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Reading Lenin in the light of the collapse of the SWP and the ISO

22/04/2020 By Conor Kostick 3 Comments

Lenin stroking a cat

A comparison of Tony Cliff’s Lenin: Building the Party with Paul Le Blanc’s Lenin and the Revolutionary Party In 2013, not long after the British SWP went into dramatic convulsions over the way their party failed to support a young member in her allegation that a very much older and more senior member had raped […]

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There are two worlds

11/04/2020 By Conor Kostick 2 Comments

A road leading from light to dark forest

There are two worlds. In one, people try to occupy themselves at home, maybe spend time in the garden where the birds are so lively just now, or watch TV or – although I found my concentration levels weren’t up to it – do something creative. The other is darker and consists of those with […]

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Review: The Retreat by Conor Kostick

09/04/2020 By John Flynn 1 Comment

The Retreat by Conor Kostick: cover

Conor Kostick’s new novel, The Retreat, is a thrilling tale set in the Middle Ages during the crusades. It is narrated by Guibert of Rocadamour, a naïve aristocratic youth, who joins a crusade expedition having soaked up the propaganda of the chansons and the chronicles. He is swiftly disabused of his illusions when the expedition is derailed at the outset, with the would-be crusaders sacking the castle of Devinium and stealing […]

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The Connaught Rangers’ Mutiny of 1920

11/03/2020 By Conor Kostick 13 Comments

Dagshai Prison India

One of the most extraordinary acts of defiance against the British Empire took place in India on 28 June 1920 when four Irish soldiers, members of the British army, thousands of miles from home, decided to protest against the suppression of the independence movement in Ireland. The soldiers belonged to the Connaught Rangers and were […]

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Review: An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

03/03/2020 By Ciarán O'Rourke 1 Comment

Cover An Indigenous People's History of the United States

Speaking in the extended aftermath of the so-called Indian Removal Act of 1830, Andrew Jackson, the slave-owning US president famed for his previous (and merciless) warfare against Creek and Seminole tribes in the American South, laid out the case for indigenous extermination. ‘They have neither the intelligence, the industry, the moral habits, nor the desire […]

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