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Austerity highlights

  • Health / The ruin of the NHS for the benefit of private interests

    In their desperation for sources of profit, our exploiters as individuals even end up damaging their own collective interests.

    29 Dec 2022 , Lalkar
  • Capitalist crisis / Crisis is inescapable while capitalism remains

    The working class’s historic role is to put an end to profit-driven capitalism and to build a new, socialist society in its place.

    4 Jan 2022 ,
  • Social wage / Don’t tell Newham we are all in it together

    The financial and physical inability to isolate or to work safely has led to far worse covid outcomes for the poorest in our society.

    10 Mar 2021 , Proletarian
  • Social wage / Destitution in Britain compounded by 2020 crash and covid shutdowns

    How can it be that there is so much want in the midst of so much plenty?

    4 Mar 2021 , Proletarian
  • Society / Time to end poverty: expropriate the expropriators!

    Bourgeois commentators are increasingly identifying the problems besetting humanity, but they are congenitally incapable of recognising the solution staring them in the face.

    23 Jan 2021 ,
  • Social wage / Insult to injury: government plans to cut Universal Credit boost

    Covid has exposed the injustice of below-poverty-line benefits. How will our rulers balance their need for cheap and desperate workers with maintaining social peace?

    29 Oct 2020 ,
  • Social wage / Southern Cross: vulture capitalists still getting fat on the care home racket

    The problems in our care homes are rooted in privatisation and began well before the pandemic arrived to bring them to national attention.

    28 Oct 2020 ,
  • Social wage / UBI: a recipe for universal misery

    Our demand must be for meaningful work in a society free from poverty, unemployment and insecurity.

    24 Aug 2020 , Proletarian
  • Society / Thinktank warns of massive rise in destitution in the wake of Covid-19

    The wonders of capitalism: five million Britons predicted to become destitute this year.

    10 Aug 2020 , Proletarian
  • Capitalist crisis / Rising inequality following the 2020 crisis of overproduction

    Mushrooming inequality has the capitalist class spooked, for they fear the consequences.

    29 Jul 2020 , Proletarian
  • Civil liberties / Under cover of Covid-19: trial by jury is under attack

    The abolition of workers’ right to a jury trial could be the final nail in the coffin of the justice system in Britain.

    14 Jul 2020 , Proletarian
  • Social wage / UBI: the ‘right’ to be idle or the right to work?

    What does the call for a universal basic income really mean?

    8 Jun 2020 , Proletarian
  • Social wage / Hunger rising sharply as covid-19 lockdown combines with economic crash

    Why are we witnessing the obscene sight of workers going hungry in the midst of plenty?

    17 Apr 2020 , Proletarian
  • Social wage / Austerity Britain: where the homeless seek shelter in bins

    Report reveals shocking rise of bin sleepers as one waste worker recounts finding children as young as nine or ten.

    6 Apr 2020 , Proletarian
  • Ireland / The Irish electorate cry out against austerity and bring reunification closer

    The future is bright; the future is green.

    17 Mar 2020 , Lalkar
  • Ireland / Irish election: Sinn Féin tops the popular vote

    As the establishment duopoly is burst asunder, Ireland’s rulers are desperately trying to turn back the rising tide.

    7 Mar 2020 , Proletarian
  • Social wage / Errol Graham and the unreported austerity pandemic

    Social murder in our midst is being hushed up by all arms of the state, hand in glove with media that are entirely uninterested in ‘speaking truth to power’.

    27 Feb 2020 , Proletarian
  • Social wage / Children in care being let down as vultures profit from their misery

    The children’s care system is yet another example of how privateers are feeding off the wretchedness of society’s most vulnerable.

    18 Jan 2020 , Proletarian
  • France / French class war continuing as neither side looks ready to back down

    Macron continues to push EU-backed pensions attack while unions have called for a general strike and total oil refinery blockade.

    10 Jan 2020 ,
  • Society / Debt survey shows inequality widening as rich get richer and poor get poorer

    As the gap between the super-rich and everyone else gets ever wider, it is clear that this system is overdue for a foreclosure of its own.

    5 Jan 2020 , Lalkar
  • France / French strikes expand and deepen as more workers join the fray

    A class war is underway in France and the workers show no sign of backing down. Victoire aux grévistes!

    19 Dec 2019 , Proletarian
  • British politics / The Brexit election and the death of Project Corbyn

    What lessons can workers take from the last four years?

