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Solidarity 777, 4 November 2026. Articles: Win back the wealth Socialism and mental health Budget: "baby steps" leading to a fall? French students seek to coordinate General strike and housing struggle in Spain French movement has reshaped politics Jackdaw is bad enough. Stop Rosebank! New threats to bomb Iran All about the EU? “Zionism is Racism” shows need for delegate democracy Putin presses on...

Audio recording from “Woman and Socialism” by August Bebel, published 1879: chapters 27 section 1 and section 4 and chapter 28. The translation, in 1910 by Meta Lilienthal Stern, as was usual in those days, uses "man" to mean both "human being" (German: Mensch) and "adult male" (German: Mann) — and likewise "he" for both. It is fairly clear each time the word is used which meaning is intended. Rea...

Solidarity 776, 21 October 2026. Includes WL81. Articles: Profits first, or lives? EU: bring down the barriers! Young people want a future Water cannon and arrests in Liège Not what the doctor ordered French activists move to coordinate Spain general strike set for 11 November Coming cleaner on Israel/Palestine US, Iran, Yemen: stop the wars! Far right parade in Sheffield TV documentary reveals un...

Audiobook of a “Circular Letter to August Bebel, Wilhelm Liebknecht, Wilhelm Bracke and Others”, written by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels in September 1879. Read it online: https://bit.ly/c-lett-2 Notes and talking points: https://workersliberty.org/story/2026-10-10/our-reference-points-class-struggle-and-circular-letter-1879 (extracted and adapted for the introductory note in the audio). We’re t...

Women's Fightback 38, Autumn 2026. Power concedes nothing without a demand. Women’s Fightback regularly makes demands for the changes we want to see in the world - but how do we go beyond reacting to the issues of today, and towards bringing about the sort of radical change we need to usher in socialism and bring about an end to misogyny? This issue of Women’s Fightback focuses on those demands, b...

Solidarity 775, 7 October 2026. Articles: Make Labour tax the rich! Belgium: reigniting cuts fight France: defying the police Progress at last on heart attacks Peru teachers to strike from 29 October Karl Marx on death penalty Far right steps up anti-Palestinian drive The Morning Star and... the Lib-Dems Many-fronts battle on Code of Practice Street-fighting far right is a threat Labour in Holborn...

Audiobook of The “Critique of the Gotha Programme” written by Karl Marx as private communication to the SDAP leadership in 1875, later published in “Die Neue Zeit” newspaper in 1891. Here with Engels’ forward plus two other letters, by Marx and Engels respectively. Read it online: https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1875/gotha/ Notes: https://workersliberty.org/story/2024-07-28/critique-go...

Solidarity 774, 23 September 2026. Articles: Far right danger on the streets Misfortune again for Germany? A skilful but shameful balancing act Putin targets Ukraine’s infrastructure Unions pledge to fight for trans rights. But now? Houthis advance, conflict spirals TUC: what sort of unity? The Civil War in France Far right surges in Germany Labour conference, Burnham, and the left Fidel Castro: A...

Audiobook of “The Civil War in France” by Karl Marx, on the Paris Commune and the lead up to it, delivered as speeches by Marx in 1870-71. Read it online https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1871/civil-war-france/ which also links to a timeline, glossary, and other references and background. Article on it: https://workersliberty.org/story/2026-09-21/civil-war-france Study notes: https://wor...

Solidarity 773, 26 August 2026. Articles: Reform is on the back foot but not beaten Trump lashes out: oppose sanctions on Iran Left unites against far-right attack on socialist stall Resisting Reform in Wakefield Andy Burnham and council housing Israeli right plans to bisect West Bank Eulogising Castro… and re-writing Cuban history Crackdown sharpens in Russia Support Ukraine; oppose targeting civ...

Ninth part of the audiobook of Capital Volume 1 by Karl Marx. This section: VIII: Primitive Accumulation. Read online https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/ Study notes at https://www.workersliberty.org/story/2021-09-03/marxs-capital-volume-1-12-week-course Contents/Timestamps: Part VIII: Primitive Accumulation 00:00 Chapter 26: The Secret of Primitive Accumulation 07:50 Chapter 27:...

Eighth part of the audiobook of Capital Volume 1 by Karl Marx. This section: Part VII: The Accumulation of Capital. Read online https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/ Contents/Timestamps (see below for tables): Part VII: The Accumulation of Capital 00:00 Intro to Part VII 03:18 Chapter 23: Simple Reproduction 27:37 Chapter 24: Conversion of Surplus-Value into Capital Section 1: Capit...

