The current spate of local disputes provides a glimpse of the potential for a fightback. Donny Gluckstein reports on the successful strike at Edinburgh College.
Julie Sherry draws out the wider lessons of the spate of local disputes.
The counter-revolution in Egypt, together with the confused outcome of the upheavals in Ukraine, has revived the old argument that real popular power is impossible. John Molyneux explains why this is wrong.
Ian Taylor looks at the life and politics of one of the most important and iconic figures of the post-war Labour left
Can Marxism help us make sense of sport? Paul Blackledge mines Tony Collins's Sport in Capitalist Society and Michael Lavalette's collection Capitalism and Sport for some answers.
This month marks the centenary of the Ludlow Massacre when US national guardsmen killed 20 striking miners and their families in Colorado. This is the story of one of the most violent episodes in American labour history.
Lenin's critical response to Rosa Luxemburg's Junius pamphlet
In August 1914 the Second International grouping of socialist parties failed its most important test with catastrophic consequences. Nearly all the leaders of European socialism collapsed into chauvinism, supporting their own nations’ interests in an imperialist war which cost the lives of tens of millions of workers. One of the few parties to remain against...
The situation in Ukraine is fast moving and complex and it is easy to misunderstand what's at play.
Lenin once argued that revolutions are a product of two conditions. Firstly, the “lower classes” must be unwilling to carry on living in the old way but secondly, that the “upper classes” cannot carry on ruling in the old way. Any great crisis involves splits at the top of society which in turn open up...
In the single most important political development in South Africa’s post apartheid history, the National Union of Metalworkers (Numsa) has decided to challenge the leadership of the country’s main trade union Cosatu federation, and particularly its decision to dismiss the general secretary, Zwelizima Vavi. Together with nine of the other unions in 19-strong Cosatu federation,...
