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  • Imperial Federation map showing the extent of the British Empire in 1886

    The blood never dries

    While our government wants us to step back and forget what we know about the violence of Britain’s imperial state, Richard Gott says it’s time for a much deeper reckoning

  • Group of Afghan soldiers with one US soldier explaining something to them

    Drawing a line in Afghanistan

    The legacy of colonialism is still very real along borders arbitrarily drawn by the British and brutally contested to this day, writes Suchitra Vijayan

  • A promotional image for the 1936 People's Olympiad includes an illustration of three people with different colour skin and clothes, holding a banner reading 'Olimpiad Popular'

    The Socialist Olympics of 1936

    Radical workers’ sporting organisations and the 1936 People’s Olympiad illustrate the role of sport in fighting oppression, writes Uma Arruga i López

  • A crowd of people with Lebanese flags and candles sit and stand in a group at night

    Lebanon’s October revolution

    Following a year of struggle, crisis and destruction, the people of Lebanon fight on, writes Rima Majed from Beirut

  • Keir Hardie in Trafalgar Square, 1908

    What’s wrong with the Labour Party?

    The role Labour plays in maintaining the capitalist state makes it a crucial site for socialists to organise within, argues Luke Evans

  • Ismail Abusalama, with a moustache, wears an orange shirt and stands against a striped background in prison

    My father’s 13 years as a Palestinian political prisoner

    Shahd Abusalama recounts her father Ismail’s experience in the Israeli prison system and calls for drastic reforms

  • The outside of a glass-fronted building next to a wall showing a large painting of a black woman holding a baby. both wearing white t-shirts, with the word 'Peterloo' written across

    Whose history? Why the People’s History Museum is vital

    Against high-profile claims that museums should be ‘neutral’ spaces, Danielle Child celebrates the People’s History Museum

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