Ahead of her talk at TWT, Zarah Sultana argues that we must ensure that initiatives like Your Party are inclusive projects to which the whole Left can contribute — and use them to take the socialist struggle onto the streets.
A new book tells the story of a 1970s experiment in England that granted tenants control of council housing, transferring power from a distant state to a grassroots cooperative. Could this successful model be revived today?
Labour’s plan to criminalise recurring protests strikes at the heart of democratic life, transforming political freedom into a privilege granted by the state.
Subject to emotionally demanding roles and low pay, charity workers are collectively organising for better working conditions — the Left must engage with the struggle, and use the sector as a foundation to build a society in which everyone is cared for.
Following a crucial conference motion, Labour has finally recognised that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza — but the struggle to drag a reluctant party establishment toward justice continues.
This year’s Labour conference was a showcase for Keir Starmer’s increasingly hapless leadership of the country — but it also underlined that if there is any future at all for the party, it must lie with a resurgent Left.
This year’s Labour conference was a showcase for Keir Starmer’s increasingly hapless leadership of the country — but it also underlined that if there is any future at all for the party, it must lie with a resurgent Left.
Late 2020s British culture is dominated by an oppressive mix of boredom and quiet violence. Meanwhile, working-class forms of expression are aggressively marginalised by a decaying bourgeoisie.
After scarcely a year in post, Keir Starmer seems to have fast-forwarded to the farcical end-stage of his premiership. Will the introduction of ID cards spark a mass mobilisation of Left and Right that finishes him off?
I wrote something for @tribunemagazine on the asbestos disaster and the best place to start a coordinated removal programme: schools #asbestos#education
Asbestos exposure remains the leading cause of occupational deaths in Britain today. Why did successive neoliberal governments fail to address the problem — and how can we challenge their toxic legacy?
A 2019 Department for Education survey found that 81 percent of schools still have asbestos ‘present on their estate’. Read Tom White on the neoliberal poison.
Asbestos exposure remains the leading cause of occupational deaths in Britain today. Why did successive neoliberal governments fail to address the problem — and how can we challenge their toxic legacy?
Ireland generally considers itself immune to the far-right populism taking hold across Europe. Yet this myth has been squashed. Read Ethan Rooney on the rise of the Right.
Patriotism in Ireland has long been tied to progressive ideals, but increasingly, the Right is exploiting nationalist rhetoric to expand its movement and incite violence.
The path forward begins in the workplace. We must advocate for a society built around collective strength, industrial cooperation, and democratic control. Read Eddie Dempsey on unions.
Neoliberalism and postmodernism have torn apart the social fabric that once held us together. But in rebuilding the strength of labour and the organised society, we can be unified, empowered, and dignified once again.
It is not enough to condemn deprivation without also defending those it has forced into acts of desperation. Read @SeanCMBell on the rise of shoplifting.
The rise of shoplifting is a consequence of the cost-of-living crisis, not a breakdown in the social order — the Left must think about how to represent those who are forced to engage with it.
Capitalism is a mucky business. In the 1960s, as in the 2020s, the gleaming technological visions of its promoters consciously hide the dirty, backbreaking and dangerous labour that sustains it. Read Michael Muir on unions.
Sixty years ago this coming spring, the National Union of Seamen began ‘one of the longest and most bitter disputes in post-war British history’. Does this narrative of squabbling, corruption, and a terminally insecure Labour prime minister still resonate today?
For those on the Right, free speech means the freedom to spread misinformation, fear, and hatred without being held to account. Read @adelewalton.bsky.social on the UK Online Safety Act.
The Starmer government is once again seeking to push through welfare cuts that will disproportionately harm society’s most vulnerable — a shameful contravention of the Labour Party’s moral mission that cannot be tolerated.
Behind rent sits a violent process of extraction, depriving most of agency and many of a place to call home. Read Lily Gordon Brown on abolishing rent.