    12 Dec 2019 , Proletarian
  • France / Support the French strikers!

    France’s militant unions are joining forces with yellow vest activists in a serious challenge to Macron’s EU-backed assault on living standards.

    10 Dec 2019 ,
  • Film and TV / Film review: Ken Loach’s Sorry We Missed You

    A faithful depiction of the horrors of today’s contract workers, marred by its total pessimism.

    8 Dec 2019 , Proletarian
  • Society / The double victimisation of capitalism’s female victims

    Locked up for being poor, their children uprooted and set adrift ... while privatised prison services rake in the cash.

    23 Nov 2019 , Lalkar
  • Education / Sabotage of state schools

    Growing privatisation and austerity is eroding the hard-won right to an education for our children.

    17 Nov 2019 ,
  • Social wage / DWP dirty tricks are pushing the most vulnerable over the edge

    Private companies are being handsomely paid to prevent the sick from accessing benefits they have every right to.

    31 Oct 2019 , Proletarian
  • Economy / QuickQuid – cut and run

    Having extorted millions from struggling austerity-hit families, the US-backed payday lender is pocketing its loot and getting out.

    30 Oct 2019 ,
  • Health / Shameful levels of malnutrition in Britain

    Privatisation and cost-cutting in social care have led to shocking levels of neglect amongst the most vulnerable in our society.

    13 Sep 2019 , Lalkar
  • Education / Teachers given pay rise, but schools forced to pay

    Government will fund a 0.75 percent increase, with schools told to find most of the required cash from their own budgets.

    8 Aug 2019 , Proletarian
  • Social wage / ‘We often see grown men in tears – they can’t believe they’re here’

    Manchester reporter discovers dismay, rage and defiance in Oldham, a town bruised by universal credit and austerity.

    7 Aug 2019 , Manchester Evening News
  • Education / Thousands of children are taught in classes that are too big

    Reverse privatisation and create an education system that serves the real needs of both society and individuals.

    4 Jul 2019 ,
  • Climate change / Letter: How can we deal with climate change?

    Should workers ‘take a haircut’ to save the environment?

    10 Jun 2019 , Proletarian
  • Disputes / Left-Labour-controlled Newham is not such a New Jerusalem

    Despite working for a Labour council and a Corbynite mayor, council workers in Newham face pay cuts and bullying.

    13 May 2019 , Proletarian
  • Climate change / Yellow vests v Extinction Rebellion

    Climate protestors’ leader accidentally gives away the ruling class’s agenda.

    4 May 2019 ,
  • France / Call from France’s first yellow vest assembly

    Even as it sinks out of sight in the British media, France’s popular rebellion is continuing and gaining momentum.

    30 Mar 2019 , Proletarian
  • British politics / ‘Neither Brexit nor austerity’ – the People’s Assembly and the yellow vest movement in Britain

    Pitting austerity against Brexit is misleading workers into supporting the interests of British imperialism and dividing rather than uniting workers in struggle.

    29 Mar 2019 ,
  • France / France’s yellow vests fight on, despite concessions

    Social unrest in France is being driven by workers’ anger at continuous attacks on jobs, wages and living standards.

    5 Jan 2019 , Lalkar
  • Social wage / WH Smith gobbles up another 74 post offices

    Another step towards the complete dismemberment and privatisation of the mail service.

    22 Dec 2018 ,
  • Social wage / A third of British children live in poverty

    A decade of austerity is taking a heavy toll on Britain’s families.

    13 Dec 2018 , Proletarian
  • Pay and conditions / Marriott hotel staff walk-outs across the USA

    Hard-pressed hospitality workers are fighting back over low pay and increasingly brutal conditions.

    9 Dec 2018 ,
  • Housing / The housing crisis is lining private landlords’ pockets

    Housing benefit is acting as the ‘landlords’ bonus’, while provision of emergency temporary accommodation by private landlords is the ‘icing on the cake’.

    6 Dec 2018 , Proletarian
  • Disputes / Birmingham: Two-faced council breaks promises to binmen and residents

    Birmingham’s militant binmen deserve our full support as their dispute looks set to break out again this Christmas.

    1 Dec 2018 , Proletarian
  • Pay and conditions / Glasgow: Teachers take to the streets

    Pay and conditions in the profession continue to decline, leading to a retention and recruitment crisis in our schools.

    16 Nov 2018 , Proletarian
  • Social wage / Universal credit: forcing the needy into ever more desperate poverty

    The government can look after the interests of the capitalists or the interests of the workers; it cannot do both.

