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
Rosa Luxemburg’s struggle and the parallels with today
STEVE JOHNSON highlights an opportunity to learn more about the life of the great Marxist theorist and activist
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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
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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
ON THE 100th anniversary year of the murders of the outstanding German revolutionaries Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg it is fitting that the London Morning Star Readers and Supporters Group should be having its relaunch with a screening of Margarethe von Trotha’s classic film The Patience of Rosa Luxemburg.
Morning Star editor Ben Chacko will introduce the film at a showing tomorrow at 7pm at the Marx Memorial Library in Clerkenwell, London, and it will be followed by a question and answer session with Professor Mary Davis.
Born in 1871 to a Polish Jewish family Rosa Luxemburg — or Red Rosa as she became known — became involved in revolutionary activity at an early age and went on to become one of the most outstanding Marxist theoreticians and agitators of the 20th century.
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