1 December 2021

After COP26: where next for the climate movement?

How is mass pressure going to be built to fight for the aspirations of the climate movement?

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17 November 2021

Youth fight for well-paid green jobs and socialist change

The COP26 final agreement does not take the measures needed

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17 November 2021

China: Bureaucracy grapples with new crises

In October the IMF slightly downgraded its predictions for global economic growth, citing the continued pandemic and slow progress in vaccinating the world as major factors

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17 November 2021

Sunak's climate finance agenda typifies capitalism's COP26 failure

Having reportedly banned young climate change activists from attending his talk at COP26, Chancellor Rishi Sunak - the UK's richest MP - went on to capture the headlines with his speech on a 'Finance Alliance for Net Zero'.

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17 November 2021

Ten years on - where has Podemos's radicalism gone?

Pablo Iglesias - one of the founders of the Podemos party in the Spanish state and its most prominent representative - announced his resignation from politics earlier this year, the tenth anniversary of the movement of the Indignados (the 'outraged') which gave birth to the new party

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10 November 2021

Capitalism's COP26 failure: socialist planning vital

A set of headline pledges and agreements have been made between many of the world's capitalist nations

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10 November 2021

John Barnes on class and capitalism. What's missing?

Book review: The Uncomfortable Truth About Racism: 'The Uncomfortable Truth About Racism', by former footballer John Barnes, makes some valuable points

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3 November 2021

Fight for socialism to end climate destruction

COP26: Zero trust in capitalist class: COP26 - the global climate summit taking place in Glasgow from 1 November - will probably agree on something. Promises to hit a 'net zero' carbon emissions target by 2050 for example.

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3 November 2021

Vaccine inequality - the ugly face of capitalism

While a majority of adults in the advanced capitalist countries of Europe and North America have been fully vaccinated against the Covid-19 virus, in low-income countries of the 'global south' only 1.4% of people had received one dose as of September 2021

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3 November 2021

Socialist change to end climate change

Capitalism is destroying the planet: It's been three years since the UN suggested 2030 as the cut-off date to prevent climate catastrophe. Since then - who can say we are on the path away from ecological disaster?

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27 October 2021

TV review Maid

Ably showing inadequacy, red tape and inhumanity of capitalism: This ten-part dramatisation is based on Stephanie Land's 2019 memoir, 'Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive'

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20 October 2021

Container delay carnage makes the case for socialist planning

Recent reports of delays at Felixstowe Port, which has prompted warnings about shortages of toys and clothes at Christmas, are yet another example of the chaotic and anarchic nature of capitalism.

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20 October 2021

I'm unemployed: For me vacancy crisis is a lie

I'm writing this at 7.10am. The other night, I had an interview at a local Tesco for the night shift.

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20 October 2021

TV review: Squid Game

'An unflinching critique of capitalism': The South Korean-produced Squid Game now has over 111 million views around the world, in record time for a series released on Netflix

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20 October 2021

Socialist nationalisation not bailouts for the bosses

Bosses of energy-intensive industries are clamouring for government bailouts. Soaring gas prices internationally are hiking the cost of energy and threatening the profits of industry. With the threat of

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20 October 2021

Save the planet from capitalist climate catastrophe

The world leaders, including Boris Johnson and Joe Biden, will arrive at the COP26 climate conference starting on 31 October in their polluting private jets, to talk about how we must do more to prevent climate change

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13 October 2021

Newcastle United takeover - no to billionaire Ashley or Saudi despots

For working-class control of football: The vast majority of Newcastle United fans were overjoyed on 7 October at the news that the 14-year reign of Mike Ashley, of Sports Direct infamy, was finally over.

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9 October 2021

Newcastle United takeover: No to billionaire Ashley or Saudi despots

The Saudi Public Investment Fund owns 80% of the club.

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6 October 2021

Sarah Everard trial reveals police abuse of power

While the Tories talk about how murders like Sarah's should never happen again, their actions speak otherwise.

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6 October 2021

Caffeine and capitalism - a symbiotic relationship

'This is your mind on plants' by Michael Pollan - published by Allen Lane: Is the molecule C8H10N4O2 - that's caffeine to you and me - responsible for the slave trade, colonial wars, imperialism, increased labour productivity, and even the development of capitalism?

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