News and analysis

Should there be 100% inheritance tax?

The debate into a 100% inheritance tax reveals the fault lines of capitalist ideology. Simon Hannah offers a perspective into the scandalous idea of abolishing this form of class privilege.

Meet Chloe: life as a Welsh Trans person in 2025

The more I talk with cis people on the left, the more I realise how out of touch they are with the realities faced by the trans community. writes Nora Rhiannon.

Committee of 100 – Direct Action in the 1960s

Phil Hearse remembers a previous wave of mass non-violent civil disobedience from the 1960s

Eighty Years Since Hiroshima. We’re Closer Now.

Looking back after eight decades since Hiroshima, Simon Pearson asks what can be learned, and how we should consider the present in light of the past.

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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Will New Left party let Farage in?

Dave Kellaway responds to the argument that the New Left Party will split the progressive vote and allow Farage or a hard right coalition into government.

The False Dilemma of Liberal Capitalism

Anti‑militarism without pacifism

Labour, tough on Grannies, easy on genocide

Action for Palestine

Youth Camp 2025: A small slice of self‑organised socialism

Then they came for our allotments

EVENTS

Sep

10

London public meeting: The fight for bodily autonomy and abortion rights

7.00pm – 8.30pm

Organised by ACR

Sep

24

London public meeting: What is ecosocialism?

7.00pm – 8.30pm

Organised by ACR

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. […].

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] 

Chapter 14 – The Winning Over of the Masses by the Revolutionaries [From Class Society to Communism]

PUBLICATIONS

Capitalist China and socialist revolution

An introduction to how China has developed into a capitalist country whilst keeing its authoritarian leadership, and its emergence as a new imperialist power. [Published in 2023]

Great John Maclean

Great John Maclean has come home to the Clyde The life and times of Scotland’s greatest socialist by Donald Robertson ABOUT THE BOOKJohn Maclean was a Scottish school teacher, and revolutionary who helped to plant the seeds of Marxism in Scotland. This book is the story not just of the man, but of everything that […]

Coming to terms with disability

by Bob Williams-Findlay ABOUT THE BOOKComing to terms with disability brings together selected texts by a longstanding disabled political activist. Readers will gain insights into theoretical, political, social, and personal issues explored by Bob and others. From how disabled people are viewed and treated, to revealing the consequences of facing disablism, the book challenges our […]

Manifesto for an ecosocialist revolution

ABOUT THE BOOKThe race for profit is widening social inequalities and destroying the planet. As the productivist catastrophe is worsening day by day, democratic and revolutionary socialism must be rethought to meet needs within ecological limits. This Manifesto adopted by Fourth International in February 2025 by the Fourth International raises the banner of a civilisational […]