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Lenin and liberation – how Michael McDowell is wrong
By Manus Lenihan Placards with the image of the Russian revolutionary Vladimir Lenin appeared at a pro-trans rights…
Cybersyn in Allende’s Chile: Revolutionary technology and the limits of reformism
By Drew Frayne Salvador Allende’s ‘Popular Unity’ presidency in Chile, beginning in 1970, had a goal of achieving…
Statue to courageous abolitionist Frederick Douglass unveiled in Belfast
By Mara Clanahan Last month, Belfast City Council unveiled a statue commemorating legendary American Abolitionist Frederick Douglass. The…
Germany 1923: Lessons of the Lost Revolution
By Robert Cosgrave One hundred years ago Germany faced one of the deepest crises ever experienced in the…
The groundbreaking struggle for free healthcare for all: 75 years since the founding of the NHS
The following article was first published in issue #18 of Socialist Alternative, the theoretical magazine of Socialist Party. The decimation…
25 years on: Has the Good Friday Agreement delivered?
The following article was first published in issue #18 of Socialist Alternative, the theoretical magazine of Socialist Party. In the…
50th anniversary of the Chilean Coup & the limits of reformism today
By Danny Byrne and Marcus Kollbrunner (International Socialist Alternative) This September 11 marks, in Latin America and around…
From the archive : “After the Omagh bomb” (September 1998) by Peter Hadden
By Peter HaddenThe following article, written by Peter Hadden, was published in the aftermath of the horrific bombing…
A deeply misleading narrative: Answering the claims of Cedric Robinson’s Black Marxism
Cedric Robinson’s book Black Marxism has influenced a wide layer of academics and activists. But as the review by Steve Edwards explains,…
“A Pillar of Strength” – Anti-oppression struggles and the revolutionary process
Reflections on Marxism and Oppression By Laura Fitzgerald “We must lead the struggle of the politically oppressed and…
