AI Is a Total Grift
Much of what’s known as ‘AI’ has nothing to do with progress — it’s about lobbyists pushing shoddy digital replacements for human labour that increase billionaire’s profits and make workers’ lives worse.
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After Captain Tom
The cultural memory of the Second World War has long been used to serve the interests of British conservatism. But now that the long post-war compact is over, has its meaning evaporated completely?
Airbrushing the Ghettoes
From Eastern Europe to the Middle East, the legacy of the Holocaust has been used to denigrate left anti-fascism and promote the interests of ethno-nationalist establishments. But we should remember who really killed the ‘Judeo-Bolsheviks’ of the Second World War.
Jeremy Corbyn: Nuclear Disarmament Now
On the 80th anniversary of Hiroshima Day, Jeremy Corbyn continues the call for nuclear disarmament and world peace in a speech at the World Conference Against Atomic and Hydrogen Bombs. We publish his remarks, edited for length and clarity, here.
The Church’s Suffering in Gaza
As Israel continues its genocidal rampage, including the recent bombing of a church in Gaza City, the late Pope Francis’s legacy on Palestine stands in ever starker contrast to the Christians of the British cabinet.
Britain’s Urban Working-Class Invented Metal
Ozzy Osbourne and Black Sabbath were a product of post-war Britain’s industrial heartland. But today, for Birmingham, metal, and young working-class people, those conditions could not be further away.
Reclaiming the People’s War
Though it has recently become a byword for reactionary nostalgia, the Second World War was in certain crucial ways an extension of the ‘Red Decade’ of the 1930s. A modern anti-fascist Left must reclaim this inheritance — and avoid its shortcomings.
Mosley’s Shadow
Recent clampdowns on protest under Starmer and Sunak extend a long-running war on the Left waged by the British state. Meanwhile, far-right forms of extremism are scandalously deemed low-risk ‘cultural nationalism’.
Revolutionary Nostalgia
The Right has co-opted historical common sense to sinister ends. In response, the Left must fight fire with fire by embracing its own radical traditions of collective story-making.
Only Sanctions Will Stop the Genocide
After nearly two years of genocide, Keir Starmer has floated the possibility of Palestinian statehood as a bargaining chip with an out-of-control Israeli state — but the only language Netanyahu’s government understands is crippling sanctions and global isolation.
Palestine Action’s ‘Form of Love’
As the Labour government criminalises Palestine Action under anti-terror laws, impromptu screenings of a new documentary about the group’s relentless campaign against the arms industry have spotlighted widespread public support for their cause.
McSweeney’s Death Rattle
In a media landscape where nuanced political breakthroughs are often credited to ‘genius Svengalis’, spin doctor Morgan McSweeney has become the crown prince of Starmerism. But now his fragile empire is crumbling.
To Still Speak of Freedom
Seventy years ago, the Congress of the People was broken up by apartheid police while discussing the Freedom Charter, a vision for a just society. The document remains a guide for building a free South Africa today, writes Mervyn Bennun, one of the meeting’s participants.
Whipping the Party Into Shape
Labour MP Rachael Maskell and her colleagues were stripped of the whip after voting against government plans to cut Personal Independence Payments. In response, she looks to the legacy of social reformers Joseph and Seebohm Rowntree.
Party Poetics
The new poetry collection by London writer Caleb Femi is a modern epic based on the institution of the ‘shoobs’ (or house party) and its under-explored experimental potential.