For God’s sake, women, go out and play! Instead of staring round to see what wants polishing or rubbing, go out into the open and draw the breath of the moors or the hills into your lungs. Get some of… Continue Reading
John Molyneux, who died in December of last year, was quite simply an exemplary revolutionary socialist.1 To write this is not just to make a statement about John’s beliefs; it speaks also to his character, the fibre of his being… Continue Reading
One year after the brutal invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022, those who have opposed Russia and NATO stand vindicated.1 The Eastern European country is a battleground for United States and NATO ambitions to reassert their hegemony in the… Continue Reading
The victory of the Fratelli d’Italia (Brothers of Italy) in the Italian general election held in September 2022, where it emerged as the biggest party, poses sharp questions.1 The overall vote for the right-wing electoral coalition—composed of the Fratelli, Matteo… Continue Reading
In June 1952, Grace Carlson, one of the staunchest members of the United States’ Socialist Workers Party (SWP), tidied her desk in the offices of the organisation’s Militant newspaper and left the building.1 She had been the only woman defendant… Continue Reading
Penguin’s 2022 republication of the seminal and path-breaking 1944 study Capitalism and Slavery in its “modern classics” series is hugely welcome. The reprint of the book, written by black Trinidadian historian and politician Eric Williams, comes in the aftermath of… Continue Reading
On 17 September 2022, there was an unexpected sectarian confrontation in the English city of Leicester.1 Several hundred young Hindu men, many masked, marched through streets primarily inhabited by Muslims and chanted slogans associated with the chauvinism of a ultra-right… Continue Reading
The death of Mike Davis on 25 October 2022 at the age of 76 has deprived us of perhaps the outstanding Marxist writer of my generation. He delved deep into the contemporary history of the United States, especially in Southern… Continue Reading
Despite stronger than expected showings by Democrats in November’s midterm elections, the Republican Party has won control of the United States House of Representatives with a narrow majority.1 The Democrats did pick up one seat in the Senate but then… Continue Reading
The death of Elizabeth II on September 8, 2022, officially “Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and of her other realms and territories” and “head of the Commonwealth, defender of the faith”, triggered ten days… Continue Reading