Lots of people, including Bernie Sanders and other Left figures, seem to think that Scandinavian-style “socialism” is an alternative to capitalism. Lotta Angantyr, from the Revolution newspaper in Sweden, sets the record straight.
Between June 14 and 18, 2017, the 55th National Union of Students (UNE) Congress took place in Belo Horizonte. The event, held jointly at the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG) and Ginásio Mineirinho, in the Pampulha region, was attended by more than fifteen thousand young people, with almost five thousand delegates. Liberdade e Luta’s delegation spoke to hundreds of students and discussed the importance of the UNE in fighting for ‘Public Read more…
In this article from the Financial Times there’s a report about Mike Ashley, the boss of Sports Direct, which gives an insight into the disgusting corruption, luxury, and waste that characterizes the most degenerate individuals in the ruling class. This appalling man pays his workers a pittance, treats them terribly at work, and in one case even put someone in the position that she had to give birth in the toilets at work Read more…
On Friday, July 6, the Constitutional Court will rule on the appeal against the law banning the Communist Party of Ukraina and all communist and Soviet symbols, which was passed on December 16, 2015 (for more info see: https://ukraineantifascistsolidarity.wordpress.com/2015/12/17/ukraine-bans-communist-party/) We call on all democrats, socialists and communists to protest this assault on basic democratic rights. Facebook event here: https://www.facebook.com/events/1686383188334582/
I’ve always been a socialist, since I was 14, and I understood the differences between capitalism and communism. But I have never become so convinced of the enormity of it until I become a care worker last year and I’ve seen in my own eyes the suffering of ordinary vulnerable people. The loneliness and the fragility of the poorest in our society, mainly in the elderly, the sick, and the disabled. How Read more…
Renationalise the railways
The most indubitable feature of a revolution is the direct interference of the masses in historical events. In ordinary times the state, be it monarchical or democratic, elevates itself above the nation, and history is made by specialists in that line of business – kings, ministers, bureaucrats, parliamentarians, journalists. But at those crucial moments when the old order becomes no longer endurable to the masses, they break over the barriers excluding them Read more…
The question of human nature is a pretty common one when talking about the ideas of socialism, communism and Marxism with people. Fiona Lali from the SOAS Marxist society gives the answer.
Thomas from Warwick explains some of the history behind neoliberal ideas. Check out this video:
UCU members at Ealing, Hammersmith & West London College are planning strike action on Thursday 29th June over the threat of compulsory redundancies of up to 10 lecturers – one of the people under threat is the UCU Branch Secretary. The redundancies arise from cuts in a number of departments and from the disgraceful closure of A Level courses at the College. Marxist students are in full solidarity with the strike action. We’re Read more…
Today (28 June) is a day of protest to demand the reinstatement of Dawn Holdman, a UCU rep at the University of Liverpool who is believed to have been dismissed for her trade union activity. Marxist students are in solidarity with Dawn. It’s a disgrace that anyone should lose their job just for standing up for the rights of their fellow workers. We want to see her reinstated and the position of Read more…
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