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Quotas harm the cause
27 Feb 2014
The left should not succumb to neoliberalisms phoney version of equality, argues Yassamine Mather
No victory for progress
08 Jun 2017
The new taoiseach is anything but progressive, writes Anne McShane. He opposes abortion and women’s rights
The inferno erupts
02 Mar 2017
The struggle for women’s liberation cannot be left to the feminists. The Russian Revolution shows that women’s liberation and the struggle for socialism are inseparable, argues Anne McShane
Taking an independent stand
26 Jan 2017
The election of Donald Trump has torn up the political rulebook - a reality that protestors must confront, argues Jim Grant
Criticise, don’t boycott
27 Oct 2016
Some on the left still want to boycott the Socialist Workers Party - and they are still wrong, argues Paul Demarty
Skewered by moralism
15 Sep 2016
An old-fashioned tabloid scandal? Harley Filben looks at the Keith Vaz affair
Pseudo-secularism on the beach
01 Sep 2016
The petty cruelty of the French burqini bans stems from an elite looking for scapegoats, writes Paul Demarty
Voting for the right lizard
04 Aug 2016
Who’s afraid of president Trump? Not Paul Demarty
An old rhythm
14 Jul 2016
With the huge rise in xenophobic attacks and the role of motherhood in the Conservative leadership race, Commissaress argues that the past has come back with a vengeance
Life in the bubble
26 May 2016
Paul Demarty argues that the growing culture of brittle denunciations only hurts the left
Incorporation and commercialisation
02 Jul 2015
The annual Pride march was symptomatic of a divided LGBT movement, reports Daniel Harvey
The Goldsmiths ideology
28 May 2015
The rightwing press campaign against Bahar Mustafa puts the parlous state of student politics under the spotlight, writes Paul Demarty
A gay day for equality
28 May 2015
Anne McShane celebrates the defeat of the Catholic church and calls for the battle for democracy to include the aim of socialism
Humans, nature and dialectics
07 May 2015
Sadly Marxism must be defended against some who claim to be Marxists, or at least sympathetic to Marxism. Jack Conrad shows that this is especially the case when it comes to attacks on Frederick Engels and his work on the dialectics of nature
Headlong into a trap
09 Apr 2015
After Socialist Resistance’s bungled intervention into transgender politics, Paul Demarty calls for serious debate - not trolling and trigger warnings
Against feminism, for the working class
05 Mar 2015
Geraldine Duffy writes for International Women's Day in March 1985