Health Infected blood: another chapter in the book of Tory-Labour betrayals As in the case of the Post Office, mistakes that could have been rectified were continued for years and then covered up.
Health Infected blood: another chapter in the book of Tory-Labour betrayals As in the case of the Post Office, mistakes that could have been rectified were continued for years and then covered up.
Working-class history Samuel Fielden: An English worker’s place in the origins of May Day A vivid account of the horrors and poverty that abounded in working-class life on both sides of the Atlantic when capital had free reign and workers no rights.
Working-class history Samuel Fielden: An English worker’s place in the origins of May Day A vivid account of the horrors and poverty that abounded in working-class life on both sides of the Atlantic when capital had free reign and workers no rights.
British politics No votes for genocide-enablers or Nato warmongers! We are calling on workers to help the campaigns of, and give their votes to, all candidates standing on an anti-genocide, anti-Nato and anti-Labour platform.
British politics No votes for genocide-enablers or Nato warmongers! We are calling on workers to help the campaigns of, and give their votes to, all candidates standing on an anti-genocide, anti-Nato and anti-Labour platform.
British politics The Communists’ message for May Day 2024: Where are the unions While Assange languishes in prison, the Gaza genocide continues and workers are hit by a cost of living crisis, Britain’s unions are essentially inactive.
British politics The Communists’ message for May Day 2024: Where are the unions While Assange languishes in prison, the Gaza genocide continues and workers are hit by a cost of living crisis, Britain’s unions are essentially inactive.
Pay and conditions P&O boss admits he couldn’t live on the starvation wage paid to his workers Toothless select committee hears how CEO agonised over accepting his £183k bonus after summarily dismissing 800 staff.
Pay and conditions P&O boss admits he couldn’t live on the starvation wage paid to his workers Toothless select committee hears how CEO agonised over accepting his £183k bonus after summarily dismissing 800 staff.
Argentina Role of the IMF in impoverishing countries – the case of Argentina How the imperialists use the debt trap to loot the wealth of and enforce their hegemony over oppressed nations.
Argentina Role of the IMF in impoverishing countries – the case of Argentina How the imperialists use the debt trap to loot the wealth of and enforce their hegemony over oppressed nations.
Trade unions Gaza, inflation, Assange … Where are the trade unions? While crime after crime is committed against the people, those who should be organising the resistance are doing nothing.
Trade unions Gaza, inflation, Assange … Where are the trade unions? While crime after crime is committed against the people, those who should be organising the resistance are doing nothing.
Divide and rule ‘Stop the boats!’ The political football of the ‘immigration debate’ in Britain How the ruling class divides workers against one another and distracts our attention from the true causes of our misery.
Divide and rule ‘Stop the boats!’ The political football of the ‘immigration debate’ in Britain How the ruling class divides workers against one another and distracts our attention from the true causes of our misery.
Health Decaying dental services cause misery for millions of workers The steady destruction of NHS dentistry has left millions of working people resorting to to DIY dental kits as Victorian era diseases return to Britain.
Health Decaying dental services cause misery for millions of workers The steady destruction of NHS dentistry has left millions of working people resorting to to DIY dental kits as Victorian era diseases return to Britain.
Social wage Why is Manchester in poverty? Workers need socialism! What is at the root of the spiral of poverty and decay we are experiencing in towns and cities across Britain?
Social wage Why is Manchester in poverty? Workers need socialism! What is at the root of the spiral of poverty and decay we are experiencing in towns and cities across Britain?
Theory Lenin’s work remains a guide for our time: an introduction What is it about VI Lenin and his work that remains so essential to the working class a century after his death?
Theory Lenin’s work remains a guide for our time: an introduction What is it about VI Lenin and his work that remains so essential to the working class a century after his death?
Social wage Heating and eating: the impoverishment of British workers What is driving the decline in living standards in Britain? If we tighten our belts for a while, can we expect things to get better soon?
Social wage Heating and eating: the impoverishment of British workers What is driving the decline in living standards in Britain? If we tighten our belts for a while, can we expect things to get better soon?
Argentina Victory of Javier Milei reveals the failure of Argentina’s popular forces How could a candidate with such an overtly anti-worker programme be elected by workers in dire economic straits?
Argentina Victory of Javier Milei reveals the failure of Argentina’s popular forces How could a candidate with such an overtly anti-worker programme be elected by workers in dire economic straits?
Ireland The Dublin riots Why are so many on the left so quick to dismiss every outpouring of working-class rage as ‘mindless’ and ‘lumpen’?
Ireland The Dublin riots Why are so many on the left so quick to dismiss every outpouring of working-class rage as ‘mindless’ and ‘lumpen’?
Capitalist crisis Red Youth: Marxism can channel the anger of our youth into revolution Decaying capitalism offers young people only alienation and misery. The path to a positive future lies in harnessing our energies against the present system.
Capitalist crisis Red Youth: Marxism can channel the anger of our youth into revolution Decaying capitalism offers young people only alienation and misery. The path to a positive future lies in harnessing our energies against the present system.
Capitalist crisis Ofgem serves corporate energy profiteers The energy regulators work, just not for workers.
Capitalist crisis Ofgem serves corporate energy profiteers The energy regulators work, just not for workers.
Lay-offs and closures ‘Post-socialist mortality crisis’ proves that deindustrialisation kills The ruling classes stir up populism amongst deindustrialised populations in order to try to persuade workers to pin the blame for their hardship onto other workers.
Lay-offs and closures ‘Post-socialist mortality crisis’ proves that deindustrialisation kills The ruling classes stir up populism amongst deindustrialised populations in order to try to persuade workers to pin the blame for their hardship onto other workers.
Capitalist crisis Is life under capitalism getting you down? Luckily, there’s a cure! Are you sad and depressed? Lonely? Anxious? Isolated? Worried about the future? You may be suffering from capitalism.
