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Peter Hitchens is wrong, the Nazis were not left wing

Simon Hannah critiques Peter Hitchens' Daily Mail article, which inaccurately labels Nazis as left wing. He argues that this distortion serves far right agendas and highlights the limitations of the left-right political spectrum.

The current political situation in Europe – some key trends and challenges for the socialist Left.

An Independent Socialists in Wellingborough zoom meeting with Joseph Healy, National Committee member and International Secretary of the UK Left Unity party and member of Anti*Capitalist Resistance. The meeting was held on Thursday, March 23rd 2023 at 7.00pm.

AC Radio Episode 9 – Hayao Miyazaki’s pigs vs fascists

Hayao Miyazaki's Porco Rosso (1992) is an anti-fascist fantasy about a pig bounty hunter, with Rowan Fortune and Logan O'Hara discussing its relation to Miyazaki's shift from Marxism and the historical context of Japan, Italy, and Yugoslavia in the podcast.

‘THE BIG ONE’: “UNITE TO SURVIVE!”

This article, by Allan Todd, discusses the urgent need to address climate change, as highlighted in the recent IPCC Report, and the upcoming Extinction Rebellion protest in London, calling for system change to tackle climate, social, and economic crises.

Ransacking Iraq

In this introspective piece on LeftEast, Nabil Salih reflects on the continuous suffering of Iraq two decades after the 2003 invasion, highlighting ongoing violence, corruption, and disillusionment as powerful forces trivialise and misrepresent the true story of Iraq's generational agony.

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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Women Talking and Acting

Erica Burman and Ian Parker have been watching and listening to the film about abuse and decision-taking.

The sad story of Fred Demuth – Marx’s son in Hackney

Dismantling the Met: A Call for Radical Police Reform

Banks on the Brink? The Origins, Nature, and Trajectory of the Crisis

Macron’s up against the wall, let’s not let the 49.3 save him

There’s No Settlement of the War in Ukraine Without China

Are you watching Mister Starmer this is what an opposition looks like

EVENTS

May

1

Northants May Day and Diggers Fest 2023

6.30pm

Organised by Independent Socialists in Wellingborough

VIDEO

Support Russian anti‑war activists/Solidarity with the People of Ukraine

Dodo Modern Poets

THEORY

Peter Hitchens is wrong, the Nazis were not left wing

Simon Hannah critiques Peter Hitchens' Daily Mail article, which inaccurately labels Nazis as left wing. He argues that this distortion serves far right agendas and highlights the limitations of the left-right political spectrum.

Lenin reading Hegel

Ukrainian socialists in the diaspora: lessons on Cold War solidarity from another era

Psychoanalysts Unite … Against Trans

China’s New Left: The Revival of Lost Traditions

No arms to Ukraine?

Queering Everybody Part II

PUBLICATIONS

Ecosocialism Not Extinction

Ecosocialism Not Extinction by Allan Todd ISBN: 978-0-902869-33-2 (print)ISBN: 978-0-902869-32-5 (e-book) RRP: £5, €6, $7 (print)Publication date: November 2022 88 pages; 178x102mm ABOUT THE BOOK The planet is facing an existential crisis. Modern humans, in particular under capitalism, have been doing irreversible damage to the ecosystems. An exit strategy from fossil energy and intensive animal […]

UKRAINE: Voices of resistance and solidarity

A collection of recent writings by Ukrainians and socialists around the world. This is an extremely important book published at this tragic moment when our country has been invaded. It builds a bridge of solidarity between the people of Ukraine and the working class around the world. The contributions make it easier to imagine a […]

Stalinist Realism and Open Communism: Malignant Mirror or Free Association

Capitalism as a global system of rule that tells us that there is no alternative, and this is accompanied by its terrible twin, ‘stalinist realism’ that works its way into ideas about political camps, bodies, identity and organisation. Ian Parker provides an analysis and an alternative, ‘open communism’ that is democratic and plural, and which […]

Mind Fuck

In this little book, Neil Faulkner draws on Marxist-Freudian theory to provide an updated analysis of the mass psychology of fascism, and to argue for a progressive counter-offensive based on love, labour, and reason.