Cult Clash
Ari Aster’s horror film Midsommar plays with the idea of impending eco-fascism – but is it about more than turning real horrors into cinematic myths?
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Miriam Pensack
Miriam Pensack is a writer, editor, and doctoral candidate in Latin American history at New York University.
The Challenge of Deindustrialisation
Deindustrialisation has led to stagnating wages, workplace insecurity and declining union membership. The next Labour government must turn the tide.
Has Labour Lost the North?
Deindustrialisation, privatisation, and then austerity produced decades of decline in the north of England. Labour must fight its corner again — before it’s too late.
Builders of a New World
The modernist architects of interwar Eastern Europe were committed to making architecture an instrument of social transformation.
When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit
The children’s books of Judith Kerr were inspired by the poverty and fear of refugee life, and the ways in which migrants coped with their experiences.
Beating Boris from the Left
Now is not the time for grubby deals with the political centre. Labour should take Boris Johnson on with a bold, socialist plan to transform the lives of millions.
Save Harland and Wolff
Boris Johnson and his Tory government like to talk about taking back control. Well, here’s a challenge: take back control of Harland and Wolff shipyard.
Winning the Green New Deal
As the Green New Deal becomes increasingly popular, corporate interests will look to make it their own. Socialists should be clear how radical it needs to be.
How to Solve the Housing Crisis
It might not be sexy, but the answer to the endemic housing crisis not just in Britain but across the West is something relatively simple: effective property taxes.
Workers Against ISS
Agency workers in London hospitals are so poorly treated that their union set up a foodbank to help them. But now, they are fighting back.
Forward Ever, Backward Never: Grenada’s Revolution at 40
Forty years ago a socialist revolution in the tiny Caribbean island of Grenada threatened to upturn the world economic order.
The Workers’ Sabbatical
How about this for a demand? Work for six years and you get a whole paid year off to do what you want.
Demonising the Left
A new report commissioned by the government uses anti-war activism as evidence that socialists in Britain pose an ‘extremist’ threat.
Use Your Head
Labour’s election posters from the first half of the twentieth century offer a glimpse into the better world it promised working people.
Stockport Deserves Better
In February, Stockport’s voters were abandoned when their Labour MP left to join ‘Change UK’. Now, it needs a socialist MP to undo the damage caused by ten years of Tory government.
The Return of Rafael Alberti
The leftist poet Rafael Alberti was forced into exile by Franco, but his determination to return symbolised the hopes of the Spanish Republic.
The Free Port Fantasy
Deregulated tax havens which suck up public resources while providing few if any new jobs: Boris Johnson’s free ports would be a disaster for Britain’s economy.
The World Turned Upside Down
Since Margaret Thatcher, around half of all public lands in the UK have been sold off. The next Labour government must stop this privatisation – and rebuild our commonwealth.
Remembering ‘Comrade Sak’
Shapurji Saklatvala, the first MP of colour elected on a Labour ticket, turned his parliamentary seat into a vehicle to fight both capitalism and imperialism.
The Left’s Night in America
In last night’s Democratic debate, left-wing candidates Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren trounced their moderate rivals. Now the question is, can they win?