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Joti Brar: World War 3 and the tasks of the world anti-imperialist struggle
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US defeat in its proxy war against Russia a setback for imperialism everywhere
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Joti Brar and Garland Nixon ep12: Imperialism and Trotskyism
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The struggles of the youth
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Starmer’s sleaze
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Book: Zionism by Harpal Brar
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Remembering the 1980 armed uprising against imperalism in Gwangju, Korea
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Jenny Marx’s life of struggle and sacrifice in the cause of the working class
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Lenin’s work remains a guide for our time: an introduction
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Marx and Engels on the Paris Commune
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Pay and conditions / Enable care workers strike against poverty pay in Scotland
Low pay has become such an issue in the care sector that up to 30 percent of vacancies are unfilled.
Health / No euthanasia!
Workers must demand proper health and social care, and dignified, comfortable retirement homes and hospices for the sick and elderly.
Divide and rule / Immigrants make vital contributions to British pensions and welfare benefits
Population study shows that without the essential part played by immigrant workers, our pensions and social service provisions would collapse.
Health / An NHS nurse speaks out on pay, privatisation and demoralisation
The conditions that have led to a haemorrhaging of trained staff from the health service have not come about by accident and will take a serious fight to reverse.
Health / The ruin of the NHS for the benefit of private interests
In their desperation for sources of profit, our exploiters as individuals even end up damaging their own collective interests.
Health / Coffey’s ‘plan for patients’ boils down to more targets and some magical thinking
Reams of empty phrasemongering are aimed at hiding the fact that Truss and co have no plan to do anything to fix the crisis in our health service.
Social wage / Malthusianism is alive and well as feminists celebrate declining birth rate
Since they cannot admit to a solution lying outside of capitalist production relations, ‘women’s rights’ advocates are reduced to prettifying their chains.
Pay and conditions / Don’t make care workers pay for the crisis in social care!
We must renationalise and reunite social care with healthcare, and pay all workers in the sector a decent wage.
Health / Second spike looms: Boris opts for ‘whack-a-mole’ over having a good plan
On every level, the performance of socialist countries in dealing with Covid-19 is putting the profiteering, anti-worker ethos of capitalism to shame.
Industry / ‘Back to work’ stampede – and may the devil take the hindmost
Reopening schools and workplaces without proper safety measures highlights the government’s true priorities.
Film and TV / Film review: Ken Loach’s Sorry We Missed You
A faithful depiction of the horrors of today’s contract workers, marred by its total pessimism.
Health / Shameful levels of malnutrition in Britain
Privatisation and cost-cutting in social care have led to shocking levels of neglect amongst the most vulnerable in our society.
Health / Newcross Healthcare: rinsing the public coffers
The true face of privatisation in our public services, where greed and abuse are rewarded and people come last.
Disputes / Support Birmingham’s homecare workers
Before Labour councillors privatise the service completely.