Simon Pearson discusses how a new paper from Common Wealth and Mainstream makes a strongest case for public ownership of Britain’s essential services in a generation. What is missing is the class force to make any of it real.
Stephen Harper was born in 1952 in Plaistow, the son of a labourer at the Tate and Lyle sugar factory and a school cleaner, and one of eight children. He would describe his childhood as growing up in a community of neighbours who had known each other for decades. remembers his son, Guy Harper.
The count is done. The argument starts now, writes Duncan Chapel..
Albania rarely makes the headlines. In recent weeks, however, this small Balkan country has been the scene of a struggle against the ravages of capitalism, which sacrifices the environment for profits — in this case for the leisure of the richest. Alex Baschman writes.
We seek revolutionary transformation to meet the compound crisis of ecological disaster, economic collapse, social decay, grotesque inequality, mass impoverishment, growing militarisation, and creeping authoritarianism.
Anti-fascists in general will have breathed a sigh of relief at the outcome of the Makerfield by-election. Yet the importance of making sure that creeping fascist RefUK didn’t win that seat was not a view shared by everyone on the left writes: Allan Todd
Piyamit Leelatham argues against Varoufakis's thesis that under our society of techofeudalism Marx's law of value no longer applies.
