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  • Photographs of three of the five women features in Red Valkyries (From left to right: Alexandra Kollontai, Nadezhda Krupskaya, Lyudmila Pavlichenko)

    Red Valkyries – review

    In exploring the lives of the revolutionary socialist feminists of the past, Red Valkyries demonstrates the value and importance of feminism in the 21st century, argues Rachel Collett

  • Article author Johnathan Steele (left) sat next to former premier of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev (right)

    How the West scuppered Gorbachev’s reforms

    Drawing on his observations of Gorbachev, Jonathan Steele details how Western interests and Yeltsin’s ambition undermined his strategy for gradual reform

  • The Custom House in Dublin, Ireland with the River Liffey in the foreground

    Socialist world, where are you?

    Examining left movements in Ireland and elsewhere, Lorna Bogue suggests that the conditions created by neoliberalism may prove fertile ground for its downfall

  • Caricature drawing of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels in a puppet show holding sticks

    Why should socialists read Marx? 

    Marx remains a vital conversational partner, writes Tom Whyman

  • The Angel of the North photographed from below against a blue sky

    The Dilemmas of Northern Independence

    Building a new country is not a straightforward task, argues Gerry Hart

  • A close-up of a placard reading 'you'll die of old age, we'll die of climate change'

    Young, left and marginalised

    Emma Frith explores how young activists are regularly ignored and dismissed in politics – and why those on the left must not fall into this pattern

  • Illustration by Cressida Knapp

    England after the break-up of Britain

    Ex-Labour MP Thelma Walker explains why she’s thrown in her lot with the Northern Independence Party

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