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Marx for Today cover – a short accessible introduction to Marx’s ideas available from Counterfire

Why one Guardian writer should be heading to Tesco’s this May Day

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Scotland’s turn

Left to right, Amy Dewan, Hampden, and Rhema Wojcik, Charles Village, attend a rally where Freddie Gray was arrested. The demonstrators then marched to City Hall to protest the death of Freddie Gray while he was in police custody. (Kim Hairston/Baltimore Sun)

Baltimore and the uprising against the Blue Klux Klan

A Diet of Austerity: the war on weight

Elaine Graham-Leigh

A Diet of Austerity: meals, moralism and Malthus

Elaine Graham-Leigh

A Diet of Austerity: blaming the poor

Elaine Graham-Leigh

NHS workers picket outside the Bristol Royal Infirmary Hospital, Bristol, October 2014. Photo: Ben Birchall/PA

The NHS election

Dr Youssef El-Gingihy

Zero time, zero life. The secret diary of a zero hours worker

Niki Barnett-Henry

Katie Hopkins’ comments about migrants drowning are hate speech we can’t ignore

Daily Show’s Trevor Noah

This is not about offence!

Jeremy Messenger

Work, Sex and Power

German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras. Photo: Reuters

Syriza: escaping the prison of the politics of the past