As a teenager in the late 1970s, who was very into politics, I met somebody who had been to Albania, then a communist country. What a strange place! Young people were forbidden to wear jeans and grow their hair long…. Read More ›
Soviet Union
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?
The Iranian revolution – a Marxist perspective
1979 saw the overthrow of the Shah of Iran and the coming to power of Ayatollah Khomeini – an event that split the Left inside the country
1979 Iran revolution – a Marxist perspective
The Iran revolution in 1979 was taken over by Ayatollah Khomeini and the mullahs which most on the Left saw as a reactionary development