Just over three years after the Hillsborough Disaster the reigning champions met in the cup semi-final against a smaller team in a stadium which was disastrously unfit for the crowds expected on the day. The teams on this occasion were [...]
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Muhammad Ali – The Greatest
One of the unique qualities of human beings it seems to me is the degree to which our whole lives can be influenced, affected and shaped by fellow humans that we never meet. We can even have relationships of a [...]
Read moreThe Corporate Criminal
The Corporation as a Fact of Life The dominant role that corporations play in our lives makes them appear to us as a fact of life. Corporations now profit from providing most of the food that we eat, the clothes we [...]
Read moreBritish values and the historic power of denial
Michael Gove as Education Secretary, was more terrifying than any horror film his late friend Christopher Lee starred in throughout a sixty year career. His inability to listen to anyone with vast teaching experience and his pig-headed belief in his [...]
Read moreDisability and Eugenics – Has Socialism anything to say?
Disability provokes such deep feelings and creates such controversy in society that it must surely be a key issue for any socialist movement. Yet communist, leftist and social democratic movements often have very little to say. ‘Work’ seems so central [...]
Read moreRemembering CND and the anti-nuclear movement
Socialists argued about nuclear wars in the 1950’s and concluded that, on numerous grounds, nuclear wars would be a total disaster for millions of innocent people, poisoned and maimed, and the planet itself would suffer irreparable damage to its environs [...]
Read moreReview: Light shining in Buckinghamshire
Light shining in Buckinghamshire, a play by Caryl Churchill is set at the time of the Civil War in 17th century England, when the world was turned upside down as people fought for a different way to live and to put [...]
Read moreStalinism and historical responsibility
With the collapse of the eastern bloc over the years from 1985-1993 Stalinism ceased to be a factor in world politics. Trotskyism, as an attempt to critique Stalinism, and build an alternative to it, no longer has a specific meaning. [...]
Read moreKarl Marx and the First International
The launch of this issue of The Project coincides with international workers' day. It is therefore appropriate to assess one of the formative experiences of working class internationalism. On September 28 1864 a public meeting in St Martin's Hall in London brought together British, French [...]
Read moreTrotskyism and Historical Responsibility
This article is written in response to ‘Trotskyism at the end of the war and the democratic struggle’, a recent essay by Tim Nelson of the International Socialist Network (ISN). The piece follows the perspectives of Felix Morrow and Albert [...]
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