Making the Super-Rich Pay

Under the leadership of Brazil’s socialist president, the G20 has made a historic agreement to tax the world’s super-rich — now it’s time to make that deal a reality.

Arrest Benjamin Netanyahu

If Benjamin Netanyahu sets foot on British soil, the authorities have an indisputable obligation to arrest him — a failure to do so risks turning Britain into a rogue state, open for mass murderers fleeing justice.

The Politically Sensible Road to Armageddon

Keir Starmer’s refusal to discuss authorising UK-made missiles to strike Russia provides a telling example about our elites — even when they’re risking nuclear war, they don’t think people deserve an explanation.

Labour’s War on Protest

The Tories introduced laws that criminalised protest to deal with the disorder they knew their policies would cause — and Labour’s refusal to repeal these laws indicates their interest in protecting that status quo.

Refusing to Learn Lessons

Rachel Reeves has pledged to deregulate the financial sector, arguing there is too much focus on ‘risk’ and not enough on ‘growth’. For working people, it’s a recipe for disaster.

The Sad Oracle

His chronicles of liberal discontent have made Michel Houellebecq one of the most renowned writers of the century as well as a far-right prophet. Yet liberalism’s fiercest critic still hasn’t found his alternative future.

The Economics of Despair

Of the ten most deprived areas of Britain, seven saw far-right pogroms this summer. Any attempt to counter the rise of fascism must start with reckoning with and stamping out the system which spawned it.

As I Please

As Reform UK soars in the polls and Muslim communities come under attack, Starmer’s Labour remains alarmingly complacent about undermining what gives the far right an advantage.

Remembering the Black People’s Day of Action

Following the killing of thirteen black youths in a suspected far-right arson attack, Britain’s black population formed an unprecedented movement to confront the institutional racism of the police and the media.

The Death of Die Linke

Once a leading light of the European left, a series of crushing splits have seen Die Linke’s support base crash out and turn to the far right. Its demise is a warning for socialist parties everywhere.

The Kids Are Not Alright

From monarchism to eco-fascism, internet subcultures have given rise to a new generation of ‘e-deologies’. But what — if anything — do these online movements hold for the future of the Right?

Musk Versus Brazil

After X refused to remove profiles inciting political violence, Lula’s government banned the platform, forcing its billionaire owner into a humiliating retreat — and providing a rare victory against Big Tech’s apparently inescapable power.

Goodlord’s Rent Horror

In a novel that takes the form of a long email to an estate agent, poet Ella Frears explores the housing crisis through the abstract and automated technology of an increasingly widespread online lettings platform.

Nurturing Acts

Is motherhood political? In a new book, Helen Charman examines how politics in Britain and the north of Ireland have been defined by motherhood as a state of radical possibility.

The Funny Money of Weimar Germany

Notgeld was the money issued locally in Germany during the First World War and the tumultuous interwar period. What do these strange and experimental artefacts reveal about art and money?

Insurrectionary Cell

The short-lived but lore-heavy career of early 1980s northern synth-pop duo Soft Cell is catalogued and reappraised in a compelling new oral history, from working-class 1970s Leeds to the excesses of downtown New York City in the 1980s.

Keeping the Wolves at Bay

After right-wing nationalists in Bolivia seized power in 2019, a mass movement restored the country’s socialist government — proof that it isn’t elites that protect democracy, but organised workers.

What Awaits Britain

The Free State’s Fascists

Although fascism has traditionally held little sway over the Irish people, it is a century-old movement — and one experiencing a well-funded renaissance.

Tribune and the Civil Rights Struggle

In Martin Luther King’s era, Tribune provided an important platform to the civil rights movement in both Britain and the US, cementing the publication’s beliefs that racial justice was inseparable from the struggle for socialism.