Minority Rule, Race and Class
What would a working class politics look like that takes account of racism?
Video | Understanding state capitalism
A discussion on how state capitalism theory helps us understand the contemporary world
Autonomist Marxism, disability and precarious work
How does capitalism shape disablement? And how can disabled people most effectively resist their oppression?
Valuing care work: a conversation with Alyssa Battistoni
Why is it women who end up doing so much care work – either on low pay or unwaged? We talked to author Alyssa Battistoni.
Review | Mother State: A Political History of Motherhood
How does the state shape who gets to mother, who suffers, and who survives?
Review | Mickey 17
Boon Jong-Ho’s new film Mickey 17 uses science fiction to shine a light on our world
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.