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From the editorial of The Socialist 27/11/2019 Corbyn’s manifesto offers a glimpse of jobs, homes and public services for the 99%, protection for our environment – and making the capitalist class pay. No wonder the boss class and their representatives in politics and the press attack it – they will do anything to prevent a Corbyn victory. Since the 1980s, ...

General Election now! For a Jeremy Corbyn-led government with socialist policies Boris Johnson, the Eton-educated millionaire and Trump wannabe, got to number ten with the votes of just ninety thousand members of the Tory Party, less than 0.25% of the electorate. Now he is using his position to over-rule elected MPs. This is one more indication of how big-business politicians ...

By Dave Reid The dissatisfaction with the British capitalist establishment, first manifested in the Scottish Indyref in 2014 and in the Brexit vote in 2016, was further developed in the Euro elections. The two main parties that between them got 80% of the vote in Wales in 2017 got just 22% on Thursday, representing the rejection of Westminster politicians by ...

By Dave Reid   It’s a cloudy Monday March morning in Merthyr and on the streets there are a steady flow of people going about their Monday morning business. Merthyr has received a bad press as the “benefit capital of Britain” and The Mirror pointed out the average male life expectancy on one of the estates is lower than Haiti’s, ...

Editorial of the April 2019 issue of Socialist Today (no. 227) As the first act in the Brexit drama reaches its concluding scenes, only one thing about the plot is certain. The reverberations from the working-class revolt against the capitalist establishment which, at bottom, the 2016 EU referendum result represented – a shout of rage at the age of austerity ...

By Ross Saunders Statistics show that austerity has created terrible suffering in our communities. Life expectancy – stalled. Infant mortality – up. Children in poverty – up. Suicide rates – up. And now a new report has confirmed that it has also seriously damaged the economy. The New Economics Foundation has said that cuts by Tory-led governments in the last ...

By Ross Saunders Cardiff Tory Councillor Kathryn Kelloway has sparked outraged by calling on social media for the tents of homeless people in the city to be “torn down”. Kelloway challenged Labour Council Leader Huw Thomas on Twitter to remove the tents for reasons of “safety”, “prosperity” and for “a better image for Cardiff”, sparing not a word for the impact on ...

Tories torn apart, French workers and youth in revolt, ‘populism’ on the rise … revolution in the air? By Peter Taaffe, General Secretary of the Socialist Party “I have never been more ashamed to be a Conservative. We continue to be led by a mule flogging a dead horse” (Allison Pearson, Daily Telegraph columnist). This blistering attack on Prime Minister Theresa May and the Tory government – before ...

Theresa May’s government is on the brink. Yesterday the resignations began. Esther McVey and Dominic Raab were first out the door, along with a number of junior ministers. More could potentially follow them in the hours ahead. Coups, plots and leadership challenges are all being openly discussed. The trade union and labour movement must intervene now. Jeremy Corbyn and the ...

Editorial from The Socialist October 17 2018 Before this week’s EU summit Tory ministers were once again desperately trying to square the circle on their Brexit proposals. At such a late stage and with no EU withdrawal agreement, May still hung onto a variant of her ‘Chequers proposal’, despite it facing opposition from many Tory backbench Brexiteers and Remainers and ...