The latest news and analysis from The Communist, alongside reports of our activity. For Marxist theory and history, click here.
Over 100 students and trade unionists welcomed John McDonnell to the University of East Anglia on the 9th February. The large turnout from what is an extremely ‘depoliticised' campus, clearly demonstrated that the youth are not apathetic.
On the 6th of February the HOV delegation that went to Venezuela during the December elections, showed video-clips and slides from their visit and spoke about their experience. John McDonnell MP and Alan Woods, founder of the HOV campaign, were among the main speakers, as was the Venezuelan Ambassador, Alfredo Toro Hardy.
Hands Off Venezuela member Melanie McDonald reports on the delegation sent in December to observe the Presidential elections. They were everywhere, at the Co-ops, in the meetings, at the occupied factories and all over the media.
The stench of sleaze emanating from Number 10 Downing Street marks the end of the Blair era. Brown is no alternative. Both men will lead the Labour Party to defeat in the future. What is needed is a genuine left alternative. That is why it is so important that John McDonnell gets the required number of nominations to be able to stand for the party leadership.
We live in a world never so technologically advanced, and yet never so unbalanced and chaotic. What we need is a society driven by the edict, "from each according to their ability, to each according to their needs". This article exposes the contradictions of a society driven by private profit.
It is widely agreed that the main security threat facing Britain today is terrorism. Yet the British Bourgeois insist on maintaining nuclear weapons in an attempt to represent itself as a great economic and political power.
Hospital closures in North Lanarkshire have caused outrage among local residents already suffering from a woefully inadequate health service. Here we see how dangerous PFI policy in our NHS really is.
The environmental
problems
we face are creations
of the capitalist system.
The problem is that
there is no planning on and no concern for environmental issues in an unplanned
economy. Short-term ‘rational' decisions produced
environmental disaster in the longer term. Socialism is
the only way we can protect the environment.
As George Bush commits a further 20,000 troops to Iraq in a desperate gamble to hold the situation, the realities on the ground are pointing to a defeat for the super power. We take a look at the implications and prospects of this new 'surge'.
Family, friends and comrades of Phil Mitchinson gathered in Cardiff on Saturday 13th January for a memorial meeting. We came together to celebrate his life that ended so tragically.
Up to 100 delegates made their way to the University of London Union on the 13th of January to debate the character of the new Socialist Youth Network (SYN).
The Second American Revolution [The U.S.
Civil War] was a tremendous step forward, but it never realized its
promise to Black Americans. The real winners in the Civil War were the
Northern capitalists who opened up new markets and obtained a huge new
supply of dirt-cheap labor. Nearly a century and a half after the
abolition of slavery in the U.S.A., we are very far from achieving
genuine equality for all, regardless of race, color or sex. Despite a
number of advances achieved through the struggles of black people in
the 1960s, the position of black Americans remains one of clear
disadvantage. Originally published in the book Marxism and the USA, published by and available from Wellred.