We Are the Pigs
The first ever anime feature, now back in cinemas, combines anthropomorphic animals and anti-Western agitation; it was also a work of fascist propaganda.
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Sculpture by the Yard
The Manchester-based American sculptor Mitzi Cunliffe’s work epitomised a disappeared and increasingly alien world of public provision.
‘Your Move, Creep!’
Paul Verhoeven’s latest film Benedetta, about a nun who enters into a lesbian relationship in her convent while experiencing erotic visions of Jesus, may be disappointing – but at their best Verhoeven’s films do more than just shock.
Brilliant Futures
Thuận’s novel Chinatown moves from Hanoi to Leningrad to Paris, as its Vietnamese migrant narrator charts how the ‘future’ shifted in the 1990s from the East to West.
Shoot it Yourself!
The first publication by the left-wing London archive MayDay Rooms showcases examples from the 1930s and 1970s of conscious workers using photography as a tool for solidarity and political understanding.
Soap and the City
Edwina Attlee’s book ‘Strayed Homes’ praises the in-between spaces of everyday life – the intimate public spaces that can be homes from home.
Art Workers, Unite!
Kuba Szreder’s ‘ABC’ for workers in the arts advocates ways of out of a system designed to benefit not those who make artworks, but a handful of investors and gallerists.
Red Library: Red Ukraine
This issue’s Red Library focuses on the history of Ukraine.
Why We Launched Enough Is Enough
This cost-of-living crisis isn’t inevitable.
Vietnam’s Horror Captured
This June marked the fiftieth anniversary of the famous photograph of Phan Thị Kim Phúc taken during the Vietnam War – a reminder of the horrors of war, and of all those whose stories will never be told.
The Influencer Hustle
A new book explores the rise of online ‘influencers’, the seductiveness of their get-rich-quick schemes, and their role in shaping activist culture.
In Memory of Mike
Mike Carden, one of the leaders of the 1995 Liverpool Dock Strike and father to MP Dan Carden, passed away late last year. Here, his son John Carden remembers his life in socialism.
Five Years Since the Grenfell Fire
In June 2017, a catastrophic fire in Grenfell Tower killed seventy-two people and should have changed housing standards for good. Instead, the establishment has failed victims — and resisted all efforts at change.
Democracy in Decline
The departure of Boris Johnson as prime minister has been widely celebrated in Labour circles, but the rot at the heart of our political system goes far deeper.
American Hegemony Isn’t Going Away
Pundits are quick to declare the end of the unipolar world, but America’s economic empire is here to stay.
How Liberals Learned to Love NATO
In the wake of the war in Ukraine, NATO has been presented as a defensive alliance for democracy — but its actual history has been the promotion of Western imperial interests, often at the point of a gun.
How Commodity Speculators Drove War in Ukraine
In London and New York, the spectacularly wealthy gamble on the price of commodities — and, in the process, provide petrostate autocrats like Vladimir Putin with the resources to wage war.
How Ukraine’s Refugees Became Poland’s Exploited Workers
Millions of Ukrainians have fled to Poland since the Russian war began. Many have become embroiled in the vast illegal care-work economy – adding exploitation to the trauma of fleeing their homes.
Inside Enough is Enough’s First Rally
Last night saw Mick Lynch, Zarah Sultana, Dave Ward and others address thousands of people at the Enough is Enough campaign launch in London. We spoke to attendees and speakers about how the moment to fight has arrived.
In Tory Britain, ‘Hard Graft’ Doesn’t Pay
It’s comforting for politicians like Liz Truss to tell themselves low productivity is caused by laziness, because it absolves them of responsibility for an economy in which all hard work gets many people is a spot in the food bank queue.