Politicians' pronouncements that last month's Supreme Court judgement 'clarifies' sex and gender feeds into a wider right-wing narrative that the Left is in denial about the truth of human nature — and that hostility to minorities is the only way to deal with reality.
In the year of the Renters’ Rights Bill, how should the tenants movement respond to changing ideas around how the current housing crisis is exacerbated by patriarchal and capitalist notions?
In January, workers at Tower Hamlets' primary independent domestic violence service were threatened with redundancies. By unionising, they not only saved their jobs — they also defended the survivors who rely on their support.
Reform’s devastating electoral success in places like County Durham this week shows that British politics is approaching a tipping point – will Labour respond with watered-down jingoism, or rediscover its soul?
As the British authorities attempt to persecute Kneecap this week, over 100 artists and musicians sign an open letter to 'register opposition to any political repression of artistic freedom'.
Britain's history in Vietnam has been one of collusion with French colonialism and US war crimes. But there is another story of workers protesting, raising medical funds and flying the flag of the Viet Cong.
The ‘universal museum’ is a product of Enlightenment thinking, with museums such as the Louvre cast in an increasingly ludicrous position as guardians of global heritage. Is there another way?
As British cities are increasingly hollowed out by property developers, a tradition on the Italian left has seen the creation of ‘social centres’, where radical ways of being and thinking can take root. Can we replicate their success?
If Labour carries on with its baffling refusal to save Grangemouth oil refinery, hundreds of workers will lose jobs, Scotland could face fuel shortages, and – once again in British history – an entire community could face collapse.
Trump's tariffs look set to dismantle whatever remains of the 'rules-based international order'. Rather than bowing down, Britain should take the opportunity to do away with the hypocrisy of that system and build a different kind of world economy.
A new book rediscovers lessons from Black Panther survival programmes, solidarity networks of crisis-era Greece and the Occupy Sandy disaster relief efforts — and asks whether impending climate catastrophe means we should stop waiting and start doing.
A ‘filthy leftist’ in the eyes of his opponents, Pope Francis, who has died aged 88, brought radical energy to the papacy – but his reformism had limits, and now his successor seems likely to push the Catholic Church firmly rightwards.