History
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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
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Shirkers and conchies: how governments tried to silence First World War resisters
Peace activists against the First World War were treated as enemies by their government, but left a legacy of perserverance writes Tim Gee
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Rosa Luxemburg’s capital ideas
Ingo Scmidt discusses the relevance of Rosa Luxemburg’s The Accumulation of Capital
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Reading Rosa: An interview with Peter Hudis
Peter Hudis, editor of the newly published Letters of Rosa Luxemburg, speaks to Red Pepper
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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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Thomas Paine, restless democrat
June 2009 marked the bicentenary of the death of Thomas Paine. Mike Marqusee celebrates the life, work and ideas of the great revolutionary who declared that ‘my country is the world and my religion is to do good’
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Afghanistan: a brief history
Understanding Afghanistan today is only possible by looking at it in the context of the part played by the competing imperial powers in its past. Jane Shallice offers a guide
