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Raven Hart

Raven Hart is co-founder of the Bristol Cooperative Alliance, an organisation that aims to promote a decentralised economy that empowers local communities and facilitates democratic self-determination.

DMG 2025: Communism in the Coalfields

As socialists from all over the world prepare to attend the 139th Durham Miners’ Gala, we explore the story of the Gala’s iconic banners, which celebrate our historic solidarity and continuing hope in the face of oppression and hatred.

DMG 2025: A New Career in a New Town

It is now several decades since the collapse of the British coal industry. But in Peterlee — a ‘left behind’ former mining town in County Durham — utopian dreams are being revived through a combination of grassroots creativity and public funding.

DMG 2025: Birthplace of the Working Class

In the first of a series of pieces leading up to Saturday’s Durham Miners’ Gala, we examine a forgotten corner of County Durham with a strong claim to be the one of the global birthplaces of the industrial proletariat.

McSweeney’s Death Rattle

In a media landscape where nuanced political breakthroughs are often credited to ‘genius Svengalis’, spin doctor Morgan McSweeney has become the crown prince of Starmerism. But now his fragile empire is crumbling.

Palestine Action’s ‘Form of Love’

As the Labour government criminalises Palestine Action under anti-terror laws, impromptu screenings of a new documentary about the group’s relentless campaign against the arms industry have spotlighted widespread public support for their cause.

We Must Defend the Hillsborough Law

The last Labour manifesto pledged to pass the Hillsborough Law, ensuring justice for the Liverpool fans who died in the 1989 Hillsborough tragedy, but now the government is considering a watered down replacement. We can’t let that happen.

Rescuing the BBC From Itself

In recent years the BBC has come to nurture right-wing populism and sideline the Left. But with just a little imagination and effort it could easily reclaim its radical democratic roots.

How to Make Farage Look Marxist

Reform MP Rupert Lowe has criticised the ‘incitement to violence’ at Glastonbury days after suggesting that Palestine Action activists should ‘expect to be shot’. Is this Musk-endorsed maverick the future of Reform — or a new hard-right Tory party?

The Real Foreign Takeover of the NHS

The government’s willingness to demonise migrant workers is a sign of its increasing moral degradation. Meanwhile, like their New Labour role models, Keir Starmer and Wes Streeting are supremely relaxed about multinational involvement in the NHS.

Labour Loves the Super-Rich

As the government slashes social security provision for the vulnerable, Rachel Reeves wants to relax her clampdown on ‘non-dom’ loopholes for the ultra-wealthy. Nothing better illustrates how Labour has abandoned ordinary people to become ‘capital’s B-team’.

The Socialist Candidate for New York

In the election to be New York City’s Democratic mayoral candidate, Zohran Mamdani is waging war on the city’s establishment and capturing the public’s imagination in the process. Will it be enough to succeed?

Gaza Is Still Burning

While news headlines are increasingly dominated by the nuclear face-off between Israel, Iran, and the US, life remains hellish for displaced families clinging on to the edge of the Gaza City shoreline. Who will speak for them?

Apartheid’s War on the NHS

In the past few years, British health workers have faced smears, targeted media attacks, and workplace persecution — all for the simple act of expressing support for Palestine.

Laissez-Faire Listening

The Swedish tech giant has rigged the music industry against artists, mined listeners for data, and made music boring for everyone. Or is that just what the major recording labels want you to believe?