The defeat of the miners strike 40 years ago ushered in the era of neoliberalism The Star publishes the Karl Marx Graveside Oration delivered by Lord JOHN HENDY KC at Highgate Cemetery on Sunday, on behalf of the Marx Memorial Library
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Monday 18th Mar 2024 Marx would recognise today’s world of corrupt and decadent capitalist greed The Star publishes the Karl Marx Graveside Oration delivered by ALEX GORDON at Highgate Cemetery yesterday
Monday 18th Mar 2024 What is ‘dependency theory’? Dependency theory reveals the ‘hidden skeleton’ underpinning capitalism today, writes the MARX MEMORIAL LIBRARY
Monday 18th Mar 2024 British governments have a long history of repressing protest, but protests continue With Gove, Lord Walney and others seeking to restrict our freedom of dissent, KEITH FLETT reminds us that such state repression is not new and it can be overcome
Saturday 16th Mar 2024 Jews on the march! From a small group of seasoned protesters, a lively and creative coalition of Jewish groups has come together to form a growing, visible bloc in solidarity with the Palestinians on all the protests against Israel’s war crimes in Gaza. RUTH LUKOM reports
Saturday 16th Mar 2024 Monitoring the ‘enemy within’ saw Thatcher recruiting the NSA to spy on miners The revelation of secret cables allowing US spooks to monitor every phone call unmasks the scale of state surveillance deployed to crush the 1984-85 strike, writes ANNE LEE
Saturday 16th Mar 2024 The ramping up of racist vitriol will not wash in Wales SHAVANAH TAJ argues that with bigot MPs like Lee Anderson and big donors like Frank Hester leading the charge against minorities, Welsh unions must stand firm and restate their anti-racist, internationalist politics
Saturday 16th Mar 2024 ‘Sometimes I wish I’d never spoken out: but I did it for the child in me’ Louise Raw talks to MICK FINNEGAN, a child abuse whistleblower whose ordeal is still not over, as 12 months on from the expected publication of an official judge’s report into the complaints, he and other survivors are still waiting
Saturday 16th Mar 2024 Notes From A Free Walker Plaw Hatch Farm and Tablehurst: a socialist countryside prefigured? These twin Sussex co-ops selling their produce directly to locals offers a glimpse of a future of sustainable, democratised food production – all in harmony with nature, says DAVE BANGS
Saturday 16th Mar 2024 Getting set for the struggles ahead Wide-ranging plans to resist Tory government attacks on unions will be laid at the annual conference of Yorkshire and the Humber region of the Trade Union Congress this weekend, writes TUC regional secretary LIZ BLACKSHAW
Saturday 16th Mar 2024 It is the government’s own ‘extremist’ racism we need to worry about The revelation of Frank Hester’s hateful comments, coupled with the Conservative Party's Islamophobia, shows institutional racism still survives in mainstream politics — that is why we are marching, writes SABBY DHALU