We can't move forward as a progressive society, until we break away from our neoliberal past, says CHRIS WILLIAMSON
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Lines in memory of Irish Chartist James Bronterre O’Brien … and Blair Peach
BERNARD REGAN gave this year’s Abney Park Trust Bronterre O’Brien commemorative address cautioning against allowing the ruling class to rewrite our radical history. The Star prints here an edited version of his speech
Why did so many self-described progressives respond to an anti-semitic attack by questioning the victims, asks JULIA BARD
Austerity is breaking the education system. We must unite to save our schools and pay our teachers properly, says NEU national president ED HARLOW
A nationwide mobilisation signals growing resistance to the far right, but lasting change will depend on deep organising in every corner of society, writes GAWAIN LITTLE
Marx’s early lectures on economics, together with Engels’s additions, provide a valuable introduction to Marxist political economy today, writes the MARX MEMORIAL LIBRARY
Art matters because stories, herstories, histories, and even flights of fancy matter, posits MATT KERR
I WANT to dedicate these words to a friend of mine, Blair Peach, who was murdered by the police 40 years ago.
Blair lived in Hackney — he too, like Bronterre O’Brien, came to this country from abroad — from New Zealand — and became politically active here.
He was an educationalist dedicated to the education of working-class children in Tower Hamlets where we worked together and he was a passionate campaigner against racism and social injustice — a revolutionary.
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