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.
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!
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.
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!
Last week, a pro-Palestine student was violently attacked at Edinburgh University while security stood idle. Both the university and the capitalist press have been silent about this. Solidarity with the attacked students! For organised self-defence to counter these attacks!
Clad in Trumpian pomp, Farage launched his party’s May local election pitch in Birmingham, taking aim at the establishment who he blames for the state of broken Britain. Without a viable alternative from the left, this demagogy has won the ear of a layer of workers.
In response to a Reform UK rally in Birmingham, hundreds of workers and youth turned out in protest. Their anger isn’t just directed at Farage, but at Starmer and the rest of the establishment. A radical, left alternative is needed to fight them both.
Revolutionary Communist candidate Alice Nicholson won almost 1,000 votes in the Cardiff University Student Union election. This fantastic result is testament to the bold campaign run by our party, and the growing appeal of revolutionary ideas amongst young people.
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.