From the Bible to Marx and beyond
I was going through various channels to find my meditation site when I came across an old West Wing scene between President Bartlet and Dr Jenna Jacobs. Here is part of the dialogue. BARTLET: I like...
View ArticleThe legacy of Rosa Luxemburg
Rosa Luxemburg, one of the great leaders in the history of the socialist movement, was murdered on the night of 15 January 1919 writes Simon Olley in Socialist Alternative. Captured by a division of...
View ArticleHow a workers’ uprising ended the first world war
Volkhard Mosler in Socialist Worker UK looks at how revolt spread from the front to the factories in 1918 It is widely claimed that the 1918 November Revolution in Germany failed. But it succeeded in...
View ArticleDoubt all
These are the last few paragraphs of something I wrote in 2012 called From the Bible to Marx and beyond. One of the hallmarks of the serious left is uncertainty, enquiry and analysis informing action,...
View ArticleRosa Luxemburg’s legacy lives on
95 years ago, on the night of 15 January 1919, Rosa Luxemburg, one of the great leaders in the history of the socialist movement, was murdered, writes Simon Olley in Socialist Alternative. Rosa...
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