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An easily accessible introduction to Marxism
On the 200th anniversary of the birth of Karl Marx, JONATHAN WHITE reviews a new book by Robert Griffiths on Marx’s Das Kapital and Capitalism Today
Karl Marx and Frederick Engels
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One hundred years on from Britain’s only general strike, socialists will gather in London at the Morning Star’s annual conference to discuss how organised labour can once again become the engine of radical change. Editor BEN CHACKO encourages readers to come along and join the debate
In the year following Peterloo a mass strike erupted into armed revolt as Scotland’s workers demanded their rights, yet this uprising remains largely absent from popular history, writes KENNY MacASKILL
The language of war obscures what genocide scholars describe as a sustained project of erasure, enabled by global power, writes CLAUDIA WEBBE
The sheer number present on the day, estimated at half a million, points to organisational acumen and bodes well for developing the movement, says DIANE ABBOTT
A packed fringe meeting at the National Education Union conference heard from Iranian teachers, campaigners and journalists
LAST year saw the 150th anniversary of Das Kapital, otherwise known as Volume I of Capital, coinciding with a period in which the systemic crisis tendencies of the capitalist system are only too apparent.
The work of Marx and Engels is receiving renewed attention. Crowds of people from all backgrounds have queued up to attend lectures and discussions at the Marx Memorial Library in London.
New editions of classic works have appeared and new works have hit the shelves. Most of these are academic works and some of them are deservedly revered.
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