This Is the West’s Genocide Too
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.
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Jenny Marx’s Life of Love and Revolution
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 Teesworks Scandal Exposes Britain’s Crony Economy
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.
No, the Left Shouldn’t Welcome Deindustrialisation
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.
The February Uprising
On this day in 1934, Austrian socialists made their final stand to defend democracy from a growing fascist movement.
An Historian Against the Bomb
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.
Labour Has Given Up on the Climate Crisis
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.
East London NHS Workers Are Striking for Pay Justice
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.
How the Media Still Gets the Miners Wrong
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.
Red Rover: Remembering Allan Roberts MP
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.
Another Gaza: Israeli Terrorism in Jenin
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.
E.P. Thompson at 100
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.