The cost-of-living crisis on top of the extreme exploitative conditions of the garment industry has erupted into a major outbreak of workers’ unrest, reports John Clarke.

Jonathan Healey’s The Blazing World gives a vivid and illuminating account of the revolutionary seventeenth century in Britain, finds Waseem Ahmed.

‘Black Crown’ is a gripping biography of one of the most important leaders of the Haitian Revolution, and it illuminates the history of the revolution, finds John Westmoreland.

The debates between socialists in the Congresses of the Second International raised issues which remain of central importance to the left today, argues Chris Bambery.

“Welfare for Markets” exposes the neoliberal links of basic income, and helps to explain why it is not a useful demand for the left, argues Dominic Alexander

The Trans Mountain oil pipeline expansion in British Columbia is running into another round of problems and generating even more opposition. ‘The controversial government-owned fossil fuel company is seeking regulatory approval to change its pipeline construction methods and route, after running into problems drilling a tunnel.’

Éric Toussaint’s history of the World Bank shows powerfully how it and other international institutions have enforced imperialist exploitation, finds John Clarke

Nicolas Graham’s book on forces of production and fossil-fuel capitalism gives an important analysis of why fundamental change is needed to solve the climate crisis, finds John Clarke

The inspired insights of the first materialists in antiquity laid the foundations of modern science, as Sean Ledwith describes.

The recent climate victory in the US state Montana is welcome, but a legal strategy must not replace mass mobilisation to combat capitalist economic logic, argues John Clarke

Marx and Engels both took a surprising interest in the ideas of the great Indian spiritual leader, argues Sean Ledwith.

A rise in highly systematic, typically immigrant, child labour is being abetted by state legislation in the U.S., and must be resisted, argues John Clarke.

Katherine Connelly outlines how the events and context of their times shaped the partnership and ideas of Marx and Engels.

175 years on from the 1848 June Days insurrection, Katherine Connelly explores what Paris’ working-class revolutionaries taught Marx and Engels.

Chris Bambery examines the grim logic of great-power competition.

In the first of three extracts from his new book, Radical Chains, Chris Nineham asks why the establishment is so desperate to suppress the very idea of class.

The Diggers had several songs, but their most renowned one was never published in their time. Today, only one anonymous, untitled, and undated version of the song exists, writes Ariel Hessayon.

As thousands prepare to surround parliament to demand climate action, Feyzi Ismail explains the scale of the crisis and the strategy the movement needs.

As workers prepare for a long drawn struggle, John Mullen argues now is the time to call for a general strike.

John Mullen writes from Paris on the background to the current strikes and the very different patterns of union organisation in France.