Capitalist crisis Is life under capitalism getting you down? Luckily, there’s a cure! Are you sad and depressed? Lonely? Anxious? Isolated? Worried about the future? You may be suffering from capitalism.
Capitalist crisis Oxfam identifies inequalities in shocking detail, but provides no solution Price-gouging is a real monopoly practice. But is it really at the root of the global economic crisis?
Capitalist crisis Oxfam identifies inequalities in shocking detail, but provides no solution Price-gouging is a real monopoly practice. But is it really at the root of the global economic crisis?
Niger Nigerien coup spearheads a popular revolution Another Sahel comprador regime has fallen to a popular movement led by patriotic army officers. The contagion is bound to spread.
Niger Nigerien coup spearheads a popular revolution Another Sahel comprador regime has fallen to a popular movement led by patriotic army officers. The contagion is bound to spread.
Korea South Korea: the ‘Land of Morning Calm’ is working itself to death Capitalist dystopia in action: behind the ‘economic miracle’, the daily grind keeps getting harder.
Korea South Korea: the ‘Land of Morning Calm’ is working itself to death Capitalist dystopia in action: behind the ‘economic miracle’, the daily grind keeps getting harder.
Health Capitalist contradictions abound: Victorian illnesses on the rise How can we explain the seemingly absurd combination of British workers’ failing health from malnutrition alongside rising obesity?
Health Capitalist contradictions abound: Victorian illnesses on the rise How can we explain the seemingly absurd combination of British workers’ failing health from malnutrition alongside rising obesity?
Pay and conditions Homeless charity workers on strike for decent wages St Mungo’s staff have suffered a 30 percent real-terms pay cut in the last ten years.
Pay and conditions Homeless charity workers on strike for decent wages St Mungo’s staff have suffered a 30 percent real-terms pay cut in the last ten years.
Capitalist crisis Book: Manifesto for the crisis What do workers need to understand if they are to solve their problems for good?
Capitalist crisis Book: Manifesto for the crisis What do workers need to understand if they are to solve their problems for good?
Britain TV Joti Brar on RT: Imperialism’s fascistic proxy armies and MSM lies British secret services are covertly grooming disaffected young men from poor backgrounds into neo-nazi and jihadi gangs to be sent anywhere in the world.
Britain TV Joti Brar on RT: Imperialism’s fascistic proxy armies and MSM lies British secret services are covertly grooming disaffected young men from poor backgrounds into neo-nazi and jihadi gangs to be sent anywhere in the world.
Trade unions Model motion: Urgent measures needed to address the cost of living crisis Why are workers being asked to pay the cost of a crisis that was not of their making? If capitalism cannot provide for its workforce, then capitalism must go.
Trade unions Model motion: Urgent measures needed to address the cost of living crisis Why are workers being asked to pay the cost of a crisis that was not of their making? If capitalism cannot provide for its workforce, then capitalism must go.
Working-class history Long live May Day! Workers have made immense sacrifices in the great struggle of labour against capital; have shed rivers of blood in their quest for a better life and real freedom.
Working-class history Long live May Day! Workers have made immense sacrifices in the great struggle of labour against capital; have shed rivers of blood in their quest for a better life and real freedom.
Economy Bank of England ‘economist’ to workers: accept poverty, stop asking for a pay rise The BoE has made its position in the class war abundantly clear.
Economy Bank of England ‘economist’ to workers: accept poverty, stop asking for a pay rise The BoE has made its position in the class war abundantly clear.
Divide and rule Dan O’Brien, Ranjeet Brar: immigration and the new ‘stop the boats’ bill Who is to blame for declining living standards, and what is the role and purpose of immigration legislation?
Divide and rule Dan O’Brien, Ranjeet Brar: immigration and the new ‘stop the boats’ bill Who is to blame for declining living standards, and what is the role and purpose of immigration legislation?
Divide and rule Anti-immigration propaganda stirs up anger and rioting in Knowsley As the cost of living crisis brings suffering to workers, our rulers are once again using immigration to distract from their failures.
Divide and rule Anti-immigration propaganda stirs up anger and rioting in Knowsley As the cost of living crisis brings suffering to workers, our rulers are once again using immigration to distract from their failures.
Italy British delegate in Italy: Our rulers are working to overturn Brexit Workers across Europe share the goal of defeating both the EU imperialist bloc and the US-led Nato war machine.
Italy British delegate in Italy: Our rulers are working to overturn Brexit Workers across Europe share the goal of defeating both the EU imperialist bloc and the US-led Nato war machine.
Media Look, balloons! The Hollywoodisation of imperialist ‘news’ media Hyperbolic reportage of the ‘spy balloons’ story was a perfect example of how the ‘infotainment’ industry works to distract and confuse.
Media Look, balloons! The Hollywoodisation of imperialist ‘news’ media Hyperbolic reportage of the ‘spy balloons’ story was a perfect example of how the ‘infotainment’ industry works to distract and confuse.
Education Support our teachers; save our schools! It is not only their present ability to exist that Britain’s teachers are fighting for, but our children’s future.
Education Support our teachers; save our schools! It is not only their present ability to exist that Britain’s teachers are fighting for, but our children’s future.
Housing Poor housing kills The death of two-year-old Awaab Ishak has shone new light on a growing problem: the slum conditions being endured by too many in Britain today.
Housing Poor housing kills The death of two-year-old Awaab Ishak has shone new light on a growing problem: the slum conditions being endured by too many in Britain today.
Pay and conditions Pardeep Singh and Boohoo: sweatshop and semi-slavery conditions on the rise An immigrant worker whose punishment beating was filmed by his employer serves as a stark reminder of the true face of capitalist exploitation.
Pay and conditions Pardeep Singh and Boohoo: sweatshop and semi-slavery conditions on the rise An immigrant worker whose punishment beating was filmed by his employer serves as a stark reminder of the true face of capitalist exploitation.
