In this podcast, Shaun Morris from the editorial board of Revolution Scotland discusses the future of the Union. The rise in support for Scottish Independence has the ruling class wringing their hands with worry. The breakaway of Scotland threatens to reduce the UK into a diminished Little England, and would intensify the class struggle in both nations.
Britain’s youth unemployment crisis has been back in the headlines this week, following the release of a report which found that one in six young people will soon be out of employment, education, and training. Capitalism is scrapping our futures.
Labour leadership hopeful Andy Burnham is trying to reinvent himself as a ‘man of the people’ in the run-up to the Makerfield by-election. But his talk about ending Thatcherism is hot air. Burnham is a careerist charlatan; the Greens should have no illusions in him.
The tragic murder of Henry Nowak has shocked millions. The callous treatment of Nowak by the police has been weaponised by racist demagogues like Farage, Lowe, and Musk, to whip up division and unrest, and distract blame away from the failures of the whole system.