News and analysis

Social Media: Prohibition does not work

Starmer announced the under 16 social media ban this morning. Simon Pearson takes up the discussion

Direct action v complicty in genocide

Susan Pashkoff looks at some of the barbarous implications of the judgement against the Filton 4

Whistler at the Tate

Jenny Preston looks behind Whistler’s paintings and findsanother darkness

Belfast riots – Fascists, not ‘thuggery’

Politicians and the mass media are ignoring or underestimating the politics behind what is happening in Belfast writes Dave Kellaway

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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Waiting for Makerfield

Dave Kellaway discusses the key issues in the Makerfield byelection next Thursday

Julio le Parc – socialist and pioneer of immersive art 

Stop cuts to SEND provision

SO NEAR AND YET SO FAR? – THE GLOBAL JUSTICE REPORT 2026

Don’t underestimate the danger of Reform

Converting local authority schools into academies: privatising the state school system in England

The Kremlin’s Perfect Storm

EVENTS

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.

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

A glimpse of what could be: The NSW BLF, the most radical and innovative union the world has ever seen

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 […]