With the coronation of Charles III around the corner, many workers and youth are responding to this royal circus with apathy and revulsion.
The pomp and ceremony surrounding the monarchy is clearly a colossal waste of public money. But it is more pernicious than that.
In this episode of Marxist Voice, Jack Tye Wilson discusses the real role that the monarchy plays, as a reserve weapon that can and will be deployed to defend capitalism against a rising labour movement.