The US administration is endangering lives by reversing environmental protection laws, CHAUNCEY K ROBINSON argues
Happy 200th birthday Karl Marx, from your favourite daughter
Eleanor Marx
It’s time to stop retreating and go on the offensive to promote working-class interests, argues DOUG NICHOLLS
Marco Rubio wants to defeat socialism in Nicaragua, not restore ‘democracy,’ writes JOHN PERRY
Believe it or not, there was a time when the US government built beautiful homes for working‑class Americans to deal with a housing shortage, writes ERAN BEN-JOSEPH
DIANE ABBOTT provides an analysis of the reasons for EU and British voters’ dramatic swing to the right
Train drivers’ union Aslef general secretary DAVE CALFE speaks to Ben Chacko about his hopes that Burnham’s devolution agenda will include the importance of the railway
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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