JOHN REES looks at why the June 20 international anti-war conference is such a vital initiative
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From Engels to Boris Johnson: the return of ‘social murder’
The PM’s inaction over Covid has parallels with politicians of mid-19th-century England, writes KEITH FLETT
Engels (right) with Marx, statue in Berlin
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ROGER McKENZIE highlights how health workers in DRC are struggling to contain a deadly Ebola outbreak in a region already suffering conflict, aid cuts and a legacy of imperialist degradation
Associate Professor BUI QUANG TUAN explains how modernisation and growth are helping to unlock new foreign investment in the Vietnamese economy
New workplace rights are welcome, but the survival of the trade union movement will be determined not in Westminster but in workplaces across the country, argues JOHN CARSON
Nearly two decades after leaving office, the former PM is still trumpeting the same futile militarism and failed free market dogmas. The question naturally arises: why does anyone still listen to him, says ANDREW MURRAY
Very modest growth in membership serves to underline the need for a change of recruiting strategies, posits NIGEL FLANAGAN
FRIEDRICH ENGELS’s book, The Condition of the Working Class in England in 1844, is a well-known classic of social history.
His investigations helped to inform the important understandings of Karl Marx and himself about how capitalism does and does not work.
One concept that he mentions in the book has recently begun to receive attention again.
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