Lindsey German provides an analysis of the General Election results and priorities for the left going forward
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Lindsey German
As national convenor of the Stop the War Coalition, Lindsey was a key organiser of the largest demonstration, and one of the largest mass movements, in British history.
Her books include ‘Material Girls: Women, Men and Work’, ‘Sex, Class and Socialism’, ‘A People’s History of London’ (with John Rees) and ‘How a Century of War Changed the Lives of Women’.
History
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Thomas Sankara: ‘The Upright Man’
Opinion
My name is Will or Policeman as (arresting) model. Source: Southbanksteve - Wikicommon / cropped from original / CC BY 2.0
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Robert Lambert in the 1980s: Frankenstein’s monster grows up
History
Picture of the fights between revolutionaries and the royal military in the Breite Strasse Street, Berlin during the March 1848 revolution. Source: Wikicommon / public domain
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How the Great Revolutions Happened Part 8: The nineteenth-century age of revolutions: betrayal to red revolution 1830-1849
Book review
Frédéric Legault, Arnaud Theurillat-Cloutier and Alain Savard, Ecology for the 99%: Twenty Capitalist Myths Debunked, trans. Charles Simard (Between the Lines 2024), 276pp.
19 Dec 2024
Ecology for the 99%: Twenty Capitalist Myths Debunked – book review
Opinion
Donald Trump speaking at an Arizona for Trump rally in Glendale, Arizona. Source: Gage Skidmore - Flickr / cropped from original / CC BY-SA 2.0
19 Dec 2024