New Tory plans for the country’s dilapidated railway network offer nothing but further privatisation, profiteering, cuts, and attacks on rail workers. Labour and the unions must fight for public ownership and workers’ control.
Ruthless construction bosses, with the help of the union bureaucracy, have attempted to rip up agreements in order to undermine workers’ wages and conditions. But rank-and-file activists have shown the way forward, waging a militant fightback.
With the lockdown over, and employees being forced back to work in unsafe conditions, the bosses are deploying every conceivable trick in order to boost their profits. Workers must organise, take action, and fight for workers’ control.
The shambolic, much-delayed Tokyo Olympics Games have begun – without fans, and amidst general disapproval from ordinary people in Japan. It is the bosses, not the working class, who should be made to pay for this crisis.
A recent BBC audio series reveals the shocking injustice faced by Post Office workers falsely jailed for theft. The system is stacked in favour of the bosses. Only workers’ control can defend the many, not the few.
For decades, militant trade union activists have been targeted by the bosses. Now Marxists in the Labour Party will face similar victimisation, as part of Starmer’s purge. The scourge of blacklisting must be fought across the labour movement.
Socialist Appeal, the Marxist voice of Labour and youth, has been expelled from the Labour Party, with the right wing saying we are ‘alien’ and ‘toxic’ to the party’s ‘aims and values’. Rob Sewell answers the lies, smears, and slanders.
Labour’s right-wing dominated NEC has ruled that all candidate selections in the city of Liverpool will come under the control of the national party. This attack on grassroots democracy must be resisted by the whole left of the party.
London Underground bosses are attempting to rip up agreements in order to cut costs. Workers must not be made to pay for the coronavirus crisis. The labour movement must fight for full funding, safe conditions, and workers’ control.
Join Rob Sewell and Adam Booth to hear about the Labour right’s plan to kick Socialist Appeal supporters out of the Labour party, and why the left must organise to fight back against this direct political attack.
In the third part of this series on Marxist philosophy, Daniel Morley talks about the Marxist view on human nature.
New studies have uncovered vast disparities in health and life expectancy between different areas of the country. This ‘postcode lottery’ is a reflection of the clear class divide in society. Only bold socialist policies can address these scars.