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In the weeks that have passed since the US tore up the decades-old western alliance, the European leaders have been frantically trying to thrash out a rearmament plan. The Communists say: Down with militarism and austerity! For international revolution!
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?
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.
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 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.
Protectionist trade wars. Jingoism and rearmament. Austerity and attacks on the working class… Did someone set the clock back to the 1930s? To combat the coming catastrophe, we need a global revolution against the billionaire class.
This week, Marine Le Pen was barred from standing in the upcoming French elections after having been found guilty of the embezzlement of European parliamentary funds. Many on the Left have been jubilant, but Alan Woods warns us that this is in fact nothing to celebrate.
The British Steel bosses have announced the potential closure of the remaining furnaces in Scunthorpe, after over a century of operation. This jobs massacre will throw the entire town onto the scrapheap. Workers must take matters into their own hands: Occupy the steelworks!
With thousands of job losses at the Port Talbot steelworks, and potentially thousands more in Scunthorpe, it’s clear that Britain’s steel industry is in dire straits – with or without Trump’s tariffs. The labour movement needs a militant, socialist programme to save jobs!
Trump is set to announce a barrage of new tariffs, in an attempt to stem the decline of US capitalism. Here, Niklas Albin Svensson outlines the Marxist position on the ‘free trade vs protectionism’ debate, and how tariffs will impact the world economy.
With the world economy stagnant, and Trump gearing up for protectionist trade wars, there are many parallels to the Great Depression of the 1930s. Here, we republish a 2020 article by James Kilby analysing this decade of crisis and class struggle.
This weekend, the British state carried out a coordinated series of raids and arrests against a radical, anti-imperialist youth organisation. We stand in complete solidarity with Youth Demand. For a mass mobilisation against Starmer’s repressive regime!