The Warmonger Internationalists
The moves to realign Labour’s foreign policy after Corbyn reveal exactly what the political centre means by ‘internationalism’ – liberal values advanced at the point of a cruise missile.
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Ellie Whittaker
Ellie Woolstencroft is an activist with Labour for a Green New Deal.
Remembering Nawal El Saadawi
Pioneering Egyptian feminist Nawal El Saadawi passed away this month. Her work challenged Western assumptions about Arab women – and emphasised the vital link between socialism and women’s liberation.
The Long Struggle Over the Suez
Since its construction just over 150 years ago, the Suez Canal has been at the heart of the global capitalist system – and has played a key role in the Arab world’s struggle against its old colonial masters.
Yes, Business Is the Enemy in the Fight Against Climate Change
Yesterday, Labour shadow minister Alex Sobel apologised to Keir Starmer for branding corporations ‘the enemy’ when it comes to climate change – but he was right: capitalism is destroying the planet.
30. A Marine History of Capitalism: An Interview with Laleh Khalili
In this week’s episode, recorded before the Ever Given incident, Grace speaks to academic and writer Laleh Khalili about the role of global shipping role in networks of state power, corporate sovereignty, and imperialism.
In Defence of the Picket Line
The Shrewsbury 24 case lifts the lid on one of the ways the British state has disempowered the working class since the 1970s – a war on the most effective tool available to trade unions: the picket line.
A Country Fit for Carers
After the First World War, David Lloyd George promised ‘a fit country for heroes.’ The carers at the frontline of Covid-19 deserve the same commitment – because when Britain looks after our health system, we all benefit.
How the Police Bill Threatens Britain’s Gypsy and Traveller Communities
The Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill has been condemned for its implications for peaceful protest – but it also threatens to effectively criminalise one of the country’s most discriminated-against groups.
How the London Riots Set the Stage for Boris Johnson’s Authoritarianism
A decade ago, mayor Boris Johnson responded to the London Riots by encouraging police authoritarianism and criminalising the city’s youth en masse – as prime minister, he is following a familiar pattern.
Taking Back West Yorkshire’s Buses
Buoyed by a string of recent victories across the country, campaigners in West Yorkshire are calling for an end to their rip-off privatised bus service – and fighting for a public bus system that works for everyone.
How Priti Patel Became Queen of the Authoritarian Right
Questions of police brutality have put the Home Secretary’s politics under increased scrutiny in the last month – but her record shows a much longer history of ruthlessness.
Remembering Australia’s Green Bans
In the 1960s and ’70s, Australian construction workers organised with local communities to prevent the destruction of green spaces in urban areas – the movement they created pioneered a green class politics.
Head and Hand
Alfred Sohn-Rethel’s ‘Intellectual and Manual Labour’, recently republished, is an influential account of the way in which human beings built a society where one class plans, and another toils.
Why Labour Should Support a 15% Pay Rise for NHS Workers
Labour is basing its local election campaign on the party’s support for NHS workers, so now is the time to prove it – a new grassroots campaign is calling on Keir Starmer to ‘step up’ and back a 15% pay rise.
The Writers’ Action Group Is a Model for Today’s Fight for the Arts
In the 1970s, the Writers’ Action Group campaigned for writers to receive royalties from library loans. Their campaign resulted in Public Lending Right – and is a model to follow in the fight for arts funding.
Come to Milton Keynes
The sugary pop of 1985’s ‘Our Favourite Shop’ by Paul Weller’s The Style Council carried a brutal critique of the fantasies and realities of Thatcherism in the South of England during the tumultuous 1980s.
London’s Red Bus to Smolensk
At the height of the post-Stalin ‘thaw,’ a self-organised group of young British travellers took a bus all the way to the Soviet Union – one of many innovative attempts to dissolve the boundaries of the Cold War.
How the Shrewsbury 24 Were Vindicated
In the 1970s, 24 construction workers were convicted for their role in a successful strike – the story behind their vindication this week reveals the degree to which the state wages war against the working class.
Alex Salmond Is a Bit Part in Scotland’s Independence Drama
Today’s announcement by Alex Salmond has exposed further cracks in the SNP ahead of the Scottish parliamentary elections – but the real drama of the battle over independence is yet to come.
The War in Yemen Is a Very British Scandal
Today marks the sixth anniversary of the war in Yemen, the world’s greatest humanitarian disaster which has left 250,000 dead and millions facing starvation – all of it made possible by British government support.