Tory austerity has cut care services to the bone. Private companies have partially filled the gap. But these firms are only interested in profits. Care workers, the elderly, and the disabled, meanwhile, are faced with a living nightmare.
As we enter the final week of the election, activists are stepping up their efforts for a Corbyn victory. No matter what the outcome on 12 December, a mass political movement has been created. This genie cannot be put back in its bottle.
In this talk from Revolution Festival 2019, Adam Booth – editor of www.socialist.net – compares and contrasts the economic ideas of Karl Marx, John Maynard Keynes, and MMT.
Election day is now just one week away. But a week is a long time in politics. Johnson and the Tories are terrified of slipping up. We must go up a gear and mobilise our full forces in the fight for a socialist Labour government.
An exhibition of William Blake’s work has opened at the Tate. Blake was a political radical in his own time. Though limited by his bourgeois outlook, his work captured the horror and indignity of the emerging capitalist mode of production.
Before the election campaign began, Jo Swinson believed her party would surge forward as representatives of the ‘centre-ground’. But this deluded fantasy has crashed amidst a political situation that is polarising along class lines.
The recent ‘Black Friday’ and ‘Cyber Monday’ are the busiest period of the year for Amazon, when CEO Jeff Bezos makes his millions. But all his wealth is created through the brutal exploitation of Amazon workers. And they are fighting back.
Bromley library workers have been striking for six months over job cuts and conditions. Forced to re-ballot to continue the strike, they have voted unanimously to fight on. Their determination is an example to the labour movement.
Trump is visiting the UK this week for the latest NATO summit. He and Boris Johnson are cut from the same capitalist cloth, seeking to line the pockets of big business. We must mobilise and fight the Boris-Trump alliance.
Boris Johnson is far from the ideal representative of big business, with his threats to crash Britain out of the EU. But the bosses and bankers are even more afraid of the threat posed by a Corbyn Labour government.
In the last week, Tata Steel bosses have announced that 1000 jobs are set to go from their British operations. Steel workers and their families in Port Talbot will be hit hard. The labour movement must fight for nationalisation.
In this talk from Revolution Festival 2019, Ben Curry (of the Socialist Appeal editorial board) discusses the Marxist philosophy of dialectical materialism and its application to the natural world.