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This month 100 years ago, in February 1920, Ernst Toller and Ernst Niekisch became cell neighbours in the Bavarian prison fortress of Niederschönfeld. Both had occupied leading posts in the government of the ill-fated Bavarian Soviet Republic. Here we present a translation of Niekisch's account of his imprisonment with Ernst Toller in Niederschönfeld prison, providing a valuable insight into the aftermath of the Soviet.

History tells us is that progress for working people has only ever been achieved by the collective self-empowerment of organised labour.

Achin Vanaik on Hindu nationalism in India, the BJP's anti-Muslim Citizenship Amendment Act, the lockdown in Kashmir, and India's economic slowdown, with Alex Doherty on the Politics Theory Other podcast. 

The government’s bifurcated approach to racial equality is deepening fissures in our movements with anti-racism emerging as a key site of struggle, argues Liz Fekete.

Labour Party deputy leadership candidate Richard Burgon recently called on the party to draft a new version of Clause IV, once more opening up the debate on Labour’s quintessential statement of socialist intent. In this article, Tom Blackburn looks at the history of Clause IV, and the need for a new version for the 21st century.

How did security become the rallying cry for the US government to restrict immigration in the post-war period?

All Jacobin books are 40% off to celebrate the release of All American Nativism by Dan Denvir.

Keir Starmer has made his pitch for the Labour leadership on a promise to retain the party's left-wing policies, whilst also being pragmatic and electable. Yet, as Oliver Eagleton writes, a look at his chequered career to date puts his left credentials in severe doubt.

After enduring 7 long months on strike, a group of undocumented migrant postal workers in France have claimed victory against backbreaking and dangerous working conditions they experienced at Chronopost, a subsidiary of the French postal service. In this article, Luke Butterly reports on the struggle and the latest in the wave of migrant fights in France.

On 12 January 2010, the philosopher Daniel Bensaïd, a leading figure of May ‘68, of the Ligue Communiste Révolutionnaire and the Nouveau Parti Anticapitaliste, died at the age of 63. Here, Alain Badiou pays tribute to his life and work, during a seminar devoted to Plato.

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Maya Goodfellow on the the historical roots of the hostile environment policy, the punitive, cruel and deliberately confusing character of Britain's immigration system, and how New Labour's policies on migration and asylum laid some of the basis for the Conservative's migration policies, with Alex Doherty on the Politics Theory Other podcast.