Theory & History- Page 4

By James McCabe We live in a world that is saturated with violence. The lives of millions of people today are scarred by war, ethnic cleansing and even genocide. As capitalism is an economic system based on competition and exploitation, it has

By Helen Redwood A “civil war without guns” aptly describes the struggle against pit closures in Britain 1984-85, which had the potential to bring Margaret Thatcher’s right-wing government toppling down. This was a watershed event. British capitalism was in long-term decline, and

By Michael O’Brien Mainstream commentary on economic crises tends to focus exclusively on the special features that may have tipped what was a slowdown in the economy into a full blown recession, or some particular event that precipitated a more spectacular economic

By Oisin Kelly January 2024 marked the 150th anniversary of James Larkin’s birth. Larkin remains an inspiration for socialists and working-class activists to this day due to his legendary leadership of many major strikes in the early decades of the 20th century,

By Manus Lenihan The Russian revolutionary leader Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, better known as Lenin, died on 21 January 1924 – 100 years ago today. The party he led, known as the Bolsheviks and later the Communist Party, led the working class to