News and analysis

Labour Holds Holborn and St Pancras but Green challenge remains

Dave Kellaway examines 5 key takeaways from yesterday’s by-election in the London seat of Holborn and St Pancras

Holborn and St Pancras: you can’t judge a principle by a by‑election

Duncan Chapel' replies to Dave Kellaway about Zack Polanski's tactics on the Zionism is Racism motion

Alan Thornett 1937‑2026 : a working‑class leader who faced the apocalypse

Here we publish an initial tribute to Alan Thornett who died on 9 October from Duncan Chapel, We welcome comments on this and expect further appreciations we will carry over the days ahead.

Trade union support for the convoy keeps growing

Dick Nichols reports on the growing trade union support for the international solidarity convoy with Ukraine

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Proud, visible and not yet organised: the Greens at Brighton

The Green Party’s biggest conference showed a party with a great deal to be proud of, and a left with a growing audience. To turn that audience into influence, the left has to change how it works, argues Duncan Chapel.

Surviving a nuclear war?

Spanish State : Anticapitalistas on the early general election: Let’s keep up the struggle on the streets

Tories ‑The State Gets Out of the Way Until It Wants to Get in Yours

On Violence in Fighting Occupation: The Case of Palestine

The Left without a ‘camp’ is travelling to Ukraine with the international convoy.

Thousands celebrate anniversary of Battle of Cable Street

EVENTS

Oct

17

Failed harvests, data centres and the far right

12.30am

Organised by ACR

Nov

12

No more data centres

7.00pm

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

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 […]