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The only thing that unites us is class
Socialists must avoid the trap of bourgeois identity politics if they are to make headway in uniting the working class against capitalism.
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Identity politics are anti-Marxian and a harmful diversion from the class struggle
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Real antifascist work means engaging with workers, not dismissing them
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Prague communists host European conference
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Imperialists getting desperate as the balance of forces in the world shifts
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Marx 200: A brief overview of an extraordinary life’s work
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Book: The Drive to War Against Russia and China
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Promotion of proletarian culture
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Zionism is a racist and antisemitic tool of imperialist policy in the middle east
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Beware the drive to WW3 with Russia and China
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Housing / Grenfell Tower – another long and winding public inquiry
Privatisation, subcontracting and the drive to maximise profits led to the inferno, but the ruling class will be hoping the inquiry can come up with a scapegoat or two on whom to pin the blame for its crimes.
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’.
Social wage / Bristol bus protest highlights failing public transport in Britain
Workers must demand renationalisation as the first step towards affordability, planning, and the sanity of a socialist economy.
Social wage / Carson House care home scandal leaves staff and residents in dire straits
Why are our elderly being treated as transferrable assets or liabilities by homes whose only 'care' is to their balance sheets?
Social wage / Universal credit: forcing the needy into ever more desperate poverty
The government can look after the interests of the capitalists or the interests of the workers; it cannot do both.
Sweden / Shootings, killings, cars on fire – what’s going on?
All a sign of the irretrievable decadence of bourgeois society.
Pay and conditions / Theft of steelworkers’ pensions
Successful campaigners lose up to half their entitlement, shafted after all by caveats in the small print.
Disputes / Support Birmingham’s homecare workers
Before Labour councillors privatise the service completely.
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.
Industry / Privatised rail industry totters
The resistance of rail workers to safety-cutting measures is bringing the question of renationalisation back onto the political agenda.
Housing / Grenfell Tower: tragedy or crime?
What was behind the devastating fire in north Kensington in June?
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 / Disgraceful neglect of the disabled in Britain
Official government policy: nobody knows you when you’re down and out.
Social wage / New bill could pave the way for the final destruction of social housing
Is this the end of social housing in Britain or the start of a fight-back?
Health / The junior doctors’ contract and the US corporate takeover of the NHS
Dr Bob Gill explains the unreported and sinister drive behind the push for changing junior doctors’ contracts.
Social wage / Benefit cuts: Who are the real parasites in our society?
Stealing from the poor for the benefit of the rich.
Ireland / Sinn Féin stands alone against austerity
Both north and south of the border, Sinn Féin is once again showing that it is the only one of the main parties in Ireland that takes a sincere interest in the welfare of the masses.