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Rosa Luxemburg at 150: a revolutionary legacy

James Plested

Rosa Luxemburg, one of the great leaders in the history of the socialist movement, was born in Poland (then a province of the Russian empire) 150 years ago this month, on 5 March 1871.

Ten years since the great Arab revolutions

Right-wing culture warriors and rape

Myanmar’s spring revolution

What coronavirus taught us about the ruling class

Human nature is no barrier to socialism

Introduction to Marxism Discussion Groups

The COVID-19 Crisis

In this system, a vaccine is just a commodity

Roxanne Kelly

The rapid development of vaccines against COVID-19 should be a positive, life-saving development.

Australia

Queensland: racist one day, police state the next

Kaye Broadbent

The recent death of a motorcyclist in the north Queensland city of Townsville after being hit by a vigilante chasing a stolen car has once again focussed attention on law and order in the state’s north.

Debate, comment and reviews

Steve McQueen’s Small Axe: exposing racism, celebrating resistance

Kerri Parke

If you are the big tree, we are the small axe, sharpened to cut you down, ready to cut you down. – Bob Marley

Gender and sexuality

Right-wing culture warriors and rape

Louise O’Shea

History

Rosa Luxemburg at 150: a revolutionary legacy

James Plested

Rosa Luxemburg, one of the great leaders in the history of the socialist movement, was born in Poland (then a province of the Russian empire) 150 years ago this month, on 5 March 1871.

Introduction to socialism

Rosa Luxemburg at 150: a revolutionary legacy

James Plested

Rosa Luxemburg, one of the great leaders in the history of the socialist movement, was born in Poland (then a province of the Russian empire) 150 years ago this month, on 5 March 1871.

Marxist theory

Are you a Trotskyist?

Luca Tavan

If there’s one thing hardcore Stalinists and Cold War anti-communists can agree on, it’s that Trotskyists are the enemy.

Oppression and liberation

'This is war': fighting for abortion rights in Poland

Jasmine Duff

A mass movement in Poland has succeeded in delaying the implementation of a court decision that would ban nearly every abortion.

Racism

Noonkanbah 1979: when unionists stood up for Aboriginal rights

Alexis Vassiley

“It was important to have stood up and said this is not right”, unionist Arthur Clarke reminisced in 2011 of the stand the trade union movement took for Aboriginal rights during the Noonkanbah dispute of 1979-80.

Revolts and uprisings

Ten years since the great Arab revolutions

Omar Hassan

The announcement that President Hosni Mubarak had resigned took just 30 seconds. The news electrified the streets of Cairo, then surged across the Middle East and the rest of the world.