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TUC directs its members’ anger into more meaningles busywork
An email campaign to reverse anti-union laws? Really?
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Our party’s internationalist tasks: support for revolutionary Laos
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Influence-peddling scandal implicates Joe Biden, son Hunter and brother Jim
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Dissecting the cliches of Anglo-American ethnocentrism
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Oppose US ‘special measures’ against sovereign Nicaragua!
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Workers at the GKN factory in Florence fight back
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NHS privatisation accelerated during the pandemic: a medical ‘shock doctrine’
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Support for USA’s proxy war in Ukraine draining as true cost dawns on the world
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Free Ukraine’s Kononovich brothers, jailed communist youth!
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Syria moves forward
Socialist realism highlights
Working-class history / Book review: The East Was Read by Vijay Prashad
An excellent collection that reminds us of the urgent need for a cultural renaissance amongst the working and oppressed masses.
Cuba / Alicia Alonso: architect of Cuba’s socialist ballet
A true daughter of the masses, whose talent and art was put at the service of the people and the building of a new society.
Film and TV / Film review: Joker
A real controversy, a true subversion, or merely a storm in a teacup?
Music / A worker reviews Shostakovich’s fifth symphony in concert
Shostakovich’s greatest triumph arose from Soviet life, reflecting its optimism and spirit.
USSR / An introduction to the life and times of Maxim Gorky
Celebrating 150 years since the birth of the great Soviet writer and pioneer of socialist realism.
Culture / Promotion of proletarian culture
The battle for culture is a vital front in the class war. Promoting proletarian art is part of building a revolutionary consciousness among workers in Britain.
USSR / Andrei Zhdanov: Principles underlying Soviet literature and art pt 2
Part two of a biography of an extraordinary servant of the proletariat.
USSR / October 100: The Red Army choir
Culture by and for the people, uplifting hearts and spirits, and reinforcing the struggle for socialism.
USSR / Andrei Zhdanov: On the principles underlying Soviet literature and art
Part one of a biography of an extraordinary servant of the proletariat.
USSR / Soviet ballet: dancing the heritage of humanism
How socialist realism, serving the people, sparked unparalleled creativity.
Books / Ian McEwan’s White Tooth
The thinking woman’s Ruth Rendell.