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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.
Unison members at Birmingham University are taking action in a struggle for decent pay and conditions. Students and lecturers should offer their full solidarity, and join forces with striking support staff in the fight against marketisation.
Thousands of union members at important industrial hubs are currently balloting for action. If successful, strikes could disrupt refineries, chemical plants, and power stations across the country next month. The lesson is clear: militancy pays!
Multinational steel company Tata has again come cap in hand to the British government, demanding another huge handout. As part of this, the bosses and Tories are planning thousands of job cuts. We say: nationalise the steel industry now!
With his party sinking in the polls, Rishi Sunak is looking to whip up a climate culture war. Workers must have no trust in either the Tories and their cynical claims, nor the liberals and their impotent demands. We must fight for revolution.
In part one of this series, we discussed why communists need to educate themselves, and how to go about doing this. Now we turn to the question of the role that revolutionary students can play in carrying Marxist ideas into the class struggle.
The catastrophic failure of the Ukrainian counter-offensive is provoking splits and divisions in the NATO alliance. Meanwhile, workers across the world are paying the price for this inter-imperialist conflict. The class struggle is set to intensify.
At this year’s TUC Congress, a notable motion was passed committing the trade union movement to mobilise against the Tories’ latest anti-strike legislation – up-to-and-including non-compliance. We need militant action to smash the bosses’ laws.
Popular TV series ‘The Bear’ has been praised by reviewers. But its portrayal of the restaurant industry and gentrification provides a window into the cynical, smug mindset of the middle classes, and their contempt for ordinary working people.
As in previous years, the recent Edinburgh Fringe Festival highlighted the squeeze facing artists under capitalism, with performers facing an uphill struggle to make a breakthrough in the industry. For culture to blossom, we need a revolution.
As the new academic year gets under way, comrades from the International Marxist Tendency will be building on campuses across the country. In the first of a three-part series, we discuss the methods that communist students should learn and master.
Socialist Appeal comrade Nicholas Baldion is amongst the contenders for this year’s John Moores Painting Prize – the winner of which will be announced later this week. We spoke to Nicholas about his artistic work and his communist politics.