Capitalist crisis Capitalists are causing inflation, not workers! It’s time for the hoary old myth about wages causing inflation to be put to bed. Higher wages lead to lower profits, hence the bosses’ opposition.
Capitalist crisis Capitalists are causing inflation, not workers! It’s time for the hoary old myth about wages causing inflation to be put to bed. Higher wages lead to lower profits, hence the bosses’ opposition.
Capitalist crisis It’s not the workers but the capitalists who are causing inflation It is the right and the duty of workers to demand a bigger share of the wealth their own labour has created.
Capitalist crisis It’s not the workers but the capitalists who are causing inflation It is the right and the duty of workers to demand a bigger share of the wealth their own labour has created.
Europe Food bank crisis in Europe As our rulers double down on their war against Russia, workers across the EU are suffering rising hunger and fuel poverty.
Europe Food bank crisis in Europe As our rulers double down on their war against Russia, workers across the EU are suffering rising hunger and fuel poverty.
Peru Solidarity with the people of Peru against US aggression Another president falls to a US-backed coup in Latin America – but the people are not taking it lying down.
Peru Solidarity with the people of Peru against US aggression Another president falls to a US-backed coup in Latin America – but the people are not taking it lying down.
Capitalist crisis Prepay meter scandal reveals workers being slowly crushed by energy debt Workers who can’t afford crippling energy prices are being forced to pay even higher rates by the vulture providers.
Capitalist crisis Prepay meter scandal reveals workers being slowly crushed by energy debt Workers who can’t afford crippling energy prices are being forced to pay even higher rates by the vulture providers.
Peru Peru’s fragile socialist government ousted by a soft coup Can the anger and energy of the Peruvian masses be channelled so as to realise their dreams of liberty and socialism?
Peru Peru’s fragile socialist government ousted by a soft coup Can the anger and energy of the Peruvian masses be channelled so as to realise their dreams of liberty and socialism?
Capitalist crisis Communist replies to BBC budget tips: ‘Get out and see the real world.’ What kind of ‘journalist’ could seriously investigate whether ‘showering at the gym’ could be a money-saving tip for impoverished workers?
Capitalist crisis Communist replies to BBC budget tips: ‘Get out and see the real world.’ What kind of ‘journalist’ could seriously investigate whether ‘showering at the gym’ could be a money-saving tip for impoverished workers?
Capitalist crisis Happy new year? There is no reform that could enable this profit-hungry system to serve the needs of the working people.
Capitalist crisis Happy new year? There is no reform that could enable this profit-hungry system to serve the needs of the working people.
Capitalist crisis Communist responds to patronising BBC advice for a ‘budget’ Christmas Naughty? Nice? It’s time workers stopped believing the fairy tale that we get what we ‘deserve’ and organised to fight for what we need!
Capitalist crisis Communist responds to patronising BBC advice for a ‘budget’ Christmas Naughty? Nice? It’s time workers stopped believing the fairy tale that we get what we ‘deserve’ and organised to fight for what we need!
Brazil Can Lula get Brazil back on track? Much has changed since Lula’s first presidency. While the economic situation is far more difficult, international shifts could work in the country’s favour.
Brazil Can Lula get Brazil back on track? Much has changed since Lula’s first presidency. While the economic situation is far more difficult, international shifts could work in the country’s favour.
Capitalist crisis Polycrisis? Time to put an end to this capitalist madness This system is unable to escape from its own absurd contradictions: in particular the insanity of deepening poverty in the midst of ever-accumulating wealth.
Capitalist crisis Polycrisis? Time to put an end to this capitalist madness This system is unable to escape from its own absurd contradictions: in particular the insanity of deepening poverty in the midst of ever-accumulating wealth.
Argentina What is behind the attempted murder of vice-president Cristina Kirchner? US imperialism and its local proxies are willing to do whatever it takes to put this popular leader out of office – permanently.
Argentina What is behind the attempted murder of vice-president Cristina Kirchner? US imperialism and its local proxies are willing to do whatever it takes to put this popular leader out of office – permanently.
Nicaragua Oppose US ‘special measures’ against sovereign Nicaragua! Once again, the USA wants to starve an entire people into submission, simply because they have asserted their right to economic and political independence.
Nicaragua Oppose US ‘special measures’ against sovereign Nicaragua! Once again, the USA wants to starve an entire people into submission, simply because they have asserted their right to economic and political independence.
China Xi Jinping to CPC: The times are calling us, and the people expect us to deliver’ The last five years have indeed been ‘truly momentous and extraordinary’ ones in China’s history and development – and the next five look likely to be even more so.
China Xi Jinping to CPC: The times are calling us, and the people expect us to deliver’ The last five years have indeed been ‘truly momentous and extraordinary’ ones in China’s history and development – and the next five look likely to be even more so.
Disputes Support our nurses’ struggle for decent pay! It is not our hard-pressed medical staff who are greedy, but the privateers who are pushing down their wages in the interests of profit.
Disputes Support our nurses’ struggle for decent pay! It is not our hard-pressed medical staff who are greedy, but the privateers who are pushing down their wages in the interests of profit.
Trade unions Are Britain’s union bosses interested in helping their members fight back? As the crisis deepens, the ruling class is looking far more determined than the unions, where lions continue to be led by loyal Labour donkeys.
Trade unions Are Britain’s union bosses interested in helping their members fight back? As the crisis deepens, the ruling class is looking far more determined than the unions, where lions continue to be led by loyal Labour donkeys.
Brazil Lula is back! With so much hope pinned on his new government, will his ministers be able to resist the push from global financiers insisting on ‘fiscal prudence’ (ie, on austerity)?
Brazil Lula is back! With so much hope pinned on his new government, will his ministers be able to resist the push from global financiers insisting on ‘fiscal prudence’ (ie, on austerity)?
