ROGER D HARRIS and SARA FLOUNDERS challenge propaganda against the blockaded socialist island
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May Day is the day we mark workers’ struggles here and around the world
Thousands march to Trafalgar Square in central London, to celebrate workers' achievements at a May Day rally in 2016
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
MAY DAY this year comes as we face continuing challenges. At home there is the fight against austerity and internationally there has been a dangerous ramping up of tensions, particularly over the Middle East.
In this increasingly globalised capitalist economy, workers have to fight to maintain what they have previously won so it is not stolen from us — like the NHS, universal education and pensions — and for what we need, such as good public housing, proper safety at work and a more equal society.
We have seen what unfettered private greed leads to with Grenfell and in the corridors of our hospitals.
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