The Bond Market Did Not Tell Burnham to Cut Pensions

Britain’s borrowing costs matter. But a global bond sell-off driven by war and energy prices does not contain an instruction to cut the triple lock. That part is politics. Simon Pearson explains.

British government’s double standards on welfare

Richard Pearson shows how British Governments look to limit welfare for the poor but maintain welfare for the rich

Where is Unite’s public campaign to defend Mark Dunne

London & Eastern Health RISC Chair Mark Dunne has been removed from his job by a hostile employer. Mark Boothroyd asks what his union, Unite, is doing to mount a campaign of public leverage?

Jail sentence for Ukrainian Trotskyist is an assault on free speech

Simon Pirani writes about the case of Bohdan Syrotiuk, a Ukrainian Trotskyist sentenced to 15 years in jail for writing about the war

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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Data centres are toxic capitalism

An article from Cymru’n Codi on the surge of data centres being built in Cymru

Stalinism’s Failures Vindicate Trotsky’s Critique

Building a National Care Service that integrates with the NHS

Mladic war criminal dies, we remember Srebrenica

The Looming election

In Support of the Open Letter Published in Solidarity with Political Prisoners in Iran

The list with no way off it

EVENTS

Sep

15

Public meeting: Ecsocialism or a dead planet [Brighton]

6.00pm

Organised by ACR

Sep

16

Public Emergency Briefing – film showing

7.00pm – 9.00pm

Organised by ACR

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

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 […]

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 […]