Both Conservative and Labour administrations have now refused to release research showing PIP payments are vital for disabled people’s survival, exposing the ideological nature of planned welfare ‘reforms,’ writes Dr DYLAN MURPHY
‘I am a Gazan’: writing on Eleanor Marx in times of genocide on her 170th birthday
The youngest daughter of Karl Marx and her unwavering humanity in the face of injustice remain relevant for our times, writes DANA MILLS
Western media dismisses the National People’s Congress while ignoring its extensive consultation processes, massive public participation mechanisms, and a tiered structure involving millions of deputies, explains JENNY CLEGG
Despite caring for vulnerable children and often covering classes, support staff remain undervalued, with some earning less than supermarket workers — but GMB’s campaigning offers new hope, argues DONNA SPICER
NICK WRIGHT examines how Farage’s party has attracted five distinct voter tribes with incompatible views on economics, immigration and state intervention — presenting both a challenge and opportunity for left organising
Man-made canals like Panama and Suez face unprecedented challenges from extreme weather patterns and geopolitical tensions that reveal the fragility of our global trade networks, write ROX MIDDLETON, LIAM SHAW and MIRIAM GAUNTLETT
As climate change makes vast mineral deposits accessible, the island’s 56,000 residents face unprecedented pressure from Trump’s territorial ambitions while struggling to maintain their traditional way of life, writes JOHN GREEN
Student Mahmoud Khalil’s arrest and threatened deportation are terrifying — but the moribund Democrats are still failing to mount any meaningful resistance against the slide toward autocracy, reports LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
“THE MAN who could not hear a tale of distress without attempting to relieve it can now brag of abetting acts that endanger the lives of innocent women and children,” Eleanor Marx, self-proclaimed “Fenian Sister” wrote in her text the Irish Dynamiters in 1884.
The context was specific: her writing, as part of her activism, on the imprisonment and oppression of those fighting for Irish freedom. And yet this quotation, as Eleanor Marx’s work broadly, resonates with our moment in a poignant way.
Eleanor Marx, Karl and Jenny Marx’s youngest daughter (1855-98) was brought back into our intellectual and political landscapes by Rachel Holmes’s extraordinary biography, Eleanor Marx, A Life (Bloomsbury, 2015). Holmes’s re-reading of her life and times returned to us Eleanor Marx as the foremother of socialism — feminism. Internationalist, trade unionist, editor and multilingual translator of her father’s archive, she co-founded Social Democratic Federation, Britain’s first organised socialist party, alongside William Morris, and HM Hyndman.
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