British politics Rishi Sunak becomes Britain’s third prime minister in seven weeks No changing of the guard can address the fundamental problem the British ruling class faces – a deepening crisis of overproduction that it is powerless to overcome.
British politics Rishi Sunak becomes Britain’s third prime minister in seven weeks No changing of the guard can address the fundamental problem the British ruling class faces – a deepening crisis of overproduction that it is powerless to overcome.
Capitalist crisis The cost of living crisis is a capitalist crisis Economic crises are an inescapable feature of life under the market system. Socialist planning is our only way out.
Capitalist crisis The cost of living crisis is a capitalist crisis Economic crises are an inescapable feature of life under the market system. Socialist planning is our only way out.
Capitalist crisis The cost of living crisis is a capitalist crisis! The capitalists have shown themselves to be entirely unable to run their own system for the benefit of society.
Capitalist crisis The cost of living crisis is a capitalist crisis! The capitalists have shown themselves to be entirely unable to run their own system for the benefit of society.
Social wage Hungry schoolchildren; another sign of a failed system When an economic system can’t provide basics like food and warm shelter to its people, it is time for it to be replaced.
Social wage Hungry schoolchildren; another sign of a failed system When an economic system can’t provide basics like food and warm shelter to its people, it is time for it to be replaced.
Haiti Protests erupt in Haiti against corrupt comprador government Ruthless political suppression and rampant superexploitation by US monopoly capital continue to drive social unrest in the island nation.
Haiti Protests erupt in Haiti against corrupt comprador government Ruthless political suppression and rampant superexploitation by US monopoly capital continue to drive social unrest in the island nation.
Ukraine Selling Ukraine to the highest bidder Alongside the wanton sacrifice of its military-aged men, the total immiseration of Ukraine’s entire population by western imperialism continues apace.
Ukraine Selling Ukraine to the highest bidder Alongside the wanton sacrifice of its military-aged men, the total immiseration of Ukraine’s entire population by western imperialism continues apace.
Capitalist crisis Cost of living crisis: the fightback is under way Growing militance among unionised workers and vigorous new campaigns to combat the effects of poverty and inflation signify a change in the workers’ mood.
Capitalist crisis Cost of living crisis: the fightback is under way Growing militance among unionised workers and vigorous new campaigns to combat the effects of poverty and inflation signify a change in the workers’ mood.
Capitalist crisis Comrade Ranjeet: ‘Cost of living crisis is inseparably bound up with capitalism’ What is the cause of working-class impoverishment, and what is the solution to this perennial and worsening problem?
Capitalist crisis Comrade Ranjeet: ‘Cost of living crisis is inseparably bound up with capitalism’ What is the cause of working-class impoverishment, and what is the solution to this perennial and worsening problem?
Social wage Food bank Britain British families are relying on charity to eat as the market and the government both fail to provide even such a basic necessity as food.
Social wage Food bank Britain British families are relying on charity to eat as the market and the government both fail to provide even such a basic necessity as food.
Capitalist crisis Cost of living crisis worsens as inflation and energy prices soar Our rulers are keen to blame ‘the Russians’ for the intrinsic failings of the capitalist system itself.
Capitalist crisis Cost of living crisis worsens as inflation and energy prices soar Our rulers are keen to blame ‘the Russians’ for the intrinsic failings of the capitalist system itself.
Capitalist crisis Why should the working class pay the cost of the capitalist crisis? Profiteering, taxation, money printing, social provision cuts, interest rate hikes ... are all combining to transfer the burden of the crisis onto the backs of the poor.
Capitalist crisis Why should the working class pay the cost of the capitalist crisis? Profiteering, taxation, money printing, social provision cuts, interest rate hikes ... are all combining to transfer the burden of the crisis onto the backs of the poor.
Capitalist crisis Poverty stalks the land as ultrarich count the spoils Inequality is rising in Britain and in the world, the inevitable outcome of the workings of our much-praised market economy.
Capitalist crisis Poverty stalks the land as ultrarich count the spoils Inequality is rising in Britain and in the world, the inevitable outcome of the workings of our much-praised market economy.
Korea South Korean workers strike for secure work and better living standards Strikers demand job security, healthcare, social housing and the right to free assembly in latest class-war skirmish.
Korea South Korean workers strike for secure work and better living standards Strikers demand job security, healthcare, social housing and the right to free assembly in latest class-war skirmish.
Economy Energy crisis: more millions to prop up the privateers Taxpayer cash will shore up monopoly profits while workers shiver this winter.
Economy Energy crisis: more millions to prop up the privateers Taxpayer cash will shore up monopoly profits while workers shiver this winter.
Health Derisory pay offer covers further cuts as NHS privatisation reaches new heights National clapping and a George Cross have left nurses empty handed as the new health chief helps US profiteers move in.
Health Derisory pay offer covers further cuts as NHS privatisation reaches new heights National clapping and a George Cross have left nurses empty handed as the new health chief helps US profiteers move in.
Economy ‘Just in time’ reveals the fatal inadequacy of market mechanisms Global supply lines have been designed with profit maximisation, not the needs of the people, in mind.
Economy ‘Just in time’ reveals the fatal inadequacy of market mechanisms Global supply lines have been designed with profit maximisation, not the needs of the people, in mind.
British politics Ninth party congress: We must connect our movement with the masses Important foundations have already been laid. Now we must expand and build on those in a principled and serious way.
British politics Ninth party congress: We must connect our movement with the masses Important foundations have already been laid. Now we must expand and build on those in a principled and serious way.
USA US state revokes child protection laws instead of creating decent jobs for adults Wisconsin is planning to patch up the cracks in its faltering economy by getting children to work longer and later.
USA US state revokes child protection laws instead of creating decent jobs for adults Wisconsin is planning to patch up the cracks in its faltering economy by getting children to work longer and later.
