So This Is the Aftermath
Trip-hop pioneer Tricky’s autobiography, ‘Hell is Round the Corner,’ is a powerful statement of working class creativity – and all the forces that are ranged against it.
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Owen Hatherley is the culture editor of Jacobin .
Trip-hop pioneer Tricky’s autobiography, ‘Hell is Round the Corner,’ is a powerful statement of working class creativity – and all the forces that are ranged against it.
Carl Neville discusses his new novel ‘Eminent Domain,’ which imagines an alternative Britain where Thatcherism didn’t prevail – and socialism shaped society instead of the market.
There is beauty in Britain, but there is far more misery. That is not a natural or inevitable state of affairs – but a consequence of our miserable ruling class and their ruthless commitment to capitalism.
In the first ‘What Our Editors Are Reading,’ culture editor Owen Hatherley reviews the Observer columns of Scottish writer Neal Acherson.
Researcher Joy White speaks about her new book ‘Terraformed – Young Black Lives in the Inner City,’ which outlines the deliberate marginalisation of working class black youth in the London borough of Newham.
A new set of translations of the socialist poet and playwright Bertolt Brecht reminds us that the greatest of writers often lived through the darkest of times.
Łukasz Stanek talks to Tribune about his book on how architects and planners in Eastern Europe designed and built towns and cities across the world between the 1950s and 1980s.
The authors of a new book on Soviet Modernism talk to Tribune about decommunisation, demodernisation and the fight to save the remnants of late Soviet architecture in Ukraine.
Socialist author Richard Seymour discusses his origins on the Left, his latest book and the role of social media in shaping our political environment.
The Observer might want rid of Emma Dent Coad – but we don’t. In a new interview, we speak to the Kensington MP about housing, her constituency and the campaign of lies run against her by the Lib Dems.
In this election, Labour can turn the entire debate about housing upside down. It must not miss that chance.
An interview with Nathalie Olah about class, culture, television, home improvement, bad taste and revolt.
Hannah Proctor and Sam Dolbear talk to Tribune about Arcades Materials, a series of pamphlets sparking off from Walter Benjamin’s Arcades Project.
In this month’s Red Library, we look at some ‘workers inquiries’, both new and old
This month’s Red Library explores Europe’s borders, from Ireland to the Balkans, and the prospects of a pan-European left.
The far-right Sweden Democrats became the country’s third largest party in last year’s election. A new book uncovers their unrepentant Nazi past.
Artist and writer Laura Grace Ford on her zine Savage Messiah, counter-culture and unearthing the kernels of possibility in working-class life.
We speak to Johny Pitts – author of the book Afropean – about cities, race, class, colonialism, the 1990s, and going from CD:UK to socialism.
Poland’s Palace of Culture and Science is one of the continent’s largest and most striking buildings. But what is its history – and what can it tell us about its country’s future?
From children’s communes to nationalising Amazon, and asteroid mining to menstrual extractors, we review recent publications which explore the Utopias of the 21st century.