The Rebel Diplomat
In 1916, the English diplomat Roger Casement was stripped of his knighthood and executed for his participation in the Easter Rising. His homosexuality, uncovered in the trial, still defines his contested legacy.
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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.
‘We Are Phuture’: Electronic Music’s Final Frontier
A new essay collection by veteran music critic Simon Reynolds tracks how electronic music’s future-forward tendency became sounds that eulogised progress in the twenty-first century.
The Sodom Odeon
A new documentary celebrates London’s iconoclastic Scala cinema, whose all-nighters and cult programming in the Thatcher era shaped British cinema to this day. But what is its legacy in the 2020s, and what are the movie histories that remain untold?
Making Palestine Solidarity Impossible
In Britain, every cultural body exhibiting Palestinian culture is facing a vicious campaign to cut their funding, cancel their events and sack workers. The message is simple: ignore genocide or face consequences.
Solidarity With Amrit Wilson
In a sign of Modi’s growing authoritarianism, the veteran journalist Amrit Wilson has been banned from India and labelled a threat to the state. Her crime? Writing in support of India’s farmers’ protests for Tribune.
Greetings From a Free Portugal
On the 50th anniversary of the Carnation Revolution, we republish writer and activist Antonio de Figueiredo, who argued upon his return from exile that the liberation of Portugal’s African colonies was the country’s own path to freedom.
Palestine Solidarity in the Dock
The relentless, punitive legal attacks against Palestine Action activists for disrupting Israel’s war machine is a simple lesson about our country today — maintaining injustice abroad requires crushing dissent at home.
Austerity Is Making Us Sick
Rishi Sunak’s rhetoric around ‘sick note culture’ is a transparent attempt to blame workers for government policies that have pushed millions of us into poverty and ill health.
Remembering the Diggers
On St. George’s Day we remember the Diggers — the true radicals of the English Revolution.
The Establishment Fundamentalists
When centrists claim to be guided by common sense over populism of ideology, they ignore that their loyalty to a bankrupt status quo is a fanaticism of its own.
Elon Against Lula
After Elon Musk boosted conspiracies about the persecution of Bolsonaro supporters, Brazil’s far-right was given a shot in the arm. The lawyer who debunked the story speaks about the new threat to Brazilian democracy: Big Tech.
Free Schools, State Attacks
A ban on Muslim students expressing their faith at a London school has nothing to do with secularism’s triumph and everything to do with right-wingers shaping the education agenda.
Spinoza, Breaking Bad and the Race to the Bottom Mindset
Blending philosophy with popular culture, with references to Fight Club, Breaking Bad and more, a new book examines why people fight for their servitude as if it were their salvation.
Defiance: How South Asians Fought Back Against the Fascists
In the 1970s, British South Asians faced a vicious tidal wave of racism from street gangs and the state. A new series details how they fought back — for themselves and those that came after them.
Bosses Are Wasting Our Time
In a society where a third of workers think their job is meaningless, an alternative to constant toiling in unproductive work is urgently needed: it’s time to demand a four-day week.
Praising Culture Doesn’t Pay the Bills
Liverpool’s celebrated local museums pay so poorly that its workers go home to cold homes and empty cupboards. It’s no wonder they have gone on strike to demand the better wages they deserve.
Bevan Fought for the NHS — and so Must We
A new play at the National Theatre explores Nye Bevan’s hard-fought struggle against healthcare profiteers to create the NHS — a fight we must rediscover to save the service from today’s privatisation-loving politicians.
Photography Against the End of History
A new exhibition examines working-class photography in the UK in the years since 1989 — and demonstrates art’s potential to expose political failure and social division.
Rigging Britain’s Democracy
The allegations that Labour has used its online voting system to rig parliamentary selections suggest that Starmer’s addiction to purging the left is corroding the integrity of Britain’s democratic system.
How Britain Made Paul Robeson a Socialist
Pioneering black singer Paul Robeson was born on this day in 1898. One of America’s great radical figures, it was his encounters with Britain’s labour movement which inspired his socialist and anti-imperialist politics.