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Poverty highlights

  • Capitalist crisis / Capitalists are causing inflation, not workers!

    It’s time for the hoary old myth about wages causing inflation to be put to bed. Higher wages lead to lower profits, hence the bosses’ opposition.

    29 Jan 2023 ,
  • Europe / Food bank crisis in Europe

    As our rulers double down on their war against Russia, workers across the EU are suffering rising hunger and fuel poverty.

    22 Jan 2023 , Lalkar
  • Peru / Solidarity with the people of Peru against US aggression

    Another president falls to a US-backed coup in Latin America – but the people are not taking it lying down.

    20 Jan 2023 ,
  • Capitalist crisis / Prepay meter scandal reveals workers being slowly crushed by energy debt

    Workers who can’t afford crippling energy prices are being forced to pay even higher rates by the vulture providers.

    18 Jan 2023 ,
  • Peru / Peru’s fragile socialist government ousted by a soft coup

    Can the anger and energy of the Peruvian masses be channelled so as to realise their dreams of liberty and socialism?

    9 Jan 2023 , Lalkar
  • Capitalist crisis / Communist replies to BBC budget tips: ‘Get out and see the real world.’

    What kind of ‘journalist’ could seriously investigate whether ‘showering at the gym’ could be a money-saving tip for impoverished workers?

    5 Jan 2023 ,
  • Capitalist crisis / Happy new year?

    There is no reform that could enable this profit-hungry system to serve the needs of the working people.

    3 Jan 2023 ,
  • Capitalist crisis / Communist responds to patronising BBC advice for a ‘budget’ Christmas

    Naughty? Nice? It’s time workers stopped believing the fairy tale that we get what we ‘deserve’ and organised to fight for what we need!

    24 Dec 2022 ,
  • Brazil / Can Lula get Brazil back on track?

    Much has changed since Lula’s first presidency. While the economic situation is far more difficult, international shifts could work in the country’s favour.

    10 Dec 2022 ,
  • Capitalist crisis / Polycrisis? Time to put an end to this capitalist madness

    This system is unable to escape from its own absurd contradictions: in particular the insanity of deepening poverty in the midst of ever-accumulating wealth.

    7 Dec 2022 , Lalkar
  • Argentina / What is behind the attempted murder of vice-president Cristina Kirchner?

    US imperialism and its local proxies are willing to do whatever it takes to put this popular leader out of office – permanently.

    30 Nov 2022 , Lalkar
  • Nicaragua / Oppose US ‘special measures’ against sovereign Nicaragua!

    Once again, the USA wants to starve an entire people into submission, simply because they have asserted their right to economic and political independence.

    27 Nov 2022 , Proletarian
  • China / Xi Jinping to CPC: The times are calling us, and the people expect us to deliver’

    The last five years have indeed been ‘truly momentous and extraordinary’ ones in China’s history and development – and the next five look likely to be even more so.

    23 Nov 2022 , Friends of Socialist China
  • Disputes / Support our nurses’ struggle for decent pay!

    It is not our hard-pressed medical staff who are greedy, but the privateers who are pushing down their wages in the interests of profit.

    18 Nov 2022 , Proletarian
  • Trade unions / Are Britain’s union bosses interested in helping their members fight back?

    As the crisis deepens, the ruling class is looking far more determined than the unions, where lions continue to be led by loyal Labour donkeys.

    16 Nov 2022 , Proletarian
  • Brazil / Lula is back!

    With so much hope pinned on his new government, will his ministers be able to resist the push from global financiers insisting on ‘fiscal prudence’ (ie, on austerity)?

    15 Nov 2022 , Lalkar
  • British politics / Rishi Sunak becomes Britain’s third prime minister in seven weeks

    No changing of the guard can address the fundamental problem the British ruling class faces – a deepening crisis of overproduction that it is powerless to overcome.

    9 Nov 2022 , Lalkar
  • Capitalist crisis / The cost of living crisis is a capitalist crisis!

    The capitalists have shown themselves to be entirely unable to run their own system for the benefit of society.

    4 Nov 2022 ,
  • Social wage / Hungry schoolchildren; another sign of a failed system

    When an economic system can’t provide basics like food and warm shelter to its people, it is time for it to be replaced.

