Across the world, with workers and youth rising up, the ruling class is restricting democratic rights – curbing freedom of speech, banning protests, and tightening anti-union laws. Communists must link the fightback to the struggle for socialism.

With workers on the move, the Tories are tightening anti-union restrictions and curbing the right to strike with new minimum service laws. The TUC is meeting this weekend to discuss its response. The trade unions must mobilise to defy the bosses.

2023 is almost at an end. But the crisis of capitalism is far from over. And the coming year promises to provide even greater storm and stress. Neither the establishment nor the ‘lefts’ offer any real alternative. We say: join the communists!

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Henry Kissinger, a leading strategist of US imperialism, died earlier this week. While bourgeois politicians and papers provide gushing eulogies, workers will remember the bloody crimes that he and the capitalist system are responsible for.

Today is the centenary anniversary of the death of John Maclean, a dedicated Marxist and class fighter, famous for playing a leading role in militant workers’ movements such as Red Clydeside in Glasgow. We pay tribute to his revolutionary legacy.