Tom Gann

Updates on what we’ve been up to and the current situation with New Socialist.

Tom Gann

The statements of the Resistance groups are a valuable source of knowledge about what's happening in Palestine. So why aren’t British journalists paying attention?

josie sparrow

The British labour movement is failing Palestine.

Energy Embargo for Palestine

Ahead of Monday’s global day of action against BP and the Turkish state, New Socialist interviewed Energy Embargo for Palestine about the group, their vision, and their strategy.

Alfie Hancox

On the 50th anniversary of the National Conference of Trade Unionists Against Racism, its wide-ranging deliberations need to be recognised.

Malone

“Some people go into a militant strike as a sleazy creep, participate in the action alongside women strikers and supporters, and emerge at the end of it still being a sleazy creep.”

Carl Neville

The wounds of class are ever-present and life-long.

Anonymous

“Class affects the mind, we know that, and it’s difficult to communicate this.”

Adam Blanden

Understanding monetary policy requires grasping the peculiar transnational class position of some of capital's key organic intellectuals: central bankers.

Matan Kaminer

The supposed “naturalness” of the Thai migrant agricultural worker as a basis for examining the longer history of racialisation and class formation in Zionist agriculture.

Nikhil Venkatesh

As a novel, ‘The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists’ is bad. Yet it has become a sacred text of the British labour movement. What can we learn from it today?

Dan Evans

Workers have structural power, as the strike wave of 2022 demonstrated. But the working class remains weak and fragmented, and its politics are increasingly chaotic. What is to be done?

Juliet Jacques

The story of Horley's only Communist councillor shows how even the most ostensibly middle-class places can benefit from socialism – and that it’s worth making that case, however lonely or absurd it can seem.

Owen Hatherley

“The excitement I feel looking at the 1960s architecture of Kenzo Tange is rooted in the excitement I felt as a six-year-old boy looking at the animated Autobot City.”

Trey Taylor

New Order - a socio-political art thriller from Mexican director Michel Franco, fêted with the Grand Jury Prize at 2020’s Venice Film Festival - is much less radical than it thinks it is.

Hannah Boast

In Britain, toilets have always been a flashpoint for debates about who ‘belongs’ in public space. The Tōkyō Toilet Project shows us how toilets can instead transform and expand public space.

Pitaya Chin

In Weathering With You, Makoto Shinkai asks: in the context of climate catastrophe, what happens when choosing life conflicts with preserving the kind of world which sustains life?

Peter Mitchell

Beneath the veneer of boozy masculinity, beyond the jokes and the sentiment, the Pogues are a strange and haunted band, irreducibly wild and uncategorisable.

Andrew Page

Three years on from the Saudi takeover of Newcastle United, the promised investment in the city has failed to materialise. How was this allowed to happen?

Aviah Sarah Day, Shanice Octavia McBean

Coercion and control are the tactics of abusers, and coercing and controlling the working class is the job of the police. Abolition is class struggle!

Michael Richmond, Alex Charnley

The 1905 Aliens Act, and the role of significant parts of the labour movement in agitating for immigration controls, forces us to think concretely about how racism changes.

Toby Manning

The enduring optimism of late 60s music contrasts starkly with the cynicism of the early 2020s—but the political parallels are striking.

Tom Blackburn

Isaac Rose’s The Rentier City is a provocative study and a much-needed riposte to the siren song of trickle-down housing.