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Mandelson entombed… finally

Dave Kellaway celebrates and analyses the end of Mandelson's political career

Review: Britanahay Բրիտանահայ: Armenian and British

Are you frequently in central London with time to kill? I am. One of the things I enjoy doing in those circumstances is popping into a gallery or museum, writes Terry Conway.

Review: A grain of sand

Israel has killed an estimated 20,000 children in Gaza since the start of the current genocidal campaign. This stark statistic disguises the fact that these were 20,000 individuals, with 20,000 individual lives and stories. The one-woman show A Grain of Sand helps to humanise and individualise these Palestinian children, while leaving the audience horrified at their daily suffering argues Roland Rance.

Radical Harmony

Dave Kellaway reviews the Neo-Impressionist exhibition at the National Gallery and discovers some anarcho communist painters.

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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Your Party CEC elections – vote Grassroots Left!

AntiCapitalist Resistance is backing the Grassroots Left slate in the CEC elections for Your Party. Simon Hannah and Terry Conway report from ACR’s recent leadership discussion. 

Hackney’s green/left alliance

Gaza: when is a ceasefire not a ceasefire?

We stand with Rojava

Stop Palantir looting NHS

Big tech as traffickers

Iran:  Campism and the Erasure of Theocracy

EVENTS

Feb

16

Book launch – The POUM: Republic, Revolution and Counterrevolution

7.00pm

Organised by ACR

Feb

21

Resist Britain First (Manchester)

12.00pm

Organised by resistbritainfirst

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 […]