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Britain’s high-speed rail ambitions are rapidly being scaled back, with the Tories now hinting that the Birmingham-Manchester section of HS2 could be binned. This farce reveals what a joke promises of ‘levelling up’ are under capitalism.
With inequality widening and austerity sharpening, calls are growing for greater taxes on the wealth and profits of the elites. But demands to ‘tax the rich’ do not tackle the root of the problem. Instead, we must expropriate the billionaire class.
Across Britain, the institutions of the capitalist state are falling apart. There is no trust in the police. The army is plugging gaps everywhere. The courts are backed up, and the prisons are bursting. And all as the class struggle intensifies.
The apologists of capitalism constantly assert the myth that ‘the working class no longer exists’; that ‘we are all middle class now’. In fact, the working class has never been stronger. What is missing is revolutionary leadership.
With his party sinking in the polls, Rishi Sunak is looking to whip up a climate culture war. Workers must have no trust in either the Tories and their cynical claims, nor the liberals and their impotent demands. We must fight for revolution.
In part one of this series, we discussed why communists need to educate themselves, and how to go about doing this. Now we turn to the question of the role that revolutionary students can play in carrying Marxist ideas into the class struggle.
The catastrophic failure of the Ukrainian counter-offensive is provoking splits and divisions in the NATO alliance. Meanwhile, workers across the world are paying the price for this inter-imperialist conflict. The class struggle is set to intensify.
At this year’s TUC Congress, a notable motion was passed committing the trade union movement to mobilise against the Tories’ latest anti-strike legislation – up-to-and-including non-compliance. We need militant action to smash the bosses’ laws.
Popular TV series ‘The Bear’ has been praised by reviewers. But its portrayal of the restaurant industry and gentrification provides a window into the cynical, smug mindset of the middle classes, and their contempt for ordinary working people.
As the new academic year gets under way, comrades from the International Marxist Tendency will be building on campuses across the country. In the first of a three-part series, we discuss the methods that communist students should learn and master.
A confused motion is up for discussion at this week’s TUC Congress, calling for ‘solidarity with Ukraine’. Instead of backing the Tories and their imperialist aims, the labour movement must fight for an internationalist, class-based position.
Today marks the 50th anniversary of the coup in Chile, when General Pinochet and the military – backed by US imperialism – overthrew the socialist government of Salvador Allende. Revolutionaries must fully absorb the lessons of these tragic events.