ICE: Very American violence
The fatal killing of Renee Nicole Good by an ICE agent forces a reckoning with state violence
Colonial roots of Manchester’s homelessness
What are the root causes of homelessness for many people in Manchester
Interview | Black Lives Matter UK
BLM UK’s approach to electoral politics, anti-racist and anti-racist organising and the struggle for a free Palestine
Attacks on migrants are an attack on us all
New immigration proposals and attacks on migrants are an attack on all the working class
Review | Emergency Exits exhibition
The Imperial War Museum’s ‘Emergency Exits’ explores Britain’s violent retreat from empire and the brutality of colonial rule
Solidarity with the hunger strikes
Political prisoners on hunger strike are challenging the counter-terror laws and the criminalisation of Palestinian solidarity inside Britain’s prisons
Review | Backstage of the care economy
This new book provides an in depth of the working of the global care economy
The precarious migrant worker
This new book digs deep into how migrant workers see their place in work and society
Labour’s hollow response to antisemitic violence
The government’s response to the antisemitic attack in Crumpsall reveals a cynical conflation of Jewish identity with Zionism
We fight for the oppressed
Why the fight against oppression is at the heart of revolutionary politics
Race against time: how do we challenge the new far right?
Report on Saturday’s huge far right march in London, its roots and how the left can challenge and defeat them
Responding to the racist moral panic
The nature of the threats from racism and fascism has changed in the last few years. Strategies to oppose them need to change too
End of the rainbow: sex, empire, and the new right
Liberal narratives that once instrumentalised LGBTQ+ rights have given way to a resurgent right-wing politics.
Hammer and heart: four theses on abolitionist communism
The connections between abolition, communism and organising for liberation
Authoritarianism with a dash of identity politics: the crime and policing bill
If passed the Crime and Policing Bill will limit human rights and the right to privacy from the state
From Ballymena to Coolock – anti-immigrant protests in Ireland
Racism has always been part of unionism – now racist protests are gaining a foothold in the South.
Labour and immigration
Keir Starmer’s Labour seems inspired by Enoch Powell’s Rivers of Blood speech
The battle of Los Angeles: the first weekend
American socialists report from the streets of California.
Chicago teachers – winning against the US right
Chicago teachers have won a new contract which improves pay and conditions but also defends school communities including migrants and LGBTQ+ people.
Review | Enemy Feminisms
Sophie Lewis’ new book is a mini-encyclopaedia of TERFs, policewomen and girlbosses.
Struggle and Strategy in the Platform Economy
As workers in the platform economy fight back how can sporadic, dispersed strikes be turned into a sustainable movement?
Minority Rule, Race and Class
What would a working class politics look like that takes account of racism?
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.
Pacific Palisades – after the fire
After the LA fires – reflecting on the history of the Pacific Palisades
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.
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.
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