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Numerous statements have been made suggesting that Britain has limited influence in the modern world. However, Chris Bambery argues that this seriously underestimates the role Britain plays in the imperialist system.
Neil Faulkner dispels the myth around the Olympic Torch as the invention of the ancients, but rather as an invention by the Nazi as symbol of national prestige.
UK student leaders have condemned the decision by Zefat Academic College to limit their SU presidency to those who have served two years in the Israeli military; barring Palestinians from standing.
As the political parties in Greece fail to make a coalition government and fresh elections are called, SYRIZA is emerging as the dominant political force.
After two years of self-defeating austerity measures, a Greek default looks more likely than ever.
Lindsey German and John Rees talk about A People's History of London on Robert Elms radio show
At the end of the First World War, the epicentre of revolution moved from Petrograd to Berlin. Why did the German communists fail where the Bolsheviks had succeded?
The only answer which the US and its allies have to failing wars is to keep pouring money into them and hope for the best, argues Lindsey German.
The United States has recently expanded its campaign of drone strikes in Yemen to widespread anger and concern, Noon Arabia captures the tweets on Twitter.
Anita de Klerk argues that the dispersal zone placed in Stratford is not about targeting local anti-social behaviour, but rather a strategy to keep the unwanted public away from the Olympics.
Richard Wolin provides a fascinating account of the intellectual confusion that followed May '68, but takes an ambivalent attitude towards the revolutionary potential it generated, argues Feyzi Ismail.
The issue of race in the child sexual exploitation case in Rochdale is a diversion from a real understanding of what makes young people vulnerable to sexual predators
After France rejected austerity in elections Lindsey German and Sam Bowman of the Adam Smith Institute debate whether cuts or growth offer the best way out of recession
Voters in France and Greece rejected austerity over the weekend - James Meadway argues that it is time to break the crisis of a failed past in favour of a new Europe
David Jamieson speaks to political commentator John Rees about mass movements, the modern world and the tasks of the left today.
After four years of carnage, the First World War finally came to an end when the Central Powers collapsed and revolution spread to Germany, writes Neil Faulkner.
Responding to a call for international solidarity, the Coalition of Resistance and the People's Charter brought together a delegation of trade unionists and campaigners to visit Athens in March 2012. This film documents their trip.
Saturday's We Are Luton march against Tommy Robinson's English Defense League (EDL) shows how communities can unite against racism and Islamophobia.
Voters across Britain rejected the Coalition with big losses for both the Tories and the Liberal Democrats. Lindsey German looks at why London bucked the trend by re-electing Boris Johnson
Henry Heller’s Birth of Capitalism is a lucid and comprehensive introduction to a range of central debates concerning Marxist arguments and interpretations of recent history.
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Books
The People Demand: A short history of the Arab revolutions
By John Rees and Joseph Daher
Strategy and tactics: how the left can organise to transform society
By John Rees
Capitalism and Class Consciousness: the ideas of Georg Lukacs
By Chris Nineham