Working-class history Remembering the 2011 youth uprising Ten years on, the poverty, inequality and injustice that led to an outpouring of rage on England’s streets have only worsened.
Working-class history Remembering the 2011 youth uprising Ten years on, the poverty, inequality and injustice that led to an outpouring of rage on England’s streets have only worsened.
Social wage Unemployment and poverty set to rise as furlough ends and benefits are cut A brutal shock is in store for many workers as the temporary multi-tiered unemployment support system is slashed back to the bone.
Social wage Unemployment and poverty set to rise as furlough ends and benefits are cut A brutal shock is in store for many workers as the temporary multi-tiered unemployment support system is slashed back to the bone.
Health NHS dentistry in its death throes as Covid is used as a cover for privatisation Increasing numbers of poor workers are not registered with a dentist and are forced to use DIY treatments in an emergency.
Health NHS dentistry in its death throes as Covid is used as a cover for privatisation Increasing numbers of poor workers are not registered with a dentist and are forced to use DIY treatments in an emergency.
China Two decades of development in Zhejiang: CPC shares its achievements In the cradle of China’s ancient civilisation, 20 years of targeted investment are bearing great fruit for the people.
China Two decades of development in Zhejiang: CPC shares its achievements In the cradle of China’s ancient civilisation, 20 years of targeted investment are bearing great fruit for the people.
Housing Ban extended, but evictions continue Behind the toothless legislation is a government, and parliament, inextricably intertwined with the landlord class.
Housing Ban extended, but evictions continue Behind the toothless legislation is a government, and parliament, inextricably intertwined with the landlord class.
Social wage Queues for food reach 2km in London Why was it left to a Russian TV station to document this shameful state of affairs in our country?
Social wage Queues for food reach 2km in London Why was it left to a Russian TV station to document this shameful state of affairs in our country?
Capitalist crisis Covid has laid bare the capitalist dystopia in which we are already living If 2020 has taught us anything it is that the current economic and political system is blocking our ability to solve humanity’s urgent problems.
Capitalist crisis Covid has laid bare the capitalist dystopia in which we are already living If 2020 has taught us anything it is that the current economic and political system is blocking our ability to solve humanity’s urgent problems.
Social wage Don’t tell Newham we are all in it together The financial and physical inability to isolate or to work safely has led to far worse covid outcomes for the poorest in our society.
Social wage Don’t tell Newham we are all in it together The financial and physical inability to isolate or to work safely has led to far worse covid outcomes for the poorest in our society.
Social wage Destitution in Britain compounded by 2020 crash and covid shutdowns How can it be that there is so much want in the midst of so much plenty?
Social wage Destitution in Britain compounded by 2020 crash and covid shutdowns How can it be that there is so much want in the midst of so much plenty?
Social wage Hard to swallow: UK food parcels shamefully inadequate When profit takes precedence over the provision of service, it’s no surprise that half-hearted and belated government measures are not fit for purpose.
Social wage Hard to swallow: UK food parcels shamefully inadequate When profit takes precedence over the provision of service, it’s no surprise that half-hearted and belated government measures are not fit for purpose.
Society Time to end poverty: expropriate the expropriators! Bourgeois commentators are increasingly identifying the problems besetting humanity, but they are congenitally incapable of recognising the solution staring them in the face.
Society Time to end poverty: expropriate the expropriators! Bourgeois commentators are increasingly identifying the problems besetting humanity, but they are congenitally incapable of recognising the solution staring them in the face.
India The global aspect of India’s farmer protests Exposing India’s food producers to untrammelled force of the market will raise food prices and put farmers at the mercy of agribusiness corporations.
India The global aspect of India’s farmer protests Exposing India’s food producers to untrammelled force of the market will raise food prices and put farmers at the mercy of agribusiness corporations.
India The largest strike the world has ever seen is taking place now in India But you wouldn’t know it from Britain’s corporate media and Labour-affiliated trade union leaderships.
India The largest strike the world has ever seen is taking place now in India But you wouldn’t know it from Britain’s corporate media and Labour-affiliated trade union leaderships.
Capitalist crisis The unenviable plight of the self-employed Workers are being thrown from pillar to post by the vagaries of capitalist production in crisis.
Capitalist crisis The unenviable plight of the self-employed Workers are being thrown from pillar to post by the vagaries of capitalist production in crisis.
China China meets poverty goals ten years early as rest of the world goes the other way What does it take to build a better future for humanity? Conference answers: cooperation, empowerment, technology transfer, people-centred development.
China China meets poverty goals ten years early as rest of the world goes the other way What does it take to build a better future for humanity? Conference answers: cooperation, empowerment, technology transfer, people-centred development.
Health Comrade Ranjeet on MoATS: ‘The government has failed the people’ Lockdowns are a sign of the government’s abject failure to take the necessary measures to stop the spread of Covid-19.
Health Comrade Ranjeet on MoATS: ‘The government has failed the people’ Lockdowns are a sign of the government’s abject failure to take the necessary measures to stop the spread of Covid-19.
Social wage Insult to injury: government plans to cut Universal Credit boost Covid has exposed the injustice of below-poverty-line benefits. How will our rulers balance their need for cheap and desperate workers with maintaining social peace?
Social wage Insult to injury: government plans to cut Universal Credit boost Covid has exposed the injustice of below-poverty-line benefits. How will our rulers balance their need for cheap and desperate workers with maintaining social peace?
Theory Modern monetary theory: is there a magic money tree? Those who would change the world must first understand it: Marxist economics is the antidote to bourgeois voodoo.
Theory Modern monetary theory: is there a magic money tree? Those who would change the world must first understand it: Marxist economics is the antidote to bourgeois voodoo.
British politics Workers party launches corona wealth tax campaign All progressives in Britain should be working to extend the reach of the Workers Party into the ranks of the working class.
