First published during the Covid-19 pandemic, Dean Spade’s pocket-sized book on mutual aid, detailing its opportunities and pitfalls, is only likely to become more necessary. This reality can feel ...

For member of 15-strong group Hamsaz Ensemble Freesia, folk music can build connection and understanding across difference ...

Every time ‘ceasefire efforts’ or ‘truce negotiations’ are announced, the same scene returns to the minds of Gaza’s residents: breaking news alerts; tense scrolling through social media, and ...

In May this year the London Drugs Commission (LDC) published its report into the use, impact and policing of cannabis. It recommended decriminalising possession of small quantities of the drug for ...

The Soviet Union, in the 74 years of its existence in one form or another, was a society that was all about building. The Soviets claimed in the 1970s to have ‘built’ socialism, and while they never ...

The left in the UK has a fatal attraction to shortcuts. In 1906 the left-wing Independent Labour Party (ILP) joined the Labour Representation Committee, the trade union dominated committee that ...

‘The future of left politics must start from a recognition that our current political representatives, at all levels, are not representing communities,’ says Andrew Feinstein, who stood as an ...

Journalism has a diversity problem. That’s not a new revelation. According to a 2023 survey by the Canadian Association of Journalists, 76 per cent of the country’s newsrooms have no visible minority ...

In 2025 I have resolved to escape the clutches of my smartphone, which has turned out to be no small task – it encroaches on every aspect of my day-to-day life, from communication and banking to two ...

There have been a number of works examining the rise, decline and fall of the Soviet system but few from the angle of serious post-Soviet Marxism, at least when it comes to works translated into ...

In Britain, we face the twin dangers of Labour authoritarianism and the ascendant energies of the Faragist far right. Each is animated by a national and racial hostility, roused by revanchism and ...

The ex-Labour, now independent, councillor for Kew ward, Sefton, became known as the voice of Southport during the summer 2024 far-right riots. Southport Community Independents, who plan to launch as ...