    22 Oct 2022 , Proletarian
  • Haiti / Protests erupt in Haiti against corrupt comprador government

    Ruthless political suppression and rampant superexploitation by US monopoly capital continue to drive social unrest in the island nation.

    29 Sep 2022 , Proletarian
  • Ukraine / Selling Ukraine to the highest bidder

    Alongside the wanton sacrifice of its military-aged men, the total immiseration of Ukraine’s entire population by western imperialism continues apace.

    20 Sep 2022 , Proletarian
  • Capitalist crisis / Cost of living crisis: the fightback is under way

    Growing militance among unionised workers and vigorous new campaigns to combat the effects of poverty and inflation signify a change in the workers’ mood.

    6 Sep 2022 , Lalkar
  • Social wage / Food bank Britain

    British families are relying on charity to eat as the market and the government both fail to provide even such a basic necessity as food.

    20 Jun 2022 , Proletarian
  • Capitalist crisis / Cost of living crisis worsens as inflation and energy prices soar

    Our rulers are keen to blame ‘the Russians’ for the intrinsic failings of the capitalist system itself.

    29 May 2022 , Proletarian
  • Capitalist crisis / Why should the working class pay the cost of the capitalist crisis?

    Profiteering, taxation, money printing, social provision cuts, interest rate hikes ... are all combining to transfer the burden of the crisis onto the backs of the poor.

    16 Mar 2022 , Lalkar
  • Capitalist crisis / Poverty stalks the land as ultrarich count the spoils

    Inequality is rising in Britain and in the world, the inevitable outcome of the workings of our much-praised market economy.

    3 Mar 2022 , Proletarian
  • Korea / South Korean workers strike for secure work and better living standards

    Strikers demand job security, healthcare, social housing and the right to free assembly in latest class-war skirmish.

    19 Dec 2021 , Proletarian
  • Economy / Energy crisis: more millions to prop up the privateers

    Taxpayer cash will shore up monopoly profits while workers shiver this winter.

    14 Dec 2021 , Proletarian
  • Health / Derisory pay offer covers further cuts as NHS privatisation reaches new heights

    National clapping and a George Cross have left nurses empty handed as the new health chief helps US profiteers move in.

    2 Dec 2021 , Proletarian
  • Economy / ‘Just in time’ reveals the fatal inadequacy of market mechanisms

    Global supply lines have been designed with profit maximisation, not the needs of the people, in mind.

    16 Nov 2021 , Proletarian
  • British politics / Ninth party congress: We must connect our movement with the masses

    Important foundations have already been laid. Now we must expand and build on those in a principled and serious way.

    11 Nov 2021 , Proletarian
  • USA / US state revokes child protection laws instead of creating decent jobs for adults

    Wisconsin is planning to patch up the cracks in its faltering economy by getting children to work longer and later.

    10 Nov 2021 , Proletarian
  • Working-class history / Remembering the 2011 youth uprising

    Ten years on, the poverty, inequality and injustice that led to an outpouring of rage on England’s streets have only worsened.

    6 Aug 2021 , Proletarian
  • Social wage / Unemployment and poverty set to rise as furlough ends and benefits are cut

    A brutal shock is in store for many workers as the temporary multi-tiered unemployment support system is slashed back to the bone.

    13 Jul 2021 , Proletarian
  • Health / NHS dentistry in its death throes as Covid is used as a cover for privatisation

    Increasing numbers of poor workers are not registered with a dentist and are forced to use DIY treatments in an emergency.

    17 Jun 2021 , Proletarian
  • Housing / Ban extended, but evictions continue

    Behind the toothless legislation is a government, and parliament, inextricably intertwined with the landlord class.

    1 Apr 2021 , Proletarian
  • 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
  • Social wage / Hard to swallow: UK food parcels shamefully inadequate

    When profit takes precedence over the provision of service, it’s no surprise that half-hearted and belated government measures are not fit for purpose.

    8 Feb 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 ,
  • India / The global aspect of India’s farmer protests

    Exposing India’s food producers to untrammelled force of the market will raise food prices and put farmers at the mercy of agribusiness corporations.

