The resignation of #LizTrussPM after only six weeks in office is a further confirmation of the development of a fundamental crisis of class rule in Britain. A revolutionary situation, as Marxists have explained, emerges when the ruling class can't rule in the old way. 1/
At this point, the ruling class is unable to rule at all. Its survival now depends on the ability of the Labour Party, led by the ultra Blairite Keir Starmer, and the apparatus of the trade unions to strangle the movement of the increasingly militant working class. 2/
The other essential element of a revolutionary crisis - that the working class can't live in the old way - certainly exists. The critical issue now is its intervention in the crisis. The demand for a general election must be directed toward calls for independent mass action. 3/3
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