JACK DAVIDSON explains the motivation behind the UCU strike action at the University of Sheffield
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100 YEARS AGO: MARCH 1918
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LEE BROWN highlights the latest attempts to undo progressive reforms instated during the presidency of Rafael Correa
Ahead of the Communist Party’s forthcoming Congress, KEVAN NELSON takes a look at the global issues of war, peace and imperialism that will be up for discussion among comrades this weekend
ROGER McKENZIE calls for greater support from trade unionists and the general public for female workers involved in industrial disputes
While all of good faith on the left should wish the new party well, ANDREW MURRAY pinpoints some of the major challenges it will need to grapple with as it approaches its founding conference later this month
IN early March 1918 literary historian Lytton Strachey was close to publishing his soon-to-be famous book of essays — Eminent Victorians — which treated his highly respectable subjects with a near-scandalous degree of irreverence and wit.
He had recently attended the trial of anti-war philosopher Bertrand Russell, when the latter was sentenced to six months in prison for inciting disaffection in a January article in the No Conscription Fellowship’s weekly Tribunal.
His sympathies were entirely with Russell. He wrote in a letter to a Bloomsbury circle fellow member: “It was really infamous… The spectacle of a louse like Sir John Dickinson rating Bertie [Russell] for immorality and sending him to prison!”
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