The European Super League would be a disaster for football, but it hasn't come from nowhere – it is the end of a long road of commercialisation which has torn the game away from the working-class communities that built it.
When Tony Blair first became Labour leader, he saw mass membership as a way to drive the party rightwards – but in power it soon became clear that grassroots politics were incompatible with New Labour policies.
The political centre sells itself as the answer to our democratic crisis, but it was their technocratic reforms that hollowed out politics – and facilitated the rise of the far-right.
A newly-discovered archive of photos from revolutionary Barcelona during the Spanish Civil War depicts the collectives, institutions and workplaces of a society run by workers themselves.
As protests against Myanmar's coup continue, it's clear that the only coalition which can defeat the junta is an alliance of the working class which bridges the country's ethnic, regional and gender divides.
The Labour leadership's efforts to appear more Royalist than the Tories is a symptom of their sycophantic politics – if you won't utter a critical word about the royal family, you're not serious about challenging power.
The fact that the Tories might win a seat like Hartlepool shows how much Labour has lost touch with its roots – the only way to win the by-election is to fight for working-class communities.
Birmingham has a reputation as a place where cultural life died a death in the face of grinding poverty, but that is a sterile myth – we explore the Second City's brief and unexpected role as a centre of 1960s radical counterculture.
Covid-19 vaccines are an astonishing medical breakthrough which offer hope for a life after lockdown – but giving the state the power to police their uptake would be a huge threat to civil liberties.
Britain's media is owned by a tiny handful of corporations, with three companies controlling 90% of newspaper circulation – if we want a real democracy, it's time to break the power of the media moguls.
Long dismissed as child's play, comics have carved out space for themselves as a form through which to examine the political – touching on everything from urban history to the fight against fascism.
During the past year, up to 3 million people have been left out of the government's Covid-19 response schemes – they have faced the pandemic without any income support, and the consequences have often been dire.