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Emergency protest: No attack on Syria 27 Aug 2013 | 02:09 pm
Downing Street, 5—7pm, Wednesday 28 August. Called by Stop the War Coalition
Let us rise: the Dublin lockout of 1913 26 Aug 2013 | 09:19 pm
Sean Ledwith recalls the greatest of early 20th century working class rebellions and considers its legacy
Statement: Britain must end arms sales to Egypt 26 Aug 2013 | 08:41 pm
The following statement published in the Guardian condemns the massacres perpetrated by Egypt's military rulers and calls on Cameron to stop arms sales
Syria attack should not be used as a pretext for military intervention 25 Aug 2013 | 02:00 pm
Western intervention in Syria, or anywhere else in the Middle East, would cause greater displacement and war
Egyptian workers after the fall of Morsi 24 Aug 2013 | 04:08 pm
The priorities of the Egyptian workers movement are more likely to be achieved by continued popular mobilization than by reliance on a government installed by the military writes Joel Beinin
Where now for the Egyptian revolution? 24 Aug 2013 | 03:40 pm
The fate of the Egyptian revolution after the military take-over is analysed by John Rees. Video by Paul Hanes
The people v austerity: why 29 September is the date that matters 24 Aug 2013 | 12:36 pm
The government's vicious attacks on the poorest are continuing, and there's little opposition from Labour. It's time to get on the streets, argues Chris Nineham
Masks of Anarchy: The history of a radical poem, from Percy Shelley to the Triangle Factory Fire 22 Aug 2013 | 01:37 pm
A graphic book on Shelley’s Masks of Anarchy fails to affirm the radical lives of the poet and his circle, and is marred by too many inaccuracies, argues Jacqueline Mulhallen
Balcombe protests - blocking the fracking road 22 Aug 2013 | 12:31 am
The police may have cleared the road to the drilling site in Balcombe but the road to fracking in this country is far from open
Video: the People's Game - radicalism within football 21 Aug 2013 | 12:04 pm
Jack Brindelli examines the historical relationship between the beautiful game and politics and rebutts the claim that soccer is simply a 'bourgeois distraction'
