When the Sunday Times first published its annual Rich List in 1989, the combined wealth of the 200 richest people in Britain was £38 billion (£80 billion in today's money). In 2013 it had increased to £318.2 billion.

Demonstrate, occupy, strike. Pamphlet by Hannah sell, Socialist Party deputy general secretary, dated 24/03/2011

The profound crisis that global capitalism entered in 2008 is resulting in increased hardship for the majority, in Britain and internationally.

The defenders of capitalism were wrong and the socialists and Marxists were right. This is what the current economic crisis means...

The hated Tory Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was dethroned as a result of the victorious struggle against the Poll Tax in 1991. But she did not abdicate voluntarily — she was pushed. This is the story of that victory, lead by the Militant, now the Socialist Party.

Lenin wrote The State and Revolution in August and September 1917, when he was in hiding. It remains a great classic of Marxism. It begins: "The question of the state is now acquiring particular importance both in theory and in practical politics. The [1914-18] imperialist war has immensely accelerated and intensified the process of transformation of monopoly capitalism into state-monopoly capitalism. The monstrous oppression of the working people by the state, which is merging more and more with the all-powerful capitalist associations, is becoming increasingly monstrous.