“To alter the position of woman at the root is possible only if all the conditions of social, family, and domestic existence are altered.” (Trotsky, Women and the Family, p. 45.) Capitalism is in a blind alley. The crisis of capitalism on a world scale falls with special severity on Read more…
Today marks International Working Women’s Day. A day to look at the oppression of women historically and currently. It is clear that women still face huge levels of oppression. Women face a double shift of work under modern capitalism, having to work to make money and still taking the brunt Read more…
In recent years the struggle against gender oppression and sexual orientation-based discrimination has developed into mass movements in many countries. We have seen large-scale protests expressing anger and rebellion – that had been building up for years and decades – against an exasperating interference of a system that not only Read more…
An article in the BBC has highlighted the University of Birmingham (UoB)’s past-role in organising and facilitating gay conversion therapy. The university’s stubborn refusal to apologise and take accountability for their involvement in the practice has caused justified outrage amongst the student population who have accused the university of simply Read more…
The toppling of the statue of slave trader Edward Colston in Bristol on 11 June has brought to attention Britain’s involvement in the Atlantic slave trade. Although officially abolished in Britain in 1807, this horrific trade in human beings was central to the rise of capitalism and the rise Read more…
Black Africans first arrived in the lands that would later become the original Thirteen States around 1619, as indentured servants, although the Spanish had brought Black slaves with them to what would later become New Mexico and Arizona as early as 1539. At that time, they were in a Read more…
It’s easy to look at the international protests sparked by the extrajudicial police killing of George Floyd and think that the issue of racist police brutality is something particularly egregious in the USA, while believing that in the UK there may be instances of racism in the police but Read more…
Black lives matter has been an international phenomenon. Sparked by the gruesome killing of George Floyd, hundreds of thousands of people have taken to the streets all across the world to protest against police brutality and racism. In normal times, this would be a feat in itself. The fact that Read more…
On 9th June, over a thousand people gathered outside Oxford University’s Oriel College to demand the removal of the Rhodes statue, in a revival of the Rhodes Must Fall campaign in Oxford. Cecil Rhodes was a British imperialist. He has been described as the ‘architect of apartheid’ in South Read more…
On Monday a video was shared across the globe showing a black man called George Floyd, groaning “I can’t breathe”, as a white policeman knelt on his neck. Within minutes George Floyd was dead. There are striking similarities with an incident in 2014 in which Eric Garner was also suffocated to death Read more…
Comrades, the elections to the Moscow Soviet show that the Party of the Communists is gaining strength among the working class. It is essential that women workers take a greater part in the elections. The Soviet government was the first and only government in the world to abolish completely Read more…
In 1999 the Macpherson report established that there was ‘institutionalised racism’ within the police force. This was after the landmark case of Stephen Lawrence, a black teenager who was stabbed to death while waiting at a bus stop by a group of young white men. Dobson and Norris (the Read more…
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