Committee for the Defence of the Iranian People’s Rights general secretary GAWAIN LITTLE discusses the impact of the US-Israeli war on the Iranian people and economy
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2022: a year to intensify the struggle for the youth, working people and humanity
As we begin the new year, militancy and class consciousness are on the rise in Britain, says JOHNNIE HUNTER
YCLers heading up Kinder Scout
Capitalism has extracted itself from crisis before, argues PRABHAT PATNAIK – but through methods no longer available. So it is turning to authoritarianism, militarism and neocolonialism
The five young men killed in the A66 crash were responsible for a devastating tragedy — but the crash should force us to ask difficult questions about wider society, argues RENATA MEDEIROS MIRRA
Britain funds the policing of black culture 16 times better than the culture itself. The Diamond Jubilee is the moment to end that, argues CLAUDIA WEBBE
Despite Andy Burnham’s declaration defending the continued partition of the island, all major international and internal trends are converging to make Irish reunification inevitable
Humans are part of the ‘animal kingdom’ – and of nature in general – but also distinct from it and labour (work) is part of what makes us unique, declared Engels. His insights 150 years ago into how our species came to be and how we differ from the rest of nature, are as important today as they were then, says the MARX MEMORIAL LIBRARY
IN BRITAIN and across the world, 2021 was a year when the working class was faced not just with the worst excesses of a decaying and inhumane capitalist system and its destruction of the Earth.
It also fell to working people to lead the fight against and save ourselves from a global pandemic which the ruling class is unwilling and unable to tackle.
But even in the face of sometimes seemingly insurmountable obstacles and attacks, 2021 has been a year in which working people and the youth have resisted and fought and won.
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Your Party can become an antidote to Reform UK – but only by rooting itself in communities up and down the country, says CLAUDIA WEBBE
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The CPB's congress aims to build the united front against monopoly capitalism, utilising the YCL’s promising new generation of militants — but our party remains far from the strength history requires of it, despite recent progress, writes JOHNNIE HUNTER