Usdaw is working hard alongside its members to smash down barrriers facing neurodivergent workers, writes Joanne Thomas
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Happy 200th birthday Karl Marx, from your favourite daughter
Eleanor Marx
Karl Marx’s Capital remains one of the most influential works of social science ever written and is much more than merely an historical document, repaying study today, writes the MARX MEMORIAL LIBRARY and Workers’ School.
Nearly a century ago several hundred young workers went on a ramble in a mighty show of solidarity for public access to land, says WILL from YCL Yorkshire & East Midlands
JOHN REES replies to Claudia Webbe
There is no justification for spending colossal amounts of money on so-called defence — sacrificing our education, health and transport while they’re at it, says BERT SCHOUWENBURG
GEOFFREY BELL looks at the curiously unsupportive stance of British progressives of the Easter Rising
RACHEL HOLMES’S game-changing biography of Eleanor Marx (Eleanor Marx: A Life, Bloomsbury, 2014) not only restored Eleanor to her rightful place as foremother of socialism-feminism but raises serious questions about how we understand and engage Karl Marx’s legacy.
Eleanor, Karl’s youngest daughter and his favourite, was Marx’s first biographer and, Holmes shows throughout in her book, her editorial work was crucial in preserving her father’s legacy and bringing it centre-stage in the Second International, in which she was a central figure.
The work of an editor is a thankless job yet, as anyone who has ever published anything knows, it can make all the difference between a brilliant intervention which will change the world and an inconsequential piece of writing discarded to the garbage can of history.
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The summer saw the co-founders of modern communism travelling from Ramsgate to Neuenahr to Scotland in search of good weather, good health and good newspapers in the reading rooms, writes KEITH FLETT
The creative imagination is a weapon against barbarism, writes KENNY COYLE, who is a keynote speaker at the Manifesto Press conference, Art in the Age of Degenerative Capitalism, tomorrow at the Marx Memorial Library & Workers School in London
