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Blasphemy laws old and new Freedom of speech includes the right to criticise, explain and even mock, insists Eddie Ford Protests are still continuing outside the Batley grammar school in West Yorkshire, three-quarters of whose pupils are from a minority ethnic background. As readers know, things went wild after a teacher showed one of the Charlie Hebdo cartoons to his pupils, whilst doing a religious education lesson on blasphemy. Outraged, the local mosque mobilised its supporters, forcing th...

Focus on big questions Tory commissioners should concentrate minds, writes Derek James of Labour Party Marxists The announcement that Robert Jenrick, the housing, communities and local government secretary, was appointing commissioners to oversee some of the functions of Liverpool city council had been expected since the arrest of directly elected city mayor Joe Anderson in December. 1 Although no-one has actually been charged, Jenrick’s statement has only added to the sense of crisis in the ...

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In thunder and lightning Michael Roberts celebrates Rosa Luxemburg’s outstanding contribution to Marxist political economy March 5 2021 was the 150th anniversary of the birth of Rosa Luxemburg - the great revolutionary socialist of the Polish-German labour movement. Luxemburg’s contribution to socialist ideas and to the struggle to replace capitalism is too manifold for a short article to do her justice, so I will not attempt to do a proper job here. Instead, I shall offer a few comments on...

A minimum-maximum programme This is the mission statement of the Marxist Unity Slate - a set of proposals for the 2021 convention of the Democratic Socialists of America. The aim is to achieve democratic discipline and principled election campaigns, as well as uniting Marxists around a vision of a mass working class socialist party While it is hard to envisage the working class coming to power any time soon, the state of the US left is relatively strong today and there is reason for optimism. P...

System in reverse What does Joe Biden’s massive Covid relief package mean for ordinary working class people? Daniel Lazare looks behind the Keynesian promises of jam today and jam tomorrow On March 5, America’s woefully unrepresentative Senate shot down a bid to more than double the minimum wage to $15 an hour by the year 2025. On March 6, however, it approved a Covid-relief bill worth $1.9 trillion, aimed at benefitting the country’s lowest-paid workers. From stinginess to generosity i...

Sunday March 14, 5pm: 'A week in politics'