History
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Peter Kennard: pictures for peace
Peter Kennard reflects on a career focused on creating anti-war art, from documenting protests to dissecting nuclear weapons
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How the West scuppered Gorbachev’s reforms
Drawing on his observations of Gorbachev, Jonathan Steele details how Western interests and Yeltsin’s ambition undermined his strategy for gradual reform
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Morality tales
From cowardly men to wayward wives, pre-modern superstitions transmitted social norms as well as scares, writes Eleanor Janega
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The driver of dispossession
Tina Ngata explains the social and legal legacies of a 15th-century Christian principle that paved the way for imperial violence in, and far beyond, New Zealand
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A history of the Marxists Internet Archive
The Marxists Internet Archive, an online home for radical history, has a fascinating history of its own, writes Jack Archie Stewart
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The Socialist Olympics of 1936
Radical workers’ sporting organisations and the 1936 People’s Olympiad illustrate the role of sport in fighting oppression, writes Uma Arruga i López.
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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