ROGER D HARRIS and SARA FLOUNDERS challenge propaganda against the blockaded socialist island
Coronavirus: collapse of the capitalist consensus?
The pandemic has laid bare the failings of a global order based on exploitation, land theft and greed, writes BERT SCHOUWENBURG
Marx and Engels incorporated in their writings a critique of the way that capitalism destroys the environment but it is only in the last half century that environmental concerns have become an integral part of the fight for socialism, writes the Marx Memorial Library and Workers’ School
The racist Republican tactic of redistricting to keep Trump and his base in power is turning the clock back to the 1950s, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
With a political crisis engulfing the Labour Party, the case for PR is back on the agenda. TONY BURKE argues trade unions must now engage on changes to our voting system
YVETTE WILLIAMS and JOE DELANEY dissect the institutional dawdling that rubbed salt into the Grenfell open wounds prolonging the agony of survivors
The HS2 debacle exposes what happens when public infrastructure is handed to private contractors – especially when set against China’s state-led high-speed rail success, says CARLOS MARTINEZ
WINSTON CHURCHILL was no friend of the working class, but we should follow his advice of never letting a good crisis go to waste, and not repeat the mistakes of 2008, when we did exactly that.
Back then, the subprime mortgage scandal threatened to bring down the entire capitalist infrastructure, prompting the US Federal Reserve to invest an estimated $16 trillion in bailouts to banks and corporations around the world.
Rampant speculation on obscure and risky financial instruments unleashed by globalised financial capital seeking investment opportunities, unrestrained by national constraints, had brought the international banking system close to collapse.
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