Arundati Roy grapples with the complex forces, both global and close to home, which formed her – not least her remarkable and ...

The phrase ‘dual power’ came out of the Russian Revolution and was used by Leninists, particularly Trotskyists. It has since been taken up by many anarchists to mean a strategy for reaching ...

Phil Wigglesworth reflects on the launch of Left Cultures in 2023 – and why the international left must embrace non-hierarchical approaches to publishing ...

In December 1948, a group of prominent US Jews, including Albert Einstein and Hannah Arendt, wrote a letter to the New York Times expressing concern over the emergence of ‘The Freedom Party’ (Tnuat ...

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 ...

Journalism has a diversity problem. That’s not a new revelation. According to a 2023 survey by the Canadian Association of Journalists, 76 per cent of the country’s newsrooms have no visible minority ...

I was 15 when I attended my first Radiohead concert in Dublin and was thrilled to see a Free Tibet banner hanging on the stage. In 2000, this was a cause celebre and my little activist heart – usually ...

The Soviet Union, in the 74 years of its existence in one form or another, was a society that was all about building. The Soviets claimed in the 1970s to have ‘built’ socialism, and while they never ...

Under Keir Starmer, Labour has completed its right-wing shift, forsaking a more egalitarian vision for a single goal: better-managed decline. In the process it has closed down debate and ended the ...

The police exist to keep us safe – or so we are told by mainstream media and popular culture. TV shows exaggerate the amount of serious crime and the nature of what most police officers do all day.

The Trades Union Congress (TUC) was formed in 1868 as an umbrella organisation for trade unionists in the UK. Its purpose was to bring unions together and ‘take action in parliamentary matters ...

Surveillance has always been a crucial part of Israel’s settler colonial endeavour. Prior to the establishment of the Israeli state in the 1940s, squads from Zionist paramilitary groups roamed ...