21 February 2019

West London Socialist Party: 60 years since the Cuban revolution

Sixty years ago in January 1959, the Cuban capital Havana erupted in celebration. Crowds greeted the victory march from Santa Clara of revolutionaries led by Che Guevara and the brothers Fidel and Raúl Castro

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20 February 2019

TV: Les Misérables - Hugo's novel and this adaptation both offer a message of hope

Les Misérables started life as a three-volume novel by Victor Hugo written during his political exile from France.

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20 February 2019

New recession fear stalks the world economy

2018 marked ten years since the collapse of Lehman Brothers bank which plunged the world economy into the deepest economic recession since the 1930s.

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20 February 2019

What we heard

Blairite Leslie won't be missed: Nottingham's now ex-Labour MP Chris Leslie has been a problem for a while now, writes A Nottingham East Labour Party member.

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20 February 2019

What we saw

"Socialism is storming back" declares the Economist magazine. It points out that 51% of 'millennials' in the US aged 18-29 have a positive view of socialism

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13 February 2019

France: striking workers confront Macron

The gilets jaunes have awoken, on the part of millions, a deep will to revolt - even to make a revolution

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6 February 2019

Film: Vice - Dick Cheney - a cold and calculating opportunist

"So?" is Dick Che-ney's response to the fact that two-thirds of Americans said the 2003 Iraq war was not worth fighting. 'Vice' closes with this.

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6 February 2019

United States: strike ends federal shutdown

Unofficial action by airport workers has forced Donald Trump to end the longest unpaid 'furlough' of government employees in history

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6 February 2019

Billionaires avoid paying and even talking about tax! Take the wealth off the 1%

Dutch historian Rutger Bregman went viral by putting the cat among the pigeons at billionaires get together Davos in Switzerland recently

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30 January 2019

Cardiff West Socialist Party: Why capitalism is bad for your mental health

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30 January 2019

Venezuela: resist the pro-imperialist coup!

The social, political and economic crisis which is currently rocking Venezuela poses crucial questions and lessons for socialists and the international working class.

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9 January 2019

Javid's migrant 'emergency'

Home Secretary Sajid Javid declared the rising numbers of migrants attempting to cross the Channel in small boats an "emergency" over Christmas. He held a conference call with officials from the Border Force, Immigration Enforcement, and National Crime Agency.

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9 January 2019

'Fat Cat Friday' shows where all the money's gone

I hadn't even received my first paycheque of the new year when the average chief executive of a FTSE 100 company had already 'earned' more than my entire annual salary - in less than three days!

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9 January 2019

Tories Out. End austerity. Mass working-class action for a general election

Few things sum up the complete disarray of this Tory government like the 'Brexit ferries'debacle.

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2 January 2019

Opinion: China's Orwellian 'social credit system' is a product of capitalism, not 'communism'

In reality, Chinese workers are fighting the same beast as we are in Britain: an exploitative economic system protected by a cold-blooded political elite.

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27 December 2018

Preparing the struggle for socialism in 2019

Tories torn apart, French workers and youth in revolt, 'populism' on the rise... revolution in the air? Capitalist parties across the world are split in the teeth of mounting mass opposition.

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11 December 2018

Tory chaos reaches fever pitch

Corbyn and unions must mobilise workers to kick them out!
The government is in an unprecedented crisis. Just a day before the planned vote in parliament over Theresa May's Brexit deal proposal, she was forced to cancel it.

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5 December 2018

The growth of artificial intelligence technology

AI technologies cannot be harmoniously rolled out due to the contradictions of capitalism

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28 November 2018

We need system change to halt climate change

Was there ever a starker example of the destructive and unplanned nature of capitalism than the recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) findings?

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28 November 2018

San Francisco Bay Area's toxic smoke crisis and capitalism's mismanagement

'It's getting hard to breathe': California is suffering a major environmental and health crisis that the authorities prepared no one for.

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