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Exit Orbàn

Toby Abse raises two cheers for the fall of Hungary’s autocrat VICTOR Orbàn’s defeat in the Hungarian general election in mid-April was an event of international, not just purely Hungarian, significance. Orbàn had started his political career as an anti-Communist Liberal, favouring conventional neo-liberal economic policies, and his first stint as prime minister in 1998-2000Continue reading “Exit Orbàn”

The Socialist Suffragette

Rachel Holmes celebrates the life of Sylvia Pankhurst IN 1896, when she was thirteen, Sylvia Pankhurst was taken by her father to the Mosley Hotel in her home town of Manchester to meet Eleanor Marx, the foremother of socialist-feminism and Karl’s youngest daughter, at an event held in honour of William Liebknecht, leader of theContinue reading “The Socialist Suffragette”