Identity politics led to the attack on transgender rights by Second Wave feminists but how did this happen?
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Karl Marx meets Transgender Rights
Marxism claims to offer a way forward to transgender people so what is different from Queer Theory and identity politics?
Putin blames Lenin for creating Ukraine
Putin has attacked Lenin for creating the Ukraine while idolising Stalin and greater Russian nationalism
Stalinism – how the USSR became a bureaucratic nightmare
How and why the 1917 Russian revolution degenerated into the totalitarian and bureaucratic nightmare of Stalinism
Marxism and Islamism – do they mix?
Are Islamism and Marxism reconcilable or are they aiming for very different and contradictory outcomes? Tony McMahon investigates
Are Brexit and Marxism compatible?
Brexit and Marxism may seem to be incompatible but back in the 1970s, most socialists opposed European unity on a capitalist basis
Eric Hobsbawm – historian and Marxist pessimist
Eric Hobsbawm became more pessimistic about the possibility of the working class transforming society from 1978 onwards
The Falkands War – and the Marxist response
The Falklands War presented a dilemma for the political Left in the UK in 1982 including those on the Marxist left
Chile – military dictatorship and monetarism
In 1973, 46 years of democracy ended in Chile with a coup d’etat and a military dictatorship installed under General Pinochet
The Portuguese Revolution of 1974
The 1974 Portuguese Revolution saw 80% of the economy nationalised but the role of the Community Party ensured the reversal of that policy
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