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With students under growing pressure, and university workers under attack, a wave of direct action has broken out on UK campuses. To win, we must build a mass campaign of students and staff to kick capitalism out of education.
In recent weeks, western press and politicians have manufactured a hue-and-cry over supposed Chinese spy balloons. With crises and class struggle brewing back home, imperialist sabre-rattling provides a useful distraction for the ruling classes.
Nicola Sturgeon has resigned from Scottish politics, having led the independence movement to an impasse, and with nothing to offer workers and youth but austerity and attacks. Marxists must raise the slogan: For a Scottish Workers’ Republic!
The murder of trans teenager Brianna Ghey shows the tragic impact of the ruling class’ cynical attempts to divide workers through bigotry and discrimination. The Tories and their system are to blame. We must fight their culture war with class war.
Spurred on by the racist rhetoric of the Tories and their ‘hostile environment’, far-right activists are targeting asylum-seekers across the UK. The labour movement leaders must mobilise workers and youth to drive the fascists off our streets.
Flag-waving Tory chauvinists are increasingly attempting to whitewash the brutal history of the British Empire. But recent studies have exposed this shameless falsification and revealed the true extent of colonialism’s horrific, murderous crimes.
The recent earthquake in Turkey has caused widespread devastation, with thousands confirmed dead. But this was not simply a ‘natural’ disaster. Profiteering construction bosses, warmongers, and the corrupt Erdogan regime are all to blame.
Fifty years ago, the US Supreme Court passed its famous Roe v Wade ruling, providing abortion rights to women in America. Today, these same rights are being ripped up. The fight to end women’s oppression must be a fight for socialist revolution.
While Sunak’s government is thrown from pillar to post, and energy bosses rake in record profits, the working class is being attacked from all angles. British capitalism is in a dire state. Only a revolutionary programme can offer a way forward.
Sector after sector of workers are joining the growing strike wave. Further coordinated walkouts are in store, following Wednesday’s day of action. To strengthen the movement, these struggles need to be united and organised from top to bottom.
1 February was the biggest day of coordinated strike action in over a decade, with half a million out on strike. We spoke to workers at picket lines and demos up and down the country about their fight against the bosses’ attacks and the Tories’ anti-union bill.
Tomorrow will see mass coordinated action between teachers, rail workers, civil servants, and lecturers. The Tories are preparing for class war, curbing the right to strike. The unions must defy these laws, and organise a militant fightback.