51. How can Corbyn win?

Socialism

The Tories are trying to lie and bully their way back to power. How can Corbyn and the wider workers' movement stop them? With less than two weeks until polling day in the UK, both the Tories and Labour have now released their manifestos. Jeremy Corbyn’s programme includes big steps forward for working-class and young people in housing, pay, public services, workers’ rights and the environment. Boris Johnson’s programme includes next to nothing, and even lies about the extent of that. There is widespread distrust in Johnson and the Tories. So to counter the threat to capitalist profits, and encouragement for trade union struggle, in Corbyn’s anti-austerity pledges, the capitalist establishment has gone into overdrive with smear attacks. How can Corbyn and the wider workers’ movement overcome the bosses’ attempts to obscure the issues and demobilise support for pro-worker policies? And if the Tories do lie and bully their way back to power, is that really the end of the story? Plus: we hear from a lecturer on the picket line during the ongoing national universities strike.