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Left candidate Andrea Egan wins UNISON General Secretary election

A stunning win for working-class politics in the largest union in Britain, a report from UNISON activists in South London.

An Open Letter to Gianni Infantino

On the Betrayal of Football by Simon Pearson

Refugees: From Kindertransport to Today

My Father’s Story on Why Refugee Families Must Stay Together by Sue Lukes

More than a football shirt

The production and selling of replica football shirts shows how capitalism works today explains Dave Kellaway

ABOUT ANTICAPITALIST RESISTANCE

We seek revolutionary transformation to meet the compound crisis of ecological disaster, economic collapse, social decay, grotesque inequality, mass impoverishment, growing militarisation, and creeping authoritarianism.

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Twelve Days of Xmas – Starmer style

Sir Keir sent me his Xmas card with the lyrics of a classic Christmas carol re-worked to fit the vision of his Labour government, Dave Kellaway

DISABLISM: THE BUDGET AND BEYOND

General strike in Portugal

Socialist Strategy at a crossroads

BBC must report Palestine hunger strikers now

Tommy Robinson’s Carol Concert

STANDING FIRM FOR UKRAINE:  USC AGM UNITES AGAINST AUTHORITARIANISM AND FASCISM

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28 March Together

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VIDEO

Palestine and Marxism an online author discussion

INTERNATIONALISM OR RUSSIFICATION – a study in the Soviet nationalities problem

THEORY

Disability Politics, Culture, and Pride: road to emancipation or containment?

July has been designated Disability Pride Month writes Bob Williams-Findlay. Within a historical context, Disability Pride Month is presented in the following manner: “It originated in the United States to commemorate the passing of the landmark Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) in July 1990. […].

Capitalist China and socialist revolution

[Book] From Class Society to Communism by Ernest Mandel

Chapter 17 – Historical Materialism  [From Class Society to Communism]

Chapter 16 Materialist Dialectics [From Class Society to Communism]

Chapter 15 – The Coming of the Classless Society [From Class Society to Communism] 

Chapter 14 – The Winning Over of the Masses by the Revolutionaries [From Class Society to Communism]

PUBLICATIONS

The Enduring Communist Manifesto

The Communist Manifesto is sometimes seen as a mere historical curiosity. But in the commentary accompanying this reprint, Twilight O’Hara makes the case for the Manifesto’s enduring relevance to the struggle today. Twilight O’Hara is a nonbinary revolutionary communist activist, college student, and YouTube essayist from the United States working on various projects towards the […]

THE POUM: Republic, Revolution and Counterrevolution

By Andy Durgan “The POUM: Republic, Revolution, and Counterrevolution” provides an updated and original introduction to the history of the party. It examines the POUM’s origins, its relations with the workers’ and peasants’ movements of the time, its political ideas, and its role in the revolution that erupted in July 1936. This is a story […]

IN STALIN’S SHADOW

Leon Trotsky and the Legacy of the Moscow Trials. by Douglas Greene. “In Stalin’s Shadow” examines how Trotsky has been portrayed as a villainous figure in conspiracy theories ranging from Russian antisemitic television series to neo-Stalinist historical narratives. Greene analyzes the Moscow Trials of the 1930s and unmasks modern defenders of Stalin like Domenico Losurdo […]

Voices against Putin’s war

Protesters’ defiant speeches in Russian courts. Foreword by John McDonnell MP and edited by Simon Pirani. This book comprises ten speeches in court by people who opposed Russia’s war of aggression in Ukraine, and were arrested, tried and handed long jail sentences for doing so. There are also letters and interviews in which they made […]