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Socialist Party national council - members enthused by excellent in-person meeting

Ten years since our 330-mile Jarrow March for Jobs

Deaths of despair: Health crisis - capitalism in the dock

Preparing for no-cuts Peoples Budgets

Germany’s Left Party drums up support for coalitions with the Social Democrats and Greens Last week, we wrote that the Left Party would use its party congress to “set an even more direct course towards government participation and support for war.” This assessment has been fully confirmed with the election of Janine Wissler and Susanne Hennig-Wellsow as new chairpersons and their public appearances since then. At their first joint press conference on Monday, the two made clear what lies b...

International Marxist Tendency on the storming of the US Capitol: “This was not an organized insurrectionary coup” Since a violent fascist mob incited by Trump and his far-right allies stormed the Capitol building in Washington D.C. on January 6, pseudo-left organisations around the world have united to insist that nothing of particular significance took place. Despite mounting evidence showing that the insurrectionists planned to seize hostages and stop the confirmation of Joe Biden as pre...

Letters Most readers of the Weekly Worker agree that capitalism must be overthrown, that this should happen as a result of the actions of the working class majority taking power, and that all Marxists should unite in one party with a programme along the lines suggested by the CPGB. However, the CPGB stubbornly persists in urging all Marxists/socialists to join the Labour Party and fight within it to win members to Marxism. It frowns upon the setting up of any other party of the working class, ...

SCOTLAND SUPPLEMENT III - Separatism, federalism, centralism Breaking apart existing states is not the road to socialism, but the road to defeat, writes Jack Conrad Those who rigidly adhere to a moralistic, third-worldist anti-imperialism cannot possibly bring themselves to countenance self-determination for ‘unworthy’ peoples - the most obvious example being Israeli Jews and the British-Irish in the six counties of Northern Ireland. 1 Given its junior role in building, administering and ma...