5th Birthday
Edition #3. September 2022.
Contents.
Editorials
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Updates on what we've been up to and previewing TWT 2022.
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Previewing our event at this year's TWT.
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Six important New Socialist pieces.
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NS x TWT
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An extended version of a talk given at Feminism is for Every Body, TWT2022.
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Essays
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On the fifty-fifth anniversary his death, we're reading the young Guevara’s ‘The US Working-Class: Friend or Enemy?
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The history of New Socialist as a way of telling the history of the last few years of the British left. Part one considers "the proto New Socialist".
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Opening a conversation about what left media in 2022 is for, Daniel Eales offers a vision of grassroots analysis and critique.
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The left are told we must vote Labour, because otherwise the Tories will win. But the late 19th century shows us how fragile these anti-Tory hegemonies can be.
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Understanding the possible trajectories of Sudan since Omar al-Bashir was deposed requires locating it within the tide of forces, local and global, that regularly bypass its nominal borders.
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Does ‘left media’ have to reproduce the attitudes and practices of the ‘mainstream’? How might we imagine something different?
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Structural conditions are moving against neoliberal policy solutions— but, absent a counter-hegemonic force, this movement produces monsters.
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Columns
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The grown-ups are back in the room: it's time to put all those silly hopes and dreams away.
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Introducing a short series of texts theorising the emergence of Just Stop Oil and the new climate militancy.
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In their hostility to disruptive action, left intellectuals have much more in common with the authoritarian centrism of Keir Starmer than with actual militants.
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Just Stop Oil's strategic approach shows us that popular power already exists. What would it mean for the left to take this seriously?
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Culture Is Ordinary
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Arts funding in Britain places institutions in a constant position of precarity, with survival never guaranteed. This has particularly grim impacts on workers in the sector from musicians to office staff.
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Books
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Where next for the left after Starmidor?
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Anwen Crawford’s ‘No Document’ purports to pay tribute to rebellion, but instead spirals off into a narcissistic vortex of white possession.
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