A recent study has provided significant evidence of women holding prestigious positions in Iron Age Britain. These findings substantiate the Marxist understanding of the origins of women’s oppression – and put a spanner in the bourgeois historian’s propaganda machine.

50 years ago, after the long postwar boom, the world economy experienced its first truly global crisis. Falling output and spiralling inflation combined to devastate the working class. Today, capitalism faces similar turmoil. It must be overthrown.

As part of his unfinished notes on the Dialectics of Nature, Friedrich Engels wrote an insightful analysis of the material factors that drove the evolutionary development of mankind. We publish here an introduction to this fascinating text.