Imagine a world where women were property, traded like livestock, silenced by veils and worked to death by the age of 30. Mary Merkenich looks at the context in which the 1917 Bolshevik revolution launched history鈥檚 most radical experiment for women鈥檚 emancipation.聽
voting rights
A recent legal appeal has further undermined the voting rights of people of colour in the United States and shows why a new civil rights movement is necessary, writes Malik Miah.
The word 鈥渟ocialist鈥 first appeared in print in Italy in 1803. In the early 19th century there appeared to be two alternative roads to socialism: violent revolution or establishing cooperative communities separate from the state and capitalist social relations.
Towards the latter part of the century, a third possibility opened up: the working class could take control of the state through the ballot-box and reconstruct it on a socialist basis.