The Revolt of the Housewives
In 1795, English women facing starvation organised to seize food supplies and distribute them for an honest price — making the case for a system that placed community need above individual profit.
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A Gut Radical
From popularising people’s history to crusading for ordinary people’s access to good food and wine, Raymond Postgate’s socialism was about the full enrichment of life for all.
Socialism at the Milk Bar
The authoritarian socialist regimes of the twentieth century tried to rescue people from ‘kitchen slavery’ through communal eateries. In Poland, they survive and thrive.
The Saving Standards Scramble
In the coming years, climate breakdown will ravage the global food systems on which we depend, ushering in a new era of political instability.
Hard Truths Captures the Anxieties of Modern Britain
Mike Leigh’s ‘Hard Truths’, the director’s first contemporary work since 2010, captures the fear, isolation and anxiety bubbling beneath the surface of modern Britain.
How Finland’s Left Is Beating the Far Right
Finland’s Left Alliance is countering the far right by rejecting austerity and championing workers’ rights and climate action. Grace Blakeley sits down with its leader, Li Andersson, to discuss the lessons for the European left.
Palestinian Justice Won’t Wait for the West
The formation of the Hague Group ensures that the world won’t forget Israel’s crimes in Gaza — nor can Israeli war criminals evading justice, writes Ronnie Kasrils.
Back to Blackrock
Labour’s plan for growth — with deregulation and corporate-driven projects at its core — runs the risk of deepening inequality and handing over national infrastructure to private profit.
Solidarity Under Siege
For more than six decades, the USA has subjected Cuba to a blockade designed to destroy its economy — an act of aggression met with a global solidarity movement that has helped keep the country alive.
Leonard Rossiter’s Ontology of Grot
An eccentric new book, ‘Code:Damp: An Esoteric Guide to British Sitcoms’, frames the sitcom career of British actor Leonard Rossiter as a conductor of strange energies unlocking the secrets of post-war Britain.
South Africa’s Case Was a Display of International Solidarity — We Should Support It
At the International Court of Justice, South Africa spoke on behalf of the billions of people who oppose Israel’s genocide in Gaza — and put Western governments to shame for their deplorable complicity.
Gerry Adams: Starmer Waives the Rules
Keir Starmer is looking at ‘every conceivable way’ to block compensation for myself and over 300 people wrongly imprisoned in the 1970s — an arrogance in full keeping with the British establishment’s imperial mindset.
Jeremy Corbyn: Remembering Auschwitz, Fighting Today
As we mark the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, we must remember the heroic resistance of many inmates to inspire our struggle against renewed fascism today.
Solidarity Against the Law
The Met Police lied about disorder at Saturday’s Palestine rally to justify mass arrests and intimidate sitting MPs — the culmination of a long campaign to drive Palestine solidarity off the streets.
Not All Working Bodies Equal?
From sex workers to migrant cleaners, a powerful exhibition at London’s Wellcome Collection explores the histories of exploitation written on the bodies of workers.