How Darwin Influenced Marx and Engels
Charles Darwin died 140 years ago today. His work revolutionised our understanding of nature, and had a major impact on other thinkers of his time – including Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx.
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Building a People’s Economy in London
In the 1980s, a group of radical economists, planners, and activists in the GLC set out to transform London’s economy in the interest of its working class – with achievements and limitations we can learn from today.
Luton’s Enough is Enough Rally Was a Powerful Show of Working-Class Unity
In a town consistently misrepresented as a hub of religious and racial tension, Luton's Enough is Enough rally was a clear reminder that what working class people have in common is so much more than what divides us.
How Anti-Worker Policies Turned Britain into a Cancer Capital
Nobody should die at work – but the government’s refusal to remove asbestos is killing more than five thousand people a year. On International Workers' Memorial Day, we should remember them by fighting for a system that values workers more than profits.
Remembering C. L. R. James
C.L.R James was a Trinidadian Marxist historian, theorist, and Pan-Africanist, His landmark text 'The Black Jacobins' remains the authority on Haiti's slave revolution and one of the greatest radical histories of all time.
Public Transport Is a Disaster — But It Could Be a Panacea
Well-funded public transport is an obvious solution to climate change, the cost-of-living crisis, and crumbling infrastructure. The establishment is determined to make it a cash cow instead.
Israeli Settlers Are Terrorising Palestinian Olive Farmers
For Palestinians, the olive harvest is both an economic lifeline and a symbol of resistance. That is why Israel has taken advantage of the attention on Gaza to kill and terrorise farmers across the West Bank.
Life in the Century’s Midnight
On International Holocaust Memorial Day we should remember the resistance that organised itself in Nazi death camps.
Greetings From a Free Portugal
On the 50th anniversary of the Carnation Revolution, we republish writer and activist Antonio de Figueiredo, who argued upon his return from exile that the liberation of Portugal's African colonies was the country's own path to freedom.
Remembering the Diggers
On St. George's Day we remember the Diggers — the true radicals of the English Revolution.
Trish Keenan: Working-Class Psychedelic Hero
Since the 2011 death of singer Trish Keenan, Birmingham electronic group Broadcast have become increasingly influential for a style that applies a notably internationalist and modernist interpretation to the psychedelia of the 1960s.
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.
The Tariff Test
Trump's tariffs look set to dismantle whatever remains of the 'rules-based international order'. Rather than bowing down, Britain should take the opportunity to do away with the hypocrisy of that system and build a different kind of world economy.
The Socialism of T. Dan Smith
Often derided as a symbol of corruption, T. Dan Smith's vision of a modern, socialist 'Brasilia of the North' transformed Newcastle and deserves to be remembered.
Against MMT
Modern Monetary Theory disorients the Left by peddling simplistic monetary solutions to complex problems of political power.
Comrades at War
After the First World War, thousands of veterans returned from the front lines and fought for their rights against an establishment that was happy to discard them.