The number of people struggling to make ends meet despite being employed is growing and growing. The Tory Party’s boasts about cutting unemployment are clearly misleading, John Russell explains, as an increasing number find themselves with falling real wages, zero-hour contracts, and in temporary employment.

A recent study on tax evasion and inequality has revealed just how much of the top 0.01%’s fortunes is hidden away in foreign bank accounts. This clearly shows how the capitalist system has reached a dead end. These injustices and inequalities can only be abolished through socialist revolution.

Today, in numerous areas, from automation to green energy to information technology, we are seeing a validation of Marx’s assertion: that society’s productive forces at a certain stage come into conflict with the way in which society is organised. These “economic singularities”, as Adam Booth discusses, demonstrate clearly that the system has broken.