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The Paris Commune, where workers briefly took power and created the first workers’ government, was born 150 years ago this month.

Those at the top of society tell workers that they have no power. Sadie Robinson looks at recent school stoppages and says that workers can halt the assaults on ordinary people

Two centuries after the birth of revolutionary and socialist theorist Frederick Engels, Sarah Bates examines a life and legacy that goes beyond collaborating with Karl Marx

The horrendous situation facing renters during the Covid-19 pandemic, especially in the private sector, is going to get much worse after 21 September

‘Wellness’ may seem like a harmless trend. But it rests on making money from alienation and the way that capitalism damages our minds and bodies

Tomáš Tengely-Evans argues that being middle class isn’t about your lifestyle, accent, or whether you do a manual job

Sadie Robinson looks at what is distinctive about workers striking and why it is an especially powerful form of resistance.

Alistair Farrow explains how the revolutionaries Marx and Engels looked at humans’ interaction with the natural world

Theresa May’s appeal to Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn to resolve her Brexit crisis has infuriated many Tories.

In the past few weeks discussion of the obscure economic school is Modern Monetory Theory has gone viral

Sarah Bates enjoys Marie Kondo’s new show Tidying Up. But, she writes, its popularity says something deeper about life under capitalism and our relationship to commodities

History is littered with lessons on why workers’ action is the key to real change, and Marx’s insights are crucial.