Robinson successfully defended his school from closure, fought for the unification of the teaching unions, mentored future trade union leaders and transformed teaching at the Marx Memorial Library, writes JOHN FOSTER
‘I am a Gazan’: writing on Eleanor Marx in times of genocide on her 170th birthday
The youngest daughter of Karl Marx and her unwavering humanity in the face of injustice remain relevant for our times, writes DANA MILLS
ROOTS: Eleanor Marx
A judge in a German court ruled that the ban activity imposed on renowned Dr Ghassan Abu-Sittah was unlawful, reports LEON WYSTRYCHOWSKI
At the very moment Britain faces poverty, housing and climate crises requiring radical solutions, the liberal press promotes ideologically narrow books while marginalising authors who offer the most accurate understanding of change, writes IAN SINCLAIR
From Gaza protest bans to proscribing Palestine Action, political elites are showing a crisis of confidence as they abandon Roy Jenkins’s apologetic approach for Suella Braverman’s aggressive ‘hate march’ rhetoric, writes PAUL DONOVAN
ANSELM ELDERGILL examines the legal case behind this weekend’s Tolpuddle Martyrs’ Festival and the lessons for today
Ben Chacko talks to RMT leader EDDIE DEMPSEY about how the key to fixing broken Britain lies in collective sectoral bargaining, restoring unions’ ability to take solidarity strike action and bringing about the much-vaunted ‘wave of insourcing’
The summer of 1950 saw Labour abandon further nationalisation while escalating Korean War spending from £2.3m to £4.7m, as the government meekly accepted capitalism’s licence and became Washington’s yes-man, writes JOHN ELLISON
“THE MAN who could not hear a tale of distress without attempting to relieve it can now brag of abetting acts that endanger the lives of innocent women and children,” Eleanor Marx, self-proclaimed “Fenian Sister” wrote in her text the Irish Dynamiters in 1884.
The context was specific: her writing, as part of her activism, on the imprisonment and oppression of those fighting for Irish freedom. And yet this quotation, as Eleanor Marx’s work broadly, resonates with our moment in a poignant way.
Eleanor Marx, Karl and Jenny Marx’s youngest daughter (1855-98) was brought back into our intellectual and political landscapes by Rachel Holmes’s extraordinary biography, Eleanor Marx, A Life (Bloomsbury, 2015). Holmes’s re-reading of her life and times returned to us Eleanor Marx as the foremother of socialism — feminism. Internationalist, trade unionist, editor and multilingual translator of her father’s archive, she co-founded Social Democratic Federation, Britain’s first organised socialist party, alongside William Morris, and HM Hyndman.
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