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The Putney Debates of October-November 1647, the high point of revolutionary radicalism after the English Civil War This was published, at the time of Elizabeth II's Golden Jubilee 2002, as two articles in Solidarity 3/9 and 3/10. Had enough of Golden Jubilee sycophancy? Three hundred and fifty years or so ago they'd had enough of Royalty too. In 1649, the English Parliament cut off the King's head, abolished the House of Lords, and proclaimed a Republic.

The Putney Debates of October-November 1647, the high point of revolutionary radicalism after the English Civil War This was published, at the time of Elizabeth II's Golden Jubilee 2002, as two articles in Solidarity 3/9 and 3/10. Had enough of Golden Jubilee sycophancy? Three hundred and fifty years or so ago they'd had enough of Royalty too. In 1649, the English Parliament cut off the King's head, abolished the House of Lords, and proclaimed a Republic.

Lowkey and Kit Klarenberg examine the evidence of possible interference in the political system to achieve the removal of Boris Johnson from power.

Ben Radford reviews Light Shining in Buckinghamshire, Caryl Churchill’s 1976 play co-directed by Hannah Goodwin and Helpmann Award-winning Eamon Flack.

Old regime is cracking apart Not a Tudor but a Whig republic. Bradley Mayer sees change coming sooner than many expect Daniel Lazare’s timely ‘Trump’s “March on Rome”’ ( Weekly Worker January 14) warrants both a critical and sympathetic response - critical in regards to the substance of the state and political regime of the United States; and sympathetic with respect to the opening criticism of various left responses to the events of January 6 of this year. To begin with the latter,...

Letters Most readers of the Weekly Worker agree that capitalism must be overthrown, that this should happen as a result of the actions of the working class majority taking power, and that all Marxists should unite in one party with a programme along the lines suggested by the CPGB. However, the CPGB stubbornly persists in urging all Marxists/socialists to join the Labour Party and fight within it to win members to Marxism. It frowns upon the setting up of any other party of the working class, ...