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Your Party exists! Now the hard work begins…

Your Party's founding conference was a battleground between unelected bureaucrats and the left, but in the end it has produced a new socialist and working-class party. Simon Hannah and Terry Conway reports.

Labour’s budget – further into the abyss

Rachel Reeves’s budget is business as usual, or rather, slightly worse than that. argues Jamie Gough.

Hands off Venezuela – No to Trump’s war

ACR condemns Trump's imperialist attack on Venezuela

Britain – difficulties and opportunities…

This article by Veronica Fagan was written for the French magazine of the Fourth Internal, Inprecor. It therefore focuses on big picture developments in Britain but we think its also of interest to comrades here.

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Your Party Founding Conference

Find all the key information from Anti*Capitalist Resistance for the Your Party Founding Conference. Below is the rolling blog for updates throughout conference.

Budget: Progressive package or dog’s dinner

Ecosocialism or Extinction: defending life, building free territories and Ecosocialism from and for the Peoples

We need to talk about the Labour Party

Marxist Rhetorical Strategy in the Communist Manifesto

In Solidarity with Refugees and Migrants

COP30: The shift to green capitalism fails to materialise

EVENTS

Dec

10

Book Launch: Gilbert Achcar’s The Gaza Catastrophe – The Genocide in World‑Historical Perspective

7.00pm

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

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 […]