Tom Gann, The Editors

Updates on what we've been up to and previewing TWT 2022.

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Previewing our event at this year's TWT.

Tom Williams

Six important New Socialist pieces.

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An extended version of a talk given at Feminism is for Every Body, TWT2022.

Aidan Ratchford

On the fifty-fifth anniversary his death, we're reading the young Guevara’s ‘The US Working-Class: Friend or Enemy?

Tom Gann

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".

Daniel Blakeburn

Opening a conversation about what left media in 2022 is for, Daniel Eales offers a vision of grassroots analysis and critique.

David Renton

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.

Hassan E.T.

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?

Gareth Fearn

Structural conditions are moving against neoliberal policy solutions— but, absent a counter-hegemonic force, this movement produces monsters.

Tom Gann

The grown-ups are back in the room: it's time to put all those silly hopes and dreams away.

Tom Gann

Introducing a short series of texts theorising the emergence of Just Stop Oil and the new climate militancy.

Tom Gann

In their hostility to disruptive action, left intellectuals have much more in common with the authoritarian centrism of Keir Starmer than with actual militants.

Tom Gann

Just Stop Oil's strategic approach shows us that popular power already exists. What would it mean for the left to take this seriously?

Tim Lutton

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.

Tom Blackburn

Where next for the left after Starmidor?

Pitaya Chin

Anwen Crawford’s ‘No Document’ purports to pay tribute to rebellion, but instead spirals off into a narcissistic vortex of white possession.