Farage Got His Mandate. Then He Needed an Enemy

Clacton gave Nigel Farage what he asked for. More votes than in 2024 and a bigger majority. Somehow he still managed to emerge from victory complaining about the establishment. Simon Pearson reacts to Clacton.

Necessary, but not necessarily sufficient: On efforts to build France’s gauche de rupture

In late June, the NPA-l’Anticapitaliste (NPA standing for Nouveau Parti Anticapitaliste, New Anticapitalist Party; the party is known as NPA-A) announced it would not run its own candidate in France’s 2027 presidential election reports Lisbeth Latham,

Exciting political unification in India

We are delighted to report the strengthening of the forces of the Fourth International in India with a the formation of a new and larger organisation, the Revolutionary Communist Party of India and to publish their statement of unity here.

A New Cuban Economy?

Socialists should campaign today against the increased US blockade of Cuba. We should also follow the debates going on there about a change in economic policy. Samuel Farber updates us in this article.

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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Protecting women and mothers?

Reform UK is threatening to repeal the Equality Act. Liz Lawrence discusses what this could mean and challenges its claims to be pro-family and pro-mothers.

Behind the early release headlines

The Cultural Marxist conspiracy

Waiting for the water wars

Do not fret, we will use paper straws

Indian youth triumph against Modi’s authoritarianism

Mayor of Hackney calls national anti‑austerity summit

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

Critical Marxism

Critical Marxism: Concepts, Context, Combat. by Ian Parker. Just £14 from Resistance Books. This book provides an introduction to Marxism as it emerged in the nineteenth century, examines what happened when it was put into practice in the twentieth century, and how we can make use of it now in anti-capitalist struggle. It reviews 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 […]