Among the most vigorous of populist movements in advanced capitalist countries since 1945 was the Poujadist movement, which flourished in France between 1954 and 1958. In January 1956, it won 53 seats ...

Part 1: Under the Banner of Marxism, by Max Shachtman. This, the main text in this book, Under the Banner of Marxism, was a reply by Max Shachtman in 1949 to a document by a hitherto prominent comrade ...

This morning, we visited the rather splendid Lviv office of the Trade Union of Education and Science Workers of Ukraine. The office is in the House of Scientists, a stunning neo-baroque building that ...

A new open letter signed by 2,000 Israeli citizens, some living in Israel, others abroad, calls for intensified international pressure on Israel. The letter’s authors are undoubtedly motivated by ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

It seems unlikely that a man as profoundly ignorant and uninterested in history as Donald Trump, will have heard of Huey P Long. If he has, it will be from better-educated henchmen like Steve Bannon ...

This is the second of our blog posts reporting from the solidarity delegation to Lviv in Ukraine. On Thursday afternoon, we visited a secondary school, Lyceum no.83. We were shown around the school by ...

Last week’s Socialist Worker rejects the Taiwanese people’s right to self-determination. In an article headed “Analysis: US and China draw battle lines in Taiwan”, Thomas Foster offers a veneer of ...

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 ...