Workers at Britain’s biggest arms manufacturer are set to strike in the coming weeks, over below-inflation pay offers. However, Unite’s leadership is dragging its heels. Their class collaboration is tied up with their support for British militarism.
Last weekend, 1,200 communists gathered for Revolution Festival 2025, the largest openly communist event in Britain in decades. Youthful energy, a burning desire to study Marxism, revolutionary optimism, and theoretical clarity all made this a landmark event.
Tonight, at 6.30pm, Alan Woods and Fiona Lali will introduce this year’s Revolution Festival with a discussion on the crisis of world capitalism and the revolutionary wave it’s producing. Tune in LIVE on YouTube!
The BBC is a key component of the ruling class’ carefully-built state machinery. So, when two of its leading figures are forced to resign, this suggests that a hidden war is going on in the murky depths of the state, and paints a picture of an establishment in crisis.
We have just breached one of the first, potentially irreversible climate tipping points, threatening catastrophic climate breakdown. Meanwhile, Indigenous climate activists protested the hypocritical, self-serving COP30 climate conference in Brazil.
Anton Chekhov’s influence on modern literature endures to this day. While best known for his dramatic works, Chekhov’s short stories masterfully portray the lives of ordinary people in 19th-century Russia – where seismic social transformations were taking place.
As the White House launches its Anti-Communist Week, the right wing seems increasingly puzzled by one question: why are so many young people in the West drawn to communist ideas
Today, it was announced that unemployment has jumped to five percent, the highest level since the pandemic. This is the result of several converging factors, which the capitalists are powerless to fix. Meanwhile, workers and youth face increased exploitation and burnout.
Zarah Sultana has come out forcefully against the institutions and allies of western imperialism, denouncing NATO and Zelensky. Such welcome words must be given flesh and blood, by mobilising workers against the warmongers in London and Washington.
Standing starkly at odds with the success of the Greens in England and Wales, several Scottish Green Party councillors and MSP candidates recently defected to Your Party – and urged others to follow suit. How do we make sense of this development?
With Chancellor Rachel Reeves sharpening her knives for the coming Autumn Budget, many will be left thinking “what is there left to cut?”. Everywhere you look – from classroom to NHS waiting rooms – Britain being ripped apart by the billionaire class.
This week, the warmongers in Starmer’s Westminster cabinet have been hysterically accusing the SNP-led government in Scotland of being a “threat to national security”. But are the SNP’s anti-imperialist credentials really what they are made out to be?