Exploring the Lives of Women 1558-1837 - book review
Book Reviews April 18, 2019
These essays celebrate thirty years of the Women’s Studies Group, showing the historical variety of women’s lives despite the masks of femininity, finds Elaine ...
Marxists, so-called Marxists, and parliamentary socialists
Analysis April 7, 2019
John Rees tries to distil some sense from recent tabloid exchanges, and looks at the real relationship between Marxism, parliament and Jeremy Corbyn ...
Neoliberalism and Brexit: why Brexit is about more than just Brexit
Analysis April 3, 2019
Brexit must be viewed through the window of the struggle against neoliberalism, argues Dragan Plavšić
Why the EU is not internationalist
Analysis April 1, 2019
Seeing the EU as internationalist is a fundamental error rooted in a misdiagnosis of its aims and effects, argues Chris Nineham
Bungled Brexit beggars belief - weekly briefing
Opinion April 1, 2019
General Election Now has to be the clarion call for all those resisting war, austerity and inequality, argues Lindsey German
March for Palestine: exist, resist, return
Opinion March 29, 2019
11 May is the mobilisation that the movement’s been waiting for, reports Sybil Cock
Latest
The left needs to stop retreating over the use of the term Zionism
John Rees on what anti-Zionism does and does not mean
April 17, 2019 John Rees
Israeli elections: apartheid or apartheid-lite
Israelis have voted for their preferred version of apartheid - we must stand with the Palestians, writes Sybil Cock
April 17, 2019 Sybil Cock
Capitalism and climate change - can we avert disaster? - video
At a London public meeting, Elaine Graham-Leigh explains why climate change is a product of capitalism and the solution has to be one that confronts the system ...
April 16, 2019 Elaine Graham-Leigh
The kids are still alright: the climate fightback continues
Climate change is bringing young people on to the streets, where they are talking about system change, reports Newcastle Counterfire
April 15, 2019 Newcastle Counterfire
It’s badly wrong when whistleblowers rot in jail but war criminals walk free - weekly briefing
Liberals muddying the waters around the WikiLeaks fallout is all about letting the warmongers off the hook, argues Lindsey German
April 15, 2019 Lindsey German
State terrorism and the British Empire: The Amritsar Massacre, 1919
Marking the centenary of one of the most grotesque atrocities in the history of British imperialism, John Westmoreland revisits the Amritsar Massacre ...
April 12, 2019 John Westmoreland
Theory
Media and the infrastructure of radical movements
Our movements need media that inspire mass participation, amplifying analysis to reach new audiences turning to the left, writes Des Freedman
September 17, 2018 Des Freedman
Socialism: utopian and scientific - an introduction
Engels’ popular pamphlet offers one of the best concise accounts of capitalist development and an accessible introduction to Marx's revolutionar...
June 20, 2018 John Rees
The limits of Keynesianism part 5: can the working class make advances within capitalism?
In the final part of our series, Dominic Alexander looks at how working class advancement means moving beyond the confines of reformism
May 18, 2018 Dominic Alexander
Books
World in Crisis: A Global Analysis of Marx’s Law of Profitability - book review
Marx’s law of profitability is shown in World in Crisis to explain today’s long depression, but ending capitalism requires a political strategy, argues Dominic ...
April 11, 2019 Dominic Alexander
The Russians are Coming, Again - book review
Kuzmarov and Marciano's analysis of the US media demonisation of Russia warns of the danger of a new cold war, in full historical context, finds Martin Hall ...
April 4, 2019 Martin Hall
Keywords: The New Language of Capitalism - book review
Leary’s Keywords insightfully updates a classic critique of the use of language by power, to understand the vocabulary of neoliberal capitalism, finds Oliver Ea...
March 28, 2019 Oliver Eagleton