The EHRC’s Trans Guidance – Chaos and Confusion 

The Equality and Human Rights Commission guidance on trans rights has provided clarity to no one but its own ideologists, writes Rose. 

A New Year mystery: Your Party’s ‘grassroots left’ and the ecosocialist elephant

The Grassroots left slate for the Your Party CEC has one glaring ommission, argues Allan Todd

Manchester against the far right

Recent years have seen a vast shift and normalisation in anti-migrant sentiment and prejudice, to the shock and horror of many people across Britain writes Joshua Cole

The Return of the Mask – Superflu and Covid

Covid-19 persists, but the world fails to confront it. Joseph Healy takes on the pandemic.

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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ICE – An Occupying Force

Simon Pearson on the killing of Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis yesterday

Solidarity with the Struggle of the Iranian People

US hands off Venezuela

URGENT – Stop the imperialist aggression against Venezuela!

They Took Him

This student is not a volunteer

Defend Alaa el‑Fattah

EVENTS

Feb

16

Book launch – The POUM: Republic, Revolution and Counterrevolution

7.00pm

Organised by ACR

Jan

31

National Demonstration for Palestine – 31st January

12.00pm – 4.00pm

Organised by Palestine Solidarity Campaign

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. […].

Nuanced differences or something else?

Capitalist China and socialist revolution

[Book] From Class Society to Communism by Ernest Mandel

Chapter 17 – Historical Materialism  [From Class Society to Communism]

Chapter 16 Materialist Dialectics [From Class Society to Communism]

Chapter 15 – The Coming of the Classless Society [From Class Society to Communism] 

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 […]