The US reprisal of global nuclear proliferation, threatening a new arms race, could push the world to the brink of annihilation, warns SOPHIE BOLT of CND
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We still need the means of production
Much has changed but the essentials remain the same – we need a new wave of nationalisation in a new form, or face planetary oblivion, writes NICK WRIGHT
October 2025 was another Black History Month. Has Britain learned anything – or are we going backwards, asks CLAUDIA WEBBE
Real action is needed to make sure tragedies like that at Huntingdon never happen again. TSSA leader MARYAM ESLAMDOUST suggests some practical, achievable steps to be taken
VINCE MILLS sizes up the problems facing Your Party north of the border as it grapples with a range of policies, including its approach to Scottish independence
MARK SERWOTKA issues a rallying call to those committed to building a new radical socialist party of the working class to commit to real democracy, not imaginary or performative gestures
Scholar of Latin America, journalist and anti-imperialist, who leaves a powerful intellectual and political legacy
“TO secure for the workers by hand or by brain the full fruits of their industry and the most equitable distribution thereof that may be possible upon the basis of the common ownership of the means of production, distribution and exchange, and the best obtainable system of popular administration and control of each industry or service.”
For generations this formulation has served as a compelling description of the socialist goal inscribed on Labour Party membership cards, the banners of trade unions and in the minds of millions of working people.
For some it signified a steady progress through Parliament to achieve the public ownership of the main industries and services and a peaceful accommodation with a gentled capitalist class.
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