Labour’s persistent failure to address its electorate’s salient concerns is behind the protest vote, asserts DIANE ABBOTT
Lessons good and ill can be taken from Red Russia
Communist Party leader ROBERT GRIFFITHS on the meaning of the 1917 revolution for us today
WHEN socialists and communists urge people to overthrow capitalism because it is unfair, unstable, wasteful, belligerent, exploitative and oppressive, many will agree with us that capitalism is indeed most if not all of those things.
Polling during last June’s EU referendum indicated that almost as many people in Britain have a negative view of capitalism (30 per cent) as have a positive view (39 per cent). Subsequent polls suggest capitalism’s critics are now the majority.
But what do we propose to put in capitalism’s place?
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