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  • 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 black and white photograph of Queen Elizabeth II with several Commonwealth Prime Ministers at the1960 Commonwealth Conference

    The Firm and its long-lasting grip

    Laura Clancy examines the history of the Crown, its role in empire and its continuing functional and ideological purpose today

  • 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

  • A black and white photograph of a march against the partition of Ireland, showing marchers holding banners and flanked by police

    Northern Ireland: the bastard state

    A hundred years on from partition, Pádraig Ó Meiscill diagnoses the many ills of past and present Northern Ireland

  • A contemporary black-and-white photograph of communards posing for a photograph in front of and along a barricade during the 1871 Paris Commune

    From the Commune to communalism

    March–May 2021 marks 150 years since the Paris Commune. Mathijs van de Sande and Gaard Kets explore its legacy and enduring relevance for today’s left

  • 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

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