Fighting global capitalism

Let the super-paid managers "flee". Fellow-workers, elected by and accountable to their workmates, can do the managing and organising work better, and at workers' wages.

A few thousand billionaires – 2,781 according to the latest report from Forbes magazine – own US$14.2 trillion in wealth, up by $2 trillion (14%) from 2023.

In the science-fiction novel Red Star, Mars is organised along socialist lines, and in a very flexible and non-oppressive manner

The super-rich 1% are responsible for 16% of global carbon emissions, equal to the emissions of the poorest 66% of humanity (five billion people). The richest 10% (incomes over $91,000) are responsible for half the emissions. Limiting long-term global warming to 1.5°C requires a 48% cut in total global emissions by 2030 (compared to 2019 levels). There is no way of achieving this without radical cuts to the oversized emissions of the rich. Progress on poverty alleviation and longer term climate goals also necessitates social control of investment decisions. As the super-rich gather for the...

Despite the wall-to-wall Scottish media coverage of campaigning in the run-up to last Thursday’s Rutherglen and Hamilton West by-election, some people on the doorstep nonetheless responded to canvassers with the question: “By-election? What by-election?” Perhaps their source of information (i.e. their source of an absence of information) was Socialist Worker , paper of the Socialist Workers Party (SWP). Tucked away in a small article on page three of issue 2874 of the paper (27th September) were four short sentences mentioning that the by-election would be taking place and that “media reports”...

Activists from Workers' Liberty and supporters of Solidarity will be at Labour Party conference and women's conference, 7-11 October in Liverpool. We'll be there to help the efforts of Free Our Unions, the Labour Campaign for Free Movement, the Ukraine Solidarity Campaign, India Labour Solidarity, and other campaigns; to sell literature, seek discussions and contacts. There will be demonstrations for the NHS and for abortion rights on Saturday, for free education on Sunday. And agitation for a block on new North Sea oil and gas fields, following the Tories' decision to "max out" licences in...

The 24 August 2023 invitation by the China-led BRICS group of states to six others is new evidence of the fracturing of the 1990-2008 world of US-led globalisation

Wage rises are not the cause of inflation

Inflation is slowing, but less than the experts predicted