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France / Support the French strikers!

France’s militant unions are joining forces with yellow vest activists in a serious challenge to Macron’s EU-backed assault on living standards.

10 Dec 2019 ,
France / France goes on strike: can Macron survive?

As militant trade unionists prepare to join yellow vests on the streets, the class struggle in France is moving into a new gear.

30 Nov 2019 ,
France / One year on: the yellow vests and the class struggle in France

What has fuelled the rise and sustained the popularity of the gilets jaunes movement in Britain’s nearest neighbour?

19 Nov 2019 , Proletarian

Working-class history / Avtar Jouhl: lifelong class fighter against racism

Comrade Avtar reflects on a life of struggle in the IWA and the trade unions from the 1950s to the 1990s.

10 Nov 2019 , International Socialist
USA / US workers force child migrant concentration camp to close

Homeware staff strike against their employers’ profiting from privatised detention camps.

14 Aug 2019 ,
World history / Fifty years since the murder of Martin Luther King Jr

A leader, one of many, murdered because they came to identify capitalism as the cause of the misery of the US masses.

25 May 2018 , Proletarian
France / Strike wave hits France

Workers are vigorously opposing their government’s attempt to rip up the French labour code.

1 Aug 2016 , Proletarian
Society / Joint enterprise murder convictions judged unsound

All those who have been unjustly jailed should be freed, and should be compensated for their lost years.

1 Apr 2016 , Proletarian
Working-class history / What did the Indian workers do for us?

Harpal Brar gives a short history of the significant contribution made by the IWA (GB) to the British working-class movement, and points the way forward.

1 Oct 2015 , Proletarian
Proletarian news / Industry matters: Amazon unveiled

1 Oct 2015 , Proletarian
Culture / Book: Go Set a Watchman

A poignant tale of the difficulties of breaking away from reactionary traditions.

1 Oct 2015 , Proletarian
Divide and rule / The human cost of prisons for profit

A Proletarian reader recounts his best friend’s descent into despair and eventual suicide while imprisoned on an indeterminate sentence. This article has been previously published in the Morning Star.

1 Oct 2015 , Proletarian
Industry / Industry matters: French ferry workers blaze a trail

16 Sep 2015 , Proletarian
USA / US Party for Socialism and Liberation announces its 2016 presidential campaign

We are happy to reproduce the following statement from the PSL.

16 Sep 2015 , Proletarian

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USSR / Paul Robeson, Stalin and the USSR

“In Russia I felt for the first time like a full human being – no colour prejudice like in Mississippi, no colour prejudice like in Washington.” – Paul Robeson

22 May 2019, Proletarian TV
History TV / Paul Robeson testifying at the House Un-American Activities Committee

‘I am being tried for fighting for the rights of my people, who are still second-class citizens in this United States of America.’ Paul Robeson, 1956.

15 May 2019, Red Youth
History TV / US civil rights leaders: Paul Robeson

A great and fearless friend of the international proletariat.

22 Aug 2015, Proletarian TV
History TV / US civil rights leaders: Robert F Williams

The author of Negroes with Guns, which inspired the strategy of the Black Panther Party.

15 Aug 2015, Proletarian TV

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The author’s brave stance in defence of reality must be defended, and her hysterical detractors exposed as the reactionary bullies they are.
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The reactionary nightmare of ‘gender fluidity’
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The blatant hypocrisy of the USA’s lies about China’s Uighur muslims
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Why gay rights is not a class issue
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Workers in eastern Europe and former Soviet states prefer socialism
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Comrade Joti interviewed by Caleb Maupin
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Identity politics are anti-Marxian and a harmful diversion from the class struggle
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Marxism in the 21st century: is it still relevant?
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Stop the War gets it wrong again

Civil rights highlights

France / Support the French strikers!

France’s militant unions are joining forces with yellow vest activists in a serious challenge to Macron’s EU-backed assault on living standards.

France / France goes on strike: can Macron survive?

As militant trade unionists prepare to join yellow vests on the streets, the class struggle in France is moving into a new gear.

France / One year on: the yellow vests and the class struggle in France

What has fuelled the rise and sustained the popularity of the gilets jaunes movement in Britain’s nearest neighbour?

Working-class history / Avtar Jouhl: lifelong class fighter against racism

Comrade Avtar reflects on a life of struggle in the IWA and the trade unions from the 1950s to the 1990s.

USA / US workers force child migrant concentration camp to close

Homeware staff strike against their employers’ profiting from privatised detention camps.

World history / Fifty years since the murder of Martin Luther King Jr

A leader, one of many, murdered because they came to identify capitalism as the cause of the misery of the US masses.

France / Strike wave hits France

Workers are vigorously opposing their government’s attempt to rip up the French labour code.

Society / Joint enterprise murder convictions judged unsound

All those who have been unjustly jailed should be freed, and should be compensated for their lost years.

Working-class history / What did the Indian workers do for us?

Harpal Brar gives a short history of the significant contribution made by the IWA (GB) to the British working-class movement, and points the way forward.

Proletarian news / Industry matters: Amazon unveiled

Culture / Book: Go Set a Watchman

A poignant tale of the difficulties of breaking away from reactionary traditions.

Divide and rule / The human cost of prisons for profit

A Proletarian reader recounts his best friend’s descent into despair and eventual suicide while imprisoned on an indeterminate sentence. This article has been previously published in the Morning Star.

Industry / Industry matters: French ferry workers blaze a trail

USA / US Party for Socialism and Liberation announces its 2016 presidential campaign

We are happy to reproduce the following statement from the PSL.

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Civil rights video

USSR / Paul Robeson, Stalin and the USSR

“In Russia I felt for the first time like a full human being – no colour prejudice like in Mississippi, no colour prejudice like in Washington.” – Paul Robeson

History TV / Paul Robeson testifying at the House Un-American Activities Committee

‘I am being tried for fighting for the rights of my people, who are still second-class citizens in this United States of America.’ Paul Robeson, 1956.

History TV / US civil rights leaders: Paul Robeson

A great and fearless friend of the international proletariat.

History TV / US civil rights leaders: Robert F Williams

The author of Negroes with Guns, which inspired the strategy of the Black Panther Party.

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