Protests have erupted across London in solidarity with Child Q – yet another victim of police racism, misogyny, and violence. It is clear that the Met Police are rotten to core. To end this oppression and repression, we need to end capitalism. Twice over the last week, on Friday 18 Read more…
Vladimir Putin shocked the world yesterday morning by launching a full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Despite many ‘strong’ words, Western leaders have been exposed as impotent. Only revolutionary class struggle can end the horrors of capitalism and war. So, it has started. Russian forces have unleashed a massive attack on Ukraine. Read more…
The Communist Manifesto was first published on 21st February 1848, 174 years ago. Despite being centuries old, the Manifesto has been and continues to be one of the most influential books in modern history. It introduced the ideas of scientific socialism, which Marx and Engels would elaborate on over the Read more…
The latest wave of industrial action on campuses begins today, with UCU members out on strike once again in the struggle for decent pensions, pay, and conditions. It is vital that workers and students unite and fight to defend education. The Universities and College Union (UCU) is striking once again Read more…
The NUS has called for a national student walkout on 2 March. And university lecturers are set to take further strike action this term. Activists must begin building for these immediately, to mobilise a mass movement to defend education. The National Union of Students (NUS) has called for a nationwide Read more…
Irish activists Orla and Zac are facing trial – and possible severe punishment – this week for protesting against government inaction over climate change.
Today is the anniversary of women gaining the right to vote in Britain. But what did this mean? Here, Rosa Luxemburg looks at the question of women’s rights and how it relates to the class struggle. Read her thought here in women’s suffrage and class struggle. “Why are there no Read more…
Today markers the 79th anniversary of the end of the Battle of Stalingrad, with the surrender of German troops, a key turning point in the Second World War, where about 800,000 German and Axis troops were either killed or captured, including the entire German Sixth Army and its commander-in-chief – Read more…
Teachers at Newham Sixth Form college in east London are continuing their strike against overwork, management bullying, and academisation. Meanwhile, students are mobilising in support of staff. We must build the fightback to defend education. For over four weeks now, National Education Union (NEU) members have been on strike at Read more…
Today marks 85 years since the Catalan Offensive, the tragic end of the Spanish Civil War. Here we republish an introduction to Trotsky’s pamphlet, “The Lessons of Spain: The Last Warning” (1937), written by Ted Grant in collaboration with Ralph Lee while they were in the Workers’ International League: a predecessor Read more…
Today marks 98 years since Lenin’s death. To mark the occasion, we are republishing this article which was originally written to commemorate the Lenin centenary in 1970. The early symptoms of bureaucratic degeneration in Russia were already noted by Lenin in the last two years of his politically active life. Read more…
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