News and analysis

Remembering the Carnation Revolution

Dave Kellaway introduces a foreword written by Brais Fernández that he has translated from a new book published in the Spanish state.

 Welfare Reform Redux

Susan Pashkoff rages against the continual demonisation of sick and disabled people

Be Realistic – Demand the Impossible!

The trans* struggle has reached a crisis. Some will be tempted to temper our expectations and make more moderate demands. Rowan Fortune, NJ Catchpole and Twilight O’Hara explain why that is a quick route to defeat. Trigger Warning: This piece includes a difficult discussion of trans* suicide and depression in candid terms. Main image by Steve Eason.

The postponed Israeli attack on Iran

Israel will complete the genocidal war that it has been waging against Gaza for six and a half months, before inexorably directing its military efforts against Iran and its Lebanese auxiliary, Hezbollah. By Gilbert Achcar.

Capitalism’s New Age of Plagues, Part 4

Agribusiness assaults on tropical forests are driving the emergence of new diseases and epidemics. By Ian Angus.

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GKN Workers and Fridays for the Future Lobby Tuscan regional council

By Riccardo Chiari (from IL Manifesto, a left wing daily in Italy, translated and edited by Dave Kellaway)

Anti‑Fascists demand freedom for Zaragoza six

Meloni’s government censors anti fascism

Conversion Therapy: Bigots on the attack

Sunak’s Assault on the Sick: Blaming the Victims of Capitalism’s Failures

Politics in Crisis: Prospects for the Hard Right and the Militant Left

The coming Israeli attack on Iran

EVENTS

Apr

25

UCU Members for Ukraine webinar: Ukraine’s economy + postwar reconstruction

7.00pm – 9.00pm

Organised by ACR

May

1

Ecosocialism Bloc on London May Day demonstration

11.45am

Organised by Ecosocialism Conference

VIDEO

Support Russian anti‑war activists/Solidarity with the People of Ukraine

Dodo Modern Poets

THEORY

Frantz Fanon: Martinican, French, Algerian, African Revolutionary

Ian Parker is reading a new full account of Fanon’s short life and work.

Karl Marx and Ecology: An Interview with Michael Löwy

Lenin’s Political Work

Two, three, many Lenins

Socialism and revolutionary democracy: Lenin’s legacy for our time of catastrophe

The Limits of Left Moralism

Global Anti‑Trans Movement

PUBLICATIONS

Internationalism or Russification

Internationalism or Russification A study in the Soviet nationalities problem by Ivan Dzuyba Internationalism or Russification? was written in 1965 while there was a wave of political repression in Ukraine. In the book, Dzyuba analyses from a Marxist position the national and cultural policy of the Soviet Union in Ukraine. The book was first sent to the Secretary of the Central […]

Israel’s War on Gaza

ISRAEL’S WAR ON GAZA by Gilbert Achcar Israel has seized the opportunity of Hamas’s operation on 7 October 2023 to devastate Gaza, reducing it to rubble, massacring a huge number of its inhabitants and forcing the rest to flee. Another Nakba is underway, 75 years after the creation of Israel. This booklet includes articles by Gilbert […]

Making Sense of Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine

Making Sense of Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine by Paul Le Blanc In this small book, Paul Le Blanc tries to ‘make sense of the Russian invasion of Ukraine’. His starting point is for a victory for Ukrainian self-determination and opposition to imperialism in all its forms. Paul Le Blanc tackles the following themes: What Mistaken Friends Say […]

The Russian Invasion and the Ukrainian Left

The Russian Invasion and the Ukrainian Left The Struggle for a Social Ukraine Commons Journal 13/2023: Edited by Stas Serhiienko, Published by Resistance Books. The Commons journal of social criticism is a left-wing Ukrainian media about economy, politics, history and culture, founded in 2009. ContentsArticles on: To the Western left, Between Survival and Resistance, and For a Just […]