Waging wars abroad
Capitalism not only generates periodic world war but also on a regular basis unleashes war against individual nations, unable to tolerate others’ independence or accept restrictions on their influence
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Deficit and debt
Inextricably linked, though quite different, the terms deficit and debt are often used interchangeably by politicians.
Socialism and finance: lessons from the Soviet Union about securing real progress
The 1930s saw mass unemployment sweep across the world – though not in the Soviet Union, which planned its economy and took the concepts of credit and finance seriously...
Britain as a nation state
Is the British nation state still needed? Debate on this has at last moved into the glare of media concern. Yet this very development has generated a phoney war to derail growing opposition to the EU.
Democracy and the EU
We find ourselves with our laws made by a foreign body, daily asserting extra powers for itself, trying to force us into a single economy with a single currency and soon to establish a single armed force.
Production for use
Products are presented in the form of commodities and exchanged via capitalist markets. And we can easily delude ourselves into imagining that things have always been arranged as they are now.
Guerrilla struggle
In 1973, a time of intense working class action in Britain, our Party wrote a pamphlet that sought to apply the tactics of guerrilla war to civil political action, civil strife and industrial action in Britain.
Wardens at the crossroads
Nothing contributes more to demoralisation than a badly planned, deliberately misleading and directionless dispute. The NSL Unison members are going to have to do some hard thinking about those who have treated them like cannon fodder.
Capitalism’s dodgy claims
Capitalism claims to be by nature enterprising. The claim is repeated so often and is so rarely questioned that it has assumed the guise of an indisputable truth.
Britain’s destiny
People are increasingly grappling with fundamental questions about our national destiny. What is happening to society? What kind of Britain is on offer and what ought it to be?
Twenty-five abnormal years
Normally we associate the workings of capitalism with attributes such as mass unemployment and economic downturns. But the twenty-five years following the end of the Second World War were markedly different from all other capitalist periods.
Working class governance
We have all the requirements to manage society. Revolutionary politics will harness them for the greater benefit of everyone within a growing economy.