Following an extensive community consultation, the new-look RPM has been guided by our readers and is set to reshape the left media landscape ...

Some of us read histories of the left for nostalgic reasons. Some of us do so to learn, or to measure the distance travelled, or find fresh inspiration. A few look for nails to drive into coffins, ...

For most of us here in England, the news barely registered. A train was hijacked in a far-off province of Pakistan. 400 plus hostages were taken, some of whom were killed, though the number of ...

The Soviet Union, in the 74 years of its existence in one form or another, was a society that was all about building. The Soviets claimed in the 1970s to have ‘built’ socialism, and while they never ...

Coined by Jacques Derrida in 1993 to oppose Western liberalism’s declaration of the ‘end of history’ after the collapse of the Soviet Union, hauntology later became a quasi-genre of music and ...

Vlad Sakovich describes People First's work to release Ukrainian prisoners of war, Russian political prisoners, and forcefully transferred Ukrainian children ...

In Britain, we face the twin dangers of Labour authoritarianism and the ascendant energies of the Faragist far right. Each is animated by a national and racial hostility, roused by revanchism and ...

In 1994, it was possible – though challenging – to launch a monthly print magazine. Market-led politics were already eroding the welfare state but it still offered sufficient security for people to ...

Five hundred years ago, one of the greatest social movements in European history swept the Holy Roman Empire in what is now Germany. In thousands of villages, people’s private mumblings at heavy ...

A 250-year struggle to liberate Kanaky (New Caledonia) from French colonial rule continues today. Gerry Hart traces the history ...

In the wake of the Aberfan disaster, which killed 116 children and 28 adults when a colliery spoil tip collapsed onto the Welsh village in 1966, a group of men got together to sing as a way of ...

In his 1894 pamphlet The Solidarity of Labour, legendary union leader Eugene V Debs defined his topic as the ‘highest good’ achievable by and for working people. ‘There is such a thing as human ...