Looking at the life and legacy of Sylvia Pankhurst, historian Katherine Connolly led a discussion at Arise Festival on the suffragette, socialist and scourge of empire.
Tag: socialism
What can Gramsci teach us about the crisis today – and what can we do about it?
Logan Williams reports back from the socialist ideas session with James Schneider at Arise Festival 2023 - on Gramsci's legacy and the lessons for the left today.
This May Day, let’s take hope from workers fighting back – Richard Burgon MP #MayDay2023
“The growing workers’ struggles we are seeing offer the seeds of building a better future society. One that puts an end to the 40-year domination of neoliberalism, marketisation, deregulation and privatisation.”
Year of Strikes Show Class Struggle Is Back
“The breadth of those taking action demonstrates the anger felt across the working class in Britain.”
Engels was right – the wealth of the super-rich is accumulated on the backs of the rest of us. Jon Trickett.
“The world has changed hugely since his day. But if Engels came back today, I am sure he would still see the old dialectic at work. The old system still prevails, only in a new shape.” - Jon Trickett.