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Half a Million on Strike in Britain

February 13, 2023Tom Costello

Tom Costello is a member of Socialist Alternative (England, Wales & Scotland). What Now for the Workers’ Movement? The language of class war is the order of the day in Britain. As striking nurses have said on the picket lines: “Patients aren’t dying because we are striking. We are striking because patients are dying”, which […]

Behind Britain’s Political Shipwreck is a Declining System

November 14, 2022Tom Costello

Tom Costello is a member of Socialist Alternative (England, Wales & Scotland). First, the Queen dies. Then a ‘mini-budget’ pushes the British economy to the brink of collapse. Then, just after the Tories come within an inch of reinstalling Boris Johnson as Prime Minister, back comes Rishi Sunak to the front again. Four people have […]

British Tories’ “Mini Budget” — A Declaration of War on Workers

September 26, 2022Tom Costello

Tom Costello is a member of Socialist Alternative (England, Wales & Scotland). Enough is enough! Build towards a general strike Kwasi Kwarteng’s new budget for the rich is an open, naked display of class warfare. It represents a Tory party hurtling even further towards the right, as working-class people begin to strike back against the […]

Chartism 1838–1848: Birth of the Working-Class Movement

March 28, 2022Tom Costello

Tom Costello is a member of Socialist Alternative (England, Wales & Scotland). The British ruling class would like to present today’s capitalist “democracy” as one that was gradual, “peaceful,” and a kind gift handed down from above. “Once the poor had no rights, and then society naturally progressed towards the great democracy we have today […]

Youth: No Future Under Capitalism

June 13, 2021Tom Costello

Tom Costello is a member of Socialist Alternative (England, Wales & Scotland). Global Resistance on the Agenda Recently, the British pro-capitalist journal the Financial Times conducted a survey of more than 1,700 young people, to find out the main concerns and problems facing both Millennials and Generation Zers today. The results were stark but not surprising. When asked […]

250 Years Since Robert Owen’ Birth

May 20, 2021Tom Costello

Tom Costello is a member of Socialist Alternative (England, Wales & Scotland). “Every social movement, every real advance in England on behalf of the workers links itself on to the name of Robert Owen.” Friedrich Engels This month marks 250 years since the birth of a legendary utopian socialist. While today many of his ideas […]