Socialist Appeal
The Marxist voice of Labour and youth
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The present crisis is a stark vindication of the ideas of Karl Marx, who long explained that capitalism produces an accumulation of wealth at one pole, and an accumulation of misery at the other. This rotten system must be overthrown.
Netflix documentary The Social Dilemma details the adverse effects of social media on our lives. Although the film helps shine a light on the murky practices of Big Tech, it fails to offer any real solutions to the problems it identifies.
With his new environmental strategy, the Tory leader has pledged to save both the planet and the economy. But these are empty promises, relying on big business at a time of deep crisis. We need a socialist response to climate chaos.
Tomorrow - 28 November - marks the 200th birthday of Friedrich Engels. Rob Sewell commemorates this bicentenary by looking at the vital contribution that Engels made to developing the ideas of Marxism, for which we owe him an enormous debt of gratitude.