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 ...

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 ...

In 2025 I have resolved to escape the clutches of my smartphone, which has turned out to be no small task – it encroaches on every aspect of my day-to-day life, from communication and banking to two ...

Can’t wait? Subscribe today to get the latest issue delivered straight to your door – and the next one hot off the press! Andrew Fisher is a political adviser and trade unionist, and was the Labour ...

The process by which certain passages from a famous book become emblematic of the book and its author is not straightforward. In the western academic tradition, Lenin’s What Is to Be Done? (1902) came ...

Margaret Thatcher claimed that shareholder democracy would give ordinary people the chance to have a greater stake in the economy and the companies they work for. At the same time, she demolished ...

The epithet ‘tankie’ began as an insult from one group of communists to another. It was coined by those in the Communist Party of Great Britain who opposed the invasion of Czechoslovakia by Warsaw ...

Just along from the Hungarian parliament building, visitors to Budapest can find Shoes on the Danube Bank. Consisting of 60 shoes facing the river looking westwards, it is a deeply poignant memorial ...

In July 2022, a courtroom fell into shared grief as the fate of ten black boys was read out by a judge at Preston Crown Court. This case, which I will refer to as the Manchester 10, would see a ...