Biden. Just as in 2016, the Democratic party establishment will do everything to hold Sanders back. The creation of an independent workers’ party in the USA is urgently needed.
After months of uncertainty, regional airline Flybe has been abandoned by the Tory government and gone bust. This is a symptom of the severe crisis facing the global aviation industry – and the entire capitalist system.
Alongside the ‘hostile environment’ and the racist measures against migrants, the Tories are clamping down on Traveller communities, putting the way of life for one of Britain’s oldest minorities at threat.
Voting has begun for the Labour leadership contest. With their champion Keir Starmer, the establishment hopes to regain control of the Labour Party. We must fight to continue the ‘Corbyn revolution’.
Richard Burgon’s campaign for the deputy Labour leader position has gained the backing of rank-and-file activists, thanks to the MP’s bold demands for open selection and a new socialist Clause IV. Support Burgon for deputy!
Sci-fi franchise Star Trek is back on TV screens with the new CBS series ‘Picard’. The show’s bleak vision of the future is a far cry from the confident optimism of earlier incarnations. This reflects today’s impasse of the system.
With the Tories going on the offensive against workers and migrants, many activists are turning to community organising to rebuild the movement from the ‘bottom up’. But this must not be a substitute for radical political struggle.
Recent in-depth polling by Lord Ashcroft hints at why Labour have lost support amongst working-class voters in former ‘heartlands’. To win back these workers, Labour must become the real anti-establishment party.
UCU members in higher education are now in their third week of strike action, fighting for decent pay, pensions, working conditions, and equality. Marxist students have been mobilising to offer solidarity and support.