The Workers’ COP26

While world leaders met in Glasgow to dither and dive from taking effective action against climate catastrophe, trade unionists from across the globe met to discuss a future of justice and dignity for workers.

As I Please: Labour’s Losing Road

When it comes to the issues impacting working people, Keir Starmer’s voice isn’t ‘failing to cut through’ — it’s absent entirely.

The Forever War Against Corbyn

Every day brings new reason to be furious at Tory rule. But little of this anger gets reflected by Labour MPs.

Why Football Fans Need Their Own Unions

Last year’s Super League debacle showed just how far football’s elite is prepared to go to steal the game from the communities that built it – it’s time that supporters organised to ensure that can’t happen.

The Labour Right’s Bookie Boys

As the gambling industry preys on millions of vulnerable people for profit, it can be comforted in the knowledge that it will always have one friend it can rely on: the Labour right.

Socialism Is Freedom

Freedom under capitalism is the ‘freedom’ to exploit or be exploited. Real freedom is the absence of all barriers that prevent people from living life to the fullest — the socialist movement fights for this kind of world.

After Populism and the Pandemic

Regulating the Night

The late Christopher Chitty’s Sexual Hegemony is a landmark book on how capitalism created the modern heterosexual family.

A Letter from Zatoka

The town of Zatoka, in southern Ukraine near the Romanian border, has grown into a private, chaotic seaside utopia, outlasting several states. How much longer can it last?

Invented Traditions

Ben Wheatley’s ‘In the Earth’ uses the contemporary setting of the pandemic to play with some increasingly familiar imagery of folk horror and hauntology.

Travels in Inner Space

The short stories of the Japanese feminist and science fiction writer Izumi Suzuki have an eerie correspondence to the world of the present day.

Smells Like World Spirit

A newly translated book tells the fascinating interwoven histories of two perfumes with a shared origin, but what does it take to write the history of smell?

The Art Books of Yevgeniy Fiks

Conceptual artist Yevgeny Fiks explores the relationship between the Communist world and the West, hoping to shed light on what was suppressed in each Cold War system.

Cancelling Coventry’s Future

In the post-war era, Coventry was rebuilt as an optimistic, modernist city. But the selling off of the city centre since the 1980s has made this year’s City of Culture feel more like a City for Developers.

The Regeneration of the Labour Right

Three stalwarts of the Labour right – Margaret Hodge, Barry Sheerman, and Harriet Harman – are stepping down at the next election. But we should be just as worried about who might turn up in their place.

The Government Is Levelling Up Inequality

Since 2019, the poorer half of the country has seen a real-terms loss of £110 per year, while the richest five percent have gained £3,300. That’s Tory economics.

Nine Days That Shook Cádiz

Last month, over 25,000 metalworkers went on strike in the Spanish city of Cádiz. Their action was met with police violence – and exposed the fractures in Spain’s left-wing coalition government.

The Wave of Abuse Facing Workers

When the Tories don’t take measures like mask-wearing seriously, it’s up to stressed frontline workers to protect public health – while facing growing violence and intimidation.

Gary Neville: ‘I Wouldn’t Want Boris as my Postman’

The people you can trust in times like these are the posties, carers and teachers who really keep society going. They are being badly let down by a prime minister who thrives on lies and division, argues Gary Neville.

Ending Food Poverty Is Possible

Last month, Tory councillors in Southampton rejected a motion to enshrine the right to food in law – proof that it’s political will, not practicality, that keeps poor families hungry.