Theory

By Matt Kilsby In May, as the cost of living crisis deepens and inflation remains at a 40-year high, the coronation of King Charles will

By Paul Gerrard 125 years ago the celebrated revolutionary Rosa Luxemburg wrote her definitive answer to the question with her pamphlet Social Reform or Revolution.

By Yaara Caliph There are few political texts that feel relevant to ordinary people’s lives for almost two centuries. The Communist Manifesto is undoubtedly one

By Paul Hunt   The ideas of Leon Trotsky, and Trotskyism, have been much maligned and distorted through history. But who was Leon Trotsky, what

Low wages, rising energy bills, rocketing food prices and shortages in the shops. Hand in hand with this cost of living crisis we are also

The ‘right’ to private property is fundamental to capitalism, and in turn, the abolition of the right private property is fundamental to socialism. To be

What is socialism? To answer the question ‘what socialism?’, it makes sense to start by asking what kind of system we live under now. The

This is the first of a two-part series of articles on the European Union that was published in issue 22 of Socialist Alternative. The second