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Disabled people protesting outside Norfolk County Hall

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.

NHS workers on strike in London. Placard with an acrostic poem reads: 'Needed Undervalued Resigning Short-staffed Exhausted Still saving lives!'

How do we democratise and invigorate our unions?

“Every worker should feel empowered with the tools and confidence to organise.”

Post-apocalypse London: Houses of Parliament in ruins, Thames run dry

‘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.

Close up of the F-35 stealth fighter on a runway

Defund the death jets

The case for defunding the F-35 stealth fighter

Drone against sunset sky

The United States U-turns on Ukraine

The long term issues that underlie the shift in US policy on Ukraine

Workmen installing large array of solar panels on the flat roof of a building in Shanghai in 2019

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

Graffiti - word "No!" with letter O resembling Hitler's face

German election: far right surges, chances for the radical left

A big step forward for the AfD, a surprise success for Die Linke

A tent city protest in Minnesota

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

Lebanon: imperialist penetration and anti-imperialist contradictions | Part 3

What are the prospects for a nascent left in Lebanon, and how do we strengthen anti-imperialist resistance from Britain?

the cover of Crude Capitalism

Review | Crude Capitalism

What has oil got to do with the history of the global capitalist economy? A review of Adam Hanieh’s book on the topic.

Gaza ceasefire: a new phase in the struggle for Palestinian liberation

This is not something we move on from as a point in time, but an ongoing fight for liberation that cuts to the heart of the capitalist and imperialist world system.

Review | Forest of Noise

A review of a new collection of poetry by Palestinian poet and writer Mosab Abu Toha.

What trade unionism? A transport strike case study

A case study of a dispute which illustrates the impact of different models of trade unionism and some of the challenges facing workplace activists.