The Joker Who Would Be King
Ukrainians are poised to elect a comedian as their next president. Who is Volodymyr Zelensky, and why does he inspire such high hopes?
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Ko Leik Pya
Ko Leik Pya works as a teacher and writer in the UK and Myanmar. He writes here under a pseudonym.
Remembering the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
On this day in 1943, a band of Jewish resistance fighters launched an armed insurrection against the Nazis. They were proud socialists and internationalists.
The Tories’ Industrial Failure
Ideological opposition to state aid has seen big promises on industrial policy dissipate into more job losses and deindustrialisation.
Building a 21st Century Socialist Wales
Welsh First Minister Mark Drakeford on twenty years since devolution, the dangers of Brexit and putting community back at the heart of Welsh society.
5 Reasons the Tories Scrapped Section 21
Today the government scrapped ‘no fault’ evictions. They didn’t do it out of the kindness of their hearts, but because of the pressure of a growing tenant movement.
Winning Equality through Worker Democracy
Sexual harassment is widespread in British workplaces – but too few women feel they have avenues to fight back. Worker democracy could offer a way forward.
How Neoliberalism Reinvented Democracy
Neoliberalism replaces the citizen with the consumer — pushing people out of political life and into the marketplace.
Bring Me The Head Of Light Entertainment
Alan Partridge hasn’t just returned to the BBC – he is the BBC.
Prophet of Boredom
Bigoted, tawdry and self-parodic, Michel Houellebecq has become the writer the French bourgeoisie deserves.
Latin America’s Rightward Turn
A decade ago Latin America was the Left’s great hope. How did the dreams of the Pink Tide give way to the horrors of Bolsonaro?
An NHS for People and Planet
It’s time to design an NHS fit for the twenty-first century — public, universal, free, and fighting climate change.
You Shouldn’t have to Do It Yourself
Most independent musicians are precarious workers. Why have so few of them joined their trade union?
The Exploding Communist Inevitable
The Soviet Senezh studio tried to bring about Cosmic Communism through designed ‘environments’, but ended up stuck in yesterday’s future.
The Innovation Cult
‘Innovation’ is one of capitalism’s most popular buzzwords. Its function is to sustain the myth that business genius creates society’s wealth.
Fighting Isolation
This weekend, Bristol Transformed will welcome hundreds of people to its events. Its organisers see the project as part of a broader mission to rebuild collective culture.
The Real Dad’s Army
The wartime Home Guard is immortalised in popular culture — but the socialists who shaped it are forgotten.
NATO at 70
Seventy years after its foundation, the road to peace and global justice still does not run through NATO.
The Case for a Living Wage
Twenty years after the national minimum wage was introduced, it’s time to fight for a wage that people could really live on.
Why Spain Does not Remember
80 years ago today the Spanish Civil War ended. We speak to leftist MP Alberto Garzón about why Spain struggles to remember its fight against fascism.
How We Beat the Landlord
This week four tenants in Leeds took their landlord to court and won their rent back. Here’s how they did it – and how you could too.