Rescue workers were fighting to get to outlying regions of the Philippines hit by typhoon Haiyan as Socialist Worker went to press. In the worst-hit city of Tacloban more than 10,000 people are thought to have died.
Up to 250 people turned up at a community meeting in Luton last Monday following the death a black man in police custody. The audience was angry and overwhelmingly black, but the platform were largely made up of establishment voices.
Revolution is being hotly debated since Russell Brand wrote an article in the New Statesman calling for the overthrow of the current political system. And Brand’s argument that we need a revolution to get rid of our system riddled with “lies, treachery and deceit” has received a lot of support. It’s no surprise so many people feel that to get rid of inequality we will need a revolution.
Around 900 people attended the tenth annual Historical Materialism conference in London last week. Canadian Marxist David McNally gave the Deutscher Memorial Prize lecture.
