Trump’s escalation against Venezuela is about more than oil, it is about regaining control over the ‘natural’ zone of influence of the United States at a moment where its hegemony is slipping, argues VIJAY PRASHAD
IT’S time for a “phase II” of our anti-austerity campaign — a sustained campaign of mass action by trade unions and communities not only against the deprivation and suffering caused by austerity economics, but for the alternative — policies designed to irrevocably shift wealth and power from the tiny economic and political ruling class to the mass of the people.
Of course, there are many within Parliament struggling to achieve that too — and many who are struggling to maintain the status quo of neoliberal capitalism.
What we have seen over recent months and years, though, is that when push comes to shove such struggles cannot be won solely from within Parliament.
The only way to develop and build a party of a new type that in any way threatens capitalism is at the same time to develop and build the mass movement around it, argues BILL GREENSHIELDS
It would be great to have a better option to vote for in elections, but a coalition of proven working-class organisations built from decades of real struggle offers stronger foundations than patched-together parliamentarianism, writes BILL GREENSHIELDS
BILL GREENSHIELDS urges an intensification of the information offensive against the impact of the spurious discourse peddled by Reform UK



