The Soviet Union, in the 74 years of its existence in one form or another, was a society that was all about building. The Soviets claimed in the 1970s to have ‘built’ socialism, and while they never ...

The left in the UK has a fatal attraction to shortcuts. In 1906 the left-wing Independent Labour Party (ILP) joined the Labour Representation Committee, the trade union dominated committee that ...

Nakba means Catastrophe – the word Palestinians use to describe the events of 1948 when paramilitary Zionist organisations unleashed Plan Dalit (Plan D) – one of a series of operations designed to ...

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Coined by Jacques Derrida in 1993 to oppose Western liberalism’s declaration of the ‘end of history’ after the collapse of the Soviet Union, hauntology later became a quasi-genre of music and ...

The Corbyn era inspired a new wave of socialist publications, including New Socialist. Here, its editors Tom Gann and Josie Sparrow reflect on the challenges, ambitions and necessities facing left ...

In documenting the life and work of Amy Ashwood Garvey, Nydia A. Swaby offers a window into the inspiring and overlooked story of black womens’ history, writes Panya Banjoko ...

In documenting the life and work of Amy Ashwood Garvey, Nydia A. Swaby offers a window into the inspiring and overlooked story of black womens’ history, writes Panya Banjoko ...

Israel has escalated its bombardment of Lebanon, killing over 3,000 and displacing millions. Mahdi Zaidan analyses Israel’s strategy – and the relation of Hezbollah to the people of Lebanon ...

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In 1928, pioneering filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein took a call from a representative of the All-Ukrainian Photo Cinema Administration (VUFKU), which controlled the entire film industry of the Soviet ...