The UK steel industry has again been plunged into further crisis following the latest announcement of an expected 1,200 jobs to be cut at Tata Steel in Scunthorpe and Scotland. The Tories, meanwhile, are crying crocodile tears as the British steel industry’s crisis continues, threatening thousands of jobs across the country.
Corbyn rode to victory on the back of a grass-roots rebellion that shook the Labour Party from top to bottom. His anti-austerity message took the party by storm. The Corbyn movement has sweep aside the old order of things. The Pandora’s Box is open. Radical socialist policies are now back on the agenda. But the job is far from finished.
On Saturday 17th October, over 20,000 marched in London to protest against the government’s changes to junior doctors’ contracts. The mood was one of extreme anger against the government, and Jeremy Hunt in particular. The British Medical Association must harness this mood to defend the NHS against Tory attacks.
On 23-25th October, the UCLU and SOAS Marxist societies in London will be hosting a weekend festival of revolutionary ideas: Red October! See here for a full schedule for the weekend, and buy your ticket today!
Emily Cosentino and Joe Attard of the Labour Young Socialists’ steering committee discuss the programme and demands that are needed in order for the Corbyn-led Labour Party organise young people and workers in the fight against the Tories, against austerity, and against capitalism.
In order to harness the energy of the Corbyn leadership campaign, left-wing Labour MPs and other Corbyn supporters have announced the launch of “Momentum”. However, this new radical group within the labour movement has rattled the right-wing, who are afraid of the power an organised left-wing movement might have.
In recent weeks, thousands of junior doctors have been drawn into the political arena and joined the class struggle, as they fight back against Tory attacks to their terms and conditions and organise to defend the NHS. Protect the NHS! Support the junior doctors!
Following Saturday’s heinous terrorist attack, tens of thousands of people have taken to the streets in Turkey in the biggest mass movement since the Gezi Park movement of 2013. But contrary to the intentions of the attack, it seems to have isolated the crisis-ridden Erdogan regime even more.
The question of Trident – Britain’s nuclear deterrent – dominated this year’s Labour Party conference. Jeremy Corbyn rightly made it clear that he will not “press the button” and start a nuclear war should he, as a future PM, be asked to do so. Yet the Establishment, the Blairites, and even the trade union leaders opposed Corbyn on this question. Why?
Around 100 people were killed on Saturday by two explosions in the largest terror attack in Turkish history; hundreds more have been wounded. This is a clear continuation of the campaign of terror against leftist forces in Turkey, but it has triggered a backlash as tens of thousands of people have taken to the streets to protest against the government and their thugs.
The Marxist Student Federation (MSF) has kicked off the academic year by signing up thousands of new students to Marxist societies around the country. Anti-austerity protests and Jeremy Corbyn’s inspiring victory in the Labour leadership contest has radicalised a whole layer of students and youth, who are now looking for an organisation that is ready to fight for something better.
The American imperialists and their “allies” in NATO now find themselves in an impossible situation in the Middle East. They are trying to face two ways at once; in the process they find themselves at every step entangled in new and insoluble contradictions. Meanwhile, Putin has outmanoeuvred the Americans at every step.