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Trotsky—the leader who armed the workers’ movement
Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky was at the forefront of the 1917 Revolution
The new war on abortion rights - and how we can resist it
Judith Orr, author of the new book Abortion Wars, spoke to Sadie Robinson about what’s driving attacks on abortion—and the renewed resistance to them
US South—monuments to racism must fall
The Confederate statues being brought down across the southern US states are monuments to slavery that were built to bolster white supremacy. They’ve got to go, argues historian Brian Kelly
EU migrants slam the racist right wing Tories’ new plan to divide us
Government documents leaked last week revealed the scale of the Tories’ planned clampdown on European Union migrants living in Britain. Migrants spoke to Dave Sewell about what the changes would mean—and how to take on the Tories’ racist scapegoating
Workers in revolt needed newspapers of their own
Workers’ councils and political parties set up newspapers to counter the lies of the rich—and to organise the struggle against them in the Russian Revolution of 1917
Mutiny at the heart of empire—how soldiers rebelled at Etaples
Ripples of revolution spread across Europe and beyond in the wake of the February revolt in Russia in 1917—and the British Army was no exception
Blood Money—the real cost of the Tories’ murderous arms deals
Arms dealers, top ministers and government officials from across the world descend on east London for the DSEI arms fair next week
How the shockwaves of the Russian Revolution spread across the world
News of revolution in Russia inspired workers to take action against their own rulers—and showed them they could win
No is not enough—but we need more than ideas to change society
Naomi Klein’s vision of how to win change only gets half way there
Up in arms—how workers in Russia united in action to beat a coup
At the beginning of September 1917 the commander of the Russian Army, general Lavr Kornilov, tried to crush the revolution.
The Russian Revolution saw workers transform society—and themselves
Ideas can change fast in a revolution, as ordinary people start to take control of their own lives and the world around them
More stop and search can’t cut knife crime
London police are exploiting recent horrific knife crimes to demand more powers. At the same time, the annual crackdown in the run up to Notting Hill Carnival looks set to involve sinister new surveillance techniques. Alistair Farrow spoke to people in London who bear the brunt of police racism
Four US-backed coups in Latin America—and two close shaves
Bloody history shows why and how we need to keep imperialist hands off Venezuela
How the dying British Empire tore India in half—and how it could have been stopped
Seventy years ago this week the British Empire left India after decades of brutal rule
Capital—a vampire at work
The first volume of Karl Marx’s Capital was published a century and a half ago. Joseph Choonara, author of a new reader’s guide to the work, explains its relevance today
Our terrified rulers spread lies to undermine revolution
Fearing that they would also be toppled, ruling classes across the world organised to crush the Russian Revolution of 1917
Does the fight for workers’ power mean dictatorship?
The ruling class won’t allow a socialist society to develop, so workers need their own instruments of class rule
Russian Revolution gave a glimpse of how we can uproot women’s oppression
Russia’s revolution showed there can be no women’s liberation without socialism, and no socialism without women’s liberation
Lewisham 1977 - forty years on from when we smashed the Nazi National Front
Forty years ago this week thousands of protesters blocked a Nazi march in south east London—and made history.
Venezuela, struggle and the left
As right wing opposition to Venezuela’s government grows, Andy Brown spoke to Tomáš Tengely-Evans about the forces on the ground and the potential to change society
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