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Billy Anania

Billy Anania is an art critic, editor, and journalist in New York City.

The Council Tax Debt Crisis

An estimated 3.5 million people in the UK are in council tax arrears – more than half of them as a result of the pandemic. It’s the latest Covid economic fallout that threatens to widen inequality.

Manchester’s Fight for the City

The Court of Appeal has blocked a plan by Manchester City Council to build a 440-space car park on a site local activists are campaigning to turn into a green space – it could mark a turning point in the struggle for a city that works for all.

Recovery Bonds Are Not the Answer

Labour’s recovery bonds are a retail offer masquerading as something radical – their real beneficiaries will be those with significant savings at a time when many can’t keep their heads above water.

The Holocaust on Film

A film adaptation of Jerzy Kosiński’s Holocaust book, ‘The Painted Bird,’ is a bracing but humane treatment of what ‘modern’ Europe descended into in the 1940s – and a reminder of what could happen again.

In Defence of Adam Curtis

The new series by Adam Curtis has elicited eye-rolling among many on the left – but despite its critics, ‘Can’t Get You Out of My Head’ is the BBC filmmaker’s most radical work in years.

The 2017 Memory Hole

Centrist commentators damn the Left based on 2019’s election defeat, but the result under Corbyn in 2017 was Labour’s best in recent memory – and provides a far more replicable model today than the Tony Blair era.

Red Rover: Remembering Allan Roberts MP

To mark LGBT History Month, we remember Allan Roberts – a pioneering gay Labour MP who shrugged off media slander about his personal life to become one of the most effective socialist politicians of his generation.

Israel’s Vaccine Apartheid

While Israel rolls out Covid vaccines at world-beating speed, Palestinians are forced to wait. This is not an aberration – but the reality of parallel worlds enforced by a decades-long occupation.

The Unbearable Lightness of Keir

Keir Starmer’s decision to abandon the transformative economic policies of the Corbyn era is not just disappointing for the Left – it leaves Labour completely unprepared for the social crises we face.

The Radical Politics of Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde is known today for his satirical wit, but he maintained a lifelong interest in political affairs – one which would lead him to Irish nationalism, women’s suffrage and the fight against capitalism.

The Left’s Book Clubs

At first, independent publishers were hit hard by the pandemic – but as spaces for education, catharsis and community, book clubs then became one of lockdown’s few success stories.