A review of Boris Arvatov's Art and Production, published for the first time in English by Pluto Press

IN THE February Revolution of 1917, the workers and soldiers of Petrograd rose in spontaneous revolt against the hardships caused by two and a half years of war. Civilians were verging on starvation, while those fighting suffered horrendous losses – 1.5 million had been killed, five million wounded, with millions more taken prisoner. Demonstrations by […]

By A CWU Rep ROYAL MAIL bosses using the courts to get our strike declared “unlawful” and force us into “mediation” is a dishonest delaying tactic designed to break the momentum of our massive 89 per cent vote for strike action. Their cheek is unbelievable. They blanked the union through 18 months of talks, forcing […]

ON 18 OCTOBER, Labour unanimously won a symbolic opposition day vote calling for a pause in the introduction of Universal Credit. The motion was non-binding but the result is a fresh sign of the government’s vulnerability, with Tory mps ordered to abstain from the vote. Earlier that day, facing growing disquiet from her own backbenchers, […]

LABOUR’S BRIGHTON conference was a confirmation that, thanks to a general election in which Labour saw a net gain of 31 seats and the Tories lost their overall majority, Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership of the party is now unchallenged. This should not have been surprising in a party where electoral success comes first, second, and third […]

After the nationalist debacle, it's time for working class unity to fight for a socialist and democratic alternative

Labour’s subservience to imperialism is the price it pays for ruling the capitalists' system

Escalate the struggle for safe, legal and free access to abortion for women across Ireland and the Six Counties. 

China's president used the party's 19th Congress to set out the country's bid for global pre-eminance

Audiences will wish a little more love had gone into James Graham's laboured production

Wakefield City Academies Trust has announced that it is pulling out of 21 schools, throwing the academic lives of thousands of children across Yorkshire into limbo.

Learning the hard way

It's not undemocratic to oppose Brexit

Review of Kathryn Bigelow's recreation of one night at the Algiers Motel in 1967

The noted socialist and Anti-Zionist writer has been purged by the Labour Party