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May 2026 – learning from the 1926 general strike

1 May – International worker’s Day – is always an occasion to celebrate and to redouble our efforts to organise . This year is particularly important as we approach the 100th anniversary of the 1926 General Strike full of many lessons for the future explains Terry Conway

The shift of power from local Councils to regional Mayoral Combined Authorities Part 2

Part two continues the examination of local government and the shift in power. Richard Hatcher writes.

Righting History: The Communist Party learns no lessons from the 1926 general strike

Mick Gosling criticises the politics of the Communist Party at the time of the 50th anniversary of the General Strike. Reprinted from Red Weekly, 20 May 1976

In The Print – Workers versus Rupert Murdoch

In the Print is a new play about the battle between the SOGAT trade union and Rupert Murdoch at Wapping in 1986, primarily told from the perspective of Brenda Dean the SOGAT leader, the first woman to run a major British trade union. explains Simon Hannah,

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Iran between the Russian and Chinese models

Gilbert Achcar assesses the situation of the Turmp/Israeli war on Iran

The General Strike – Harry Wicks

Stop art washing genocide!

Students: you are being watched

Western Marxism, Historical Defeat, and the Limits of Exposure

Labour Together’s fraud

Lessons of the 1926 General Strike – a century on

EVENTS

May

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Ecosocialism Conference 2026

12.00pm – 5.00pm

Organised by Ecosocialism Conference

VIDEO

Palestine and Marxism an online author discussion

INTERNATIONALISM OR RUSSIFICATION – a study in the Soviet nationalities problem

THEORY

Disability Politics, Culture, and Pride: road to emancipation or containment?

July has been designated Disability Pride Month writes Bob Williams-Findlay. Within a historical context, Disability Pride Month is presented in the following manner: “It originated in the United States to commemorate the passing of the landmark Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) in July 1990. […].

Fascisation and strategy

Fascism before power

A glimpse of what could be: The NSW BLF, the most radical and innovative union the world has ever seen

Weaponising Gender

Big tech as traffickers

Nuanced differences or something else?

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 […]