Unprecedented state intervention - but still workers suffer? How can young people fight to change things? How can the working class defeat the far right? Trotsky did not start out as a member of the Bolsheviks. PPE and mass testing and workers' control of workplace safety, Fight back against the corona propaganda war, Sabotage - the inner workings of Labour's political machine exposed, Starmer victory - organise to fight for socialist policies, Brexit and British capitalism - why Johnson's juggernaut is set to jackknife, 10 years since the financial crash - the socialist answer to capitalist crisis. Rivers of working-class young people, black and white, have taken up the struggle against racism and police violence. How did Trotsky help organise international socialist struggle? And trillions of dollars of loans and capitalist investments in smaller countries around the globe. The trade unions - the basic self-defence organisations of the working class - fought many important battles, shutting down production to try to force the bosses back. The year started with Donald Trump ordering the public assassination of a leading Iranian general, Qassem Suleimani, by a drone strike in Baghdad, the capital of neighbouring Iraq. Massive, young, working-class protests have exploded around the world after the murder of George Floyd, racism and police violence. In our latest instalment on his ideas, we ask how they apply today. And are those ideas - and the unions themselves - still relevant to that struggle today? Pandemic, depression, environmental catastrophe, political turmoil - capitalism is not well. Fighting for jobs, homes and public services for all. Why did it end in defeat? This led to multiple controversies during the lifetime of Leon Trotsky. The Chinese economy is still nowhere near as powerful as the US, but it's competing voraciously for international markets, investment, and political influence. But thousands more are losing their jobs every day. Its trigger was the racist police murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis on 25 May 2020. But the general election is behind us for now. Even today, the economic and social advances promised by the capitalist democratic revolutions have not been fully achieved in any country. Is a new Cold War, or even direct military conflict, also a possibility? The Socialist Party calls on Labour councils to fight, and for Labour leadership candidates to commit to pushing for such a fight. In particular, they have much to fear at a time when their entire rotten system is wracked by pandemic, economic crisis and social turmoil. Do the setbacks in the 2010s mean the unions can't fight today? We shine a light on the struggles of workers and young people, and discuss the strategy for a socialist fightback. Fighting for jobs, homes and public services for all. Marxists try to learn from both. Slump and mass unemployment; heroic strikes and mutinies; rapid advances for the new workers' parties - Labour and the Communists. But the union leaders can be timid, or even hold back struggle by their members. Are the government's guidelines for "safe" reopening of schools really safe? And why do capitalist commentators still try to bury Trotsky's ideas today? Category page for podcasts that explicitly hold a socialist or anti-capitalist stance. Trotsky, like all who follow the ideas of genuine Marxism, believed the working class was the only social force which can lead socialist revolution. Despite the hesitancy and treachery of the official union leaders,... What was Trotsky’s advice for revolutionaries on unions? How can workers look after their interests in the pandemic? As well as following this weekly podcast, you should check the Socialist Party's website and our Facebook page, for regular statements on working-class demands, socialist analysis, and reports from the frontline. How did Stalinism betray it? Through it all, Leon Trotsky was one of the political figures most responsible for helping the workers' movement to navigate a way forward. What are the lessons for today from the 1926 general strike? How did Trotsky fight for national liberation? This is especially true in the ‘neocolonial’ countries, whose development is held by back by wealthier capitalist powers. And why do capitalist commentators still try to bury Trotsky’s ideas today? In the US, Britain and around the world, the youth are suffering appalling conditions, and a future of crisis and uncertainty. Schools in Britain are part-closing, workers in almost every sector are being sent home with or without pay, and there are shortages of equipment for safe and hygienic working everywhere. But the bosses and their politicians didn't get things all their own way. The events of 1917, and the years which immediately followed, were a political furnace. This episode of Socialism looks at GRA reform: the fight for trans rights. Was the Soviet bureaucracy the same as a capitalist class? Failed parties and leaders melted away as hardened political forces and inspirational leaders were forged in white heat of revolution. Class polarisation sharpens as the divisions between bosses and workers are exposed. What should workers demand to solve these problems? The coronavirus crisis has laid bare the class character of society in numerous ways. Thousands of new members are flooding into Britain's trade unions. This episode of Socialism looks at Northern Ireland: the strike wave. But whatever is promised, the track record so far is that workers everywhere are pulling out all the stops to fight the pandemic - while big businesses and their politicians only seem interested in their bottom lines. If it does not, there is a danger that debates can be falsely framed as battles between supposedly irreconcilable competing rights.

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