The following article is an introduction to Vladimir Lenin’s Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism which was republished by Socialist Alternative England, Wales and Scotland in 2025. While there have been a number of significant global developments since this introduction was written – including the current US-Israeli war on Iran and Lebanon and Trump’s offensive […]
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How Can Workers Fight Back? Just under a year ago, John Healey, Labour’s Defence Secretary in Britain, visited a munitions factory. There, he made a speech extolling the virtues of a dawning new era of “military Keynesianism.” Slashing overseas aid budgets and “reinforcing the British industrial base” would lead to “more jobs in every part […]
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On November 29 and 30, Your Party (YP) will hold its founding conference. The challenges that lie in front of this fledgling organisation are huge. But its tasks are urgent. The enemy is at the gate. Reform leads in the polls by a wide margin. Far-right racists are emboldened and on the streets. Starmer’s Labour, […]
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While ISA welcomes the pause in the slaughter, we do not support the ceasefire “deal itself” in any way After two years of genocidal slaughter in Gaza, the first pause in the fighting for more than six months has come into effect on 10 October. Before the agreed start time for the ceasefire approached, the […]
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Performative woke-washing has been replaced by performative woke-bashing In what might seem a strange paradox, the latter part of the last Trump presidency coincided with a dramatic rise in so-called ‘woke capitalism’. In 2020, with Trump still in the White House, Doritos emblazoned the slogan “Black Lives Matter” on a huge branded mural adorning the […]
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New Left Party Needed Now! The only answer from centrist politicians like Keir Starmer to rising support for the figures like Farage is to politically mimic them. “We must close the book on a squalid chapter for our politics, our economy and our country. Britain risks becoming an island of strangers”. This chilling anti-migrant rhetoric, […]
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Claire Laker-Mansfield is a member of Socialist Alternative (England, Wales & Scotland). Tory infighting rages: Drive them all from power! After two days of humiliation, 59 resignations and one sacking, Johnson has finally succumbed to overwhelming pressure and resigned as Tory leader. Yet far from drawing a line under this crisis, it fires the starting […]
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Claire Laker-Mansfield is a member of Socialist Alternative (England, Wales & Scotland). The votes cast on May’s super-Thursday elections are still being counted. But already the picture painted is one of an utter disaster for Starmer’s Labour. Labour heading to lose over 200 council seats and further losses in the Scottish parliament. Since the 2019 […]
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Claire Laker-Mansfield is a member of Socialist Alternative (England, Wales & Scotland). Britain’s ongoing Brexit crisis has entered a new and spectacularly explosive phase. Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s government is in a state of chaos. His attempts to regain control, including via the dissolution of parliament, have so-far failed. Johnson’s first week in parliament as […]
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