Long Reads

Long Reads

Claude McKay—the Making of a Black Bolshevik review: biography of a poet and revolutionary

A review of Winston James' book

13 February 2023
Long Reads

The end of British Empire in the Middle East: The Struggle for Iran by David Painter and Gregory Brew review

The Western coup of 1953

16 January 2023
Long Reads

A Very British Conspiracy by Eileen Turnbull review—how the British state fitted up the Shrewsbury 24 strikers

The story of the Shrewsbury 24

23 December 2022
Long Reads

The Future is Degrowth by Matthias Schmelzer, Andrea Vetter and Aaron Vansintjan review

Looking at anti-capitalist alternatives

14 December 2022
Long Reads

Making the Revolution Global—socialism and black liberation in the shadow of 1917

A new book by Theo Williams

07 December 2022
Long Reads

Helen Macfarlane—hobgoblins, spectres and the fight for working class independence

She translated the Communist Manifesto

05 December 2022
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Marxism 101: What’s the role of the state?

And would we need a workers' state?

01 December 2022
A rally for an RMT union rail strikes
Long Reads

Marxism 101: What determines your class in the 21st century?

Why the working class is unique

25 November 2022
Karl Liebknecht: jailed in 1916 for saying 'Down with the war!'
Long Reads

Storming onto the stage of history—the forgotten women of the German Revolution

A revolt that helped end war

09 November 2022
Long Reads

Trussonomics’ defeat showed the gap between free market rhetoric and capitalist reality

Truss created a crisis within neoliberalism

31 October 2022
Long Reads

Blood and Power by John Foot review—the bloody face of Italian fascism

Clear reminder of the reality of fascism

26 October 2022
Long Reads

Marxism 101: What you need to know about Karl Marx

Why the revolutionary matters today

08 October 2022