The Stop the War demonstration took place last weekend amidst a huge wave of pro-war propaganda in the British media. Even the BBC World Service, which usually has to attenuate its imperial message for a global audience, is full-throttle behind Ukraine – no other voices are entertained. In this context, Continue Reading
The property question
The key question for socialists is who owns the resources of society and decides how to allocate them. At the moment we are fighting to force the owners’ club to give us a few scraps from their enormous wealth. It’s a daily, hourly fight. We need to own the world’s Continue Reading
Where now for the left?
The Labour Party has never been a socialist party. A socialist party would stand for the abolition of capitalism, a system based on the exploitation of the working class for profit. It would stand for the establishment of a completely new system, one based on the common ownership of society’s Continue Reading
Housing in a socialist society and how do we get there?
In Britain, a socialist government would inherit a housing sector that has undergone a massive transformation of ownership and control in the last half a century. The state withdrew from supplying housing via Thatcher’s right to buy and Blairism’s stock transfer program. State housing assets were, for the most part, Continue Reading
The Communist Manifesto
175 years on and still relevant This month marks the 175th anniversary of the publication of The Manifesto of the Communist Party in February 1848. It appeared on the world stage in German, just in time for the revolutionary events that broke out that year across Europe. It is a brilliant, succinct, rallying Continue Reading
Tories out – Fight for socialism
Socialists must demand a General Election now. With the sacking by Prime Minister Liz Truss of her own Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng and her own resignation after just 44 days in the job, the Tories are in absolute crisis. Their mandate for government has evaporated. Democracy demands that we have an Continue Reading
No Gods, No Masters
The socialist society we aim for will have no classes, no hierarchy, no kings, queens, princes, duchesses, no bosses, no masters. This also means no servants, no serfs, no slaves. All will have an equal say. There will be no palaces for the privileged, and no gutter for the homeless, Continue Reading
What is socialism?
Welcome to this Marxist website. Its aim is to promote Marxist ideas, analysis and discussion. Against the background of the failed experience of Corbynism in the UK and the rout of the socialist left inside the Labour Party, and with the development of a new wave of industrial working-class militancy, Continue Reading