Ian Allinson
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‘Courageous conversations’: students occupy SOAS library
This week students at SOAS occupied the library in opposition to cuts. Seth Uzman points to the wider education struggles they are part of.
Repression in Russia: demonstrate on Saturday 19 January
Support anti-fascists and leftists facing repression in Russia this Saturday.
What exactly does a university Vice Chancellor do?
As HE workers prepare for action over pay, Mike Haynes asks: what do VCs actually do?
‘I was, I am, I will be’ – 100 years after the death of...
The deaths of Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht have haunted the imagination of the left for a century.
I Bring Her a Flower
On the 100th anniversary of the murder of Rosa Luxemburg, we republish a poetic tribute to her written by Sylvia Townsend Warner.
Protest in London calls for a general election
On Saturday, the People's Assembly called a demonstration calling for a general election and anti-fascist activists rallied outside the Brazilian Embassy.
Building the Left in the face of Brexit
Charlie Hore responds to Neil Davidson's discussion of the Brexit crisis and offers an alternative analysis of the Leave vote.
No exit from the Brexit crisis
What does the Brexit crisis mean for British politics and the European Union?
Leeds Socialist Party ‘visited’ by far-right
We send our solidarity to Socialist Party in Leeds following a far-right attempt to disrupt a meeting.
Review: Deportation Discs: A Public Hearing
A multimedia installation exposed the cruelty at the heart of the ‘hostile environment’.
Highlights
Yellow vests: Macron’s fuel tax was no solution to climate chaos
Why Macron's 'eco-tax' on fuel was never a fair or effective way to tackle climate change
Bolsonaro elected president of Brazil: how did we get to this point?
Following the recent election of Jair Bolsonaro as president of Brazil, Marcelo Badaró Mattos asks how we got here.
Care, consent and coercion under capitalism
The #metoo movement and the Brett Kavanaugh case in the US have highlighted the pervasiveness of sexual violence in capitalist society. In the run-up...
A Marxist theory of music: it’s all in the groove
Kate Bradley interview Mark Abel, author of Groove: An Aesthetic of Measured Time
Repeal: A fight against misogyny and the legacy of imperialism
Today voters in the Republic of Ireland go to the polls to decide whether or not to repeal the 8th Amendment to the Irish...