Toby McKenzie-Barnes

Revolutionary Socialism in the 21st Century Photo by Marc Brenner. • May 26, 2026 Keith McKenna reviews a timely but uneven new production of Mother Courage and Her Children at Shakespeare’s Globe in London Brecht’s play Mother Courage and Her Children immediately takes us to the war machine. Two army recruiters spot Mother Courage’s supply wagon being pulled by her sons and decide to persuade them to become part of the army.

Revolutionary Socialism in the 21st Century • May 14, 2026 Thomas Necchi reviews David Renton’s Revolutionary Forgiveness and argues that forgiveness is about the survivor, and creating the conditions in which one can forgive needs to be part of socialist strategy For abolitionist movements today, the questions of if, when, and how to forgive seem unanswerable – a quagmire of repeated harms, betrayals and unaccountability.

• May 4, 2026 Sylvia M reviews the new edition of Harry Wicks’ pamphlet on the General Strike, and finds a timely reminder that the betrayals of working-class leadership are as familiar today as they were a century ago Amidst the many publications, events and discussions throughout the UK for the centenary of the 1926 General Strike, one pamphlet from Revolutionary History details a first-hand account by Harry Wicks.