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Internal colonialism

An overview of the internal colonialism theory.

Coloniality and Time

There’s only 24 hours in a day under capitalism. But was it always that way?

What socialist feminists owe each other

A speech from FOTO 2026 on feminist strategy and building a socialist feminism

A Communist anticipates … Health Communism

In 1921, Alexandra Kollontai wrote a short story imagining Health Communism. Here’s what we can learn from it.

The far right’s embrace of neurodivergence

A short article on the seemingly unlikely links between neurodivergence and fascism.

a collage of different photos associated with the democratic socialists of america. photos of AOC, Mamdani, and different protest banners with people protesting lay on top of each otehr on a red background.

Should the British left build its own DSA? Two views from rs21

The British left has little to lose, but where should it go?

The evolution of democratic centralism in the SWP

We must never again allow organisational structures to remain unchanged, unchallenged and unreviewed, as the world around us changes

people playing football on sandy ground, with car tires as goal posts. a young man ist jumping towards the ball.

Solidarity through football

What’s next for football after the FIFA farce?

Sí, ya puede hablar: The UFW and abuse

Earlier this year, United Farm Workers founder César Chávez was accused of sexual abuse. But this problem goes beyond one man.

A crowd of mostly white people, all dressed in different ways. In the middle, just off to the right, there is a sign which has three options as a check boxes. It has Boy, Girl and then the third option which has been checked with a cross, which says 'Fuck You'. In the foreground stands a person with blue hot shorts and bleached hair made to stand up with product.

Maleness, femaleness, heterosexuality – sold to us by capitalism

Colin Wilson explains how capitalism makes big money selling ‘natural’ ways of life.

Infantino and Trump holding a football and smiling

Whose World Cup?

The tournament’s rot is capitalism’s, but the game belongs to us

A photo of a street in Jaywick. The houses look cheap and broken, the streets need to be fixed.

Farage in Clacton – Socialists need to build resistance everywhere

An in depth look at Clacton’s history and fighting back against Farage and the far right

Protestors confront an ICE officer who is getting out of a car. They carry ICE OUT signs.

The state of the resistance in Trump’s America 

The resistance has emerged from the streets, not the Democrats 

Abandoned: how Labour’s century of power came crashing down in Wales

The story behind Labour’s historic collapse in Wales

Unite’s General Secretary election

Who to vote for and what to do after the election

An edited image of a protestor at the UK embassy in Lisbon. They hold a sign saying 'Free the Filton24'. It has been edited to look red with black shadows.

Banned but not beaten: Palestine Action and the state’s total lawfare

DK Renton covers the Court of Appeals upholding of the Palestine Action ban, the past struggles, and the next steps.

a negative of a bunch of palantir keychains

Palantir in the NHS: How to fight the surveillance state at work

Workers can defeat Palantir by refusing to use the platform, building alliances with patients, and coordinating multi-union strike action

A violet coloured image collage of a photo of Sylvia Townshend Warner and a painting depicting the burning of King Louis Philippe's throne in 1848. Sylvia is a white woman has short dark brown hair and wears glasses. She wears a short sleeved shirt and in the original image wears trousers. Below her is the painting, and it almost looks as if she is looking down on the symbol of the monarchy being burned by revolutionaries.

Lavender Solstice: Revolution in Summer Will Show

Benjamin Hargeaves looks to the novel Summer Will Show for its lessons on revolution

Party, class and the event: Interview with Phil A. Neel

Communist organisation emerges from our historical conditions, not mythologised blueprints from the past.

Edit version of a photo of the Capel Celyn Calvinistic Methodist chapel and the Plaid Cymru 'Keep Tryweryn' Rally at Bala. A large group of people sit and stand in a tent. The standing people hold Welsh flags. It gets darker towards the back. There is a green filter over the entire photo.

Interview | Plaid Cymru’s contradictions

An interview with Welsh socialist Mike Jenkins.

One hundred years since the General Strike

The 1926 General Strike began one hundred years ago today.

Review | Tracey Emin: A Second Life

Sophie Lunts reviews Tracey Emin’s retrospective at the Tate Modern, covering the contemporary artist’s trailblazing work and its limits.

The image is taken by an audience member of the Your Party Sctoland founding conference in Dundee. Audience memebrs are sitting on chairs in severeal rows, looking at the panel in front. Your Party merch banners fill the stage.

After the resignations: How Your Party lost Scotland

Many members have been ejected due to dual membership, and others have left in anger and dismay

A collage in black and white illustrating and symbolsing the war against Iran. Trump is in the front, his gaze to the side, looking on the strait for hormuz, which is filled with war ships and a big iranian flag.

Iran, the ‘ceasefire’, and the crisis of American hegemony

Force alone does not make an empire

Palestine protestors with flags face a police line in front of them.

Guilty of organising: the crackdown on mass protest in Britain

The convictions of Nineham and Jamal are proof the state wants this movement to end – which is exactly why we can’t stop now.

A photo from a Die Linke party congress. One party member smiles and holds a sign saying "For everyone. Die Linke" in German.

The charms and pitfalls of extreme pluralism – Lessons from Die Linke

Die Linke’s party congresses pass resolutions that half the organisation simply ignores.

green pharmaceutical heroin bottle by Bayer.

Push that green: Labour’s by-election fearmongering

Against government efforts to demonise drug users, we need an approach built around universal compassion and decriminalisation.

American Flag

Not a rupture, but the next step: fascism is here

With the intensification of ultranationalism, racism, and authoritarian state practice, has a novel form of fascism has emerged?

Minneapolis: Resistance surges amid crackdown

Joe Allen examines the violence in Minneapolis and the burgeoning to resistance to it

Destination Defence

Destination Defence is a new government attempt to intensify the militarisation of British society.