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Fianna Coleman

Fianna Coleman is a writer and researcher living in Cardiff.

Fiddling While Rome Burns

A new book about Trump’s 2024 election victory is a profoundly unsettling account of the Democratic Party machinery’s refusal to respect their own voters or offer any answers to America’s problems beyond maintaining the status quo.

Baggins of Downing Street

In delivering his toxic ‘Island of Strangers’ speech on immigration earlier this week, Keir Starmer aligned with a bizarre conservative tendency inspired in equal measure by Enoch Powell and J.R.R. Tolkien.

Landlords Never Really Die

Since its publication last year, Nick Bano’s book ‘Against Landlords’ has generated much debate about the housing crisis — and laid the ground for a new trend in left publishing.

Britain Must Stop Arms to Israel Now

As a High Court case seeking to block sale of British munitions used by Israel in Gaza begins, one of the campaigners involved — former UN Assistant Secretary-General Andrew Gilmour — argues that Britain’s role in the process must end immediately.

Israeli Settlers are Erasing the West Bank

Louis Theroux’s recent documentary about settler violence in the West Bank drew attention to the plight of the region — but in the Hebron Hills, where Palestinians and Jewish activists face settler devastation, the reality is even more shocking.

VE Day at 80: Antifascism is Ours

As we mark the 80th anniversary of the defeat of Nazism in Europe, the radical antifascist legacy of the Second World War is in danger of being forgotten. For the sake of survival, we can’t let that happen.

A Murky Clarity

Politicians’ pronouncements that last month’s Supreme Court judgement ‘clarifies’ sex and gender feeds into a wider right-wing narrative that the Left is in denial about the truth of human nature — and that hostility to minorities is the only way to deal with reality.

Not Just Where, But How We Live

In the year of the Renters’ Rights Bill, how should the tenants movement respond to changing ideas around how the current housing crisis is exacerbated by patriarchal and capitalist notions?

Finding Solace in Organising

In January, workers at Tower Hamlets’ primary independent domestic violence service were threatened with redundancies. By unionising, they not only saved their jobs — they also defended the survivors who rely on their support.

Museum Without Objects

The ‘universal museum’ is a product of Enlightenment thinking, with museums such as the Louvre cast in an increasingly ludicrous position as guardians of global heritage. Is there another way?

Dreaming the Socialist Tripadvisor

As British cities are increasingly hollowed out by property developers, a tradition on the Italian left has seen the creation of ‘social centres’, where radical ways of being and thinking can take root. Can we replicate their success?

The Unjust Transition

If Labour carries on with its baffling refusal to save Grangemouth oil refinery, hundreds of workers will lose jobs, Scotland could face fuel shortages, and – once again in British history – an entire community could face collapse.

The Tariff Test

Trump’s tariffs look set to dismantle whatever remains of the ‘rules-based international order’. Rather than bowing down, Britain should take the opportunity to do away with the hypocrisy of that system and build a different kind of world economy.

To the Lifehouse

A new book rediscovers lessons from Black Panther survival programmes, solidarity networks of crisis-era Greece and the Occupy Sandy disaster relief efforts — and asks whether impending climate catastrophe means we should stop waiting and start doing.

As Good as It Gets

A ‘filthy leftist’ in the eyes of his opponents, Pope Francis, who has died aged 88, brought radical energy to the papacy – but his reformism had limits, and now his successor seems likely to push the Catholic Church firmly rightwards.