Socialist Appeal - International Marxist Tendency
Marxism. Socialism. Revolution.
The situation that now faces the Tory government resembles an episode of Game of Thrones. The intrigues are numerous, as are the characters who scheme and plot in the shadows. Without any allies, the authority of the House of May has been drained. And Winter is Coming - or at least the dreaded Tory Party conference in October. But this is no television fantasy.
It emerged last week that the Tories are once again, for the second general election in a row, set to face a police inquiry into illegal behaviour surrounding their election campaigning. These continuous scandals and flouting of the law illustrate the deep underlying fragilities of a Conservative Party facing crisis and decline.
Children are going hungry, have no clean clothes, no room to play and are being evicted from their homes on an increasingly regular basis according to a recent report by the charity Buttle UK. As a result, for families and children living in poverty, the summer holidays have become a time of extreme stress and struggle.
In an unsurprising turn of events, the High Court has blocked the prosecution of Tony Blair for the Iraq war, brutally reminding us of the true face of the justice system within capitalism. Fiona Lali of the SOAS Marxists discusses the latest events in the campaign to see the former New Labour leader convicted for taking the country into an illegal war.
Last week, those affected by the horrific fire at Grenfell Tower received a letter from the Metropolitan Police stating that the local council and management company responsible for the tower could be investigated for corporate manslaughter. But with the system rigged against working class communities, Nico Baldion asks: how can we fight for justice?