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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

On Thursday, 24 October, Magdalena Biejat, former co-leader of the left-wing Razem party in Poland, announced on Instagram: “We are leaving Razem today… You can guess it was a difficult and painful ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ayman Odeh is a Palestinian socialist and member of the Knesset (Israeli parliament). He was speaking at a conference in London organised by the Israeli newspaper Haaretz. “We cannot return [the dead] ...

Rachel Reeves’s Budget on 30 October may come under most attack from the right, for its tax rises. In fact, the mooted increases in tax on capital gains, on “non-domiciled” plutocrats, on private ...

The Cabinet Office has announced that civil servants must spend 60% of their working time in the office, irrespective of the nature of their work, their personal circumstances and preferences, and ...