Ken Loach talks to Hilary Wainwright about his latest film, The Old Oak, and his long career dignifying the lives and struggles of ordinary people
In the face of severe underfunding and creeping privatisation, Tony O’Sullivan looks at how a new government can counter the twin attacks on the NHS
As we approach the centenary of V I Lenin’s death, Lars T Lih looks at what his ‘intricate polemic’ in What is to Be Done? might offer today’s left
Lewica politicians must use their leverage for women, workers and minorities, says Ewa Pospieszyńska, or risk even greater threats from the right
The Guyanese Marxist and pan-Africanist Walter Rodney is being read with eagerness by young organisers in Africa today, writes Phethani Madzivhandila
We must learn the history of Pan-Africanism and re-engage with the revolutionary anti-colonial activists who first pursued its dream, argues Kevin Ochieng Okoth
Hilary Wainwright describes how, paradoxically, she and her partner got married to be independent of male-dominated families