Seventh part of the audiobook of Capital Volume 1 by Karl Marx. This section: Part V: Production of Absolute and Relative Surplus-Value and Part VI: Wages. Read online https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/ Study notes at https://www.workersliberty.org/story/2021-09-03/marxs-capital-volume-1-12-week-course Contents/timestamps: Part V: Production of Absolute and Relative Surplus-Value...

Sixth part of the audiobook of Capital Volume 1 by Karl Marx. This section: Part IV: Production of Relative Surplus-Value — chapter 15 (i.e. the rest of part IV). Read online https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/ Figures mentioned can be found within the following sections: §5 https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/ch15.htm#S5 Summarised below, the UK-wide result of mec...

Fifth part of the audiobook of Capital Volume 1 by Karl Marx. This section: Part IV: Production of Relative Surplus-Value — chapters 12 to 14. Read online https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/ Study notes at https://www.workersliberty.org/story/2021-09-03/marxs-capital-volume-1-12-week-course Contents/timestamps: Part IV: Production of Relative Surplus-Value 00:00 Chapter 12: The Co...

Fourth part of the audiobook of Capital Volume 1 by Karl Marx. This section: the rest of Part III: The Production of Absolute Surplus-Value — chapters 8 to 11. Read online https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/ Study notes at https://www.workersliberty.org/story/2021-09-03/marxs-capital-volume-1-12-week-course Contents/timestamps: Part III: The Production of Absolute Surplus-Value 00...

Third part of the audiobook of Capital Volume 1 by Karl Marx. This section: chapter 6 from part II and chapter 7 from part III. Read online https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/ Article on it, particularly chapters six and seven as in this audio https://workersliberty.org/story/2026-08-18/capital-chapters-six-and-seven . If you are only going to listen to one Capital audio for now w...

Second part of the audiobook of Capital Volume 1 by Karl Marx. This section: chapters 4 and 5 from Part II. Read online https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/ Study notes at https://www.workersliberty.org/story/2021-09-03/marxs-capital-volume-1-12-week-course Article on it (particularly chapters six and seven, released as a later audio upload) https://workersliberty.org/story/2026-08...

First part of the audiobook of "Capital: a critical analysis of capitalist production, Volume 1 (The Process of Production of Capital)" by Karl Marx, published in 1867. This section: editor's and authors prefaces plus Part I: Commodities and Money (Chapters 1-3). Read online https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/ (not necessarily the same translation, and not all prefaces etc. includ...

Solidarity 772, 12 August 2026. Contents: Mass council-house building now Councils defy EHRC Code of Practice Labour conference 2026 Ebola, democracy, and mining profits Arriva North buses strike over heat Burnham challenged to lift PA ban Iran: stop the war. Arrogant Trump messes up Good riddance Steve Reed. Look to Finland "Lock them up" is reactionary demagogy Left must say more about how to un...

Audiobook of "Wages, Price, and Profit" (also known as "Value, Price and Profit") by Karl Marx, published 1865. Read it online https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/download/pdf/value-price-profit.pdf Article on it: https://workersliberty.org/story/2026-07-21/our-reference-points-wages-price-and-profit?language_content_entity=en Chapters and rough timestamps: 00:00 Preliminary 01:29 I. Produ...

Solidarity 771, 15 July 2026. Articles include most of the following: PCS "lock-out" ends. For now RMT: shaping renationalised rail? Debate on the Unite general secretary election: another view Third volume of Estonian epic What kind of communism is Trump afraid of? A new phase in Iran and the Middle East Burnham: squeeze him, not cajole! More than “tax the rich” Can Ukraine defeat Russia? Workers...

Women's Fightback 37, Summer 2026. For centuries medicine had viewed women’s bodies as inferior, unstable, weak and dangerous. This legacy still haunts us. As Women’s Fightback 37, a Health Special went to press, a damning three-year long review of the biggest childbirth scandal in NHS history concludes revealing brutal treatment of those receiving maternity care. Our editorial charts the history...

Audiobook of "The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte" by Karl Marx, published 1852. Read it online https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1852/18th-brumaire/ Article on it to be published in Solidarity 771: https://www.workersliberty.org/solidarity On December 2 1851, followers of President Louis Bonaparte (Napoleon's nephew) broke up the Legislative Assembly and established a dictatorshi...

Solidarity 770, 1 July 2026. Articles include most of the following: A new low in TSSA Trains dispute: a pause will benefit the bosses The International Socialists in the USA: an interview with Andrew Stone Higgins Hope for change from the top of Labour? No, push for change from the base Timeline of ISC/IS and forerunners The far right is still a huge danger Israel out of Lebanon! Back Iran's work...