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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.
Under Ed Miliband’s leadership, Mark Fisher and Jeremy Gilbert wrote Reclaiming Modernity, which urged Labour to fight the neoliberal domination of workers’ lives, resist Britain’s endless marketisation — and harness the technological ambitions of the young century.
In ‘progressive’ Berlin, daring to treat Palestinians like they are human beings can destroy your life and your work — as thousands of artists and cultural institutions are now discovering.
In a harrowing dispatch from Gaza, Palestinian human rights activist and Gaza City resident Raji Sourani gives an account of daily life amid Israeli air strikes that are killing entire families. Despite it all, Palestinians in Gaza are clinging to hope.
Whether Tony Lloyd was opposing attacking Iraq and Gaza or supporting trade unionists and local people, it was never about a parliamentary career — it was about, in his words, ‘that human solidarity that matters’.
Today, the economy officially fell into recession — but it’s unsurprising when austerity has starved the country of all the investment it actually needs.
Israel is preparing to launch a ground assault against Rafah, where one million refugees are sheltered. Responsibility for the bloodbath won’t belong just to the invaders — this is the West’s genocide too.
This Valentine’s Day, we remember the revolutionary life of Jenny Marx — a socialist and feminist whose own activity, no less than her relationship with Karl, helped to shape the struggles of her time.
The Teesport Freeport promised to reinvigorate a region ravaged by Thatcherism — instead, it is little more than a taxpayer-funded cash cow for private developers associated with Tory politicians.
Gabriel Winant’s ‘The Next Shift’ expertly details the growth of America’s health system — but in its hostility towards reindustrialisation, it offers dead-end positions for anyone fighting for working-class prosperity or a socialist society.
On this day in 1934, Austrian socialists made their final stand to defend democracy from a growing fascist movement.
This week marked the 100th birthday of E.P. Thompson, pioneer of ‘history from below’ and his generation’s foremost crusader against the nuclear arms race and the politics of exterminism.
On the same day that climate scientists announced the world had breached the warming limit of 1.5 degrees centigrade above pre-industrial levels, Starmer effectively announced that he had given up the fight against climate breakdown.
Barts NHS Trust has refused to pay its mostly migrant women domestic workers the cost of living pay rise it has paid their colleagues. So today, they are striking to demand their worth.
A new series explores the painful realities of the miners’ strike through the eyes of those directly involved. But it ignores the crux of the strike — Thatcher’s determination to crush the organised working class.
To mark LGBT History Month, we remember Allan Roberts — a pioneering gay Labour MP who shrugged off media slander about his personal life to become one of the most effective socialist politicians of his generation.
Israel has unleashed a wave of violence against the Jenin refugee camp in the West Bank, placing Palestinians under siege and conducting indiscriminate airstrikes. Genocide was always the end goal.
At Saturday’s Palestine solidarity protest — which took place on E.P. Thompson’s centenary — Jeremy Corbyn, the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament’s Kate Hudson and John McDonnell remember the pioneer of ‘history from below’ and the debt owed to him by the anti-war movement.
Labour’s race equality act launch event descended into farce after equality campaigners and media were banned from attendance — signalling the leadership’s dismissive attitude towards black and brown voters.
Socialist historian E. P. Thompson brilliantly chronicled the ravages of early capitalism — and the fierce resistance it provoked.
The closure of Port Talbot steelworks is the culmination of decades of free market ideology that has devastated Wales. It’s time for a new economy that puts public interest before private profit.