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  • 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

  • A person looks at a headless classical statue in the British Museum

    We need to decolonise museums

    Decolonising the museum is a pathway to decolonising society. We must start by providing more honest accounts of our past, says Subhadra Das

  • Labour's then-leader Michael Foot addresses a rally in 1983.

    1983: the biggest myth in Labour Party history

    Labour’s 1983 election campaign has long been used to say it is impossible for a leader like Jeremy Corbyn to win any election from the left. Alex Nunns digs out the truth

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    The myth of the 1970s

    In the 1970s, they say, the dead lay unburied, greedy unions held the country to ransom and a divided country was impossible to govern, John Medhurst asks: was it really so bad?

  • An illustration showing a man in a suit running away from two different hats – one a top hat the other a Russian Communist Party hat – trying to trap him

    Maidan over: The balance of power in Ukraine

    While Ukraine’s oligarchic elite aspires to become a ruling class, it is also the object of an ongoing competition between Russia and the west to draw it into their respective transnational capitalist classes, writes Marko Bojcun

  • The Pope, dressed in all white robes with a large gold cross and small white hat – raises his arms and smiles to an out of shot audience

    Papal bull

    The left should praise the Lord for the Pope, says Terry Eagleton. The Catholic church is the best recruiting sergeant we could hope for

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