A strong campaign by footballer Marcus Rashford has forced a U-turn from the Tory government, achieving more than Starmer’s sterile leadership has in months. Workers need a real opposition that will take the fight to the Tories.
The dire situation for workers in the face of the bosses’ attacks has sparked a rise in trade union membership in the UK. With Labour shifting right under Starmer, we need organisation and militant action to fight for workers’ rights.
The British establishment is attempting to divert the movement against racism down safe-channels – turning the struggle into a polarising ‘culture war’, and offering tokenistic gestures. Instead, we must fight for socialist change.
Universities face a £2.6bn loss due to the pandemic, which will be made up through attacks on workers. Meanwhile, students are paying through the roof for rent as though nothing has changed.
The Black Lives Matter movement has reignited the Rhodes Must Fall campaign in Oxford, which aims to challenge the university’s racism and colonial legacy. We need mass action to tear down these statues – and tear down capitalism.
We continue our series on the English Revolution by republishing an article by Dudley Edwards on the Levellers. Subscribe to Marxist Voice to listen to Alan Woods’ podcast on this revolutionary episode from history.
The pandemic and the economic catastrophe it has triggered are threatening to roll back decades of gains in terms of women’s liberation. Capitalism in crisis can offer only counter-reforms. To end oppression, we need socialism.
Manufacturing and industry in Britain is set to be decimated by the pandemic, Brexit, and the crisis of capitalism. Union leaders are urging the Tories to save jobs. But instead of pleading, the union movement must organise and fight.
Britain’s care homes have become a killing field for coronavirus. Cuts to the NHS have pushed patients into social care, causing further contagion and fatalities. To fight the pandemic, the whole sector needs to be nationalised.
An attack on jobs is on the horizon in higher education. The UCU has launched a campaign in response. But members must pressure the leadership to ensure a militant fightback is carried out.
This weekend’s “counter protests” descended into farce as the far right defended the statue of Churchill by drinking, giving nazi salutes and assaulting innocent bystanders. The labour movement should meet these thugs with force and drive them off our streets.
Top-flight football is restarting this week in Britain. But this decision is motivated not out of concern for clubs’ fans, but for their owners’ profits. We need to kick profit out of the ‘beautiful game’.