News and analysis

Why we need to campaign for the return of Social Care to the public sector

Richard Hatcher looks at the example of Adult Social Care in Birmingham

Brass Bands, Poetry and Politics – Tolpuddle Martyrs Festival

Joseph Healy reports back from his trip to the annual Tolpuddle Martyrs Festival

Unite General Secretary election: Hobson’s choice

Terry Conway interrogates what is on offer for members of one of the largest unions in Britain.

International Solidarity Convoy to Ukraine announced for November

A press release from the organisers of the international solidarity convoy for Ukraine

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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Devastation: Climate change and industrial forestry monoculture.

Mark Findlay writes on the biggest ever wildfire happening now in the Gironde region of France

The Family Silver

Italy: The Murderous State Presumed Innocent

Stand with Rajiv Menon KC: Four ways to challenge the unprecedented and draconian contempt proceedings

The Hard Questions of Reindustrialisation

The Friends Who Run Things

Ukraine – chief of staff kicked out by mass mobilisation

EVENTS

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.

Socialist Revolution and the Struggle for Women’s Liberation

Why is there a surge in antisemitism?

The General Strike – Harry Wicks

Western Marxism, Historical Defeat, and the Limits of Exposure

Fascisation and strategy

Fascism before power

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 […]