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Junior doctors recently returned to picket lines at NHS hospitals across England and Wales, with a growing mood for escalation. Radical junior doctors must get organised to spread these demands and raise the need for revolutionary ideas.
The summer festival season is well underway. And with it comes the usual horror stories of dangerous safety issues, rip-off prices, and endless reappearances by ageing bands. Capitalism is suffocating the music industry. Only socialism can save it.
Britain’s largest union Unison recently met for its annual conference, where the left lost overall control of the NEC. This setback highlights the need for the left to organise the rank and file for the transformation of the union, and wider society.
On 17th June 2023, Esteban Volkov, the last living link to the great revolutionary, Leon Trotsky, died at the age of 97. He dedicated his life to defending the legacy of his grandfather from Stalinist falsification. We publish below a tribute to this great fighter, by Alan Woods.
There has been much optimism surrounding the election of left-wing governments in Colombia, Chile, Brazil, and other Latin American countries. But already, these are hitting up against barriers. Only revolutionary struggle can offer a way forward.
The combined impact of the war, the pandemic, and inflation, on top of decades of imperialist exploitation, has left the world’s poorest nations buried in debt. This is preparing the ground for revolutionary explosions in one country after another.
We conclude our recent series on Israel-Palestine by examining recent events in the region, the situation today, and the way forward for workers and youth. Only revolutionary struggle can offer a real solution. Intifada until victory!
Junior doctors are back on strike this week, as the Tories refuse to yield to their demand for full pay restoration. With other struggles in healthcare continuing, it is vital that the unions coordinate action to kick capitalism out of our NHS.
Both the Tories and Starmer’s Labour are enjoying the unfolding drama in Scotland, as the plot thickens in the curious case of the SNP’s finances. Workers and youth must sweep away the entire rotten establishment and fight for revolution.
The Labour leaders have begun to outline their environmental agenda, promising state support for new British industries. In reality, this means more big business profiteering. Instead of green capitalism, the unions must fight for workers’ control.
Debates and protests have broken out amongst the Tories recently, over suggestions that supermarkets should sign up to price caps on essential goods. To genuinely fight the menace of inflation, however, we need a socialist plan of production.
Boris Johnson has lobbed a grenade into the Tory Party on his way out of Parliament, hoping to accelerate the demise of Sunak’s troubled government. This is the latest episode in the crisis of Britain’s regime. Revolutionary explosions lie ahead.