Build the socialist opposition

‘Awful April’ has begun. It’s still a long time until payday and even less is left in the account than this time last month. Everything is going up.

Water, energy, food… the bosses are doing all they can to protect their own profits by raiding our pockets. And that’s exactly what they have planned again as stock markets tank and a new economic crisis looms on the horizon.

“The world has changed”, according to prime minister Keir Starmer. He and other world capitalist leaders despair at Donald Trump’s tariffs. They know just how volatile the world economy is – riddled with debt and insecurities left by speculators enriching themselves.

They will do everything they can to keep the wealth flowing into the bank accounts of the super-rich. Starmer and others will use Trump’s tariffs and the ‘changed world’ to justify even harsher cuts and further privatisation. But they can’t and won’t be allowed to get away with it.

Millions of workers in Britain and around the world will ask: ‘Why should we pay the price?’

What the super-rich bosses and their political representatives fear most is the answer: ‘We shouldn’t and we won’t’, and with that, workers’ struggle, including importantly the working class developing its own mass political parties.

The capitalist system ruthlessly exploits workers internationally, it is also riddled with contradictions, conflict, competition and instability leading to wars and economic crisis. A socialist alternative is needed – a plan of production to meet the needs of humanity and the environment, based on public ownership of utilities, big business and the banks, controlled and run democratically by the working class.

If you refuse to pay the price for the bosses’ crisis, help us strengthen and build the working-class fightback, and fight to bring about socialist change.

Join the Socialist Party!