Economy / CBI arrogance undermines capitalist stability

Thinking representatives of the system are increasingly concerned with how blatant the corporate control and looting of the Treasury has become.

Bolivia / Elon Musk on Bolivia: ‘We will coup whoever we want!’

Bolivia’s ‘lithium coup’ is yet another example of a regime-change operation carried out at the behest of imperialist corporations.

Pay and conditions / Workers in the US and Britain fight for workplace safety

Wildcat strikes and a high-profile resignation are highlighting the anti-worker essence of capitalist accumulation.

Capitalist crisis / The corona pandemic and the capitalist world economic crash of 2020

Our rulers are keen to convince us that the deepest depression in the history of capitalism is a random and unpredictable ‘black swan’ event.

Pay and conditions / Barclays spies on its own staff

The banking giant is using ‘Big Brother tactics’ to monitor staff and keep their noses to the grindstone.

Pay and conditions / Amazon is bad for your health

What a surprise: working too hard and too long leads to unsafe working environments.

Pay and conditions / GMB protest at Rugeley Amazon

British trade union seems more worried about defending the profits of shareholders than the interests of workers.

Venezuela / Twitter censors Venezuelan embassy in Britain

Twitter is helping the US and its comprador coup plotters conduct the media war against Venezuela’s legitimate and popular government.

China / Huawei executive arrest – a provocation too far

The US's persectution of Meng Wanzhou represents a dangerous escalation of its trade war against China.

Media / How Wikipedia is used to prop up the imperialist lie machine

The internet encyclopaedia is an important front in the information war being waged by our rulers.

Media / The ongoing ‘fake news’ debacle

In the name of suppressing ‘fake news’ the bourgeoisie seeks to suppress inconvenient truth.

Media / Cambridge Analytica and the drive toward internet censorship

Corporate abuse of the internet is being used to justify censorship of independent media.

Civil liberties / Big Data is watching you: the snoopers’ charter

Unparalleled levels of intrusive mass surveillance are to be legitimised by the Investigatory Powers Bill.

Proletarian news / Industry matters: Amazon unveiled