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Isabel Ringrose tells the terrible truth about the British Empire that Boris Johnson expects us to salute
The White House hopes that suppressing postal voting will deliver victory for Donald Trump in November’s presidential election.
Sackings and benefits sanctions have left ever more people struggling to pay their rent. The Tories’ plan to end a ban on evictions in September—meaning thousands could be thrown out
Simon Basketter looks at a new book examining how the rich have stolen huge swathes of public land—and passed centuries of laws keep everybody else out
Coup 53 tells a story from Britain’s shameful history in the Middle East, says Isabel Ringrose
She said, 'Today if our brothers can enlist in the war of independence, we too the women should be allowed to do the same'
Job losses aren’t just about coronavirus. Sarah Bates says we need to fight for jobs and against a system that destroys them
William Cuffay was one of the most prominent leaders of the working class movement in 19th century Britain.
When nine black teenagers were falsely accused of raping two white women in the US Deep South in 1931, most expected they’d suffer the death sentence. But, says Judy Cox, they’d reckoned without the Communist Party
Class is trashing the lives of hundreds of thousands of students. The downgrading of swathes of A-Level students’ grades in England and Wales has exposed how the system operates to keep working class people in check.
As schools are forced to close and childcare becomes less available the pressure on women as primary caregivers to children has greatly increased.Sarah Bates looks at why this is and talks to those bearing the brunt of this crisis
He said, “This is the twenty-seventh time I have been arrested. I ain’t going to jail no more. What we gonna start saying now is ‘Black Power’.”
The devastating blast in Beirut highlighted Lebanon’s rotten political system. This sectarian set-up was built by Western imperialism, writes Nick Clark
Thomas Sankara is sometimes referred to as “Africa’s Che Guevara”.
Health workers across Britain are taking the pay fight into their own hands
Moral panic over ‘illegal raves’ is nothing new. Sarah Bates looks at how the state tries to police ordinary people come together—and says it’s our job to repetitively beat them back
Black people’s resistance was key to abolishing slavery and ending feudalism—and it will be key to winning socialism.
The Communist Party of Great Britain was founded 100 years ago to fight for revolutionary change. Ken Olende looks at its roots and the debates that took place as it was formed
Workers facing poverty, unemployment and insecurity told Sadie Robinson why they feel they have been completely abandoned by their bosses and the government
To be a black revolutionary in the US in the early 1970s was to accept the likelihood of prison or death. Assata Shakur, who was born JoAnne Deborah Bryon, knew the risks and faced both.