MARY DAVIS says the centrality of the Jewish community and the Communist Party to anti-fascism in the 1930s is too often overlooked on the left
Marx in context: the beginnings of a critical theory
Karl Marx by Robert Diedrichs, 1970
A 1936 confrontation with Mosley’s BUF became part of a wider international struggle, with local activists later joining the fight against fascism in the Spanish civil war. TONY FOX tells the story ahead of a 90th anniversary commemoration event
GEORGE WHITE explains why Unite’s Lancashire area activists committee believes co-ordinated recruitment in an area defined by particular kinds of employment and linked by a major transport artery could provide a model for organising the unorganised
Voters have delivered a stay of execution for Labour and exposed limits to Reform’s advance. But will Burnham offer a political alternative rather than just a different face at the top, asks ANDREW MURRAY
Calls for a Universal Basic Income are a red herring, argues the Full Marx editorial team — socialists should fight for Universal Basic Services
SEVIM DAGDELEN warns that Germany’s military resurgence and revival of old hostilities towards Russia have dangerous implications for Europe and beyond
IN THE 1950s, when the French geographer and political scientist André Siegfried gave a series of lectures on the history of England at the Sorbonne in Paris, he began every lecture with the same words, “Ladies and gentlemen, England is an island.”
Naturally, Siegfried’s point was not the banal assertion that England is, indeed, situated on an island. Rather, his point was that it makes a great difference whether or not one understands the country’s history in light of these given geographical conditions or not.
Karl Marx was a German philosopher
In the same vein, we must always remember that Karl Marx was a German philosopher and we must therefore keep the conditions given by what it meant to be a German philosopher in mind when we read his work.
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The creative imagination is a weapon against barbarism, writes KENNY COYLE, who is a keynote speaker at the Manifesto Press conference, Art in the Age of Degenerative Capitalism, tomorrow at the Marx Memorial Library & Workers School in London