British politics Workers party launches corona wealth tax campaign All progressives in Britain should be working to extend the reach of the Workers Party into the ranks of the working class.
Lebanon Tragedy in Lebanon The blast in Beirut port may prove to be the straw that broke the camel’s back.
Lebanon Tragedy in Lebanon The blast in Beirut port may prove to be the straw that broke the camel’s back.
Social wage UBI: a recipe for universal misery Our demand must be for meaningful work in a society free from poverty, unemployment and insecurity.
Social wage UBI: a recipe for universal misery Our demand must be for meaningful work in a society free from poverty, unemployment and insecurity.
Society Thinktank warns of massive rise in destitution in the wake of Covid-19 The wonders of capitalism: five million Britons predicted to become destitute this year.
Society Thinktank warns of massive rise in destitution in the wake of Covid-19 The wonders of capitalism: five million Britons predicted to become destitute this year.
Health Coronavirus: Cuts to health and social care crippled covid response The mismanagement of the pandemic in rich imperialist states continues to be highlighted through the chaos of lockdown easing.
Health Coronavirus: Cuts to health and social care crippled covid response The mismanagement of the pandemic in rich imperialist states continues to be highlighted through the chaos of lockdown easing.
Capitalist crisis Rising inequality following the 2020 crisis of overproduction Mushrooming inequality has the capitalist class spooked, for they fear the consequences.
Capitalist crisis Rising inequality following the 2020 crisis of overproduction Mushrooming inequality has the capitalist class spooked, for they fear the consequences.
Industry Leicester sweatshops keep their heads down despite covid panic Fashion industry gangmasters are riding out the storm, safe in the knowledge that it will be business as usual before long.
Industry Leicester sweatshops keep their heads down despite covid panic Fashion industry gangmasters are riding out the storm, safe in the knowledge that it will be business as usual before long.
Health Coronavirus: NHS privatisation and the US second wave What explains the difference in approach and outcomes between the US and Britain on the one hand and China on the other?
Health Coronavirus: NHS privatisation and the US second wave What explains the difference in approach and outcomes between the US and Britain on the one hand and China on the other?
Economy Bosses press on with sackings as crisis deepens As the furlough support scheme comes to an end, the true depth of the economic crisis is becoming ever clearer.
Economy Bosses press on with sackings as crisis deepens As the furlough support scheme comes to an end, the true depth of the economic crisis is becoming ever clearer.
British politics Boris’s chapter of accidents As the covid emergency progresses, the prime minister is jumping from one fiasco to another, exposing his many inadequacies to full public view.
British politics Boris’s chapter of accidents As the covid emergency progresses, the prime minister is jumping from one fiasco to another, exposing his many inadequacies to full public view.
Social wage UBI: the ‘right’ to be idle or the right to work? What does the call for a universal basic income really mean?
Social wage UBI: the ‘right’ to be idle or the right to work? What does the call for a universal basic income really mean?
USA US burning as working-class communities rise up against police brutality As Irish republicans used to say: when the law makers are the law breakers, there is no law.
USA US burning as working-class communities rise up against police brutality As Irish republicans used to say: when the law makers are the law breakers, there is no law.
Lay-offs and closures Jobless total rockets As the economic crisis bites, over a million workers in Britain have been forced precipitously onto the breadline.
Lay-offs and closures Jobless total rockets As the economic crisis bites, over a million workers in Britain have been forced precipitously onto the breadline.
Health Covid-19: What is the coronavirus and is it a real threat? Dr Ranjeet Brar takes a look at the medical aspects of the present pandemic, comparing Covid-19 to other viruses such as influenza and Sars.
Health Covid-19: What is the coronavirus and is it a real threat? Dr Ranjeet Brar takes a look at the medical aspects of the present pandemic, comparing Covid-19 to other viruses such as influenza and Sars.
Capitalist crisis The economic crisis and coronavirus In fighting capitalist exploitation and the war danger, workers will ultimately seek a way out through socialist revolution.
Capitalist crisis The economic crisis and coronavirus In fighting capitalist exploitation and the war danger, workers will ultimately seek a way out through socialist revolution.
Capitalist crisis The corona pandemic and the capitalist world economic crash of 2020 Our rulers are keen to convince us that the deepest depression in the history of capitalism is a random and unpredictable ‘black swan’ event.
Capitalist crisis The corona pandemic and the capitalist world economic crash of 2020 Our rulers are keen to convince us that the deepest depression in the history of capitalism is a random and unpredictable ‘black swan’ event.
Capitalist crisis A call to arms: This May Day, fight together against imperialism Workers’ parties sign international revolutionary anti-imperialist manifesto.
Capitalist crisis A call to arms: This May Day, fight together against imperialism Workers’ parties sign international revolutionary anti-imperialist manifesto.
Capitalist crisis Burying bad news: crash caused by overproduction not coronavirus The present economic crisis has been long in the making, but is being passed off as the result of the covid lockdown.
Capitalist crisis Burying bad news: crash caused by overproduction not coronavirus The present economic crisis has been long in the making, but is being passed off as the result of the covid lockdown.
Social wage Hunger rising sharply as covid-19 lockdown combines with economic crash Why are we witnessing the obscene sight of workers going hungry in the midst of plenty?
Social wage Hunger rising sharply as covid-19 lockdown combines with economic crash Why are we witnessing the obscene sight of workers going hungry in the midst of plenty?
Social wage Austerity Britain: where the homeless seek shelter in bins Report reveals shocking rise of bin sleepers as one waste worker recounts finding children as young as nine or ten.
Social wage Austerity Britain: where the homeless seek shelter in bins Report reveals shocking rise of bin sleepers as one waste worker recounts finding children as young as nine or ten.
Film and TV #EatTheRich: Parasite film review A searing and at times hilarious critique of south Korean class society, ultimately let down by its inability to offer any real way out.
