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“David and Victoria Beckman doubled their wealth in the past year and have a combined fortune of £1.185bn. In a similar category are James Dyson, Christopher Harborne (who recently gifted £5m to Nigel Farage) and Jim Ratcliffe, part owner of Manchester United.” See https://www.worldsocialism.org/spgb/snippet/billionaire-beckhams/

Latest World Socialist Radio podcast. High-Street closures and community Life. Reflections on the visible decline of a once-thriving city-centre shopping street, where many traditional businesses have closed and been replaced by charity shops, betting offices, convenience stores, or empty premises. 👉https://rss.com/podcasts/world-socialist-radio/2833376/

Keirdy Starnham. Two political peas in a pod. Makes absolutely no difference to the working class majority which one is Labour leader because both want exactly the same thing — a continuation of outdated capitalism where business profits unavoidably come before people’s needs.

Keir Starmer just made a speech following local elections in which Labour lost a huge number of Councillors. He repeatedly mentioned getting away from the “status quo” because it isn’t working. What he failed to do is mention why the current way of doing things is failing the working class — the status quo is the capitalist way of doing things! That’s why nothing is going to radically improve under Labour. It’s why nothing would radically improve with Farage or Polanski in Downing Street either. As we have always said, changing governments which maintain a profits-before-people capitalist system changes nothing. It is “incremental” reforms to capitalism that aren’t working. For the status quo’s same old problems to be eradicated for good, capitalism must be eradicated for good.

On May 7th (tomorrow), three Socialist Party (GB) candidates are standing in the London Borough of Lambeth local elections. They are Anya Krycek in BRIXTON NORTH WARD; Jacqueline Shodeke in CLAPHAM COMMON & ABBEVILLE WARD, and César Ramon Sotillo in STOCKWELL WEST & LARKHALL WARD. The local news site, Brixton Buzz, has an article about our candidates and what they stand for here https://www.brixtonbuzz.com/2026/05/meet-the-candidates-socialist-party-of-great-britain-abolishing-capitalism-since-1904/

What happens in a Marxist free-access socialist society with peach production? Farmers grow them and they are distributed to people.

What happens under capitalism when a business canning peaches goes bankrupt? Farmers get paid millions of dollars to destroy 420,000 peach trees. Capitalism is destructive, inefficient and dumb.

By violence and theft, valuable land has been acquired around the world, leaving small percentages of country’s populations owning vast amounts of territory. Gerald Cavendish Grosvenor, 6th Duke of Westminster whose assets are now worth £10bn, once mocked the working class when asked what advice he had for young entrepreneurs. He said “Make sure they have an ancestor who was a very close friend of William the Conqueror”. Immensely rich landowners would only come out with such a piss-take if they felt their unjust ownership could not be overturned. It should be. Wipe the smiles off billionaires’ faces by putting an end to this injustice. Their ownership is not legal since property laws were made through slaughter, threats and thievery. End capitalism, begin real socialism, and let’s have a society with collective ownership of land and its use to benefit all — not just a tiny few.

With capitalism, you have an economy where profits unavoidably come before the needs of people. That’s why you may think you’re getting cod or haddock at a fish & chips shop, when in reality you’re getting catfish. The reason being catfish costs about £3.40 per kilo wholesale, while cod and haddock typically go for £15 per kilo.

Chip shops sell cheap catfish as 'traditional fish and chips' A BBC investigation finds chip shop owners passing off cheaper species as "traditional fish and chips".