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Rebuilding the forces of socialism

Workers’ industrial struggle has revived in recent months on a scale not seen for decades. That is cause for great hopes. Left-wing political mobilisation, though, has failed to match it. On issues like the NHS, new anti-strike laws, asylum rights, and the environment, activity on the streets has been small in proportion to the number of people opposed to official policies.

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West Bank surveillance echoes China

In a development that echoes the Chinese state’s repressive methods against the Uyghur people, the Israeli military is monitoring Palestinians in the occupied territories with a vast and intrusive database of personal details. This database is connected to facial recognition cameras and smartphone apps that Israeli soldiers and settlers use to stop, scan, control and detain civilians.

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Discussing ecology and entropy

Expanded from the version in the printed paper.


Workers’ Liberty organises a monthly Marxist ecology reading group. This month we discussed a chapter on “Entropy and ecological economics” from Marxism and Ecological Economics by Paul Burkett.

Over the last three decades, Burkett and his co-thinkers have developed metabolic rift theory and played a significant role in restoring Marx as an important ecological thinker.

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Price inflation: facts, prospects, and responses

How much have prices risen? 10.1% (CPI), 13.5% (RPI), 19.2% (food), between March 2022 and March 2023.

The high CPI and RPI rates are due to food prices? Not entirely; Germany has 22% food inflation, 7.4% CPI; France 16% food, 5.7% CPI. Food is only 10% of the CPIH “basket”. The UK’s higher rate is mostly due to household energy prices having jumped sharply here between March and April 2022.

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SNP is not just unlucky victim of Tory conspiracy

It’s been another excellent week for bad news about the SNP.

It began with the release of a recording of a meeting of the SNP’s NEC in March 2021 in which the then party leader Nicola Sturgeon claimed that the SNP had “never been in a stronger financial position” and warned NEC members to be “very careful about suggestions that there is something wrong with the party’s finances.”

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