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6 January 2021
Engels on the origins of women's oppression
In the final article in our series to commemorate 200 years since the birth of Friedrich Engels, Christine Thomas looks at the relevance of his important work 'The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State' for the struggle today to end women's inequality and oppression.
16 December 2020
'Socialism - Utopian and Scientific' by Engels
In the fourth article in our series marking the 200th anniversary of the birth of Friedrich Engels, Ross Saunders looks at one of Engels' best known works.
9 December 2020
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9 December 2020
Engels and the answer to the housing question
Engels published The Housing Question in 1872 as a contribution to debates about the appalling housing conditions facing the working class in Germany, Britain and elsewhere, and what should be done about it
2 December 2020
Review: Friedrich Engels - Condition of the working class in England
The second in our series on socialist pioneer Friedrich Engels, on the 200th anniversary of his birth. Socialist Party national committee member Helen Pattison reviews one of the first books he wrote.
25 November 2020
Friedrich Engels: A revolutionary who played a pivotal role in the development of socialism
28th November 2020, is the 200th anniversary of the birth of Friedrich Engels (1820-1895). Alongside Karl Marx, Engels was one of the greatest thinkers
17 April 2019
Engels' classic essential for understanding socialist ideas old and 'new'
As Tony Saunois points out in his foreword to the new Socialist Books reprint, 'Socialism: Utopian and Scientific' remains one of the best introductions to Marxist ideas.
9 January 2019
'Socialism: Utopian and Scientific'
Socialist Books has announced its next upcoming title
17 October 2018
The renewed relevance of Engels' classic Socialism: Utopian and Scientific
This short pamphlet by Friedrich Engels is, along with the Communist Manifesto, one of the best and most significant introductions to Marxism. It greatly adds to our understanding of the roots of socialism and the tasks of the working class to fundamentally change society.
20 June 2018
Inspirational account of young Marx's political battles
Film: The Young Karl Marx (2017): Director Raoul Peck takes us on a voyage through the life of 'The Young Karl Marx'.
2 May 2018
200 years of Karl Marx: Marxist ideas more relevant than ever
Marx was born 200 years ago on 5 May. Together with Engels, he formulated the ideas of scientific socialism which were to shake the world
18 October 2017
Russia, October 1917: When workers took power
The centenary of the Russian revolution has led to an outpouring of bile - not mainly aimed at the February revolution, but at October
9 August 2017
Marx's Capital at 150: an unequalled analysis and critique of capitalism
The Daily Mail reacted with predictable hysteria when, in May 2017, John McDonnell stated: "You can't understand the capitalist system without reading Marx's Das Kapital."
14 January 2015
Billionaires five times richer than in 2004
Fight inequality with socialism: Eye-wateringly massive inequality. An ever-widening wealth gap between the super-rich and the rest of us. Scandalous tax-avoiding arrangements
14 January 2015
Book review: Eleanor Marx - a life
Eleanor Marx was an extraordinary woman - youngest daughter of an extraordinary man, Karl Marx, and of Jenny, his lifelong partner through revolution and counter-revolution
Karl Marx: A Nineteenth Century Life by Jonathan Sperber
31 July 2013
Book review: Karl Marx - How to change the world
In this book Jonathan Sperber says he aims to place the great revolutionary thinker and activist firmly in his times
14 January 2013
Collapse of Stalinism and the 1990s
If they were to answer that North Vietnam was more 'progressive', then how to explain their position at the time of the collapse of the Berlin Wall, when the liquidation of the planned economy in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union was, for them, not a great negative historical turning point...
22 June 2011
PFI man: Predictably many Tory backbenchers regard the prime minister's cosmetic changes to the government's health and social care bill as a capitulation...
19 February 2011
Part one A history of women’s oppression
1 Have women always been oppressed?
"Men have broad shoulders and narrow hips, and accordingly they possess intelligence. Women have narrow shoulders and broad hips. Women ought to stay at home; the way they were created indicates this,...
Water-colour portrait of Charles Darwin painted by George Richmond in the late 1830s, photo George Richmond
9 December 2009
150 years since the publication of On the Origin of Species: Charles Darwin's theory of 'natural selection' changed the way that we look at ourselves. It contradicted the idea of an outside 'intelligent designer', so it met a reaction from the religious establishment.
In this feature, ROY FARRAR marks this year's bicentenary of Darwin's birth and the 150th anniversary of the publication of his book On the Origin of Species by summarising some of Darwin's ideas and their significance.
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