University crisis – Dundee UCU fights back
How the UCU strike in the face of the threat of massive job losses at Dundee University has shifted the agenda
The Green Paper: a final rollout of the workfare state
A detailed analysis of the green paper which is all about workfare not welfare.
Review | Lifehouse
A critical review of Adam Greenfield’s Lifehouse argues that we have to keep fighting for system change in the face of the climate crisis
Review | Monstrous Anger of the Guns
A new work unpacks the global arms industry and how to fight it.
Labour – war hawks
Trumpeting the military is a distraction from Labour’s policies to deepen oppression and exploitation.
10 ways you can fight the disability benefits cuts
Ten ideas for ways to oppose Labour’s cuts to disabled people’s benefits
Why we need a maximum rent
The government says they need to cut spending – so let’s stop this £35 billion handout to landlords.
How do we democratise and invigorate our unions?
“Every worker should feel empowered with the tools and confidence to organise.”
‘There is no escape for European capitalism’
Trotsky argued in 1924 that “the USA that rules the capitalist world”. Trump wants it to stay that way, even if it means ditching Europe.
The United States U-turns on Ukraine
The long term issues that underlie the shift in US policy on Ukraine
Video | China and the US in the 21st century
The rapid growth of the Chinese economy over the last quarter of a century and the growing tensions with the US
German election: far right surges, chances for the radical left
A big step forward for the AfD, a surprise success for Die Linke
Why is homelessness spending not working?
Billions are wasted on landlord profits so what can be done different?
Pacific Palisades – after the fire
After the LA fires – reflecting on the history of the Pacific Palisades
London housing crisis – Peckham fights back
Peckham protesters are standing up to one of London’s biggest housing developers
Higher education in crisis – what now for UCU?
As massive cuts and redundancies are threatened across the university sector – how can we build the fightback?
Review | Hard Graft
Kika Hendry reviews the Wellcome Collection’s exhibition Hard Graft, which explores the relationship between work and health tracing through histories of exploitation, oppression and resistance.
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.
Review | Disaster Nationalism
Richard Seymour’s recent book Disaster Nationalism can help us understand what’s happening as Trump’s second term accelerates the growth of the far right internationally.
Homelessness – out of sight, out of mind?
A report of the eviction of the residents of the tent camp in St Peter’s square in Manchester.
Marxism in struggle and what that means
An exploration of the depth and breadth of Marxism – not just as a theory, but as a living tradition.
Video | How can we build a mass socialist politics of ‘freedom dreams’
In response to the threat of Farage’s Reform Party the left needs to build laboratories of hope.
The cultural problem of ‘treatlerism’
Treatlerism describes a reactionary entitlement rooted in exploitation. But what if we reclaimed entitlement?
We will not be silenced
Joint statement with movement organisations on the events of 18 January on the PSC national demonstration for Palestine.
The right to be an addict
Addiction isn’t the problem—criminalisation is. To end the crisis, we must abolish prisons, policing, and the system that fuels suffering.
The reactionary evil of Trump’s oligarch courtiers
Resisting the ambitions of Elon Musk and Peter Thiel requires more than critique—it demands direct confrontation
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
Video | Capitalism and development in China and North Korea
A discussion of the development of China and North Korea through the lens of state capitalist theory