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Ecosocialism Conference 2026

The third Ecosocialism Conference 2026 is coming up on Saturday 30 May at London South Bank University and on zoom. Jess MacKenzie previews the event.

Cinema as a weapon

Dave Kellaway reviews a new free exhibition about Algeria and cinema by Zineb Sedira at Tate Britain until 17 January

Help crowdfund new book on Fascism

Resist creeping fascism, help crowdfund this book by Ugo Palheta

Wes Streeting as Health Secretary: Privatisation, chaos, failure

Keep Our NHS Public responds to Wes Streeting's resignation

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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Runners in Labour leadership race assessed

Simon Pearson looks at the form of the favourites in the Labour leadership race

Ecosocialism and/or Degrowth?

Scottish Parliament elections: a balance between continuity and change

Auschwitz Is Only Sleeping’ : What Ceija Stojka’s Art Told Me About Gaza

The Digital Veil: Why Marx’s Critique of Capitalism Remains valid

Starmer’s reset speech

A Defeat Manufactured in Downing Street

EVENTS

May

30

Ecosocialism Conference 2026

12.00pm – 5.00pm

Organised by Ecosocialism Conference

VIDEO

Palestine and Marxism an online author discussion

INTERNATIONALISM OR RUSSIFICATION – a study in the Soviet nationalities problem

THEORY

The Digital Veil: Why Marx’s Critique of Capitalism Remains valid

Piyamit Leelatham argues against Varoufakis's thesis that under our society of techofeudalism Marx's law of value no longer applies.

The General Strike – Harry Wicks

Western Marxism, Historical Defeat, and the Limits of Exposure

Fascisation and strategy

Fascism before power

A glimpse of what could be: The NSW BLF, the most radical and innovative union the world has ever seen

Weaponising Gender

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 […]