ALEX HALL interviews PAUL HOLDEN, whose bombshell book uses leaked documents to expose how the Starmer faction used systematic dishonesty to seize power and reopen the door to the corrupting ecosystem of corporate lobbying and sleaze
Is there a Marxist view of climate change?
As the extent of the environmental crisis becomes clear, awareness also grows of the urgency of a sustainable, socialist alternative, says the MARX MEMORIAL LIBRARY
The recent calls to strip Michelle Mone of her peerage after she was caught scamming the public for £122 million should reinvigorate the longstanding progressive demand to completely abolish the entire undemocratic, corrupt relic, writes ELLIOT TONG
As gold hits $4,000 per ounce, soaring from only $250 back in 2001, the US national debt has reached $37 trillion — it’s all about to come crashing down, warns JOHN ELLISON, which our leaders would have known had they only studied Marx’s magnum opus Capital
Now at 115,000 members and in some polls level with Labour in terms of public support, CHRIS JARVIS looks at the factors behind the rapid rise of the Greens, internal and external
Witnessing a war of words at a meeting on tackling militarism at The World Transformed, BEN COWLES spoke to a union rep who is organising against war from inside the arms industry itself, to hear about worker-led solutions to ending weapons production
FRANCISCO DOMINGUEZ, ROGER D HARRIS and JOHN PERRY contrast Trump’s warships and F-35 fighters threatening Venezuela with the $20bn bailout for Milei’s collapsed economy, all enabled by a highly ideological IMF
EXTINCTION REBELLION and the equally impressive school student climate strikes have dramatised for a new generation the enormity of the threat posed by climate change — the tip of the melting iceberg of capitalism’s environmental crisis.
On the surface, demonstrators are asking for something very simple: formal acknowledgment that a climate emergency exists and real action to tackle it.
Underlying the demonstrations is something even more important — a recognition that climate change isn’t something incidental that can be tackled with a simple fix, but intrinsic to a broken system.
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TOM HARDY traces how these climate conferences have been captured by fossil fuel interests while CO₂ levels have continued to rise since 1995 — but XR’s citizen assemblies and direct action have offered an alternative
