Bashar Assad clung to power in Syria after the Arab Spring with help from Russia and from western useful idiots on social media
Politics
The politics of Marxism including party organisation and ideology
How some feminists allied to the extreme Right – and why?
Identity politics has a problem with intersectionality and encourages accusations of erasure by different groups
Is Queer Theory a problem for LGBT people?
Identity politics led to the attack on transgender rights by Second Wave feminists but how did this happen?
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
Why did Portugal have a revolution in 1974?
The 1974 Portuguese Revolution saw 80% of the economy nationalised but the role of the Community Party ensured the reversal of that policy
Rejecting the sectarian politics of Northern Ireland
Unlike the sectarian politics of Republicanism and Loyalism, the Marxist analysis of the Troubles in Northern Ireland emphasised the class division over religion
Karl Marx – the Euro philosopher!
The ideas of Karl Marx were a mix of German philosophy, English economics and French politics so very Euro in its ideological composition
Marxism Explained 