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How can today’s political crisis be resolved in favour of the working class and the labour movement?
With the ruling class crisis moving into a new political stage, we need to be promoting Labour’s radical alternative policies when escalating the protests against Johnson’s Tory government, says ROBERT GRIFFITHS
Boris Johnson's hard-right cabal of ministers

THE formation of a government headed by Boris Johnson opens a new stage in the political crisis of Britain’s ruling class.

Why? Because it is a regime apparently committed to a policy that contradicts the interests of big business. 

Most of the big financial and economic monopoly corporations do not want Britain to leave the EU. They regard the result of the 2016 referendum as a major defeat, as any reader of the Financial Times will testify.

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