By Thomas Carmichael 21 June 2024 On the morning of 18 June 1984, a scorching summer’s day, 5,000 striking miners gathered on the fields overlooking the Orgreave Coking Works in South Yorkshire. It would become one of the most infamous days in Britain’s industrial history.    The 1984-85 Miners’ Strike was at its height with the

By Steph Lacey 4 September 2024 Directed by Margo Harkin, Stolen is a chilling account of the Magdalene Laundries, where Irish women and girls were sent for engaging in a sexual relationship that a parent or priest didn’t approve of, or more often, for being victims of rape, having a disability etc. – “social regressions” that didn’t

By James McCabe 24 August 2024 It would be difficult to imagine an event that rocked the world and changed the course of history to the extent that the Russian Revolution did. No film could hope to capture the magnitude of such an upending of social relations. Plus, the quality of film footage from this

First published in April 2024 mm    Content warning: abuse, betrayal of survivors This statement is issued by the Faction to Defend Safeguarding, Socialist Feminism and Internal Democracy (SSFID), an organised opposition within the International Socialist Alternative (ISA). It was initiated by members in the ISA’s leading bodies who, since they were made aware of

Over the weekend of August 31 and September 1, 2024, more than 130 people from 29 countries gathered to get the ‘Project for a Marxist Revolutionary International’ off the ground. The meeting focused on laying the framework for this new project, aimed at eventually reconstituting a new Marxist International. This process has become a pressing