Fracking Paused — Fight for a Full Ban and a Socialist Energy Plan
The government says the ban will be lifted ‘if the science changes’. Jeremy Corbyn is quite right to say that this will ‘change’ the day after the general election if the Tories win! Defeating the Tories and electing a Corbyn-led Labour majority government to implement a full ban on fracking is the next step. Doing […]
The Berlin Wall Comes Down as Power Lay in the Streets
“Dear friends, fellow citizens, it is as if one has opened the windows after all the years of stagnation, of spiritual, economic, political stagnation, the years of dullness and stale air, of phrase-mongering and bureaucratic arbitrariness, of official blindness and deafness. What a change!” With these words the socialist writer Stefan Heym began his speech […]
Class Struggle and Women’s Liberation
In recent years, the global women’s movement has reintroduced the strike as a form of struggle on a mass scale, starting in Poland in 2016. International Women’s Day on 8 March in 2017 and 2018 saw internationally coordinated strikes in many countries. In 2019, up to seven million people went on strike in Spain on […]