The Phenomenon of Bernadette Devlin
50 years ago Irish republican socialist Bernadette Devlin was elected to Westminster. We take a look at her best-selling memoir, ‘The Price of My Soul,’ published the same year.
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Miriam Pensack
Miriam Pensack is a writer, editor, and doctoral candidate in Latin American history at New York University.
A Marxist in Keynes’ Court
Maurice Dobb was one of John Maynard Keynes’ protégés – he was also a committed Marxist.
What Is Neoliberalism?
David Harvey on what neoliberalism is, where it came from – and why the concept is still relevant today.
Marx the Journalist
Marx is often remembered as a political economist or philosopher. But he made his mark as a journalist.
Capturing Precarity
The demise of secure work and the rise of ‘precarity’ is a theme of the modern world – and now, it’s finding its way onto the big screen.
Arise, Sir Food Bank
Knighting Iain Duncan Smith – the man responsible for Universal Credit, the bedroom tax and ‘fit for work’ tests – shows just how much contempt the establishment has for ordinary people.
Italy’s ‘Accidental Deaths’
50 years ago, the Piazza Fontana bombing in Milan began Italy’s ‘Years of Lead’. Responses to the bombing and its aftermath would define Italian culture for decades to come.
E. P. Thompson’s Romantic Marxism
Socialist historian E. P. Thompson brilliantly chronicled the ravages of early capitalism — and the fierce resistance it provoked.
Why Naomi Klein Is Right
In her latest book, Naomi Klein continues the cause of her career: arguing that a fundamentally new economic system is the only way to save society and the planet.
Socialism Is for Humanity
The ultimate aim of socialism is as simple as it is beautiful: the freeing of all people from domination, replacing stunted dreams and alienation with human flourishing and boundless creativity.
What a Socialist Society Could Look Like
Socialists can’t wave away questions about what we propose the future should look like. We have to wrestle with them and put forward our vision of a world after capitalism.
The Christmas Truce
During Christmas in 1914, soldiers dropped their weapons and resisted war.
In Defence of Salford
The Murdoch press has started its attacks on Rebecca Long Bailey and her Salford ‘mafia’. It’s not hard to figure out why – Salford is a proud and radical working-class community that points the way forward for the Labour Left in 2020.
Defining the Possible
Labour’s transformative policies had huge popular appeal – but without a credible promise to change how politics works, too few people believed we could deliver them, argues Jon Trickett.
Learning the Right Lessons
Labour must rebuild trust among working-class people in all parts of the country – but abandoning its transformational policies would be a mistake, argues Richard Burgon.
The Unmaking of Britain’s Working Class
Margaret Thatcher described Right to Buy as ‘one of the most important revolutions of the century.’ She was right. And we’re still living with the consequences.
Labour’s Other Heartlands
Labour has long been a coalition between Bethnal Green and Bolsover – it’s vital that attempts to regain lost ground in the North and Midlands don’t come at the expense of black and brown working-class people.
The Birth of the Strike
Why are strikes called “strikes”? The answer goes back 250 years, to the birth-pangs of the working class.
How Brexit Sunk Labour
Labour’s decision to embrace a second referendum was a fatal blow – convincing its heartland voters that the party had turned its back on them and denying it the chance to speak across the culture war divide.
A Tribute to Dennis Skinner
A reader writes a tribute to the career of Dennis Skinner, firebrand socialist MP, who lost his seat of 49 years in this week’s election.