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The level of media hysteria, manipulation and hostility against Jeremy Corbyn is unprecedented. These attacks demonstrate the fear of the ruling class towards the Corbyn-led movement against austerity. Workers and youth must organise to defend Corbyn. Hands off Corbyn!
Last night, the People’s Assembly Against Austerity hosted a meeting with Yanis Varoufakis about how to fight austerity. Hundreds were present, inspired into political activity by Jeremy Corbyn’s tremendous Labour leadership victory. The task now is to argue for a bold socialist alternative to capitalism’s war and austerity.
On Saturday 12th September, around 100,000 workers and youth came onto the streets of London to demand that refugees and migrants be welcome in the UK. This formed part of an international day of action, with similar demonstrations in cities across the UK and Europe. The real mood of the working class is one of solidarity, not racism and xenophobia.
Jeremy Corbyn’s stunning victory in the Labour leadership election has dealt a decisive blow to the right-wing of the party. Ben Gliniecki looks ahead to what kind of movement needs to be built now, and the role that young people can play in defending Corbyn and fighting for socialism.
The astonishing victory of Jeremy Corbyn for the Labour leadership represents a political earthquake of monumental proportions. It has turned the political map of Britain upside down. Hundreds of thousands of workers and youth, desperate for change, are celebrating this victory all over the country.
100 days that shook Britain. That should be the name historians give to this summer’s Labour leadership campaign, if not for the fact that the next 100 days, in which Corbyn will most likely be leader of the party, will shake Britain much more still. Daniel Morley reports on the final Corbyn rally and examines the inspiring Corbyn movement of the past few months.
We publish here an article by the Marxist Student Federation, which examines the causes behind the cuts and attacks on education. These are not ideological, but flow from the laws and logic of capitalism. The fight for free education is the fight for socialism.
After years of monotonous two-party ping-pong, American politics has started to get interesting. Just a few months ago, the presidential election was shaping up to be a snoozefest between yet another Bush and another Clinton. However, Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump—and above all, the American electorate—had other ideas.
After participating in the despicable, racist bile being thrown at the thousands of desperate refugees making their way to Europe, David Cameron has announced that he will allow 20,000 people to find refuge in Britain. This announcement is the very definition of a political fudge, but it is one which will have fatal consequences for many innocent people.
#CutTheCosts is the latest political campaign set up by NUS, the aim of which is to force the government to u-turn on its planned scrapping of maintenance grants. Ed Taylor of the Sheffield Marxists explains how the fight for free education and a living grant is a fight for socialism.
Socialist Appeal invites you to a weekend of revolutionary ideas, hosted by the Marxist Student Federation in London over the weekend of 23-25th October. With the world economy on the verge of another deep slump, and with political earthquakes shaking the establishment in Britain, there has never been a better time for the revolutionary ideas of Marxism. Buy your ticket today!
The current refugee crisis has brought out some of the horrors of capitalist society, as well as the contrast between the basic human solidarity of ordinary working people and the cold calculation and callousness of capitalist rulers in Europe and elsewhere, as this statement from the International Marxist Tendency explains.