The release of Julian Assange is a win for a world-wide campaign. Journalists’ unions have been the backbone of that campaign. It is also a blow against the creeping censorship across the ‘Western democracies’ This […]
The last two years in Britain and internationally have seen a big increase in struggle, and 2024 will be no different. There has been the historic strike wave in response to the cost-of-living crisis and […]
Successive British governments, starting in earnest with Margaret Thatcher, continuing under Tony Blair and New Labour, and the rest since, have embarked on mass privatisation of previously nationalised industries in Britain. What has been the […]
The recent killing of Chris Kaba by the police in London was the latest in a long list of tragic cases exposing the many problems in policing, including police racism, writes Deji Olayinka, South West […]
Lenin’s State and Revolution was written during the revolutionary upheavals that were taking place in Russia in 1917. By necessity, it had to be cut short, as Lenin explains at the end of the book, […]
The 21st century has not brought prosperity and security to the vast majority of people on planet earth. Capitalism, fuelled by the profit motive has led to an ever-spiralling wealth gap between mega-rich multi-billionaires and […]
In modern society, the term ‘state’ is used in many contexts. People might think of the ‘welfare state’ – the NHS, pensions, benefits, etc. Or they may be familiar with references to ‘state intervention’, for […]
The Special Demonstration Squad (SDS) was established in 1968 in Britain. At its inception it was a secret unit of undercover police officers created to infiltrate, monitor and record the activities of the Vietnam Solidarity […]
According to the Roman poet Juvenal, the ancient Roman emperors aimed to placate their subjects with “bread and circuses”. It would seem that the capitalist class in Britain is hoping for a similar effect with […]
In forthcoming issues, Socialism Today, the monthly journal of the Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales) will be publishing the content of five new Introduction to Marxism pamphlets. They are based on a series first […]
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