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Deborah Lavin

3 Apr 2020
British politics / Onwards and upwards: In memory of Deborah Lavin

One of a kind: her influence on party life, and the guidance she gave to young cadres in particular, will be fondly remembered and sorely missed.

3 Apr 2020
Working-class history / Deborah Lavin: Early feminism, bourgeois and proletarian

What did the early Marxists think about birth control and women's rights? How did their views differ from those of the liberal feminists?

4 Apr 2020
British politics / Prosecuting Boris Johnson

Leaving aside the double standards of the case, misuse of the law is not in anyone’s interests.

15 Jun 2019
Climate change / Yellow vests v Extinction Rebellion

Climate protestors’ leader accidentally gives away the ruling class’s agenda.

4 May 2019
Books / Ian McEwan’s White Tooth

The thinking woman’s Ruth Rendell.

1 Aug 2012
Social wage / Wonga watch

Workers’ indignation needs to be justly roused against this humiliation of our class.

1 Aug 2012
Working-class history / The Victorian origins of workfare

Where did the government get the idea of subsidising free labour for big companies like Tesco?

1 Apr 2012
Working-class history / The Victorian origins of workfare

Where did the government get the idea of subsidising free labour for big companies like Tesco?

1 Apr 2012
Working-class history / Downton Abbey, the Jolly George and Stop the War

Please, if we ask you nicely, will you? Pretty please?

1 Oct 2011
Working-class history / Book review: Striking a Light, the Bryant and May Matchwomen

Louise Raw reveals the connection of these militant young East End strikers to new unionism, socialism and Irish republicanism.

1 Apr 2011
Theatre / Play: The Power of Yes by David Hare

Explaining nothing, this play is aimed merely at letting off some steam without getting any nearer to a solution to society’s systemic problems.

1 Oct 2009
Book: The Frock-Coated Communist, the Revolutionary Life of Friedrich Engels by Tristram Hunt *

A scurrilous ‘biography’ of Engels by a New Labour ‘historian’.

1 Aug 2009
Jack Gaster, 1907-2007

A life in struggle

1 Apr 2007
Housing: the glamour of wealth disguises its crime

A comment on housing

1 Dec 2006
Ye Squaddies of Olde Englande

Blairites plan to ‘globalise’ British army, making it less expensive and more expendable.

1 Oct 2006
The housing hydra

We must fight the bourgeoisie which denies us homes, not other people who need homes too

1 Apr 2006
Power grows out of the barrel of a gun

A pressure group called Campaign Against the Arms Trade and an Amnesty International, Oxfam and Iansa (International Action Network on Small Arms) grouping called Control Arms are calling on governments to stop weapons getting "into the wrong hands".

1 Jun 2005
Culture: False consciousness needs false controversies

What do Birmingham Rep and the BBC have in common? Both court false controversies as a way of distracting from the vital role they play in censorship of the arts in Britain.

1 Feb 2005
Film and TV / Deborah Lavin film review: The Motorcycle Diaries

A reminder that communists and communism are not our enemy but the hope of the world.

1 Oct 2004