While campaigning on campus for a communist programme to fight the university cuts, some people we spoke to branded our demands as “unrealistic”. But is this the case? Is it any more ‘realistic’ to expect crumbs from the bosses’ table if we ask nicely?
While workers and the poor face ever-greater hardships, the super-rich are making a killing. In response to this gaping wealth divide, left wingers like Jeremy Corbyn and Gary Stevenson are saying we should ‘tax the rich’. But does this offer a real solution?
Revolutionary candidate Alice Nicholson won 1,000 votes for a communist programme in Cardiff University Student Union elections. In this letter, she reveals the political lessons she learned and the obstacles she had to overcome during the campaign.
Faced with an onslaught of attacks from the university bosses, lecturers and academic staff organised in the UCU are stepping into struggle in several places. In Newcastle, the Communists have made waves among the staff and students on the picket lines.
In May, hundreds of revolutionaries from across Britain and our International will attend the Second Congress of the Revolutionary Communist Party. This is the highest body of our party, where we will discuss world and British perspectives, alongside our tasks and tactics.
University cleaners are incredibly exploited, despite the critical role they play in the upkeep and functioning of students’ learning spaces. But City Uni’s staff are fighting back. Their fight is the same as students’ and academics’ against marketisation and cuts: victory to the cleaners!
After declaring bankruptcy, the Labour-led Birmingham City Council is slashing spending and attacking working conditions to ‘balance the books’. The bin workers, however, are standing strong and fighting back, with militant pickets and all-out strike action.
Last month, Labour announced the biggest cuts to disability benefits in a generation. This will have a brutal, devastating effect upon hundreds of thousands of people. One reader told us that Starmer and Reeves “should be put on trial” – we couldn’t agree more!
In the second episode of our series on the Classics: Daniel, Nye, Georgina & Peter discuss the ideas of Engels’ Socialism: Utopian & Scientific.
In an embarrassing diplomatic snub for Labour, the Israeli state has deported two British MPs on a trip to the West Bank. The entire rotten establishment has been more animated over this row than Israel’s genocidal actions over the last eighteen months.
The Scottish government has axed rent controls, leaving workers and families at the mercy of greedy landlords. Meanwhile, waiting lists for social housing balloon, and leaseholders are being duped by dodgy developers. Here, our readers expose Britain’s housing horrors.
In the latest issue of The Communist, our readers sent us letters on the cold indifference from the bosses of King’s College London towards a student death, a conversation with an angry, anti-capitalist cab driver, the ‘Show Israel the Red Card’ campaign, and more.