Why we fight for workers’ control and management
With a left-wing Labour government on the horizon, the debate around workers’ control has been re-opened. Rob Sewell explains what this could – and should – look like.
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The French Revolution of May 1968
50 years ago, the workers and students of France shook society. Alan Woods looks at the revolutionary events of May 68.
John Maclean: Speech from the dock
John Maclean was an outstanding communist agitator – as demonstrated by the defence he gave at his trial a century ago.
Karl Marx: the man, thinker, and revolutionary
5th May marks the 200th birthday of the most influential and important thinker of modern history: Karl Marx.
1931-1935: How the Labour Party moved left
We republish here an important article from 1976, in which Rob Jones looks back and examines the lessons from the Labour Party’s history. With the prospect of a Corbyn government on the horizon, those lessons remain valid today.
Karl Marx: 1818 – 1883
135 years ago today, on 14th March 1883, Karl Marx passed away. This year also marks the 200th anniversary of Marx’s birth. We are commemorating Marx’s life and ideas with our upcoming “Marx in a Day” event.
Stephen Hawking, black holes, and the evolution of the universe
“All individual beings must perish, but the wonderful diversity of the material universe in all its myriad manifestations is eternal and indestructible. Life arises, passes away, and arises again and again. Thus it has been. Thus it will ever be.”
Labour and Clause 4 – 100 years on
Today, 27th February, marks the 100th anniversary of the adoption of a socialist constitution by the Labour Party. Steve Brown looks at Clause 4, its history, and the ongoing struggle to create a genuinely socialist Labour Party.
170 years of the Communist Manifesto
To mark the 170th anniversary of the Communist Manifesto, we republish here an article by Alan Woods from 20 years ago, which discusses the relevance of Marxism and the validity of the Manifesto in the modern world.
Leon Trotsky on the Communist Manifesto
To mark the 170th anniversary of the first publication of the Communist Manifesto, we republish here extended extracts from an article by Leon Trotsky, written for the 90th anniversary in 1938.
Lost Connections: exploring the material conditions behind depression
Martin Swayne reviews ‘Lost Connections’, an illuminating new book that examines the social factors and material causes behind the prevalence of mental health issues in modern day capitalist society.
The entitled aristocracy – abolish this feudal relic!
Steve Jones reviews “Entitled: a critical history of the British aristocracy”, a new book about the English upper class. The monarchy and lords are reactionary and undemocratic institutions. It is time they were swept into the dustbin of history.