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  • Keir Hardie in Trafalgar Square, 1908

    What’s wrong with the Labour Party?

    The role Labour plays in maintaining the capitalist state makes it a crucial site for socialists to organise within, argues Luke Evans

  • Ismail Abusalama, with a moustache, wears an orange shirt and stands against a striped background in prison

    My father’s 13 years as a Palestinian political prisoner

    Shahd Abusalama recounts her father Ismail’s experience in the Israeli prison system and calls for drastic reforms

  • The outside of a glass-fronted building next to a wall showing a large painting of a black woman holding a baby. both wearing white t-shirts, with the word 'Peterloo' written across

    Whose history? Why the People’s History Museum is vital

    Against high-profile claims that museums should be ‘neutral’ spaces, Danielle Child celebrates the People’s History Museum

  • A person looks at a headless classical statue in the British Museum

    We need to decolonise museums

    Decolonising the museum is a pathway to decolonising society. We must start by providing more honest accounts of our past, says Subhadra Das

  • Labour's then-leader Michael Foot addresses a rally in 1983.

    1983: the biggest myth in Labour Party history

    Labour’s 1983 election campaign has long been used to say it is impossible for a leader like Jeremy Corbyn to win any election from the left. Alex Nunns digs out the truth

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    The myth of the 1970s

    In the 1970s, they say, the dead lay unburied, greedy unions held the country to ransom and a divided country was impossible to govern, John Medhurst asks: was it really so bad?

  • An illustration showing a man in a suit running away from two different hats – one a top hat the other a Russian Communist Party hat – trying to trap him

    Maidan over: The balance of power in Ukraine

    While Ukraine’s oligarchic elite aspires to become a ruling class, it is also the object of an ongoing competition between Russia and the west to draw it into their respective transnational capitalist classes, writes Marko Bojcun

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