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Councils across the country are sounding the alarm, warning of a black hole in their budgets. Services are being cut to the bone. Some local authorities are declaring bankruptcy. The labour movement must organise a mass campaign against austerity.
The humble chippy is the latest victim of the crisis of capitalism, with the industry warning of mass closures of fish and chip shops due to rising costs. To save these seaside stalwarts, we need to plan the economy along socialist lines.
Based on the tragic events of the 1925-27 Chinese revolution, Bertolt Brecht’s ‘The Decision’ provides a powerful commentary on the betrayals of Stalinism and the idea of revolutionary sacrifice – something that liberal critics cannot understand.
Across the world, all the key pillars of the establishment – from the institutions of bourgeois democracy, to the police, to the media – are being eroded and undermined by scandals, corruption, and crises. We need a revolution to overthrow the lot.
Workers at two Amazon UK warehouses are striking this week, marking a year since the first walkout by staff at the Coventry site, in a long-running struggle over pay and union recognition. The whole labour movement must offer their solidarity.
British capitalism is stumbling from one crisis to the next. In their effort to subdue stubbornly-high inflation, the ruling class is set to provoke a new slump. Enormous pressures are building in society. Revolutionary explosions impend.
On this day 50 years ago, an inferno at the Summerland leisure centre claimed dozens of lives, in a tragedy reminiscent of the Grenfell disaster. These were both cases of social murder. The capitalist criminals are to blame.
Support staff at City of Liverpool College are preparing to take action over pay. Across the sector, further education workers are being hammered. We need national coordinated action to save our colleges. Workers and students – unite and fight!
The 2023 Defence Command Paper promised a root-and-branch transformation of the British Armed Forces. Instead, it provides further proof that the British military is in a state of terminal decline, along with the rest of the crumbling establishment.
Thousands of school buildings across the country are in a state of disrepair, at serious risk of collapse. The Tories are cutting maintenance budgets, and construction firms are cutting corners. The capitalists are putting profits before lives.
After repeated rounds of walkouts, the struggle in schools has come to a halt, with NEU members voting to accept the government’s pay deal. Rank-and-file teachers were willing to battle on. But once again, there was no fighting leadership.
This month has seen a volley of strike days on the railways, with RMT members walking out in protest over ticket office closures. Visiting picket lines, comrades have found that the mood is hardening. It is clear that this battle is far from over.