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.
A confused motion is up for discussion at this week’s TUC Congress, calling for ‘solidarity with Ukraine’. Instead of backing the Tories and their imperialist aims, the labour movement must fight for an internationalist, class-based position.
Today marks the 50th anniversary of the coup in Chile, when General Pinochet and the military – backed by US imperialism – overthrew the socialist government of Salvador Allende. Revolutionaries must fully absorb the lessons of these tragic events.
A new generation of communists is being forged by capitalism’s crises and catastrophes. “He who has the youth, has the future,” Lenin famously proclaimed. We call on radical young people to get organised and join us in the fight for revolution.
Following wave after wave of determined struggle by rank-and-file UCU members, union leaders have led the disputes in higher education into a dead end. These events show the crucial importance of militant leadership – which we must build.
The latest annual TUC congress meets in Liverpool next week, from 10-13 September. As the last year’s strike wave ebbs, the trade union movement is taking stock. A period of bitter struggles lies ahead. Militant workers must prepare for battle.
In this episode of Marxist Voice, Sarah Vedrovitch discusses the United Front, a tactic adopted by the Communist International to connect the communists to the broader working class.
After years of attacks on jobs, pay, and conditions, further education staff in the UCU are balloting over whether to strike. With pressure building, industrial action looks likely. Union activists in colleges must prepare for struggle.
The Tory government is under intense scrutiny in the face of another huge scandal, with the lives of thousands of children and workers placed at risk due to cuts to school maintenance budgets. The whole system is broken. We need a revolution.
Rail unions and campaigners are mobilising against threatened closures of station ticket offices, tapping into a mood of anger amongst passengers. To defend against the bosses’ attacks, we need militant action, nationalisation, and workers’ control.