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International Socialists in the 1960s

anti-Vietnam war protest, 1968

To mark the 10th anniversary of Tony Cliff's death in April 2000 Alex Snowdon analyses the development of the radical Marxist's trailblazing organisation, the International Socialists.

April 14, 2010
Written by Alex Snowdon
Category: Anti-capitalism

E P Thompson and The Making of the English Working Class

Dominic Alexander defends E P Thompson’s The Making of the English Working Class - one the most debated and influential of all the books produced by British Marxist historians

April 9, 2010
Written by Dominic Alexander
Category: Marxist History

System Change Not Climate Change

The recent international climate change talks and protests in Copenhagen have highlighted the issue of climate change. At the same time, leaked emails from the University of East Anglia and minor errors in IPCC reports are being used to promote a new round of climate change denial.

March 12, 2010
Written by Elaine Graham-Leigh
Category: Climate change

The workers, the unions, and the crisis

The working class is central to any project for revolutionary change. Yet today strikes are at an historical low. How do we help transform the bitterness at the base of society into action?

March 29, 2010
Written by Neil Faulkner
Category: The Working Class

Anti-capitalism ten years after Seattle

Seattle 1999

In 1999 thousands of activists fought with riot police to close down the WTO conference in Seattle. Ten years on Chris Nineham looks at the future of the anti-capitalist movement.

March 16, 2010
Written by Chris Nineham
Category: Anti-capitalism

An image of graph illustrating economic crisis superimposed over one of Marx's face.

Marxism and the crisis - a strategy for the left

John Rees looks at the left's analysis of the crisis and outlines a strategy for resisting our rulers attempts to make us pay for it

April 6, 2010
Written by John Rees
Category: The Crisis

Gramsci, hegemony and the united front

Antonio Gramsci was one of the 20th century's most original Marxists. Chris Nineham reviews a new study that argues his ideas matter for anyone fighting for a better world today

February 11, 2010
Written by Chris Nineham
Category: Gramsci

Peasant movements and political agency

Peasants' Revolt

Was the Peasants Revolt of 1381 the result of organised political action or a spontaneous response to the hated poll tax?

September 6, 2009
Written by Dominic Alexander
Category: History of Resistance

International Socialists in the 1960s

To mark the 10th anniversary of Tony Cliff's death in April 2000 Alex Snowdon analyses the development of the radical Marxist's trailblazing organisation, the International Socialists.

E P Thompson and The Making of the English Working Class

Dominic Alexander defends E P Thompson’s The Making of the English Working Class - one the most debated and influential of all the books produced by British Marxist historians

System Change Not Climate Change

The recent international climate change talks and protests in Copenhagen have highlighted the issue of climate change. At the same time, leaked emails from the University of East Anglia and minor errors in IPCC reports are being used to promote a new round of climate change denial.

The workers, the unions, and the crisis

The working class is central to any project for revolutionary change. Yet today strikes are at an historical low. How do we help transform the bitterness at the base of society into action?

Anti-capitalism ten years after Seattle

In 1999 thousands of activists fought with riot police to close down the WTO conference in Seattle. Ten years on Chris Nineham looks at the future of the anti-capitalist movement.

Marxism and the crisis - a strategy for the left

John Rees looks at the left's analysis of the crisis and outlines a strategy for resisting our rulers attempts to make us pay for it

Gramsci, hegemony and the united front

Antonio Gramsci was one of the 20th century's most original Marxists. Chris Nineham reviews a new study that argues his ideas matter for anyone fighting for a better world today

Peasant movements and political agency

Was the Peasants Revolt of 1381 the result of organised political action or a spontaneous response to the hated poll tax?

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