Yesterday’s by-election defeats spell doom for the Tories. The government is desperately attempting to put out fires. Despite a temporary truce on the industrial front, conditions are being prepared for an explosion of the class struggle.
Birmingham City Council is facing a particularly acute crisis, with workers and residents being made to pay for Tory austerity, corporate plunder, and the employers’ crimes. The trade unions must organise a militant fightback against austerity.
This coming week will see renewed action on Britain’s railways and on London’s Tube network, with the bosses and Tories making further attacks on passengers and workers. To save transport services, we need militant action and nationalisation.
While other unions sign up to subpar pay deals, BMA members are continuing to battle on. With the Tories digging in, and the movement divided, doctors must prepare for a bitter struggle. To save our NHS, militant health workers must get organised.
Today marks 130 years since the birth of Vladimir Mayakovsky, the Russian artist and poet, whose works have been a consistent source of inspiration for communists. We look back at the life, ideas, and contributions of this revolutionary artist.
Last weekend, comrades from across the British section of the IMT gathered for this year’s Marxist Summer Camp, themed around the Communist International. Attendees left feeling educated, energised, and ready to build the forces of Marxism.
Last week, after months of struggle by teachers, union leaders announced that they would recommend acceptance of the government’s below-inflation pay deal. Members should mobilise to reject this offer, and organise to forge a militant leadership.
Starmer’s Labour recently announced its programme for education. But as with other questions, the party is promising little but Tory-lite policies. To save our schools, staff and students must fight for a clear socialist alternative.
The Spanish Civil War began on this date in 1936 with the beginning of the coup by General Franco. The fascist forces could have been defeated, with the working class rising up and fighting back. But their heroism was betrayed by the Stalinists.
Two mouthpieces of British capitalism – The Sun and the BBC – have been tearing chunks out of each other this week, over allegations against news presenter Huw Edwards. This spectacle shows why we need a real alternative: a workers’ media.
This year’s Unite conference took place this week against a backdrop of sharpening class struggle, with the Tories and bosses waging war on workers. Union activists are getting organised and preparing for battle. Militant leadership is vital.
The recent NATO summit revealed once again the arrogance, cynicism, and stinking hypocrisy of the western imperialists. For them, the Ukraine conflict is merely a means to crush Russia. And it is the workers of the world who are being asked to pay.