NUS conference 2018: fighting for a socialist student union
Activists from the Marxist Student Federation will be present in Glasgow this week as delegates to the 2018 NUS national conference. Here’s what they will be arguing for.
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Momentum in Wales votes to reinstate Clause IV
Socialist Appeal supporters in South Wales report from the recent AGM of Welsh Labour Grassroots, where an enthusing discussion took place around the restoration of Labour’s socialist clause.
No light at the end of the tunnel for May
May and Hammond are beaming with delight having secured a transitional Brexit agreement and thanks to improved economic growth figures. But the Tories have no cause for celebration. They are still hurtling towards a cliff-edge.
NHS workers: reject insulting Tory pay deal!
Dan Langley, a rank-and-file nurse activist, discusses the recently announced pay deal for NHS staff. Despite what the media and Tories say, this is a pay cut in real terms, not an offer to be celebrated or accepted.
Capitalism is killing Britain’s high streets
John Russell comments on the latest wave of high street closures taking place across the country, as household names find themselves squeezed from all sides. As per usual, it is the working class who are forced to pay.
Liverpool says: No child will go hungry!
Daniel Harris of the Liverpool Marxists reports from a rally against the latest Tory austerity measures to be announced: cuts to free school meals that will effect a million children.
A Blairite trailer for a Very British Coup
The Labour right wing have lept to their feet recently in support of Theresa May and her jingoistic rhetoric against Russia. This is a dress rehearsal for their future sabotage of a Corbyn Labour government.
Cambridge Analytica holds a mirror up to the mainstream media
The technology may have changed, Daniel Morley writes, but the dodgy practices used by Cambridge Analytica to influence political opinion are no different from those employed daily by the entire capitalist establishment and its liberal mouthpieces.
Socialist Appeal national conference: celebrating revolutionary times
Last weekend saw the annual conference of Socialist Appeal supporters. The enthusiastic mood on display reflected the echo that Marxist ideas are finding amongst workers and youth. Join us in the fight for revolution!
Bellicose Tory rhetoric belies British establishment impotence
The hysteria whipped up against Russia by the Tories and Blairities over the poisoning of a double-agent has revealed how Britain has been reduced to an insignificant player on the world stage.
Re-inflating the bubble: a balance sheet of 10 years of crisis
One decade on from the financial crisis, Niklas Albin Svensson examines the precarious state of the world economy today. Another deep slump is being prepared.
Nationalise Big Pharma
The NHS is in crisis, starved of the resources it desperately needs. The major pharmaceutical companies, however, are laughing all the way to the bank, making massive profits off over-priced drugs.