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• The End of The Underground – Signing Off…

  Dear readers,ACA’s The Underground is closing down.After 1 year of the online format we’re calling it a day. Finding support and contributors for TU has not bee... Read more

  Posted on 28 December 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Ukraine pro-EU Protests | In Pictures

  

  Although the protests in the Ukraine are in support of joining the European Union they can actually be largely attributed to being in support of democracy with ... Read more

  Posted on 04 December 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The Universality of Marx

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  Posted on 01 December 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• 2010 Prison Population Totals

  List of countries with more than 100,000 prisoners as a percentage of their population (from Prison Studies) Rank Country Prisoners of Population 1 United... Read more

  Posted on 27 November 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• UK; Student Activists Condemn Police Spying on Protest Groups

  Socialist Students, one of the organisations at the heart of the 2010 student movement against tuition fees, has strongly condemned recent revelations about... Read more

  Posted on 15 November 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Significant Drop in Road Accidents Under Green Transport Policies

  

  From the Green Party of England WalesAccidents on Brighton Hove’s roads have fallen by a substantial 12.5% since the Greens took office, according to a majo... Read more

  Posted on 12 November 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Song That Never Ends

  By Gary EgelstonLast time government shutdown occurred happened in 1995, during the Clinton administration; healthcare, environmental reforms, and education wer... Read more

  Posted on 01 October 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Sixth Night of Rioting in Antakya, Turkey

  A look through Turkish newspaper Hurriyet today will find nothing of the ongoing rioting in Antakya and to a lesser extent Istanbul despite now going into the... Read more

  Posted on 16 September 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Republican Socialism

  By Barry MellowsIn Ireland the Free State and British Government have a special interest that is to protect Partition; to do so and to protect their interests... Read more

  Posted on 23 August 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Wilhelm Liebknecht

  

  Today is the 113th anniversary of the death of Wilhelm Liebknecht, founder of the SPD. Here is what the “Great Soviet Encyclopedia of 1979″ said about him:Born... Read more

  Posted on 07 August 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• How We Can Gain Support

  By Jim Hargreaves If we are to build a kautskyian mass party, we would obviously need members and the support of the proletariat. So, how do we obtain this? Read more

  Posted on 30 July 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• A Call to Account

  The drum of war thunders and thunders. It calls: thrust iron into the living. From every country slave after slave are thrown onto bayonet steel. For the sake o... Read more

  Posted on 22 July 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• UK Tories Cutting Social Security

  We pay into the tax system when we are working and when times are tough we have a small part of that tax held for when we need it, social security. Read more

  Posted on 15 July 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• US Justice; Racist

  

  By Leon J WilliamsTrayvon MartinIf you are white and you kill someone black the verdict will be… not guilty.George Zimmerman (white) has just been found not... Read more

  Posted on 14 July 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• A Republican Socialist Critique of Capitalism

  I am not an academic and I am not a writer and don’t claim to be. I am a political activist in prison. Through three years of absence from political activity I... Read more

  Posted on 13 July 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Online Privacy Tips

  

  By Leon J WilliamsIf you’re concerned about your privacy while online we have some tips for you!There are 3 main issues that must be covered, your operating... Read more

  Posted on 11 July 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The Orange Order

  By Barry MellowsOppose the Orange Order because you are not Sectarian.The Orange Order’s foundations were laid in the “Peep O’ Day Boys” . Read more

  Posted on 08 July 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Neo-liberalism Breeds State Monopoly Capitalism?

  

  By James O. GibsonThe spirit of enterprise was a key message in Margaret Thatcher’s campaigning; the late British PM championed entrepreneurship as the way to... Read more

  Posted on 07 July 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Why All Christians Should Be Communist

  

  By Joseph Cox​It is my view that for Christians, the majority of the people in the western world, to be truly Christian, meaning to adhere fully to Jesus’... Read more

  Posted on 06 July 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The 100th Anniversary of the Dublin Lock Outs

  By Barry MellowsThis year marks the 100th anniversary of the Dublin lockouts. A lot has changed in the Irish labour movements since the time of Larkin and... Read more

  Posted on 06 July 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY