What’s left of the bourgeois family? On family abolition
The call to abolish the family is back, sparking fierce debate.
The Tories’ pro-natalism agenda
Colin Wilson unpacks the right-wing agendas behind the new Tory childcare policy.
Review | Sorry We Missed You
Colin Revolting reviews director Ken Loach’s latest film, which centres on the family of two workers in the gig economy
Resistance not resilience: ruling class and radical approaches to mental health
While employers want healthy workers, they are not prepared to look at the deeper causes of mental distress.
Care, consent and coercion under capitalism
Alan Sears, a socialist activist based in Toronto, spoke to Hazel Croft about sexuality, sexual coercion and consent, and the possibilities for sexual liberation today.
Always anti-fascist, always anti-sexist
Kate Bradley considers the misogyny at the heart of fascism, and asks how we can better challenge it.
Get The State Out Of My Bedroom
Are civil partnerships a new freedom, or do they simply show us how far there still is to go for real liberation?
David Widgery: “Why do Lovers Break Each Other’s Hearts”
For Valentine’s Day we are reposting an article about love and sex under capitalism, by the activist and journalist David Widgery (1947-1992). Written in 1972, this piece was first published by Oxford Left Review in the October 2013 issue. Sexual love is the movement that breaks the rules; an uprising of the senses that abolishes propriety. Time alters. […]