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The war in Ukraine has exposed the class-collaborationist and bureaucratic policies of a number of communist parties around the world. In order to build a genuinely communist international, it is necessary to look back to the real traditions of Lenin.
This year’s party conferences have brought home the degeneration of the Tories and Labour’s big-business turn in equal measure. Back in the real world, British capitalism is crumbling. The ‘mole of revolution’ is preparing to burst to the surface.
As part of the Tories’ austerity agenda, provision of education for those with special needs and disabilities is coming under increasing pressure. This is yet another symptom of the dire crisis facing schools and public services under capitalism.
Dozens of Socialist Appeal comrades from across the north joined the protest outside the Tory conference last Sunday, forming a communist bloc with bold revolutionary slogans. Capitalism is crumbling. It’s time to overthrow their system.
Across the world, establishment politicians and bourgeois economists are growing anxious about ageing populations and shrinking family sizes. The real problem, however, is not a demographic crunch, but the crisis of capitalism.
A young girl was brutally stabbed to death this week by one of her male peers. The scourge of violence against women is clearly worsening, encouraged by reactionary demagogues like Andrew Tate. Only revolutionary class struggle can end this disease.
September has been a busy month for the Marxists in Britain, with comrades recruiting for revolution at schools, colleges, and universities across the country. Everywhere, we see a clear thirst for communist ideas and organisation. Join us today!
An explosive crisis is brewing on campuses across the country. Universities face a perfect storm. And staff and students are paying the price, with teaching and learning conditions under attack. We must fight to kick capitalism out of education.
Britain’s high-speed rail ambitions are rapidly being scaled back, with the Tories now hinting that the Birmingham-Manchester section of HS2 could be binned. This farce reveals what a joke promises of ‘levelling up’ are under capitalism.
With inequality widening and austerity sharpening, calls are growing for greater taxes on the wealth and profits of the elites. But demands to ‘tax the rich’ do not tackle the root of the problem. Instead, we must expropriate the billionaire class.
A determined struggle by bin workers employed by Tower Hamlets council has ended with an improved deal for the strikers. This solid action shows the potential strength that workers everywhere have, when organised, mobilised, and united.
Across Britain, the institutions of the capitalist state are falling apart. There is no trust in the police. The army is plugging gaps everywhere. The courts are backed up, and the prisons are bursting. And all as the class struggle intensifies.