Review | A Philosophical History of Police Power
Niklas Rosen reviews Melayna Kay Lamb’s book on police power.
Minneapolis: Resistance surges amid crackdown
Joe Allen examines the violence in Minneapolis and the burgeoning to resistance to it
ICE: Very American violence
The fatal killing of Renee Nicole Good by an ICE agent forces a reckoning with state violence
Fighting the far right: against the ideology of nationhood
A critical examination of how the concept of ‘the nation’ helps to advance reactionary agendas
Colonial roots of Manchester’s homelessness
What are the root causes of homelessness for many people in Manchester
Interview | Black Lives Matter UK
BLM UK’s approach to electoral politics, anti-racist and anti-racist organising and the struggle for a free Palestine
Attacks on migrants are an attack on us all
New immigration proposals and attacks on migrants are an attack on all the working class
Review | Backstage of the care economy
This new book provides an in depth of the working of the global care economy
The precarious migrant worker
This new book digs deep into how migrant workers see their place in work and society
Labour’s hollow response to antisemitic violence
The government’s response to the antisemitic attack in Crumpsall reveals a cynical conflation of Jewish identity with Zionism
Race against time: how do we challenge the new far right?
Report on Saturday’s huge far right march in London, its roots and how the left can challenge and defeat them
Why anti-border politics is class struggle
Opposition to borders is central to class struggle and anti-capitalist politics
‘We Are All Foreign Scum’
Internationalism and anti-imperialism link 1960s protests against the Vietnam War and those in solidarity with Palestine today.
Authoritarianism with a dash of identity politics: the crime and policing bill
If passed the Crime and Policing Bill will limit human rights and the right to privacy from the state
From Ballymena to Coolock – anti-immigrant protests in Ireland
Racism has always been part of unionism – now racist protests are gaining a foothold in the South.
Review | Lifeline to Freedom
Leftist Czech refugees to Britain in the 1930s had to cope with hostility from the British government, but also the zigzags of the Communist line laid down in Moscow.
Labour and immigration
Keir Starmer’s Labour seems inspired by Enoch Powell’s Rivers of Blood speech
The battle of Los Angeles: the first weekend
American socialists report from the streets of California.
Chicago teachers – winning against the US right
Chicago teachers have won a new contract which improves pay and conditions but also defends school communities including migrants and LGBTQ+ people.
Labour’s immigration White Paper: a brief explainer
Here is what the Immigration White Paper means policy-wise
Class and oppression
Some on the left say we should prioritise class struggles over issues of oppression. But fighting oppression is at the heart of socialism.
Minority Rule, Race and Class
What would a working class politics look like that takes account of racism?
Liberation delayed: the trap of ‘war on woke’
How can we generate our own meanings and oppose right-wing moral panics about identity politics?
Left wing pitfalls: against neoliberal identity politics and class reductionism
Coalitions of the oppressed show the power of solidarity, but ruling classes use race and nationalism to divide workers. Shanice McBean explores how the left can overcome these divisions.
Migrant farm workers fight for justice in Britain
A report on a migrant farm worker’s protest and the campaign for rights for workers on seasonal visas
Building Fortress Britain: Labour’s policies on immigration
Labour intensifies deportations, workplace raids and migrant exploitation.
