With their lead collapsing in the polls, the Tories are planning on spending over £1m on online campaigning in a desperate effort to hang onto power. Such is the popularity of Corbyn and his policies that the Conservatives are no longer confident that their billionaire friends who control the media can deliver the goods.
In April 1917, Lenin returned to Russia and politically re-armed the Bolshevik Party with the slogan “all power to the soviets”. In doing so, as Alan Woods discusses in this video, Lenin was affirming Leon Trotsky’s theory of the permanent revolution.
If there is one thing you can be certain about in any UK election, it is that the vast majority of the press will be hostile to Labour. This current election is no exception to this rule. Steve Jones examines the inherent bias within the media under capitalism and discusses the way forward in fighting for real freedom of the press.
The recent stormy meetings at the G7 summit and NATO conference have laid bare the growing tensions in world relations. Trump and Merkel have exchanged heated words in the aftermath of these international meetings, with the German Chancellor coming close to announcing the death of the Western alliance. The old order is crumbling.
Over the last couple of weeks, students, teachers, and parents have turned out at rallies in towns and cities across the country to protest against Tory cuts to education. We provide here a series of reports by Socialist Appeal supporters that show the angry and political mood on these demonstrations.
The recent rise of Labour in the polls has sent the Establishment into panic mode. Their new strategy is to smear Corbyn with accusations that he is “soft” on terrorism and had “sympathy” for the IRA. As Ben Curry explains, however, a look back at history shows that it is the Tories who are the real terrorist sympathisers.
The calling of constituent assembly and regional elections in Venezeula has been met with an escalation of demands for “regime change” on the part of the opposition. As Jorge Martin discusses, this is a critical moment for the Bolivarian revolution in Venezuela.
Jeremy Corbyn returned to campaigning for the general election last Friday with a speech that offered a response to the appalling Manchester terrorist atrocity and that sought to draw a clear line underneath the failed “war on terror”. As Daniel Morley explains, to fight against the causes of terrorism means to fight against capitalism.
On 17-18th May, Greece was shaken by a general strike and protests in all major cities against a new round of austerity measures. As Arturo Rodríguez explains, Syriza has become the administrator of crisis-ridden Greek capitalism and is being used by the Troika to grind down the Greek working class.
Alan Woods, editor of In Defence of Marxism, discusses Donald Trump’s visit to the Middle East, which is taking place at a convenient time for the new president, who requires a distraction from the crisis facing his administration back home.
The defeat of Isis is imminent: their last pocket in Mosul is about to be wiped out, Raqqa is being encircled and even Deir ez-Zor is under pressure. As Niklas Albin Svensson discusses, however, the end of Isis in Iraq and Syria has begun a struggle amongst the imperialists and the various regional powers to carve out spheres of influence in the aftermath.
On Monday 22nd May a sizeable group of Venezuelan opposition supporters attempted to disrupt a solidarity meeting in London, which had been called in order to answer the lies of the mainstream media. Jorge Martin, secretary of the Hands Off Venezuela campaign, asks: who are these oppositionists and what do they stand for?