Fighting global capitalism

Net-zero policies are blamed for job losses in the offshore oil industry (as they are in the oil refinery industry). Is this fair? Between 2015 and 2025 around 260,000 jobs related to offshore oil and gas were lost in the UK. Direct employment in offshore oil and gas is in the tens of thousands. There is also related employment in supply chains and hospitality, for a total at the peak in 2014 of 453,000 jobs. The industry continues declining with exhaustion of reserves, or easy-to-extract reserves. Some companies look to diversify (e.g. to hydrogen production, renewables, carbon capture), but...

Picture: Love Dooshima Have you ever wished bread didn’t go off so fast? Well, for the shop owner and content creator who had that wish granted, it wasn't all it's cracked up to be. Love Dooshima, 52, posted a video on TikTok detailing an experiment she did where she left a particular brand of bread open on her counter for two months and documented her shock in finding it looking and smelling as fresh as the day she bought it. As a woman who experiences health issues due to menopause, Dooshima uses her platform to educate her fellow Nigerians on being mindful about food consumption. In the...

The issue of workplace heat dominated many trade-union branches in the week starting 22 June, and many small victories were won. Some workers, such as London bus drivers, took direct action and refused work on health and safety grounds. Many others won mitigations like agreements to work from home or workplace closures. These actions kept workers safe, but long term solutions require more sustained pressure. At least one union branch, Arriva London North Unite, is leading the way by balloting on this issue. Many employers introduced temperature “fixes” during the heat wave, often under...

I want to put in a plug for the bi-annual journal, The Land, which I have read (somewhat unsystematically) for a number of years

A key danger for small Marxist organisations, beleaguered by many decades of working class defeat, is that we can slip into a mode of abstract thinking and ready made formulae and we neglect to orient to our changing reality. Workers Liberty has long rejected “one solution, revolution” as empty posturing on most social questions. Luke Hardy ( Solidarity 767) uncritically applies the same formula to the climate and ecological emergency. But we should start with reality and tell the truth: short of another catatrophe like nuclear war, global temperatures will continue to rise so long as the...

When "Epstein class" is used as a synonym for the ruling class, the usage becomes harmful.

Picture: No Kings Protest, Washington DC, 18 October 2025 In the furore surrounding the release of millions of documents from the US government’s investigations into paedophile sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, we should remain focused on the important issues: the multiple injustices suffered by the young women and girls he abused. That focus has already been lost to subsidiary scandals. Of course the morally and politically corrupt friends of Epstein, such as Peter Mandelson, should be held to account. Much more so should those who participated in abuse or facilitated it. As should those who...

On 20 February, the US Supreme Court ruled many of Trump's tariffs illegal.

We carry two texts by Trotsky from 1938 on confrontations between Latin American countries and US and UK imperialism, and an article by us from 1982 about why their conclusions could not be simply copy-pasted onto the British-Argentine war of that year over the Falklands-Malvinas, in which we opposed both sides.

Sven Beckert's new book is a bravura sketch, in 1,300 pages, of the whole story of capitalism from its pre-history before the "great connecting" of the world market in the "long 16th century" right up to today.