News and analysis

Radicalisation on right and left while centre crumbles

Dave Kellaway assesses the political situation where creeping fascism is advancing, the Labour centre is not holding but radicalisation to the left is also significant.

Lest We Forget – Remembrance Sunday 2025

Allan Todd writes about what Remembrance Sunday means to him as an antifascist and ecosocialist.

Souleymane’s Story

Dave Kellaway reviews a film that takes you on a ride with a migrant and asylum seeker

How Britain helped the Zionists

Tony Richardson reviews Palestine 1936 a new film directed by Annemarie Jacir  (2025) 

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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Caerffili – Victory For Plaid Cymru But Defeat for both Labour and Reform UK.

Geoff Ryan reports from Wales/Cymru on the Caerffili byelection result

Modern Monetary Theory: A Marxist Critique

What Israeli “Victory” Looks Like

Hurricane Melissa is a warning – why violent storms are increasingly catching the world off guard

Spooky socialism! 

Israel – Boycott, Divest and Sanctions campaign in Hackney

Trump’s “Peace” in the Middle East, A Retrocolonialism Built on Sand

EVENTS

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

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 […]

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 […]