The Great Energy Scam

In April, the government plans to push millions into poverty by hiking energy bills — the latest sacrifice on the altar of privatisation.

Tribune in the Community

The newly-formed Luton Tribune Club is fighting the cost-of-living crisis in one of Britain’s most neglected communities.

The New Austerians

Britain is in the midst of a workers’ uprising. The return of austerity aims to kill it in its tracks.

Bleeding Junior Doctors Dry

After years of falling pay and impossible workloads, junior doctors are organising to fight back.

‘Amazon Doesn’t Own Us’: Behind the Historic UK Strikes

This week, Amazon workers in Britain are taking part in their biggest strike yet against the corporate giant. Their groundbreaking organising campaign shows that workers can fight back against injustice – even in the most hostile of environments.

Schools Just Want to Have Funds

The teachers’ strike is about more than just fair pay — it’s a fight for the future of education.

Our Right to Strike

Capitalism guarantees bosses the power to exploit – our only defence is the right to strike back effectively.

Selling Austerity

Austerity is justified as necessary for the sound management of the economy, but elites have always understood its true purpose: weakening the political strength of the working class.

The Manchester Student Rent Strike Is Solidarity in Action

Rent strikers at the University of Manchester aren’t just protesting the cost of living crisis – they are building a movement with trade unions to fight the marketisation of higher education.

‘We Have a Legacy of Struggle. Take It Forward.’

Mokhtar Mokhtefi’s Literature of Refusal

The recently published memoir of Algerian revolutionary Mokhtar Mokhtefi, I Was A French Muslim, powerfully portrays a life spent in the struggle against French imperialism and for the unlocking of all human potential.

Man and Showman

Dubliner Brendan Behan was born one hundred years ago. Despite his demons, he became one of the twentieth century’s great working-class writers.

The North Will Rise Again

The history of the North of England — from the birth of the Industrial Revolution to the neglect of recent decades — has produced a culture at once pragmatic and hopelessly ambitious.

No, We Don’t Need Austerity!

There’s nothing ‘pragmatic’ about repeating a social catastrophe.

Sputnik and Shed

Two photobooks documenting what could be called ‘socialist playgrounds’ reveal the differences between adults designing for children, and children designing for themselves.

Come On You Reds

A new book on the beginnings of football in the Soviet Union reveals how the Bolsheviks first regarded it as an opium of the people — and then tried to build a game of their own.

Property Will Eat Itself

The transformation of industrial spaces into clubs and then into flats in cities like Manchester has created a strange ouroboros of self-consuming development.

Make Do and Mend

However you read the statistics, the climate crisis has to mean less building. What does a future of living in old buildings hold for the future of architecture?

One Man’s Trash

In the dark days of John Major’s Britain, Channel 4’s Eurotrash took aim at Britain’s relationship with ‘the continent’ and created a low-art surrealist classic in the process.

We Have Never Been Postmodern

Stuart Jeffries’ new book charts a lively history of postmodernism from the 1970s to the millennium through a discussion of pivotal artworks, pop cultural figures, cultural theorists and political events. But are we really still living in ‘postmodern’ times?