From London’s holly-sellers to Engels’s flaming Christmas centrepiece, the plum pudding was more than festive fare in Victorian Britain, says KEITH FLETT
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The global South and imperialist hegemony
From the Brics nations, to Ukraine and Venezuela, contradictions within the global order are emerging, argues NICK WRIGHT
Once the bustling heart of Christian pilgrimage, Bethlehem now faces shuttered hotels, empty streets and a shrinking Christian community, while Israel’s assault on Gaza and the tightening grip of occupation destroy hopes of peace at the birthplace of Christ, writes Father GEOFF BOTTOMS
From a lockdown digital project to a vital tool for class solidarity, ROBERT POOLE and HENRY FOWLER reflect on half-a-decade of struggle
After years hidden away, Oldham’s memorial to six local volunteers who died fighting fascism in the Spanish civil war has been restored to public view, marking both a victory for campaigners and a renewed tribute to the town’s proud International Brigade heritage, says ROB HARGREAVES
The June 2025 attacks on Iran have heightened the risk of a wider war, exposed the fiction of a rules-based international order and left ordinary Iranians trapped between external aggression and internal repression, says the Committee for Defence of Iranian People’s Rights
While pretending to seek peace, Europe is heading toward a collision course with Russia – using security guarantees, troop deployments, expropriation and censorship as tools, writes SEVIM DAGDELEN
A WWI hero, renowned ornithologist, medical doctor, trade union organiser and founder member of the Communist Party of Great Britain all rolled in one. MAT COWARD tells the story of a life so improbable it was once dismissed as fiction
ONCE we grasp the connection between a decade or more of ever-rising levels of corporate profits (and the enormous bonuses and remuneration packages which inevitably accompany corporate power and ownership) and the year-on-year decline in the purchasing power of our wages, the systemic nature of Britain’s crisis becomes clear.
The dual character of British capitalism — simultaneously a key player in the global imperialist system engaged in the extraction of super-profits from the labour of millions both at home and abroad — emerges.
Supranational entities like the European Union, the European Central Bank, the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank appear as part of the natural order and only bit by bit does it emerge that these are the superstructural elements that police this system of super-exploitation.
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