The UN has shamefully empowered the occupation of Gaza rather than ending it – we must redouble our efforts to build the movement required to establish a true peace, argues BEN JAMAL
“THE paradox of Robert Owen has continuing fascination. Why has he remained a central figure of the English socialist tradition even though Owenite socialist institutions failed, and his version of socialism was already outmoded before his death?
How was it that Friedrich Engels could condemn Owen’s socialism as utopian and yet concede that “‘every social movement, every real advance on behalf of workers links itself to the name of Robert Owen’?”
John Harrison contributed this to a collection of essays celebrating the 200th anniversary of Owens birth in 1971.
NICK MATTHEWS recalls how the ideals of socialism and the holding of goods in common have an older provenance than you might think
Two-hundred years ago, on September 27 1825, the world’s first passenger railway line was opened between Stockton and Darlington. MICK WHELAN, general secretary of Aslef, the train drivers’ union, reflects on the history – and the future – of Britain’s railway industry
On the centenary of the birth of the anti-colonial thinker and activist Frantz Fanon, JENNY FARRELL assesses his enduring influence



