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The Green party and the new ‘Your Party’ need collaboration and grassroots organising to forge real change, argues Liam ...
Mamdani’s impressive victory in last month’s primaries contains sources of hope for transformative politics in the US, writes ...
Thirty years after its heyday, Esther Freeman traces the history of Reclaim the Streets, the movement’s energy – and its legacy ...
Every time ‘ceasefire efforts’ or ‘truce negotiations’ are announced, the same scene returns to the minds of Gaza’s residents: breaking news alerts; tense scrolling through social media, and ...
Some of us read histories of the left for nostalgic reasons. Some of us do so to learn, or to measure the distance travelled, or find fresh inspiration. A few look for nails to drive into coffins, ...
In 1994, inspired by 500 years of anti-colonial struggle, the rebel peasant Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN) declared war ‘on neoliberalism, for humanity’ via an armed uprising. The ...
The first volume of Tariq Ali’s autobiography, Street Fighting Years (1987), focused on his youth. This latest volume follows on from 1979, taking the reader into his eighties, and includes a ...
There have been a number of works examining the rise, decline and fall of the Soviet system but few from the angle of serious post-Soviet Marxism, at least when it comes to works translated into ...
In 1994, it was possible – though challenging – to launch a monthly print magazine. Market-led politics were already eroding the welfare state but it still offered sufficient security for people to ...
In the ever-shifting landscape and viability of print media, left-wing publications can take many forms and directions. Paula Lacey spotlights a selection of trajectories taken in the UK and beyond ...
In the wake of the Aberfan disaster, which killed 116 children and 28 adults when a colliery spoil tip collapsed onto the Welsh village in 1966, a group of men got together to sing as a way of ...