The victories that followed the American civil war and the 1960s civil rights era are once again under attack, echoing earlier efforts to roll back equality and redefine democracy, says JOE SIMS
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Will a Labour government help us achieve socialism?
Labour has only ‘trade union consciousness’ – but if a left-wing generation of the party were supported by a mass movement and the unions, socialism might be advanced, argues the MARX MEMORIAL LBRARY
In 2010, faced with the closure of their local library, a Buckinghamshire town’s locals turned to an unconventional tactic – borrowing every single book – to defend a cherished community space. MAT COWARD tells the story
The indictment of Nicolas Maduro after a deadly US assault is just the latest phase in a long campaign against the Bolivarian government, warns FRANCISCO DOMINGUEZ
Journalist STEVE SWEENEY talks to Roger McKenzie about narrowly surviving an Israeli air strike last week while documenting the mass displacement of civilians – and explains why the real story goes far beyond the attack on him
After 27 years in Holyrood, the former first minister urged unity and respect — but, says NEIL FINDLAY, her time in power told a very different story
The Employment Rights Act 2025’s focus on individual rights forces workers into slow and costly litigation to assert rights, rather than empowering unions. A Campaign for Trade Union Freedom-Strike Map rally at the weekend called for a more radical sequel, reports BEN CHACKO
WILL a Labour government help us achieve socialism? The short answer is “perhaps” or, more accurately “we’re unlikely to get socialism without one.”
Our parliamentary institutions, which were secured through struggle and sacrifice, can have a potentially vital role in the advance to socialism.
In 1881, half a century before women secured the vote, Engels declared that in England, where the working class “forms the immense majority of the people” they should “use the power already in their hands, the actual majority they possess in every large town in the kingdom, to send to Parliament men of their own order.” Whether this could lead peacefully to socialism would depend on the response of the ruling class to policies which threatened its power.
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