The economic boom that followed the Second World War created agreement among mainstream politicians that capitalism could be regulated by state intervention.
The law is an instrument of class rule. Last week one judge banned a strike because the number of spoiled ballots in a vote by BA cabin crew wasn’t put on Twitter.
Workers have beaten anti-union laws before. The laws are intended to intimidate, but they cannot prevent struggle if they are disobeyed. One key example is the dockers under a Tory government in the 1970s.
The Tories have always been loyal to two things—the needs of the ruling class and hostility to workers.
If the Tories get away with their huge public spending cuts, they will drive up poverty and unemployment.
John McDonnell In the election I managed to increase my majority to 11,000 thanks to all of the hard work put in by campaigners like yourselves.
When Japan surrendered on 14 August 1945, five days after the United States had dropped the atom bomb on Nagasaki, Korea posed a problem.
Greek workers are at the forefront of resistance to the world’s rulers’ plans to make ordinary people suffer for capitalism’s crisis. The country’s government is pushing through vicious austerity measures at the behest of the European Union and the International Monetary Fund.
Who are the Tories? The simple answer is that they are the political party of the British ruling class.
The mass resistance to the cuts being imposed by the Greek government and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) is shaking the international ruling class. But it needs to escalate rapidly if workers are to win.
Gary Younge – The electorate’s divided and inconclusive verdict was, in a sense, ‘none of the above’ The election period itself sent out very contradictory messages. It felt like there was a dislocation between the electoral and the political.
IT WAS the election where everyone lost.