    19 Jan 2021 , The Hindu
  • India / The largest strike the world has ever seen is taking place now in India

    But you wouldn’t know it from Britain’s corporate media and Labour-affiliated trade union leaderships.

    11 Jan 2021 , Lalkar
  • 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 ,
  • British politics / Workers party launches corona wealth tax campaign

    All progressives in Britain should be working to extend the reach of the Workers Party into the ranks of the working class.

    12 Oct 2020 , Proletarian
  • Lebanon / Tragedy in Lebanon

    The blast in Beirut port may prove to be the straw that broke the camel’s back.

    28 Aug 2020 , Lalkar
  • 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
  • Industry / Leicester sweatshops keep their heads down despite covid panic

    Fashion industry gangmasters are riding out the storm, safe in the knowledge that it will be business as usual before long.

    17 Jul 2020 , Proletarian
  • Economy / Bosses press on with sackings as crisis deepens

    As the furlough support scheme comes to an end, the true depth of the economic crisis is becoming ever clearer.

    7 Jul 2020 , Proletarian
  • British politics / Boris’s chapter of accidents

    As the covid emergency progresses, the prime minister is jumping from one fiasco to another, exposing his many inadequacies to full public view.

    23 Jun 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
  • USA / US burning as working-class communities rise up against police brutality

    As Irish republicans used to say: when the law makers are the law breakers, there is no law.

    5 Jun 2020 , Proletarian
  • Lay-offs and closures / Jobless total rockets

    As the economic crisis bites, over a million workers in Britain have been forced precipitously onto the breadline.

    24 May 2020 , Proletarian
  • Health / Covid-19: What is the coronavirus and is it a real threat?

    Dr Ranjeet Brar takes a look at the medical aspects of the present pandemic, comparing Covid-19 to other viruses such as influenza and Sars.

    12 May 2020 , Lalkar
  • Capitalist crisis / The corona pandemic and the capitalist world economic crash of 2020

    Our rulers are keen to convince us that the deepest depression in the history of capitalism is a random and unpredictable ‘black swan’ event.

    2 May 2020 ,
  • Capitalist crisis / A call to arms: This May Day, fight together against imperialism

    Workers’ parties sign international revolutionary anti-imperialist manifesto.

    1 May 2020 ,
  • Capitalist crisis / Burying bad news: crash caused by overproduction not coronavirus

    The present economic crisis has been long in the making, but is being passed off as the result of the covid lockdown.

    29 Apr 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
  • Film and TV / #EatTheRich: Parasite film review

    A searing and at times hilarious critique of south Korean class society, ultimately let down by its inability to offer any real way out.

    19 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 / Work doesn’t pay and British families know it

    Fourteen million people, including four million children, live in poverty in Britain, and more than half of those come from working families.

    19 Feb 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
  • 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
  • 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 ,
  • Society / The true level of unemployment

    Joblessness is being underreported by a factor of 200 percent.

    26 Oct 2019 , Proletarian
  • 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
  • Pay and conditions / Cleaners demand fair pay at government department

    Outsourced staff are on strike for living wages at the department of business.

    16 Aug 2019 ,
  • 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
  • Housing / Council tax becoming the new poll tax says report

    Thinktank investigation reveals the huge disparity in rates of payment between the poorest and richest households.

    16 Jul 2019 , Birmingham Worker
  • Society / Hunger on the rise in Britain, despite economic ‘recovery’

    In-work poverty testifies as to who really paid to bail out the banks in 2008. And while hunger is on the rise, one-third of food produced every year is wasted.

    20 May 2019 , Proletarian
  • 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
  • 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
  • Housing / Residents resist social cleansing in Cambridge

    The CPGB-ML supports tenants in Montreal Square, who are trying to save their community from redevelopment.

    2 Nov 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
  • 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
  • Disputes / Migrant workers in London: We are not the dirt we clean

    New unions are championing London's invisible workforce.

    1 Feb 2018 , Proletarian
  • Pay and conditions / Pay gap widens: the rich get richer

    What the minimum wage did for us ...