    13 Nov 2018 , Lalkar
  • Disputes / FE lecturers ballot over derisory pay offer

    It is not the job of workers to square the accounts of their employers.

    17 Oct 2018 ,
  • Education / School exclusions create prisoners, not reformed pupils

    With ever more social problems manifesting in the classroom, and support staff and services being axed, draconian methods of ‘behaviour management’ are on the rise.

    28 Sep 2018 , Proletarian
  • Disputes / Support Birmingham’s homecare workers

    Before Labour councillors privatise the service completely.

    19 Sep 2018 , Birmingham Worker
  • Health / NHS cost-cutting managers’ plan will axe a raft of routine operations

    Calling these procedures ‘unnecessary’ won’t stop people needing them, however; it will merely ration them according to the ability to pay.

    8 Aug 2018 , Proletarian
  • Health / Save our NHS

    Only by clearly understanding our rulers’ determination to dismantle the NHS and by coordinating our efforts to save it can we hope to succeed.

    16 Jul 2018 ,
  • Health / NHS: government forced to recognise reality

    The NHS needs more money for services and staff, not simply to create further profits for the bloodsucking privateers.

    16 Jul 2018 , Lalkar
  • Social wage / Poverty on the rise as Birmingham’s Labour council freezes burial fees

    Rates of child poverty are soaring in Britain’s major cities; Labour councils are as impotent and callous as all the rest.

    14 Jun 2018 , Proletarian
  • France / France fights back against Thatcherite ‘reforms’

    French workers have only to see what has been done to the British working class in recent decades to understand the ramifications of their present fight.

    3 May 2018 , Lalkar
  • Health / NHS crisis bites deeper

    Workers taste the bitter fruit of capitalist market ‘reforms’.

    1 Feb 2018 , Proletarian
  • Disputes / Editorial: Message to Birmingham’s bin workers

    1 Dec 2017 , Proletarian
  • Disputes / Birmingham’s binmen conclude their strike … for now

    A ‘new’ deal has been offered that appears to make some concessions, but which demands more work for the same money.

    1 Dec 2017 , Proletarian
  • Disputes / Binmen on strike in Birmingham

    More council cuts = more rats! Birmingham’s refuse workers are mounting strong resistance to the latest austerity plans of the city’s Labour-led council.

    1 Aug 2017 , Proletarian
  • Housing / Editorial: The housing crisis

    The horrific fire at Grenfell Tower in London, which has killed so many working-class people, demonstrates the terrible reality of housing in Britain today.

    1 Aug 2017 , Proletarian
  • British politics / Not so strong and stable after all: May loses Brexit gamble

    The poisoned chalice of the British premiership.

    1 Jun 2017 , Proletarian
  • British politics / Editorial: Our demands

    1 Jun 2017 , Proletarian
  • Health / Cloak and dagger: the operation to kill the NHS

    The campaign to destroy the NHS is reaching its final stages: how did we get here and what can we do?

    1 Apr 2017 , Proletarian
  • British politics / Editorial: Brexit moves ahead

    Article 50 is triggered.

    1 Apr 2017 , Proletarian
  • Disputes / No to the new doctors’ contract; save our NHS!

    Hunt declares victory for the government; BMA’s Malawana declares ... nothing.

    1 Jun 2016 , Proletarian
  • Disputes / Greece: the struggle continues

    General strikes resume in the fight against austerity.

    11 May 2016 , Proletarian
  • Social wage / Budget 2016: attacking the poor will not fix the economy

    Chancellor Osborne is finding that there is no escape from the world capitalist economic crisis.

    1 Apr 2016 , Proletarian
  • Health / Public health: a matter of private profit

    The proposed junior doctors’ contracts and cuts to student nurse bursaries are part of the drive to turn our hospitals into profit-taking enterprises.

    1 Apr 2016 , Proletarian
  • Social wage / New bill could pave the way for the final destruction of social housing

    Is this the end of social housing in Britain or the start of a fight-back?

    1 Feb 2016 , Proletarian
  • Climate change / Floods in Britain: capitalism creating and exacerbating ‘natural’ disasters

    As cuts, privatisation and climate change collide to create a perfect storm, it’s becoming clearer than ever that we’ve got to be red to be green!

    1 Feb 2016 , Proletarian
  • Social wage / Disgraceful neglect of the disabled in Britain

    Official government policy: nobody knows you when you’re down and out.

    1 Feb 2016 , Proletarian
  • British politics / Health warning: capitalism kills

    Latest assaults on society’s most helpless.

