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Reeves Budget – a ‘growth’ delusion that ignores inequality

Dave Kellaway provides a first reaction to Reeves’ big budget

Israel’s Next Attack on Iran

The nature of the attack carried out by the Israeli Air Force against Iran on 26 October is very significant for the near future. It clearly constituted a prelude to a subsequent attack on Iran by weakening its defensive capabilities and its ability to manufacture more surface-to-air missiles and ballistic missiles. By Gilbert Achcar.

Daybreak in Gaza: A Review of Gaza’s Cultural and Historical Fabric Under Siege

Tony Richardson reviews Daybreak in Gaza, edited by Mahmoud Muna and Matthew Teller. (Published by SAQI, 2024)

Lebanon: a fragile country becomes a new war front

Lebanon, long a focal point of regional conflict, faces renewed turmoil as Israel escalates its military operations, targeting Hezbollah amid broader tensions and a fragile domestic situation still recovering from years of economic and social crises. Joseph Daher writing in l'anticapitaliste

Industry Series 3 – “Everyone’s Collateral, Right?”

Dave Kellaway reviews the third series of Industry, a drama about the fictional US investment bank Pierrepoint, which trades in the City of London. While fictional, the series unveils much of the truth about how the capitalist finance sector operates.

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Lifting the mask on Halloween and the Irish ‘capitalist uncanny’

Nigel Mulligan on a sublimated reaction to the cold nullifying grip of late stage capitalism

Anti‑Fascists Rally Against Tommy Robinson Hate March

Transform’s National Conference

Hezbollah’s Dilemma

Runcorn and the Incinerator

Wes’s Weight Loss Jab Wheeze

Nothing Israel does will serve Syrians’ struggle for freedom

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Palestine and Marxism an online author discussion

INTERNATIONALISM OR RUSSIFICATION – a study in the Soviet nationalities problem

THEORY

Disabling Ability

Bob Williams-Findlay explores the historical, social, and political constructs that frame disability as a lack of ability, challenging the oppressive binary between ability and disability, and critically deconstructs the "See the Person, Not the Disability" campaign through a Marxist lens.

Sport and Cis‑Realism

Ecosocialist Revolution: A Manifesto

Fascism has gone beyond creeping… we are in deep trouble

Are teachers the (new) proletarians?

Traumas & Futures

Karl Marx and Ecology: An Interview with Michael Löwy

PUBLICATIONS

Palestine and Marxism

RECOMMENDATIONS This comprehensive history lays out the essential background for understanding Palestine and its place in the struggle for socialism. Unlike many accounts that focus simply on Israel’s on-going human rights atrocities, Joseph Daher situates Palestine in the context of more than a century of imperialist intervention in the Middle East. An important contribution that […]

Ecosocialist Revolution: A Manifesto

Ecosocialist Revolution: A Manifesto is published by AntiCapitalist Resistance. ACR adopted it at their 2024 conference. Capitalism is driving us towards ecological disaster. Its profit-first, ‘growth at any cost’ logic is incompatible with a sustainable environment or genuine human happiness. And now the far right is growing – emboldened by election wins in countries across the […]

Internationalism or Russification

Internationalism or Russification A study in the Soviet nationalities problem by Ivan Dzuyba Internationalism or Russification? was written in 1965 while there was a wave of political repression in Ukraine. In the book, Dzyuba analyses from a Marxist position the national and cultural policy of the Soviet Union in Ukraine. The book was first sent to the Secretary of the Central […]

Israel’s War on Gaza

ISRAEL’S WAR ON GAZA by Gilbert Achcar Israel has seized the opportunity of Hamas’s operation on 7 October 2023 to devastate Gaza, reducing it to rubble, massacring a huge number of its inhabitants and forcing the rest to flee. Another Nakba is underway, 75 years after the creation of Israel. This booklet includes articles by Gilbert […]