Film and TV #EatTheRich: Parasite film review A searing and at times hilarious critique of south Korean class society, ultimately let down by its inability to offer any real way out.
Social wage Errol Graham and the unreported austerity pandemic Social murder in our midst is being hushed up by all arms of the state, hand in glove with media that are entirely uninterested in ‘speaking truth to power’.
Social wage Errol Graham and the unreported austerity pandemic Social murder in our midst is being hushed up by all arms of the state, hand in glove with media that are entirely uninterested in ‘speaking truth to power’.
Social wage Work doesn’t pay and British families know it Fourteen million people, including four million children, live in poverty in Britain, and more than half of those come from working families.
Social wage Work doesn’t pay and British families know it Fourteen million people, including four million children, live in poverty in Britain, and more than half of those come from working families.
France French class war continuing as neither side looks ready to back down Macron continues to push EU-backed pensions attack while unions have called for a general strike and total oil refinery blockade.
France French class war continuing as neither side looks ready to back down Macron continues to push EU-backed pensions attack while unions have called for a general strike and total oil refinery blockade.
Society Debt survey shows inequality widening as rich get richer and poor get poorer As the gap between the super-rich and everyone else gets ever wider, it is clear that this system is overdue for a foreclosure of its own.
Society Debt survey shows inequality widening as rich get richer and poor get poorer As the gap between the super-rich and everyone else gets ever wider, it is clear that this system is overdue for a foreclosure of its own.
France French strikes expand and deepen as more workers join the fray A class war is underway in France and the workers show no sign of backing down. Victoire aux grévistes!
France French strikes expand and deepen as more workers join the fray A class war is underway in France and the workers show no sign of backing down. Victoire aux grévistes!
Film and TV Film review: Ken Loach’s Sorry We Missed You A faithful depiction of the horrors of today’s contract workers, marred by its total pessimism.
Film and TV Film review: Ken Loach’s Sorry We Missed You A faithful depiction of the horrors of today’s contract workers, marred by its total pessimism.
Education Sabotage of state schools Growing privatisation and austerity is eroding the hard-won right to an education for our children.
Education Sabotage of state schools Growing privatisation and austerity is eroding the hard-won right to an education for our children.
British politics Comrade Joti interviewed by Caleb Maupin ‘The fundamental contradiction in the world today is between imperialism and the oppressed countries.’
British politics Comrade Joti interviewed by Caleb Maupin ‘The fundamental contradiction in the world today is between imperialism and the oppressed countries.’
Social wage DWP dirty tricks are pushing the most vulnerable over the edge Private companies are being handsomely paid to prevent the sick from accessing benefits they have every right to.
Social wage DWP dirty tricks are pushing the most vulnerable over the edge Private companies are being handsomely paid to prevent the sick from accessing benefits they have every right to.
Economy QuickQuid – cut and run Having extorted millions from struggling austerity-hit families, the US-backed payday lender is pocketing its loot and getting out.
Economy QuickQuid – cut and run Having extorted millions from struggling austerity-hit families, the US-backed payday lender is pocketing its loot and getting out.
Society The true level of unemployment Joblessness is being underreported by a factor of 200 percent.
Society The true level of unemployment Joblessness is being underreported by a factor of 200 percent.
Health Shameful levels of malnutrition in Britain Privatisation and cost-cutting in social care have led to shocking levels of neglect amongst the most vulnerable in our society.
Health Shameful levels of malnutrition in Britain Privatisation and cost-cutting in social care have led to shocking levels of neglect amongst the most vulnerable in our society.
Pay and conditions Cleaners demand fair pay at government department Outsourced staff are on strike for living wages at the department of business.
Pay and conditions Cleaners demand fair pay at government department Outsourced staff are on strike for living wages at the department of business.
Social wage ‘We often see grown men in tears – they can’t believe they’re here’ Manchester reporter discovers dismay, rage and defiance in Oldham, a town bruised by universal credit and austerity.
Social wage ‘We often see grown men in tears – they can’t believe they’re here’ Manchester reporter discovers dismay, rage and defiance in Oldham, a town bruised by universal credit and austerity.
Housing Council tax becoming the new poll tax says report Thinktank investigation reveals the huge disparity in rates of payment between the poorest and richest households.
Housing Council tax becoming the new poll tax says report Thinktank investigation reveals the huge disparity in rates of payment between the poorest and richest households.
Society Hunger on the rise in Britain, despite economic ‘recovery’ In-work poverty testifies as to who really paid to bail out the banks in 2008. And while hunger is on the rise, one-third of food produced every year is wasted.
Society Hunger on the rise in Britain, despite economic ‘recovery’ In-work poverty testifies as to who really paid to bail out the banks in 2008. And while hunger is on the rise, one-third of food produced every year is wasted.
Social wage A third of British children live in poverty A decade of austerity is taking a heavy toll on Britain’s families.
Social wage A third of British children live in poverty A decade of austerity is taking a heavy toll on Britain’s families.
Housing The housing crisis is lining private landlords’ pockets Housing benefit is acting as the ‘landlords’ bonus’, while provision of emergency temporary accommodation by private landlords is the ‘icing on the cake’.
Housing The housing crisis is lining private landlords’ pockets Housing benefit is acting as the ‘landlords’ bonus’, while provision of emergency temporary accommodation by private landlords is the ‘icing on the cake’.
Housing Residents resist social cleansing in Cambridge The CPGB-ML supports tenants in Montreal Square, who are trying to save their community from redevelopment.
Housing Residents resist social cleansing in Cambridge The CPGB-ML supports tenants in Montreal Square, who are trying to save their community from redevelopment.
Education School exclusions create prisoners, not reformed pupils With ever more social problems manifesting in the classroom, and support staff and services being axed, draconian methods of ‘behaviour management’ are on the rise.
