Socialist Action

The expansion of NATO is a threat to peace

26th January 2022

There will be no end to the current dangerous impasse if the bottom line for the US is that Russia must accept NATO’s military machine encroaching further along its borders and that the people of eastern Ukraine will be denied their right to self-determination, up to and including the formation of a new state or joining Russia.

The virus has not given up. Western governments have

24th January 2022

The governments in the Western imperialist centres have almost completely given up on any pretence at trying to combat the virus. The results are catastrophic and there is no end in sight.

The push to oust Johnson is coming from the right – an indictment of Starmer’s failures

17th January 2022

There is nothing progressive to be expected from the turmoil in the Tory Party. The underlying factors causing it, the policies of the Covid death toll and austerity, are supported by all possible Johnson rivals.

Covid update: The latest phase of the ruling class offensive

12th January 2022

Most of the main Western imperialist powers are effectively doing nothing to prevent Covid spreading. A minority opposes such government policies. Socialists need to link up with this resistance and radicalisation, to unify and broaden it.

March Against Racism – UN Anti-Racism Day – Saturday 19 March

11th January 2022

UN Anti-Racism Day Saturday 19 March National Demonstrations Organised by Stand Up To Racism Backed by the TUC

Abortion Rights – 5 New Year’s Resolutions

6th January 2022

Make home use for early medical abortion pills legal with good quality telemedicine. Expose the misinformation of abortion reversal pills once and for all. End clinic harassment. Implement paid leave for abortion policies at work. Decriminalise abortion now.

Biden’s “democracy summit” – how Marx showed the fake character of capitalism’s concept of “human rights”

14th December 2021

Marx designated the difference between what he termed “political emancipation” and “human emancipation” – between purely formal equality and rights in politics and the fundamental inequality and lack of rights in the real world. This classically sets out the reality of Western parliamentary democracy.

Women hold up half the sky: how china eradicated extreme poverty

10th December 2021

The eliminating of extreme poverty is seen not as an end goal but as an important stage in the construction of socialism. Poverty, after all, is an issue of class struggle.