The history of both Marxism and also movements in history that influenced Marxism
During the 2024 American president election, Democrats and others on the left decried the Republican candidate, Donald Trump, as a fascist. However, some socialist theorists and commentators have criticised the loose use of this word – warning that when the… Read More ›
Increasingly in the United States, United Kingdom, and Europe, we have seen violent protests by predominantly white men from lower income backgrounds adopting racist and xenophobic views and manipulated by social media bots, often originating in the United States and… Read More ›
On March 14, 1883, Karl Marx died in London. So how did mainstream, capitalist newspapers report the death of the father of communism? Well, very differently is the answer. Trying to make sense of his legacy, they dragged in his… Read More ›
Marxism claims to offer a way forward to transgender people so what is different from Queer Theory and identity politics?
Putin has attacked Lenin for creating the Ukraine while idolising Stalin and greater Russian nationalism
How and why the 1917 Russian revolution degenerated into the totalitarian and bureaucratic nightmare of Stalinism
Communism and Islam moved closer together in the former Russian empire in the period after 1917 but the alliance didn’t last
Ramon Mercader assassinated the Bolshevik revolutionary Leon Trotsky but the key role of Ramon’s mother Caridad is often overlooked
The Falklands War presented a dilemma for the political Left in the UK in 1982 including those on the Marxist left
In 1973, 46 years of democracy ended in Chile with a coup d’etat and a military dictatorship installed under General Pinochet
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