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Under Ed Miliband’s leadership, Mark Fisher and Jeremy Gilbert wrote Reclaiming Modernity, which urged Labour to fight the neoliberal domination of workers’ lives, resist Britain’s endless marketisation — and harness the technological ambitions of the young century.
In the 1980s, a black working-class area of Bristol became an 'apartheid free zone'. Their community ban on racist institutions inspired thousands — and created a model to be used for today's fight for Palestinian freedom.
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.
Preston Bus Station isn’t just an iconic brutalist structure, it’s a reminder of a time when planning was bold – and public transport infrastructure was a symbol of the future.
In the post-war era, Coventry was rebuilt as an optimistic, modernist city. But the selling off of the city centre since the 1980s has made this year's City of Culture feel more like a City for Developers.
A new biography provides an intimate portrait of Marxist historian Eric Hobsbawm as his life ebbed and flowed with the left of the last century.
For decades, The Gay Hussar was the Labour Left’s integral Soho spot for organising, gossip, and goulash.
In 2017, Corbynism was a vibrant socialist project with a real prospect of power — in the two years since, it inflicted many of its own wounds.
Historian and philosopher Paul Gilroy gives a critical assessment of racial politics in Brexit Britain.
By naming Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador 'Tyrant of the Year', Index on Censorship has exposed its role in slandering world leaders who dare to challenge the Western establishment.
In a landmark address, Len McCluskey remembers pioneering labour organiser Tom Maguire and argues that the trade union movement his generation built is as relevant as ever.
Today would have been Pete Seeger's 101st birthday. We remember his contributions to song and socialism.
Labour should respond to the general election defeat by looking back not a month or a year, but over the past two decades – to what it did in government, in opposition and in response to Britain's emerging constitutional crises.
April 28th is celebrated as Mujahideen Victory Day in Afghanistan. But for the country's Revolutionary Women's Movement (RAWA), it marks a 'black day' when misogyny was institutionalised by an oppressive regime.
The rise of the workers' movement in twentieth century Europe transformed the lives of millions – but its momentum halted when it abandoned the goal of moving beyond capitalism and building a new world in its own image.
While far-right violence claimed the headlines in Glasgow this week, the cause behind the original peaceful protest endures – the inhumane living conditions facing asylum seekers in the city.