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Friedrich Engels highlights

Working-class history / Long live May Day!

Workers have made immense sacrifices in the great struggle of labour against capital; have shed rivers of blood in their quest for a better life and real freedom.

Working-class history / Jenny Marx’s life of struggle and sacrifice in the cause of the working class

A tribute to the woman who made a vital yet routinely overlooked contribution to the founding of scientific socialism.

China / Hail the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China

We wish the Chinese people success in overcoming their enemies in the future as they have done in the past.

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What was the background to the massacre of workers that took place in St Peter’s Field two centuries ago?

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One more reason for workers to burn with indignation against a social order that can never be made to serve their interests.

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Sixty years of dedicated service to the anti-imperialist movement by an outstanding revolutionary have left a lasting legacy for the British working class.

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150 years on, Marx’s vivid portrait of the world’s first working-class government still impresses with its ‘short powerful strokes of such clearness and truth’.

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