Over the last year we have come to a simple, yet monumental, conclusion: that capitalism is entering a period of breakdown, its final crisis. This article will summarise the political-economic analysis that we developed in 2020, to ready us for the coming years. The fight for our lives is on.
Breaking the nightmarish logic of capitalist realism necessitates a shattering of illusions in left reformism and the ‘parliamentary road’ as representing anything other than a brake on working-class emancipation.
Brexit is a sign of capitalism becoming ever more desperate, and thus ever more vicious. We must reorientate ourselves to the real decision at hand: the working classes or the capitalist class? Revolution or resignation? Socialism or extinction?
Sex-worker led organisation SCOT-PEP has branded the latest Scottish Government consultation on prostitution, “Equally Safe”, a “Rapists’ Charter”.
Yesterday Netpol released a report exposing the racism at the heart of the Met's policing of BLM protests in the summer. We present the key findings of this report, and show that the pigs are acting exactly as they're designed to. There's one solution: abolition.
A principled, socialist, and anti-imperialist position can only be to reject the RBL and the Poppy Appeal in its entirety and to identify it for what it is: an ode to British imperialism.