Socialists and taxes

Taxes are the subject of constant debate. In fact, they are now the key ideological debate among mainstream parties. Should they go up or down, and who should they go up or down for? Simon Hannah on taxation and socialism.

This student is not a volunteer

Liz Thompson reflects on her personal experiences with mental health.

Defend Alaa el‑Fattah

Simon Pearson on the right wing attacks against Egyptian democracy activist

Academic Freedom under attack

Growing attacks on academic freedom are an aspect of the rise of the far right and authoritarianism that does not always get enough attention outside the university sector. Liz Lawrence looks at the various ways this threat plays out.

ABOUT ANTICAPITALIST RESISTANCE

We seek revolutionary transformation to meet the compound crisis of ecological disaster, economic collapse, social decay, grotesque inequality, mass impoverishment, growing militarisation, and creeping authoritarianism.

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Petition – For the immediate release of socialist activist Lyes Touati

On 14 December, Lyes Touati, the internationalist socialist activist, figurehead of the 2019 popular movement (Hirak) and the environmental struggle, among others; leading member of the Algerian Socialist Workers' Party (PST), was arrested once again near his home in the town of Aokas. We demand Freedom for Lyes.

Solidarity Against communal violence, fundamentalism, and state complicity in Bangladesh

An Open Letter to Gianni Infantino

Twelve Days of Xmas – Starmer style

Refugees: From Kindertransport to Today

More than a football shirt

DISABLISM: THE BUDGET AND BEYOND

EVENTS

Mar

28

28 March Together

12.00pm

Organised by Together Alliance

VIDEO

Palestine and Marxism an online author discussion

INTERNATIONALISM OR RUSSIFICATION – a study in the Soviet nationalities problem

THEORY

Disability Politics, Culture, and Pride: road to emancipation or containment?

July has been designated Disability Pride Month writes Bob Williams-Findlay. Within a historical context, Disability Pride Month is presented in the following manner: “It originated in the United States to commemorate the passing of the landmark Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) in July 1990. […].

Nuanced differences or something else?

Capitalist China and socialist revolution

[Book] From Class Society to Communism by Ernest Mandel

Chapter 17 – Historical Materialism  [From Class Society to Communism]

Chapter 16 Materialist Dialectics [From Class Society to Communism]

Chapter 15 – The Coming of the Classless Society [From Class Society to Communism] 

PUBLICATIONS

The Enduring Communist Manifesto

The Communist Manifesto is sometimes seen as a mere historical curiosity. But in the commentary accompanying this reprint, Twilight O’Hara makes the case for the Manifesto’s enduring relevance to the struggle today. Twilight O’Hara is a nonbinary revolutionary communist activist, college student, and YouTube essayist from the United States working on various projects towards the […]

THE POUM: Republic, Revolution and Counterrevolution

By Andy Durgan “The POUM: Republic, Revolution, and Counterrevolution” provides an updated and original introduction to the history of the party. It examines the POUM’s origins, its relations with the workers’ and peasants’ movements of the time, its political ideas, and its role in the revolution that erupted in July 1936. This is a story […]

IN STALIN’S SHADOW

Leon Trotsky and the Legacy of the Moscow Trials. by Douglas Greene. “In Stalin’s Shadow” examines how Trotsky has been portrayed as a villainous figure in conspiracy theories ranging from Russian antisemitic television series to neo-Stalinist historical narratives. Greene analyzes the Moscow Trials of the 1930s and unmasks modern defenders of Stalin like Domenico Losurdo […]

Voices against Putin’s war

Protesters’ defiant speeches in Russian courts. Foreword by John McDonnell MP and edited by Simon Pirani. This book comprises ten speeches in court by people who opposed Russia’s war of aggression in Ukraine, and were arrested, tried and handed long jail sentences for doing so. There are also letters and interviews in which they made […]