With inequality widening and austerity sharpening, calls are growing for greater taxes on the wealth and profits of the elites. But demands to ‘tax the rich’ do not tackle the root of the problem. Instead, we must expropriate the billionaire class.

Across Britain, the institutions of the capitalist state are falling apart. There is no trust in the police. The army is plugging gaps everywhere. The courts are backed up, and the prisons are bursting. And all as the class struggle intensifies.

The apologists of capitalism constantly assert the myth that ‘the working class no longer exists’; that ‘we are all middle class now’. In fact, the working class has never been stronger. What is missing is revolutionary leadership.

With his party sinking in the polls, Rishi Sunak is looking to whip up a climate culture war. Workers must have no trust in either the Tories and their cynical claims, nor the liberals and their impotent demands. We must fight for revolution.

In part one of this series, we discussed why communists need to educate themselves, and how to go about doing this. Now we turn to the question of the role that revolutionary students can play in carrying Marxist ideas into the class struggle.

The catastrophic failure of the Ukrainian counter-offensive is provoking splits and divisions in the NATO alliance. Meanwhile, workers across the world are paying the price for this inter-imperialist conflict. The class struggle is set to intensify.