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When Karl Marx wrote the Communist Manifesto in 1848, socialism had only begun to emerge as an ideology. The meaning of socialism, communism and related ideas were heavily contested and unfinished.

Once you are a driver, there aren’t many things you can be promoted to that would keep you a driver. So for those with what the company would like to think of as “ambition” the option is becoming a ...

No film recommendation this week, but a moan about something that really gets on my nerves. I have just watched Child 44 (2015), a film based, very loosely, on the apprehension of Andrei Chikatila, a ...

I agree wih the thrust of Hein Htet Kyaw’s article in Solidarity 722, but I think the section on the sectarian religious film Lady of Heaven may mislead readers. Hein says that the push to adopt ...

On 28 October, the Israeli parliament passed new laws severely restricting the ability of Unrwa, the United Nations agency responsible for supporting Palestinian refugees, to operate. The laws ban ...

Lalit, a socialist group in Mauritius, comments on the agreement between the British and Mauritian governments to return control of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius. More here Prime Minister Pravind ...

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This week, a delegation of UK educators and union activists is visiting Ukraine in solidarity with educators in a country at war. Reports will be posted on this blog. This morning, we visited a ...

On Sunday 27 October, the liberal Israeli newspaper Haaretz organised a conference on the ongoing Gaza war at JW3, a Jewish cultural and community centre in northwest London. The conference was ...

Fourteen Palestine Action activists and 26 Just Stop Oil activists are in custody, either on remand or imprisoned for terms up to five years, for taking part in or planning protests. Abdinasir Hussein ...

Picture: Bidzina Ivanishvili, billionaire founder of the Dream party. Even if you know nothing about the republic of Georgia and were completely unaware of its elections last week, the fact that ...