What do horseshoe crabs, COVID-19, Stonehenge, ticks, and Kirstie Allsopp have in common? They all have a part to play in the story of how capital produces nature.

by josie sparrow
Aug. 25, 2020

Making claims for better pay or greater respect through skill is dangerous. Celebrating people’s aptitude for work that exploits them is a misplaced form of solidarity.

by Mediocre Dave
Aug. 25, 2020

In the 1980s Raymond Williams was the thinker of the relation between the conjunctural and the organic. This grounded his position on electoral and political strategy.

by Tom Gann
Aug. 25, 2020

The advocates of coalition politics, whether big (anti-Tory) or small (labourist), have abandoned the struggle to transform belief and opinion. Opposing both coalitions is necessary for socialist renewal.

by Raymond Williams
Aug. 25, 2020

The disproportionate destruction of racialised communities through Covid-19 is the continuation of the colonial violence of which Florence Nightingale was a part.

by Alex Benham
Aug. 25, 2020

Uprisings reveal policing including that of the British state as not only domination, exclusion and hierarchical ordering but grounded in an originary war and the unpoliceability of colonial subjects.

by James Trafford
Aug. 25, 2020

Socialist transfeminist proposals offer a challenge to the ever-increasing backlash against trans people.

by Sylv M
Aug. 25, 2020

Labour victory in 2025 will require a break with the common sense of the post-1979 era. We need a new Guilty Men thesis to enable that rupture.

by Paul Ewart
Aug. 25, 2020

If we are to think about alternatives to policing and prisons, we must also think critically about the mental health system’s own relationships to structures of institutional racism, violence, and the state.

by Steffan Blayney
Aug. 25, 2020

Chile wants a revolution but a mixture of the effects of the Coronavirus crisis and an inequality of force has, so far, blocked it.

by Charlie Ebert
Aug. 25, 2020

The Labour leadership contest and Starmer’s early leadership represent a return to normality for Labour – a normality in which the votes of Black and Brown people are taken for granted.

by Zaynah
Aug. 25, 2020

In expressing joy in the social, creating lived utopias beyond the family, and destabilising normality, Prince is a key example and practitioner of acid communism.

by Toby Manning
Aug. 25, 2020

The Coronavirus crisis has seen a return to the familiar EU deadlocks. This can best be understood through how the EU represents and organises (and disorganises) class fractions.

by Adam Blanden
Aug. 25, 2020

The original New Socialist aimed “to renew democratic socialism” by engineering a broad political coalition. How successful was it?

by Daniel Frost
Aug. 25, 2020

Only a participatory socialist approach can make good on the potential of the Corbyn-McDonnell economic programme.

by Mary Robertson
Aug. 25, 2020