The Only Boss We Listen To
Bruce Springsteen and his politics are flawed, to be sure – but nearly fifty years after his first album, there are few other voices who can so unite the left.
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Tom Williams
Tom Williams is a writer and activist, and a tutor in trade union studies.
How Grassroots Activists Are Rebuilding Solidarity in Southampton
As poverty rises in the wake of Covid, the Southampton Social Aid Group is organising in communities, not to offer charity but to build solidarity – renewing the bonds decayed by decades of neoliberalism.
Trouble at the Mills
A failed campaign to save Solent Flour Mills, a monumental building in the port of Southampton, raises questions about how councils and campaigners can fight multinational capitalism in local spaces.
Thank You Jeremy Corbyn
As Jeremy Corbyn bows out with his last Prime Minister’s Questions, we remember what his leadership of the Labour Party made possible.
England’s Tightest Marginal
In 2017, Labour lost out in Southampton Itchen by just 31 votes. Now the party is determined to win back a working-class constituency that exemplifies the challenges facing the postindustrial south.