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Cass means social Murder

Trans*Mission and Anti*Capitalist Resistance respond to the recent Cass Review to unequivocally condemn this assault on trans* youth and trans* people in general. We loudly insist that every socialist, every member of a left-wing political party, every union member become involved in the fightback for trans liberation, making bold demands in the struggle shoulder-to-shoulder with our trans sisters, brothers and siblings.

The coming Israeli attack on Iran

In this analysis, Gilbert Achcar examines the escalating tensions between Israel and Iran, arguing that Israel's recent actions, including the attack on the Iranian consulate in Damascus, are part of a deliberate strategy to provoke a confrontation and lay the groundwork for a strike on Iran's nuclear facilities. Achcar assesses Iran's response and the implications of the conflict for the region, while also considering the role of the United States in the unfolding crisis.

CASS Means Social Murder leaflet

New leaflet from Trans*Mission.

The author and his book

This article by Bohdan Krawchenko was first published in the 1974 English edition of Ivan Dzyuba's book, and is an introduction to Dzyuba and his work, which examines the historical background of the nationalities problem in the Soviet Union, the abandonment of the Leninist nationalities policy, and the need for its restoration.

Social workers step up strike in Labour Barnet

Barnet UNISON mental health social workers are about to start 9 weeks of strike in the next 3 months. They have already taken 27 days of strike before UNISON went going for arbitration at ACAS, where they returned empty-handed, writes Fred Leplat. Due to the Tory anti‑union laws UNISON had to re-ballot for authorisation. Members voted 100 percent for more action on a 91 percent turnout.

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“Tehran found itself backed into a corner by the attack on its consulate.”

Franco-Lebanese researcher Gilbert Achcar, professor at the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London, reviews the Israeli attack on April 1st against the consulate in Damascus and analyses the response of the Islamic Republic. He also examines the effects of this renewed tension on the ongoing negotiations to end the war in Gaza. [Interview given on Sunday 14 April to the French Communist Party's daily L'Humanité.]

“Civil War”: Alex Garland’s Unsettling Exploration of a Fractured America

GKN sit‑in Festival: ‘the exploiters need us, but we don’t need them’

No Wes Streeting, private practice damages the NHS

The “State of Palestine” between liquidating the cause and continuing the struggle

Palestine, Ukraine and the crisis of empires

Io Capitano is not fiction

EVENTS

Apr

25

UCU Members for Ukraine webinar: Ukraine’s economy + postwar reconstruction

7.00pm – 9.00pm

Organised by ACR

Apr

20

Protest the Cass Review

12.00am – 11.30am

Organised by Strike Back 2024

VIDEO

Support Russian anti‑war activists/Solidarity with the People of Ukraine

Dodo Modern Poets

THEORY

Frantz Fanon: Martinican, French, Algerian, African Revolutionary

Ian Parker is reading a new full account of Fanon’s short life and work.

Karl Marx and Ecology: An Interview with Michael Löwy

Lenin’s Political Work

Two, three, many Lenins

Socialism and revolutionary democracy: Lenin’s legacy for our time of catastrophe

The Limits of Left Moralism

Global Anti‑Trans Movement

PUBLICATIONS

Internationalism or Russification

Internationalism or Russification A study in the Soviet nationalities problem by Ivan Dzuyba Internationalism or Russification? was written in 1965 while there was a wave of political repression in Ukraine. In the book, Dzyuba analyses from a Marxist position the national and cultural policy of the Soviet Union in Ukraine. The book was first sent to the Secretary of the Central […]

Israel’s War on Gaza

ISRAEL’S WAR ON GAZA by Gilbert Achcar Israel has seized the opportunity of Hamas’s operation on 7 October 2023 to devastate Gaza, reducing it to rubble, massacring a huge number of its inhabitants and forcing the rest to flee. Another Nakba is underway, 75 years after the creation of Israel. This booklet includes articles by Gilbert […]

Making Sense of Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine

Making Sense of Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine by Paul Le Blanc In this small book, Paul Le Blanc tries to ‘make sense of the Russian invasion of Ukraine’. His starting point is for a victory for Ukrainian self-determination and opposition to imperialism in all its forms. Paul Le Blanc tackles the following themes: What Mistaken Friends Say […]

The Russian Invasion and the Ukrainian Left

The Russian Invasion and the Ukrainian Left The Struggle for a Social Ukraine Commons Journal 13/2023: Edited by Stas Serhiienko, Published by Resistance Books. The Commons journal of social criticism is a left-wing Ukrainian media about economy, politics, history and culture, founded in 2009. ContentsArticles on: To the Western left, Between Survival and Resistance, and For a Just […]