Let Us Not Talk Falsely Now
Submitted by Serge Forward on Aug 30 2019 18:10
The Anarchist Communist Group on Boris Johnson's proroguing of parliament.
The Commoner #7: The "governance" of Imposed Scarcity
Issue 7 of The Commoner magazine
What does “climate emergency” mean? Let’s define that OUTSIDE parliament
Submitted by Gabriel Levy on May 2 2019 07:41
The UK parliament declares a "climate emergency" while supporting Heathrow airport expansion, fracking, and fossil fuel subsidies. We need to make our own decisions about what the emergency is and how to deal with it
Is an over-supply of labour depressing wages?
Submitted by QQ on Oct 30 2018 19:10
Are trade union bureaucrats correct in saying Marx believed an over-supply of labour depresses wages? We take a look at what Marx called "the absolute general law of capitalist accumulation" to discover if this is true.
Beware False Friends!
Submitted by Internationalis... on Aug 21 2018 18:42
Many working class people do not believe that their class has the potential to change the world. Indeed many of us do not even recognise the idea of class, let alone see themselves as part of the class of “women and men of no property”. This is not surprising. The ruling capitalist class have powerful tools to confuse and distract the working class.
Back to the Future: Rebranding Social Democracy
Submitted by Internationalis... on Apr 12 2018 12:43
There are two ways to read Inventing the Future. One is a fairly innocent critique of the “post-68 left”, and an outline of how to build a desirable post-capitalist future through a flawed Gramscian framework. The other is a critique of working class self-activity, and a call for a benevolent class of technocrats who can gradually reform capitalism for the masses.
Anti-Semitism – rooting out oppression or ruling class hypocrisy?
Submitted by Internationalis... on Apr 9 2018 22:47
Those who see the need to eliminate anti-Semitism should involve themselves in the struggle for a classless and nationless world. The current media circus about Parliamentary factions is totally removed from the necessary struggle to root out anti-Semitism through the struggle to destroy capitalism.
All That Melts into Air is Solid: A. Sivanandan
Sivanandan criticises the New Times tendency in Marxism Today's reorientation towards the Labour Party and its attempt to create a new electoral coalition.
Rail workers are striking for passenger rights but no-one’s talking about that
Submitted by QQ on Nov 9 2017 11:19
Train conductors, represented by the National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers (RMT), are on their second day of coordinated strikes on multiple services.
Paul Mason's workers' bombers
Submitted by Mike Harman on Oct 13 2017 22:26
Paul Mason's response to BAE job losses has been to promote a 'left-wing' brand of militarism, summing up many of the problems facing the UK left as it coalesces around the Labour Party, and the limits of this politics as it approaches the reality of state power.
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