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A mural depicting a socialist utopia: two smiling people with symbols of science and advancement swirling around them.
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Red Flag:  No, East Germany wasn’t socialist—and neither is “democratic socialism”

by Nathaniel Flakin on 10/09/2025
In his weekly column, Nathaniel Flakin critiques controversial statement by Die Linke's Heidi Reichinnek
Mural of Trotsky on a wall. The paint is cracked.
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Red Flag: Why Trotsky still matters, 85 years after his murder

by Nathaniel Flakin on 20/08/2025
In his weekly column, Nathaniel Flakin honors the Russian revolutionary struck down on August 20, 1940
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The Romanian anti-communist memory wars

by Andrei Belibou on 26/07/2025
Romania’s new president is famous for defeating the far-right in the recent elections. Now he is playing into their hands
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Fact check: Was October 7 the “Worst massacre of Jews since the Holocaust”?

by Nathaniel Flakin on 27/06/2025
Answer: No. In his weekly column, Nathaniel Flakin looks at the 1976 military coup in Argentina
Two people sit in a podcast setting with mics. One is listening and the other is speaking with intensity.
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We are all slaves to the clout machine

by Ali Khan on 27/06/2025
On brain rot
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The Revolution Will Not Be Authorised

by Inês Colaço on 25/04/2025
51 years since the Carnation Revolution, its inspirational memory has become a battleground.
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Which way now for the Global South?

by Vinit Ravishankar on 02/04/2025
Forging a path beyond Trumpian caprice
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Rosa Luxemburg Grave in Berlin Defaced

by Dave Gilchrist on 15/03/2025
AfD’s Rise Fuels Fascist Attacks
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Copyright’s Discontents

by Vinit Ravishankar on 29/01/2025
How should Meta’s cynical use of Library Genesis inform political praxis?
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Looking Back Autobiographically

by Victor Grossman on 31/12/2024
A 96-year old activist reminisces
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Who benefits from imperialism?

by Joseph Choonara on 15/11/2024
Joseph Choonara responds to Vinit R's critique, and argues for an internationalist proletarianism
The British communist newspaper the Daily Worker exposing British atrocities during the Malayan Emergency, 1952. Author unknown, Wikimedia Commons. Gore censored.
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Imperialism and the working class in the Global North

by Vinit Ravishankar on 03/11/2024
A response to Joseph Choonara's talk on the relationship of Global North workers to imperialism
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