    1 Feb 2016 , Proletarian
  • Disputes / Letter: Boycott the General Medical Council

    The medical profession needs a new, independent governing body, capable of acting in the true interests of patients.

    1 Dec 2015 , Proletarian
  • British politics / Health warning: Austerity kills

    The truth is out, notwithstanding official attempts to cover it up.

    1 Oct 2015 , Proletarian
  • Social wage / Benefit cuts: Who are the real parasites in our society?

    Stealing from the poor for the benefit of the rich.

    16 Sep 2015 , Proletarian
  • British politics / George Osborne’s vicious summer budget

    Austerity is set to deepen yet again, and the rise in poverty we have seen so far is only the beginning of what’s in store for Britain’s workers as the crisis of capitalism demands ever-bigger lumps of our flesh.

    16 Sep 2015 , Proletarian
  • Greece / Greece: Syriza caves in

    Grexit is inevitable, despite the capitulation of Greece’s government to the austerity demands of the European bankers.

    1 Aug 2015 , Proletarian
  • British politics / Election circus over, the class struggle continues

    Workers don’t need Labour's ‘kinder’ cuts and ‘ethical’ wars; we need communist organisation to take on the ruling class and win.

    1 Jun 2015 , Proletarian
  • Greece / Crunch time for Syriza?

    The bloodsuckers are running out of ways to keep Greece paying out. The imminent explosion will rock the world’s financial systems.

    1 Jun 2015 , Proletarian
  • Trade unions / Industry matters: Blacklisting rampant

    There is increasing evidence that the practice of blacklisting has never gone away – and has been quietly condoned by governments of all parties.

    1 Jun 2015 , Proletarian
  • Ireland / Sinn Féin stands alone against austerity

    North and south of the border, Sinn Féin is proving to be the only large party that takes a sincere interest in the welfare of the masses.

    1 Feb 2015 , Proletarian
  • Europe / Syriza victory in Greek elections

    The Greek masses say No to austerity – but can Syriza save them?

    1 Dec 2014 , Proletarian
  • Social wage / Wonga watch

    Workers’ indignation needs to be justly roused against this humiliation of our class.

    1 Aug 2012 , Proletarian
  • Divide and rule / Rage against capitalism: working-class youth fight back

    The working class needs a general staff that can enable it to direct its anger in a constructive way.

    9 Aug 2011 ,
  • Theatre / Play: The Power of Yes by David Hare

    Explaining nothing, this play is aimed merely at letting off some steam without getting any nearer to a solution to society’s systemic problems.

    1 Oct 2009 , Proletarian

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Austerity video

  • Capitalist crisis / Comrade Joti on RT’s CrossTalk: ‘What reset?’

    What do our rulers mean when they talk about the ‘great reset’, promise to ‘build back better’ or offer us a ‘green new deal’?

    4 Dec 2021, Proletarian TV
  • Health / Coronavirus: Cuts to health and social care crippled covid response

    The mismanagement of the pandemic in rich imperialist states continues to be highlighted through the chaos of lockdown easing.

    6 Aug 2020,
  • Health / Coronavirus: NHS privatisation and the US second wave

    What explains the difference in approach and outcomes between the US and Britain on the one hand and China on the other?

    16 Jul 2020,
  • Health / Coronavirus: NHS is 72 but drugs companies are still rinsing the system

    How the pandemic is exposing the priorities of our capitalist rulers.

    10 Jul 2020,
  • Health / Coronavirus: The truth about ‘overpopulation’ and ‘herd immunity’

  • Health / Coronavirus: What do the experts say?

  • China / Coronavirus: a message of solidarity to China

  • British politics / ‘Brexit means you won’t have to share the pain of Greek workers’

  • USSR / The NHS is ‘communist’ – we owe it to the October Revolution, not to Labour

  • British politics / Comrade Joti interviewed by Caleb Maupin

  • British politics / General election 2017: what did it mean?

  • British politics / After Brexit: what does the EU referendum result mean?

  • Britain TV / Communist doctor addresses NHS campaign meeting

Austerity theory

  • Theory / Modern monetary theory: is there a magic money tree?

    Those who would change the world must first understand it: Marxist economics is the antidote to bourgeois voodoo.

    22 Oct 2020, Lalkar
  • Capitalist crisis / The economic crisis and coronavirus

    In fighting capitalist exploitation and the war danger, workers will ultimately seek a way out through socialist revolution.

    11 May 2020, Lalkar

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