What are they for?

The origins, purpose and alternative to nationalist ideology

Bicentenary of Engels birth.

Tim Nailsea reviews Fully Automated Luxury Communism: A Manifesto by Aaron Bastani

How Marxists explain the causes and consequences of unemployment under capitalism

A Marxist analysis of the fundamental contradictions between sustainability and the capitalist mode of production.

Why are you so fed up?

Bolshevism is the model of democracy and unity that won the world's first socialist revolution

Marxists make a distinction between forms of government and the class nature of the state. We always ask, “which class interests are served by the state?”

Marx proved that exploitation is caused not just by the sharp practices of some bad capitalists, but is part and parcel of the profit system itself.

Only the overthrow of the profit system can create the conditions for the withering away of humanity’s psychological need for religious belief

"All history is the history of class struggle."

Imperialism poses the question: socialism or barbarism?

"The sharp sword, the living flame of the revolution."

Philosophical materialism demonstrates why socialism is the necessary outcome of the capitalist crisis.

"Nationalisation, without compensation and under workers’ control."

Oppression is a fundamental, necessary part of capitalism, and can only be destroyed along with it.

Why don't we just say "workers"?

The art of the dialectic

Reformism begins by redefining the socialist goal - and ends by rejecting it altogether

The struggle for the socialist goal is not an optional extra but the glue that binds daily struggles together

What is it?

A trade union can function without its bloated bureaucrats. In fact it will only really function as a force for socialist change without them.

The task of revolutionaries today is to reach out to the new generation in whose hands the future of the planet lies

Clara Zetkin led the struggle for a socialist-led, working class based women’s organisation in Germany in the 1880s-1890s

By Martin Suchanek ANNIVERSARIES NEVER serve as a mere recollection of a person’s historical work. When they are about an epoch-making theorist like Karl Marx, who together with his friend and companion in struggle Frederick Engels, founded “scientific socialism”, there are only two possibilities for the ruling class or the left wing of the bourgeoisie, […]

By Simon Hardy Over the last few months the new Labour leadership has been conducting a series of meetings, rallies and workshops to discuss the idea of the “New Economics”. The need for such an initiative is clear; the post-Blair party is struggling to re-establish a clear identity, and the new leadership are fighting to […]

A longer version of this article published for the 68th anniversary of the 1948 Partition of Palestine appears here. This shorter version was edited down for print. By Marcus Halaby What is Zionism? Isn’t it just a code word for Jews? Zionism is the idea that all Jewish people, regardless of their present location, citizenship […]

The recent furore in Labour has renewed debate about the nature of one of the oldest forms of racism By Jeremy Dewar & Dave Stockton Religious bigotry is practically as old as religion itself. And Christian religious bigotry against Jews, unparalleled in the Muslim world of the same period, was a feature of the so-called […]

By Marcus Halaby On the 68th anniversary of the original Partition of Palestine, and in the wake of the Labour right’s smears about antisemitism on the left, we answer a few common questions about the debate on Zionism, antisemitism and Israel-Palestine What is Zionism? Isn’t it just a code word for Jews? Why do some […]