More than seventy years have passed since Zionist militias began the process of ethnic cleansing which would force over 750,000 Palestinians from their homes and clear the way for the construction of the state of Israel. This process continues today. It was the ethnic cleansing of East Jerusalem that sparked the current rise in violence […]
Palestine: A Socialist Introduction
Israel is a racist state, similar to the way that Apartheid South Africa was organised. The West Bank and Gaza Strip are like the South African Bantustans. Jews from anywhere in the world are free to live in Israel as full citizens. Palestinians have been thrown off their land and are currently being cleared from […]
The Prophet and the Proletariat
Islamic Fundamentalism, Class and Revolution By Chris Harman Islamic fundamentalism has emerged as the ideology that Western politicians and media pundits most like to hate. The kind of abuse once reserved for ‘Communism’ is now diredcted at the Islamic movements which threaten to destabilise key areas of Western influence in the Middle East and beyond. […]
A Rebel’s Guide to Karl Marx
The growth of a global justice movement in recent years has seen an increased interest in the radical critique of capitalism laid out by Karl Marx.
The Communist Manifesto
By Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels The Communist Manifesto is a political text by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, aimed at both developing the theory of communism and engaging readers to take up its cause. First published in 1848, the book offers a detailed critique of capitalism, a spirited defense of communism, and practical suggestions […]
A Rebel’s Guide to Roxa Luxembourg
By Sally Campbell Rosa Luxemburg was one of the key leaders of the German revolutionary left until her murder by right wing militiamen in 1919 at the height of the attempted revolution. A young, Polish, Jewish woman, she had fearlessly taken on the theoretical giants of the Social Democratic Party of Germany in defence of […]
A Rebel’s Guide to Antonio Gramsci
By Chris Bambery Gramsci was the intellectual driving force of early Italian Communism. Jailed by Mussolini and with collapsing health, he laboured to produce his famous prison notebooks under the eye of the censor. His ideas – particularly his concept of hegemony – are still highly influential today. Chris Bambery provides an accessible and lively […]
A Rebel’s Guide to Eleanor Marx
By Siobhan Brown Eleanor Marx was an important figure in the early British socialist movement. On top of being friends with the likes of William Morris and George Bernard Shaw, she edited many of her father Karl’s works, wrote on The Woman Question’ and led militant workers on strike during the New Unionism of the […]
A Rebel’s Guide to Alexandra Kollantai
By Emma Davis Alexandra Kollontai was a revolutionary socialist who devoted her life to the fight for women’s liberation and human freedom. She played a prominent role in the Russian revolutions of 1905 and 1917. Kollontai located the struggle for the liberation of women at the centre of the fight for socialism. A committed internationalist, […]
Struggle for Development
By Benjamin Selwyn The central objective of human development should be to alleviate the condition of the world’s poor. The dominant economic ideas of the last 30 years, Neoliberalism, have failed in this regard. State led development appears as the natural and obvious alternative to neoliberalism. Many socialists think that we should use the state […]