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In an embarrassing diplomatic snub for Labour, the Israeli state has deported two British MPs on a trip to the West Bank. The entire rotten establishment has been more animated over this row than Israel’s genocidal actions over the last eighteen months.
The Scottish government has axed rent controls, leaving workers and families at the mercy of greedy landlords. Meanwhile, waiting lists for social housing balloon, and leaseholders are being duped by dodgy developers. Here, our readers expose Britain’s housing horrors.
In the latest issue of The Communist, our readers sent us letters on the cold indifference from the bosses of King’s College London towards a student death, a conversation with an angry, anti-capitalist cab driver, the ‘Show Israel the Red Card’ campaign, and more.
The forces of communism are growing rapidly in Cardiff. To strengthen the Party, comrades have been putting ‘The Communist’ at the forefront of their recruitment, education, and student work. Here, they share their lessons from building the revolutionary press.
Protectionist trade wars. Jingoism and rearmament. Austerity and attacks on the working class… Did someone set the clock back to the 1930s? To combat the coming catastrophe, we need a global revolution against the billionaire class.
This week, Marine Le Pen was barred from standing in the upcoming French elections after having been found guilty of the embezzlement of European parliamentary funds. Many on the Left have been jubilant, but Alan Woods warns us that this is in fact nothing to celebrate.
The British Steel bosses have announced the potential closure of the remaining furnaces in Scunthorpe, after over a century of operation. This jobs massacre will throw the entire town onto the scrapheap. Workers must take matters into their own hands: Occupy the steelworks!
Last month, Sheffield communists made a splash in the Students’ Union elections, gaining 10 percent of the vote. The boldly ran campaign called out the complicity of the university in the genocide in Gaza, and explained the need for a revolutionary way forward.
Last week, a pro-Palestine student was violently attacked at Edinburgh University while security stood idle. Both the university and the capitalist press have been silent about this. Solidarity with the attacked students! For organised self-defence to counter these attacks!
Clad in Trumpian pomp, Farage launched his party’s May local election pitch in Birmingham, taking aim at the establishment who he blames for the state of broken Britain. Without a viable alternative from the left, this demagogy has won the ear of a layer of workers.
In response to a Reform UK rally in Birmingham, hundreds of workers and youth turned out in protest. Their anger isn’t just directed at Farage, but at Starmer and the rest of the establishment. A radical, left alternative is needed to fight them both.
This week on Communist Radio, Jack and Tom discuss Labour’s war on the poor, the state’s clampdown on Youth Demand, the rise of Reform, “tax the rich”, and the RCP’s upcoming recruitment drive.