Kevin Ovenden on the importance of socialist and Marxist ideas in the development of effective movements for sexual liberation
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Kevin Ovenden
Kevin Ovenden is a progressive journalist who has followed politics and social movements for 25 years. He is a leading activist in solidarity with the Palestinian struggle, led five successful aid convoys to break the siege on Gaza, and was aboard the Mavi Marmara aid ship when Israeli commandoes boarded it killing 10 people in May 2010. He is author of Syriza: Inside the Labyrinth.
History
Lukács, György, Hungarian Marxist philosopher and literary critic. Source: Horst Strum - German Federal Archives - Wikicommons / cropped from original / shared under license CC-BY-SA 3.0
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17 Jun 2023
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Book review
Karl Marx. Photo: John Jabez Edwin Mayall, colourised by Olga Shirnina / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 2.0
09 Mar 2023
Marx and power: Where the left has gone wrong on the state – book review
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18 Jan 2023