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Hunt’s big business Budget: “This is class war”
Chancellor Jeremy Hunt received whoops and cheers in Parliament yesterday, as Tory backbenchers applauded his latest billionaires’ Budget. Not far away in Trafalgar Square, by contrast, the roar of hundreds of thousands of public sector workers could be heard echoing around the…
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Scotland: Sturgeon succession race highlights bankruptcy of SNP leaders
The contest for Scotland’s next First Minister and SNP leader is well underway, with three candidates vying for the top spot. Voting opened earlier this week, on Monday, with the winner set to be announced on 27 March. Nicola Sturgeon’s shock resignation has left the party…
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School protests erupt across the country: Put staff and students in control!
Students at the Farnley Academy in Leeds recently held a three-day protest in response to a draconian toilet policy introduced by management. The school is part of the GORSE multi-academy trust (MAT), which runs 13 academies across Leeds. It recently proposed extending an…
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BMA pickets: Junior doctors show determination to win
For the first time since 2016, junior doctors organised with the British Medical Association (BMA) have moved into strike action, in order to fight for full pay restoration. Like many workers in the health service and across the public sector, junior doctors are staring down the…
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140 years after the death of Marx – The communists are coming!
Today, 14 March, marks the 140th anniversary of the death of Karl Marx, the greatest thinker and revolutionary who has ever lived. The capitalists and their representatives thought that they had finally buried him long ago. But he keeps coming back to haunt them. This is…
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Lineker, the BBC, and Tory culture wars: Establishment scores an own goal
The recent row between the BBC and footballer-turned-TV-presenter Gary Lineker has exposed the real role of the national broadcaster as a voice of the British establishment. At the same time, it has also exposed the limits of the Tories’ ‘culture war’ strategy, which is…
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Junior doctors strike back – Save our NHS with socialist policies!
Junior doctors are the latest workers to join the picket lines, with walkouts taking place this week, from 13-15 March. The NHS and its staff are at breaking point. The urgent task is to coordinate strike action across the public sector, and fight for a nationalised,…
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Defend socialists against Tory harassment!
For the second time in less than 12 months, Harrow council has launched an attack on the democratic right to free speech and the freedom of political ideas. On Saturday 11 February, several comrades from Socialist Appeal in Harrow were handed fines totaling £200. This follows…
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Budget Day battle: Unity and escalation needed to win
Wednesday 15 March will see hundreds of thousands of workers out on strike. Following on from last month’s ‘day of action’ on 1 February, unions across the public sector are once again all walking out together. A national demo in London, organised by the NEU, will bring tens of…
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Strikes and industrial militancy in the 1970s
The current upswing in industrial militancy is unprecedented in the last 30 years. We have to go back to the 1970s to find something comparable. That decade saw a rebirth of the class struggle, after an era of relative calm since the end of the Second World War. We can therefore…
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The Oakeshott Files: Cynicism, contempt, and COVID
October 2020 Matt Hancock (Health Secretary): A bunch of absolute arses teaching unions are Gavin Williamson (Education Secretary): I know they really really just do hate work Matt Hancock (Health Secretary): 😂😂🎯 Just two years after sending these messages, Matt Hancock, a…
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Domestic labour, automation, and the fight for socialism
Every year, on 8 March, people around the world celebrate International Women’s Day. In many countries, workers and youth go onto the streets, raising demands around equality and emancipation for women. This day originates in the revolutionary traditions of the working class.…
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New from Wellred Books: ‘Women, Family, and the Russian Revolution’
Why release a Marxist book on women and the Russian Revolution in the year 2023? The answer is that, more than 100 years after the 1917 Russian Revolution, we are still very far from achieving genuine equality between women and men. The women’s question has been transformed by…
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Archaeology layoffs – Storm clouds gathering for the construction sector
In the last issue of the Socialist Appeal newspaper, we published a letter from a commercial archaeologist working in London, whose workplace had seen a wave of layoffs. Since then, we received another letter from a worker in a different archaeology company, which is sacking a…
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Trade deals, tensions, and Tory cuts: Sunak’s optimism will soon turn to dust
Last month, on 27 February, following a ‘charm offensive’ aimed at European leaders, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak triumphantly proclaimed a new UK-EU agreement relating to trading relations in the North of Ireland. The so-called ‘Windsor Framework’ amends the existing Northern…
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Queen Mary management asks students to snitch on striking staff
A number of staff members at Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) have publicly declared their resignation over punitive strikebreaking measures carried out by university management. This comes following a spate of particularly vicious attacks by QMUL management on striking…
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The death of Stalin – and the disaster of Stalinism
On 5 March 1953, Joseph Stalin, the gravedigger of the October Revolution, died. His regime had been characterised by monstrous repression, with a river of blood separating his dictatorial rule from the genuine traditions of Bolshevism established by Lenin. It was also a reign…
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The Commies are coming!
According to Donald Trump, he was brilliantly accurate when he predicted in 2019 that “America will never be a socialist country”. Why? Because, as he stated a few weeks ago: “The train didn’t stop at the socialist station…We hit the Marxist station and the communist station.”…
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RMT young members’ conference 2023: Determined to win
This year’s RMT young members conference, held in Hastings from 24-25 February, brought together 50 activists – the highest attendance yet – in a unified and confident mood. This reflects the enthusiasm built up after eight months of militant strike action, and the desire…
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Low-traffic neighbourhoods: A class perspective
Last month, on 18 February, a large demonstration of around 2,000 protesters descended on Oxford to oppose the local council’s ‘15-minute city’ and ‘low-traffic neighbourhood’ (LTN) plans. Such schemes are increasingly being rolled out in towns and cities across the country.…