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Mass walkouts by garment workers in Bangladesh
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.
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‘The Blazing World: A New History of Revolutionary England’ – book review
Jonathan Healey’s The Blazing World gives a vivid and illuminating account of the revolutionary seventeenth century in Britain, finds Waseem Ahmed.
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Black Crown: Henri Christophe, the Haitian Revolution and the Caribbean’s Forgotten Kingdom – book review
‘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.
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‘Reform, Revolution, and Opportunism: Debates in the Second International, 1900–1910’ – book review
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.
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“Welfare for Markets: A Global History of Basic Income” – book review
“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
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Building pipelines as Canada burns
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.’
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“The World Bank: A Critical History” – book review
Éric Toussaint’s history of the World Bank shows powerfully how it and other international institutions have enforced imperialist exploitation, finds John Clarke
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Review: “Forces of Production, Climate Change and Canadian Fossil Fuel Capitalism”
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
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The birth of dialectics in Ancient Greece
The inspired insights of the first materialists in antiquity laid the foundations of modern science, as Sean Ledwith describes.
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We won’t win climate justice in court
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
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The revolutionary spirit of the Buddha
Marx and Engels both took a surprising interest in the ideas of the great Indian spiritual leader, argues Sean Ledwith.
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Inside the slaughterhouse: Child labour in the U.S.
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.
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Engels: How North West England shaped an internationalist
Katherine Connelly outlines how the events and context of their times shaped the partnership and ideas of Marx and Engels.
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Learning from the barricade: Marx, Engels and the 1848 June Days uprising
175 years on from the 1848 June Days insurrection, Katherine Connelly explores what Paris’ working-class revolutionaries taught Marx and Engels.
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Not bluffing: the U.S., China and the threat of war over Taiwan
Chris Bambery examines the grim logic of great-power competition.
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The great denial: Why they don’t want us to talk about class
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.
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The Diggers’ song
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.
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Here comes everyone: climate, class and the movement we need
As thousands prepare to surround parliament to demand climate action, Feyzi Ismail explains the scale of the crisis and the strategy the movement needs.
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The French Left and the ongoing workers revolt
As workers prepare for a long drawn struggle, John Mullen argues now is the time to call for a general strike.
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French trade unions: the roots of revolt against Macron
John Mullen writes from Paris on the background to the current strikes and the very different patterns of union organisation in France.