Grenfell Tower – the smoke & the mirrors
There is an ever-growing stream of media commentary on the Grenfell fire, increasing daily as the public enquiry unfolds. There are some elements in the media with the goal of obscuring or excusing the plain facts as part of a pre-emptive defence manoeuvre to protect those most implicated in what caused the fire and the 72 deaths. That they feel the need to use such distortions to defend the Grenfell landlords and those who ordered and oversaw the Grenfell refurbishment that fitted the lethal cladding only increases the suggestion of a general doubt on all sides about their innocence.
Class Consciousness and Working Class Emancipation
The Kronstadt Revolt: One Hundred Years of Counter-Revolution
Mythology About the Middle Class and the Class Struggle
The notion that there exists a growing middle class whose livelihood rests neither on wage labour nor manufacturing or industrial profits has long been used to challenge Marx’s revolutionary perspective that ultimately the future of capitalism will be decided by a struggle between the two great contending classes in modern society: the bourgeoisie and the proletariat, or if you prefer, the bosses and the workers.
Student Protests in Turkey: A Communist Critique
The lockdown interviews
Revolts in Myanmar
Since 1 January the streets of what used to be known as Burma have filled with demonstrations nearly every day. The straw that broke the camel’s back was the army’s coup which overthrew President Aung San Suu Kyi, destroying her party (NLD) through the heavy repression meted out to the demonstrators demanding “liberty and democracy”.
The Tours Congress and the Birth of the French Communist Party
The PMC meets the Tucker Carlson Left
Argentina under Covid - A report from comrades
贫苦与债务——论过剩人口与过剩资本的逻辑与历史
Communist Work in a Covid Crisis: A Framework
A Sign of Things to Come
The working class currently faces the challenge of the combined consequences of the pandemic and the underlying crisis of capitalism. Even though the health emergency is far from over, the wave of redundancies and restructuring has already started. The degree to which workers are able to not only resist attacks on their conditions but to impose their own interests on the ruling class in the next few months will shape the balance of class forces.
NYC Produce Workers' Strike: Capitalism's Treatment of its "Essential Workers"
GameStop and Investor Activism: The Real Story is the Dead-End of Capitalism
The Trump Era is Over, Now it's Time for Biden
The Royal Family - The Documentary the Queen tried to silence is back
No Future Without a Fight
Back in 2012 the concept of a "graduate without a future" briefly entered the zeitgeist. Paul Mason was among its key proponents, finding a commonality between the Arab Spring, the anti-austerity movement in Greece and the student protests in the UK: a social strata of young educated people with no prospects who became the driving force of opposition to the "system".