Here to Stay, Here to Fight is an important archive of Black British History which will be welcome and relevant today and in the years ahead.

by Shaheen Sutton
Feb. 14, 2020

Billy Bragg’s 1985 hit remains both a rallying cry and a warning.

by Toby Manning
Dec. 23, 2019

How collectivism, mutual aid and political education formed a fundamental part of working-class community and culture.

by Rhian E. Jones
Oct. 11, 2019

In advance of the TWT policy lab, what might a socialist media look like and how would it relate to other commitments to a democratised everyday life.

by Tom Mills, Dan Hind, Leo Watkins
Sept. 18, 2019

What does Jeremy Corbyn's favourite novel reveal about the character of his politics?

by Tom Allen
Sept. 15, 2019

Salford Community Theatre's latest production, 'The Salford Docker', points the way to new and more engaging forms of socialist political education.

by Beth Redmond
July 19, 2019

The achievements of mining communities and unions are celebrated in spite of the conditions in which they arose, not because of them, and this heritage also fuels today's struggles.

by Rhian E. Jones, Tom Blackburn
July 17, 2019

Radical music, like radical politics, can energise and mobilise us towards collective liberation—but physical and conceptual borders are threatening this potential.

by Fielding Hope
June 4, 2019

Owen Hatherley discusses "The Adventures of Owen Hatherley in the Post-Soviet Space" and Tribune magazine.

by Tom Gann, Owen Hatherley
May 31, 2019

Can the arts address ordinary people’s experiences of political, social and cultural marginalisation, and redress media sensationalism of working-class lives?

by Rhian E. Jones
May 16, 2019

UK arts policy has rarely paid attention to working conditions. How can a cultural "projectariat" find good quality work while also building vibrant creative scenes?

by Charles Umney
May 7, 2019

The revolutionary is everywhere in pop culture, but revolutionary politics are conspicuous by their absence - or by their vilification.

by Alister MacQuarrie
March 27, 2019

Works by Doris Lessing and Vivian Gornick on the fall-out around 1956 uncover the passion that's missing from conventional political histories. What can we learn from them?

by Hannah Proctor, Larne Abse Gogarty
March 13, 2019

Two very different books show the present state and future possibilities of struggles over the place of universities in society.

by Pete Mitchell
March 2, 2019

How the alliance of grime and Corbynism bridged the gap between formal and informal politics and strengthened youth engagement.

by Will Evans, Selina Starflinger
Feb. 19, 2019

Like his former teacher Ursula Le Guin, Robinson has never lost faith in our capacity to use our collective intelligence and technological prowess to transcend limiting orthodoxies.

by Justin Reynolds
Jan. 5, 2019

Discussion of Pete Shelley's radical cultural heritage and legacy after his death, and his music.

by David Wilkinson
Dec. 18, 2018

Alongside economic and political struggle, socialism will involve overcoming elitist gatekeeping to apply shared ownership and democratic control to everyday cultural activities.

by Mike Quille
Dec. 5, 2018

Rescuing the memory of past working-class struggles, like Telford's 'Cinderloo', can kindle political commitment for the present and future.

by Paul Walsh, Pete Jackson
Nov. 19, 2018

In contrast to the enormous condescension of conservative commentators, the left has tried in various ways to keep the memory of the Peterloo massacre alive.

by Joseph Cozens
Nov. 6, 2018

History disproves the idea that political awareness, activism and culture are beyond the grasp of ‘ordinary’ people.

by Rhian E. Jones
Nov. 5, 2018

The arts - though sometimes viewed as relatively autonomous - are subject to the diktats of neoliberal structures. It’s time for Labour in government to fundamentally change these structures.

by Kieran Curran
Oct. 15, 2018

With spaces like The World Transformed, this future is closer than we might think.

by Sam Swann
Aug. 22, 2018

Authentocrats is a staging-post in cultural criticism post Corbyn and post post-politics, where it's valid to talk directly about politics and left-populism without being deemed passé.

by Rhian E. Jones
July 24, 2018

An extract from "Authentocrats": Good taste conservationist conservatism and optimistic traditionalism offers no useful challenge to nihilistic paranoid patriotism.

by Joe Kennedy
July 8, 2018

On the afternoon of June 24th 2017, Jeremy Corbyn stepped onto Glastonbury’s Pyramid Stage to introduce the politically charged hip-hop duo Run the Jewels.

by Jack Frayne-Reid
March 18, 2018

The fantasy genre is suffering from a crisis of imagination, mired in its conservative vision of a world slipping into ruin, longing for its past.

by David Lamb
March 9, 2018

The Dispossessed, Le Guin’s science fiction novel set on Anarres, a breakaway moon colony populated by anarchists, told more than one generation that “you cannot buy the revolution”.

by Ewan Cameron
March 9, 2018

On how the #MeToo backlash relies on and deploys some much older (stereo)types

by Antonia Louisa Georgiou
Feb. 15, 2018

Four decades on from its debut, Trevor Griffiths' newly-relevant 'Bill Brand' remains a work of unusual political rigour and depth.

by Tom Blackburn
Feb. 2, 2018

In the 1970s, TV was the dominant medium. Not, as it is today, one of dozens of diffuse forms competing for distracted attention.

by Owen Hatherley
Jan. 26, 2018

When I was young and given a pencil with which to draw, I would draw cruder versions of whatever it was my brother had drawn before me.

by Odrán Waldron
Dec. 15, 2017

The Death of Stalin; very much a red flag to a bull.

by Tom Munday
Nov. 21, 2017

In tandem with a growing distrust in politicians and journalists, the public sphere in the US and the UK is becoming increasingly comedified.

by Willow Lloyd
Nov. 8, 2017

In February 2014, there was a terrifying scene outside of the Mountain View swallowing Googleplex.

by Odrán Waldron
Nov. 4, 2017

Anthony Cartwright’s Iron Towns (2016), Paul Kingsnorth’s The Wake (2014) and Ben Myers’ The Gallows Pole as ‘Goodhartian Novels’.

by Joe Kennedy
Oct. 29, 2017

When we watch films as a form of entertainment, we rarely consider that the violence we witness on screen could reflect a harrowing off-screen reality.

by Antonia Louisa Georgiou
Oct. 19, 2017

“Every time I see a person in a cardboard box in London,” Tony Benn once told parliament, “I say, that person is a victim of market forces.”

by Jack Frayne-Reid
Sept. 15, 2017

Mark Perryman of Philosophy Football explores the possibilities of fan culture as a social movement.

by Mark Perryman
Sept. 8, 2017

Belonging: The Truth Behind the Headlines is a new documentary by Morag Livingstone.

by Rhian E. Jones
Aug. 31, 2017

What exactly is “folk” about “folk politics”?

by Sam Warren Meill
Aug. 8, 2017

This September, thousands of Labour Party members - including constituency and trade union delegates from across Britain - will descend upon Brighton for this year’s Labour conference.

by The Editors
Aug. 4, 2017

A city's character is both constantly negotiated in the struggle between its constituent parts, and shaped and re-shaped by its relationship with local and global economies.

by Kieran Dodds
July 12, 2017

‘Fucking melt’, ‘salt the slugs’, ‘absolutely bodied by the absolute boy’. The left internet at the peak of the election was alive with raucous glee.

by Suze Marsupial
June 18, 2017

A small group of handsomely paid political commentators convinced themselves that they understood the governing laws of electoral politics.

by Tom Mills
June 12, 2017