The new football season is underway in the middle of a second wave, lower league clubs are facing an existential threat, as revenue dries up. This will deal a blow to working-class communities. To save the sport, we need to kick profit out of football.
Universities are incarcerating students following an explosion of COVID cases in campus halls. This chaos has been created by the marketisation of education. Students and workers must fight for free education and democratic control.
The disabled community has been hit hard by the pandemic – left behind by a Tory government that puts profits before lives. Workers and disability activists must unite and fight for a society in the interests of the many, not the few.
A huge cache of documents has revealed the criminality and corruption at the heart of capitalism’s biggest financial institutions. We cannot trust the ‘regulators’. To root out these evils, we need nationalisation and workers’ control.
As forewarned by the University and College Union, campuses have become hotspots of infection, with management doing little to prepare for the arrival of students. To ensure safety, we need to put workers in control.
Rank-and-file candidate for Unison general secretary, Paul Holmes, has gained strong support from across the union in his bid to unseat the bureaucracy. Activists must unite behind Paul to ensure a victory for the left.
Amazon series ‘The Boys’ inverts the superhero genre by portraying the protagonists as commodities – owned, controlled, and exploited by a major multinational monopoly. Only the power of the working class can fight the evils of capitalism.
Under orders from Starmer, most Labour MPs this week abstained on a Tory bill that seeks to defend the crimes of British imperialism. Those opposing the bill were punished. Grassroots members must fight for socialist internationalism.
As the pandemic drags on, anger and distrust towards the government is growing. Many are understandably sceptical of what they hear in the media or from politicians. The labour movement must channel this mood along class lines.
Keir Starmer has gone to great effort this week to break with his predecessor and draw a line under the Corbyn era. Left-wing policies are to be ditched and replaced with appeals to ‘patriotism’. Grassroots activists must fight back.
The tragic death of Mercy Baguma has highlighted the cruelty facing asylum seekers under the Tories’ ‘hostile environment’. The labour movement must fight against this barbarism, and organise all workers against capitalist exploitation.
Boris Johnson’s announcement of new measures highlights the catastrophe that he and his cabinet have created. We must overthrow this government of chaos. We cannot trust the Tories with our lives.