Capitalism doesn’t only control what we produce and who owns it. It also shapes how we understand ourselves. Its preferred image of society is a collection of separate individuals, each pursuing their own interests and responsible for their own fate….
Britain is one of the richest countries in the world. It possesses advanced industry, immense accumulated wealth, world-class infrastructure, and a financial sector that spans the globe. Yet today around a million young people are not in education, employment or…
Among the many peculiarities of the British state, few embody its class contradictions more clearly than the Crown Estate. Officially described as “a collection of lands and holdings belonging to the monarch in right of the Crown,” the Estate claims…
The British ruling class loves to romanticise the soldier. Recruitment ads paint the armed forces as a path to honour, adventure, or personal growth. But stripped of the glossy propaganda, what does it actually mean to become a soldier in…
Revolutionary work demands more than slogans, theories, or the repetition of formulas. Real progress requires grounding ideas in lived conditions and shaping strategies around the concrete realities faced by the people. There are several essential lessons for ensuring that political…
Capitalist ideologues often speak of the “national interest” as though society is a single, harmonious community bound together by shared goals. Whether it is in discussions of foreign policy, economic “recovery,” or internal security, ruling elites insist that workers and…
The recent spate of the far right hanging or painting national flags throughout England has brought condemnation from everyone except other reactionaries. Everyone recognises the nationalist and racist intent of these actions but the response from the liberal centre and…
by Harry Haywood, 1978, source: Marxist Internet Archive Apart from our academic courses, we received our first tutelage in Leninism and the history of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in the heat of the inner-party struggle then raging…
If you hang around socialist spaces online, you’ll regularly see someone make a very earnest post asking for ideas about how to stop leftist infighting. This isn’t surprising. Seeing how divided the left is can feel troubling when we’re so…
Historical Materialism is the study of social development through the application of Marxist philosophy. Historical Materialism starts from the proposition that before people can create art, culture, science, or politics, they first have to produce for their material needs; that…
