Lewis Akers
Lewis Akers

Capital, Class and Socialist Education in Our Times

Lewis Akers welcomes readers to our Capital reading group with some thoughts on the history and present experience of socialist self-education.

Lewis Akers
Capital, Class and Socialist Education in Our Times
Lewis Akers

British Gas Strikers: We’re Not Going to Roll Over

British Gas workers are concluding and historic strike action against fire and re-hire tactics. Lewis Akers spoke to young workers about their experience of the strike and what their fight is so important.

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British Gas Strikers: We’re Not Going to Roll Over
Lewis Akers

Starmer in Scotland: Why Nobody Cares

Lewis Akers argues the repetitive nature of Labour’s speculations on further devolution shows they understand the collapse of their own authority.

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Starmer in Scotland: Why Nobody Cares
Lewis Akers

Starmer has the Left in his crosshairs, not the Tories

After the suspension of Jeremy Corbyn, Lewis Akers argues ‘unity’ between the left and Starmer is meaningless and disarming.

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Starmer has the Left in his crosshairs, not the Tories
Lewis Akers

The TUC and Sunak's Scheme: The Perils of "National Unity"

The official leadership of the working class movement risks becoming embroiled in the establishment’s mishandling of the coronavirus crisis of capitalism, argues Lewis Akers.

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The TUC and Sunak's Scheme: The Perils of "National Unity"
Scottish PoliticsLewis Akers

How do we organise resistance to pandemic capitalism?

It is crucial for socialists to engage in struggles such as strikes and community campaigns in order to escape isolation. This approach allows us to reject both the elitism of those who believe they are the ‘vanguard’ but also the utopianism of those who reject consciously constructed organisation.

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How do we organise resistance to pandemic capitalism?
Features and AnalysisLewis Akers

Neoliberalism is dead, capitalism lives

As the first part of a short series examining the current crisis of capitalism, Lewis Akers argues the end of a specific phase of capitalism is not the same thing as an existential challenge to the system itself.

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Neoliberalism is dead, capitalism lives
Scottish Politics, International PoliticsLewis Akersforeign affairs, foreign policy, snp, sturgeon, nicola sturgeon, cnd, nuclear weapons, clinton, macron, blair, israel, palestine, nato, international

Shifting the SNP on Foreign Policy

‘Bairns, not Bombs’ was a rallying cry for many independence supporters during the 2014 referendum, but many campaigners on the left feel this is undermined by the Scottish National Party’s NATO commitments. Lewis Akers argues Sturgeon’s government has slowly but surely shifted on foreign policy but that there’s scope for activists in and out the party to bring about change…

Scottish Politics, International PoliticsLewis Akersforeign affairs, foreign policy, snp, sturgeon, nicola sturgeon, cnd, nuclear weapons, clinton, macron, blair, israel, palestine, nato, international
Shifting the SNP on Foreign Policy