Recent weeks have seen the acceleration of a campaign by the right-wing of the British Labour party to paint Jeremy Corbyn as an anti-Semite, in hopes of driving him from his position as leader of the party. In its scale and ferocity, these efforts have all the hallmarks of a destabilisation campaign involving MI5 in the UK, Mossad in Israel …
Continue readingThe working class must be mobilised against capitalism and for socialism Donald Trump richly deserves the outpouring of condemnation and political opposition that has led up to the series of UK-wide protests that began Thursday. He represents all that is vile and reactionary in political and social life, not only in the United States but in Britain, Europe and throughout …
Continue readingBuild rank-and-file committees On the 70th anniversary of its creation, the National Health Service (NHS) is in grave danger. Its establishment in 1948 as a universal health provider, free at the point of use, is fiercely defended by working people as their fundamental social right. That right is now in jeopardy as the NHS is transformed into a skeleton, for-profit …
Continue readingStatement of the Socialist Equality Party (UK) The recent congress of the University and College Union (UCU) provides an object lesson in the impossibility of “reforming” the trade unions. Held in Manchester at the end of May, it was the first opportunity for UCU members, rightly furious at the betrayal of their national strike to protect university staff pensions, to …
Continue readingDrive out the Labour Party right wing!
Lying accusations of anti-Semitism, endlessly repeated since the failed 2016 leadership putsch by Labour’s right wing, provide the noose with which Corbyn is to be hung. But the goal of this campaign is to discredit socialism in the hope of preventing any challenge by the working class to austerity and the escalating pursuit of militarism and war in the Middle East and throughout the world.
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