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When Work Becomes a Moral Test

Reform and the Conservatives say Britain’s welfare system is wasting lives. Behind the numbers sits a harder claim: that paid employment is the measure of whether a life is useful. Simon Pearson responds.

Netanyahu says no. What next for “peace maker” Trump

Trump’s Gaza 15 point “peace plan” has fallen apart - quelle surprise, notes Susan Pashkoff.

Why equality monitoring is necessary

The enactment of equality laws from the 1960s and 1970s onwards in the USA, UK and other countries encouraged the collection of equality statistics and equality monitoring. Liz Lawrence warns of the danger of losing much equality data if far-right parties repeal or seriously modify the Equality Act 2010.

What Jason Arday’s death says about our society

A tragic death as a man is hounded to suicide by a right wing campaign and the British press. What must we learn from it, asks Simon Hannah?

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On the hounding to death of Jason Arday

A statement from Anti*Capitalist Resistance

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

Protecting women and mothers?

Exciting political unification in India

A New Cuban Economy?

Behind the early release headlines

The Cultural Marxist conspiracy

EVENTS

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Creeping Fascism: From Ankara to Manchester: what Turkey teaches the British left

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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

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 […]