Jesus: armed and dangerous

Forget the virgin birth, the stable, the wondrous star, the shepherds and the wise men, the massacre of the innocents and the angel of the lord telling Joseph and Mary to flee to Egypt. All pure invention. Jesus was an apocalyptic revolutionary, says Jack Conrad

Ricardian; Soft Stalinist; Messy end; Phased out; Skid Row; Syrian revolution; Sorry saga; Solidarity

Support the rail unions and support genuine modernisation, argues Eddie Ford

The left should welcome Donald Trump’s nomination of David Friedman as US ambassador to Israel, writes Tony Greenstein

Mike Macnair exposes the anti-democratic nature of referendums, including the membership ‘survey’ just sent out by Lansman & Co

Labour Party Marxists are proposing a transparent, simple and effective draft constitution

Yassamine Mather explains the Zoroastrian winter solstice festival of light, Shabe Yalda, and how Iran’s ruling clerics have failed to extinguish it

Gifts of gold are still what we need this Christmas, says Robbie Rix