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Stephen Timms has been tasked with leading a review of the current benefits system regarding Personal Independence Payments . The review is due to report in autumn 2026 and is designed to be the result of a process of coproduction involving various organisations. There are serious concerns about this review argues Sandra Wyman.

Time moves on

A poem by Liz Thompson

You cut, we bleed

joseph healy reports from Old Palace Yard as campaigners protested the Universal Credit Bill which will devastate the lives of many disabled people.

Britain’s poisoned water

Water is a vital human need, so what are the consequences of commodifying it? Terry Conway offers a damning verdict on the state of the British water industry.

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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Fourth international Youth Camp – can you help fund it?

Fund the future of revolutionary socialism! An appeal from Anti*Capitalist Resistance

The Weakness of the Iranian Regime

The social cost of China’s resistance to Trump’s tariff war 

Neofascism and Climate Change

Death to hypocrisy

Arse backwards

Stop Seapeak’s sanctions busting

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VIDEO

Palestine and Marxism an online author discussion

INTERNATIONALISM OR RUSSIFICATION – a study in the Soviet nationalities problem

THEORY

Against Campism, for International Working‑Class Solidarity

Democratic socialist internationalism must reject the inverted nationalism of “the enemy of my enemy is my friend.” Jason Schulman and Dan La Botz make the case against campism.

[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]

Chapter 13 – From the Current Mass Struggles to the World Socialist Revolution [From Class Society to Communism]

PUBLICATIONS

Anti‑austerity protest – 7 June 2025 – ACR bulletin FIght for Ecosocialism

The ACR bulletin for the 7 June anti-austerity protest called by the People’s Assembly.

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 […]

An October in Catalonia

AN OCTOBER IN CATALONIADisruptions and paradoxes of the Catalan independence movement by Josep Maria Antentas ABOUT THE BOOK“This book does a wonderful job of dissecting the Catalan independence movement, analysing its victories, defeats, and the broader implications of its strategic decisions. We are provided with profound insights into the interplay of internal weaknesses and state […]

Labour’s Extreme Neoliberalism

Labour’s Extreme Neoliberalism by Jamie Gough ABOUT THE BOOK“Jamie Gough explains not only Labour’s economic plans but gives a clear explanation of the radical socialist alternatives to it. The Labour government’s utter failure to tackle the fundamental issues facing us will only feed the growth of the far right – this pamphlet is an invaluable […]