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The Imperial Typewriters Strike at 50

Fifty years ago this week, South Asians at Leicester's Imperial Typewriters factory went on strike to demand respect and dignity at work — confronting the racism of their bosses and the unions that failed to support them.

Tribune and the Civil Rights Struggle

In Martin Luther King’s era, Tribune provided an important platform to the civil rights movement in both Britain and the US, cementing the publication’s beliefs that racial justice was inseparable from the struggle for socialism.

Remembering Hobsbawm

A new biography provides an intimate portrait of Marxist historian Eric Hobsbawm as his life ebbed and flowed with the left of the last century.

Socialism or Extinction

A new report suggests one million plant and animal species are being driven to extinction. The culprit is an out-of-control capitalist system.

The Meaning of the Manifesto

On the centenary of the Communist Manifesto's publication in 1948, the Labour Party asked Harold Laski to write an introduction for party members. We republish a section of his essay today.

The Manifesto in History

The final instalment of Harold Laski's 1948 introduction to The Communist Manifesto for the Labour Party looks at the application of the Manifesto's principles in practice – and its relevance to the Labour government.

Remembering Walter Rodney

This weekend marks 40 years since the assassination of Guyanese Marxist Walter Rodney. We republish his final essay on the struggle for democracy in his native land.

The Social Delusion

A new Netflix movie, 'The Social Dilemma,' seeks to pin the world's political problems on social media – but growing polarisation is a product of capitalism's deep inequalities, not Facebook and Twitter.