By Michael Roberts March 5 2021 was the 150th anniversary of the birth of Rosa Luxemburg, the great revolutionary socialist of the Polish-German labour movement. Luxemburg’s
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By Cintia Frencia and Daniel Gaido From Jacobin Magazine, 2017 In 1894, Clara Zetkin took to the pages of the Social Democratic women’s magazine Die Gleichheit (Equality), which she had

We cannot let March 5 go by without paying tribute to one of the greatest socialists produced by the German labour movement, Rosa Luxemburg, who

by Zowi Milanovi, In Defence of Marxism This year, on 25 February, it’s exactly 80 years ago that the February Strike took place in the

Darwin, The Descent of Man and evolution
By John Pickard It is 150 years this year since Darwin published his book The Descent of Man. He developed the main outline of his

The political origins of White Supremacy By Hilary Barker, Penrith and the Borders CLP The Invention of The White Race, by Theodore W Allen, is

By Abigail Pollock, NEU member Burston, near Diss in Norfolk, is the quintessential English village built around a Green, a Church and an old schoolhouse.

Engels’ view on human evolution. A triumph of dialectical materialism
By John Pickard First published in the Militant International Review, June 1984 Engels’ pamphlet, The Part Played by Labour in the Transition from Ape to Man, written

By Mark Langabeer, Newton Abbot Labour member. It is 75 years since the atomic bomb attacks on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan.

By Mark Langabeer, Newton Abbot CLP member The fourth episode in Andrew Marr’s History of Modern Britain series, concentrated on the 1980s, a period dominated by Tory Prime