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When in December 2016 a Russian plane crashed, killing dozens of Red Army Choir singers dancers and musicians, a wave of national grief seized the people of Russia. The loss of the orchestra, en route to play in Syria, wiped out the cream of a generation of young musicians. Amid the general mourning, one voice … [Read more…]

Throughout Europe more and more voters are expressing their rejection of traditional bourgeois parties and turning to maverick parties that offer a quick fix to Europe’s economic problems, much as desperate patients whose doctors cannot cure them often turn to purveyors of snake oil and suchlike useless ‘cures’. What is happening in Europe, as indeed … [Read more…]

In the attempt to prevent a Jeremy Corbyn-led Labour Party from ever forming a government, a hue and cry has been raised by the sections of the bourgeoisie who most fear this, using their Zionist and pro-Zionist stooges to spearhead the attack. It is an attack which can only succeed if people can be conned … [Read more…]

A long Spanish tale of bourgeois misrule and corruption came to a head on 1 June this year when the incumbent Prime Minister, Mariano Rajoy, of the Popular Party (PP) lost a vote of no confidence by 180 votes in favour of the motion to just 169 against, and 1 abstention. The mover of the … [Read more…]

A fundamental feature of the gig economy is the way in which the sale of a worker’s labour power to a the capitalist is camouflaged as the capitalist paying for the services of a ‘self-employed’ tradesman. By this stratagem the capitalist seeks to evade his legal responsibilities as an employer regarding things like the minimum … [Read more…]

The financial crisis that has been raging through the NHS for some years is now impossible to hide and so it is now being publicly recognised even by the Conservative government, thanks to public pressure and sentiment, that the NHS is starved of resources. A head of steam seems to be building up under the … [Read more…]

French rail strikes French President Macron began to roll out his reforms of the labour code last autumn, since which there has been a rash of redundancies, contradicting the oft-repeated claim that greater ‘flexibility’ will push down unemployment. Under the new rules, employers no longer have to justify redundancies by demonstrating that their businesses are … [Read more…]

Sally Hunt, leader of the University and College Union, has found a novel way of dodging UCU Congress motions critical of her handling of the university lecturers’ pensions dispute. Faced with a no-confidence motion from King’s College branch and a demand for her resignation from Exeter branch, it looked for a moment as if Hunt … [Read more…]

Staff working for the TGI Fridays restaurant chain have been on strike against a management decision over tips which is being resisted by waiters and kitchen staff alike. Protests were mounted outside restaurants in Covent Garden and Milton Keynes. Traditionally in the catering industry, those who wait on tables have been even worse paid than … [Read more…]

PART ONE In honour of the seventieth anniversary of the death of Andrei Zhdanov (26 February 1896 to 31 August 1948), one of the great Bolshevik leaders and outstanding Marxist-Leninist, a great working-class theoretician and an expert in the field of art, literature and music). 31 August 2018 marks seventy years since the Soviet people … [Read more…]