Education School exclusions create prisoners, not reformed pupils With ever more social problems manifesting in the classroom, and support staff and services being axed, draconian methods of ‘behaviour management’ are on the rise.
Capitalist crisis Economics 101: Capitalism An essential introduction to the workings of the capitalist system. Only by recognising the cause of our problems will we be able to find real solutions.
Capitalist crisis Economics 101: Capitalism An essential introduction to the workings of the capitalist system. Only by recognising the cause of our problems will we be able to find real solutions.
Social wage Poverty on the rise as Birmingham’s Labour council freezes burial fees Rates of child poverty are soaring in Britain’s major cities; Labour councils are as impotent and callous as all the rest.
Social wage Poverty on the rise as Birmingham’s Labour council freezes burial fees Rates of child poverty are soaring in Britain’s major cities; Labour councils are as impotent and callous as all the rest.
Disputes Migrant workers in London: We are not the dirt we clean New unions are championing London's invisible workforce.
Disputes Migrant workers in London: We are not the dirt we clean New unions are championing London's invisible workforce.
USSR What did the October Revolution do for us? 1. The NHS The Great October Revolution, which created the world’s first socialist state, and whose centenary is celebrated this year, brought with it the first ever system of universal provision for all members of society, and amongst the most important of those gains was that of free and complete healthcare.
USSR What did the October Revolution do for us? 1. The NHS The Great October Revolution, which created the world’s first socialist state, and whose centenary is celebrated this year, brought with it the first ever system of universal provision for all members of society, and amongst the most important of those gains was that of free and complete healthcare.
Social wage Budget 2016: attacking the poor will not fix the economy Chancellor Osborne is finding that there is no escape from the world capitalist economic crisis.
Social wage Budget 2016: attacking the poor will not fix the economy Chancellor Osborne is finding that there is no escape from the world capitalist economic crisis.
USA The rise of Donald Trump: a revolt against the establishment The anger of poor white workers in the US may be misdirected for now, but it is real and it is growing.
USA The rise of Donald Trump: a revolt against the establishment The anger of poor white workers in the US may be misdirected for now, but it is real and it is growing.
Capitalist crisis The rich are getting richer but fewer As the gap between the rich and poor widens, some of the rich find themselves being kicked downstairs.
Capitalist crisis The rich are getting richer but fewer As the gap between the rich and poor widens, some of the rich find themselves being kicked downstairs.
Divide and rule The human cost of prisons for profit A Proletarian reader recounts his best friend’s descent into despair and eventual suicide while imprisoned on an indeterminate sentence. This article has been previously published in the Morning Star.
Divide and rule The human cost of prisons for profit A Proletarian reader recounts his best friend’s descent into despair and eventual suicide while imprisoned on an indeterminate sentence. This article has been previously published in the Morning Star.
British politics Health warning: Austerity kills The truth is out, notwithstanding official attempts to cover it up.
British politics Health warning: Austerity kills The truth is out, notwithstanding official attempts to cover it up.
USA US Party for Socialism and Liberation announces its 2016 presidential campaign We are happy to reproduce the following statement from the PSL.
USA US Party for Socialism and Liberation announces its 2016 presidential campaign We are happy to reproduce the following statement from the PSL.
Social wage Benefit cuts: Who are the real parasites in our society? Stealing from the poor for the benefit of the rich.
Social wage Benefit cuts: Who are the real parasites in our society? Stealing from the poor for the benefit of the rich.
British politics George Osborne’s vicious summer budget Austerity is set to deepen yet again, and the rise in poverty we have seen so far is only the beginning of what’s in store for Britain’s workers as the crisis of capitalism demands ever-bigger lumps of our flesh.
British politics George Osborne’s vicious summer budget Austerity is set to deepen yet again, and the rise in poverty we have seen so far is only the beginning of what’s in store for Britain’s workers as the crisis of capitalism demands ever-bigger lumps of our flesh.
Greece Greece: Syriza caves in Grexit is inevitable, despite the capitulation of Greece’s government to the austerity demands of the European bankers.
Greece Greece: Syriza caves in Grexit is inevitable, despite the capitulation of Greece’s government to the austerity demands of the European bankers.
Greece Crunch time for Syriza? The bloodsuckers are running out of ways to keep Greece paying out. The imminent explosion will rock the world’s financial systems.
Greece Crunch time for Syriza? The bloodsuckers are running out of ways to keep Greece paying out. The imminent explosion will rock the world’s financial systems.
USA Baltimore uprising reveals working class’s revolutionary potential When revolutionary science and organisation come together with the power and anger of the US’s poor, there will be no stopping them.
USA Baltimore uprising reveals working class’s revolutionary potential When revolutionary science and organisation come together with the power and anger of the US’s poor, there will be no stopping them.
Social wage Wonga watch Workers’ indignation needs to be justly roused against this humiliation of our class.
Social wage Wonga watch Workers’ indignation needs to be justly roused against this humiliation of our class.
Divide and rule Rage against capitalism: working-class youth fight back The working class needs a general staff that can enable it to direct its anger in a constructive way.
Divide and rule Rage against capitalism: working-class youth fight back The working class needs a general staff that can enable it to direct its anger in a constructive way.
Civil liberties YOUTH UPRISING 2011: Bourgeois ideologues battle for control of the working-class movement Protesters under attack from state repression, rabid propaganda and rotten ideology.
Civil liberties YOUTH UPRISING 2011: Bourgeois ideologues battle for control of the working-class movement Protesters under attack from state repression, rabid propaganda and rotten ideology.
Theory Letter to a comrade overcome by pessimism Living in an imperialist country, where the movement is weak and at a low ebb, it is easy to get discouraged or disillusioned with communist work.
Theory Letter to a comrade overcome by pessimism Living in an imperialist country, where the movement is weak and at a low ebb, it is easy to get discouraged or disillusioned with communist work.
