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Libcom.org's reading guide on the 1917 Russian revolution.

Francis Bacon’s "Triptych 1986–7" will be sold on March 1 with an estimate of £35 million to £55 million ($47.3 million to $74.3 million).

US inflation rose at a 7.5 percent annual rate in January as unions worked in tandem with employers and the Biden administration to reduce the real wages of workers.

New York—Fine Books & Autographs are at Swann Galleries Thursday, February 17. Autographs from inspirational figures across technology, politics, literature and beyond will feature, ...

Socialist Party youth meeting: Mood is changing - socialist ideas growing

The task force proposals are all aimed at the strengthening of a labor police force, comprised of upper-middle class executives, to enforce the dictates of the ruling class.

JerichoMany brilliant minds of the Enlightenment and thereafter were Jewish. They were so, not in the religious sense, but in analytical curiosity and political adventurism. One could ask why so.

From the blog of Richard Kronenfeld at The Times of Israel

Chapter 3: The scarecrow of Stalinism Can the tiger be skinned claw by claw? In part 2 of his written oration on parliamentary democracy and those whom he denounces as its enemies (Observer, January 17 1982), Michael Foot attempts to answer the challenge he had posed to himself in part one.

The Socialist Workers’ Party are not apologists for Putin’s regime or its foreign policy. Yet in practice their stance on the threat of a Russian invasion of Ukraine will feed into such apologism on the left. The SWP website published three articles in the last week of January, sharing three key themes: That an important aspect of potential escalation in Ukraine is the rivalry and manoeuvring of big imperialist powers, primarily the US and Russia.