    1 Feb 2018 , Proletarian
  • British politics / Editorial: Our demands

    1 Jun 2017 , Proletarian
  • USSR / What did the October Revolution do for us? 1. The NHS

    The Great October Revolution, which created the world’s first socialist state, and whose centenary is celebrated this year, brought with it the first ever system of universal provision for all members of society, and amongst the most important of those gains was that of free and complete healthcare.

    1 Dec 2016 , Proletarian
  • Society / Letter: We need a council tax rebellion

    1 Apr 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
  • USA / The rise of Donald Trump: a revolt against the establishment

    The anger of poor white workers in the US may be misdirected for now, but it is real and it is growing.

    1 Apr 2016 , Proletarian
  • Capitalist crisis / The rich are getting richer but fewer

    As the gap between the rich and poor widens, some of the rich find themselves being kicked downstairs.

    1 Apr 2016 , Proletarian
  • Industry / Industry matters: pay ‘rises’ belied by decline in real wages

    1 Feb 2016 , Proletarian
  • Divide and rule / The human cost of prisons for profit

    A Proletarian reader recounts his best friend’s descent into despair and eventual suicide while imprisoned on an indeterminate sentence. This article has been previously published in the Morning Star.

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

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

    1 Oct 2015 , Proletarian
  • USA / US Party for Socialism and Liberation announces its 2016 presidential campaign

    We are happy to reproduce the following statement from the PSL.

    16 Sep 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
  • 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
  • USA / Baltimore uprising reveals working class’s revolutionary potential

    When revolutionary science and organisation come together with the power and anger of the US’s poor, there will be no stopping them.

    1 Jun 2015 , 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 ,
  • Civil liberties / YOUTH UPRISING 2011: Bourgeois ideologues battle for control of the working-class movement

    Protesters under attack from state repression, rabid propaganda and rotten ideology.

    1 Jun 2011 , Proletarian

Poverty topics

  • Anti-union laws
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  • Overproduction crisis
  • Poverty
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  • Ukraine war
  • Vladimir Putin
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  • Alba
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  • Peru Coup
  • Debt
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  • Enough is Enough
  • Privatisation
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  • Anti-communism
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Poverty video

  • Capitalist crisis / Comrade Ranjeet: ‘Cost of living crisis is inseparably bound up with capitalism’

    What is the cause of working-class impoverishment, and what is the solution to this perennial and worsening problem?

    4 Sep 2022,
  • China / Two decades of development in Zhejiang: CPC shares its achievements

    In the cradle of China’s ancient civilisation, 20 years of targeted investment are bearing great fruit for the people.

    17 May 2021,
  • Social wage / Queues for food reach 2km in London

    Why was it left to a Russian TV station to document this shameful state of affairs in our country?

    22 Mar 2021, RT
  • Capitalist crisis / Covid has laid bare the capitalist dystopia in which we are already living

    If 2020 has taught us anything it is that the current economic and political system is blocking our ability to solve humanity’s urgent problems.

    17 Mar 2021,
  • Capitalist crisis / The unenviable plight of the self-employed

  • China / China meets poverty goals ten years early as rest of the world goes the other way

  • Health / Comrade Ranjeet on MoATS: ‘The government has failed the people’

  • Health / Coronavirus: Cuts to health and social care crippled covid response

  • Health / Coronavirus: NHS privatisation and the US second wave

  • British politics / Comrade Joti interviewed by Caleb Maupin

  • Capitalist crisis / Economics 101: Capitalism

Poverty theory

  • Capitalist crisis / It’s not the workers but the capitalists who are causing inflation

    It is the right and the duty of workers to demand a bigger share of the wealth their own labour has created.

    25 Jan 2023,
  • Capitalist crisis / The cost of living crisis is a capitalist crisis

    Economic crises are an inescapable feature of life under the market system. Socialist planning is our only way out.

    4 Nov 2022, Proletarian
  • British politics / WPB storms Batley: ‘We intend to replace Labour as party of working class’

    George Galloway’s party took 22 percent of the vote and sowed chaos in the ranks of the Labour party in July’s West Yorkshire by-election.

    10 Aug 2021, Proletarian
  • 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.

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