Silicon Valley Bank: how capitalism creates banking crises
Following the failure of Silicon Valley Bank, Eillis Rae examines how capitalism’s nature causes financial disasters to occur.
Strike militancy and escalation
Eben Dombay Williams writes about what workers in Britain can learn from the protests in France, and how we can increase trade union militancy
Solidarity with the junior doctors’ strikes
Dan Rodney argues why the latest junior doctors’ strike is a major turning point in the recent wave of trade union militancy
A communist perspective on Welsh Labour and Mark Drakeford
Welsh Labour recently celebrated 100 years of electoral victory and hailed themselves “the most successful political party in the democratic world”. It is worth taking a look at the nation’s dominant political party under Mark Drakeford from the perspective of Welsh Communists.
What comes next for the student movement?
A wave of militancy has swept across British campuses. Jack Davidson argues students must link their fight to the broader class struggle, to ensure continued success.
Leninism is not radical feminism and it cannot accommodate it
Marxism-Leninism and radical feminism: while there sometimes appear to be mutual sympathies on topical issues, let’s be upfront about why we are not the same, says the Challenge editorial team
We must oppose Starmer’s witch-hunt
Seán O’Connell makes the case for why supporting Corbyn is still necessary in the face of Starmer’s continued witch-hunt against the left-wing members of the Labour Party
My impression: the CPC in the new era
Eben Williams reflects on the historic transformations China has seen under the leadership of Xi Jinping
The EU’s media crackdown: why ‘Redfish’ is forced to close
Berlin-based left wing media collective ‘Redfish’ have announced their closure after 6 years, following years of rampant censorship, placing the blame on the EU’s attack on freedom of speech.
The following statement was originally posted on their website:
Socialist reconstruction in Europe (1945-1970)
Drawing on the history of the USSR, GDR, Poland, and Albania, Mateusz Naglik argues that socialism paved the way for advanced industrialised societies
