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France: Revolutionaries inside the Melenchon campaign

Razmig Keucheyan, Gilbert Achcar, Michael Löwy and Ugo Palheta argue that revolutionaries must maintain their ‘strategic autonomy’ whilst actively contributing to a united front in support of a vote for Mélenchon.

The Lost Children of Tuam

Joseph Healy reviews a harrowing account of the crimes of the Catholic Church in Ireland and of the power of resistance

You can’t defend peace when there is no peace to defend

Written for an Australian audience, Colin Long's reply to the Australian Greens leader David Shoebridge makes arguments useful for Ukraine solidarity activists everywhere.

Belgium: to defend our future against austerity and repression everyone to the streets alongside the youth!

After a scorching and deadly summer for the working classes, the mobilizations for decent, free and democratic education that began in June are back in full force explain the comrades of Gauche anticapitaliste/SAP Antikapitalisten.

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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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Spanish State – A new political cycle: Maricarmen, the general strike and the threat of a right wing electoral victory

Across two articles edited together by ACR. Jaime Pastor gives the background to and prospect for the growing crisis in the Spanish State

Reject the attempted appropriation of Cable St

Remembering Alan Thornett

Fighting to get Palantir out of the NHS

Mamdani Condemns ICE Shooting in NYC and Israel’s Genocide, but Faces Criticism from the Left

Free public transport turns the city into a common good

The start of an unprecedented movement in France

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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

Strategies of Resistance

Strategies of Resistance. New expanded edition of selected writings. By Daniel Bensaïd. Edited by Alex de Jong. Just £15 from Resistance Books here. “Daniel Bensaïd was one of the most creative, imaginative and sharpest minds in the contemporary history of Marxism, in France and beyond.” Michael Löwy. CONTENTS: Introduction:  Daniel Bensaïd, melancholic revolutionary; 1.  What […]

Dangerous Liaisons

Back in print: “Dangerous Liaisons: The marriages and divorces of Marxism and Feminism” by Cinzia Arruzza and with a prologue by Penelope Duggan. This book is an introduction to the relationship between the workers’ movement and the women’s movement. Cinzia Arruzza argues in the need to combine gender and class politics. Just £12 from Resistance […]

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 […]