There was no need for John Ford’s 1939 film about the early days of Abraham Lincoln to establish a myth. That already existed ...

The political world changed on 5 November with the victory of the Trumpist authoritarians in the USA. Trump’s victory has set ...

Socialists should be appalled by Trump’s re-election. Alan Woods, writing in the RCP’s The Communist (#18), welcomes it. He believes Trump’s victory was driven by working-class anger at capitalism.

The Second World War, how it’s remembered, and its modern resonances have occupied Steve McQueen’s mind of late. In 2024 he has brought out two films on the subject. Occupied City was an acclaimed ...

Drivers’ union Aslef claimed that a “groundbreaking” offer led it to suspend strikes on the London Underground planned for 7 and 12 November. The all-grades union RMT had already called off its ...

Artificial intelligence is now on its third thirty-year cycle of discovery, hype, disappointment and decline into an “AI winter” when it becomes unfashionable and unfinanceable. We are currently in ...

Donald Trump may or may not be a fascist, but no serious observer doubts that his regime will be far-right, authoritarian and a mortal threat to democracy and workers’ rights. The argument about ...

Over Biden’s term, Trump has gained a relatively small number, but the Democrats have lost nearly ten million votes. Trump won thanks to the Democrats.

There is a problem of aspiration in the Government’s Employment Bill: a problem of aspiration within the organised labour movement. The lack of fight within our movement allows Labour to legislate for ...

The working class of this country is angry and they have a reason to be angry. We are living in an economy today, where the people on top are doing phenomenally well, while 60% of our people are ...

Between 30 October and 2 November, a delegation of education workers visited Lviv, in Western Ukraine. Our visit was organised by the National Education Union’s Ukraine Solidarity Network. We visited ...

The Palestinian-Jewish social movement Standing Together, in Israel, has made the following response to the clashes in Amsterdam involving Israeli football fans. Multiple truths can exist at the same ...