For capital, the Covid-19 crisis represents an opportunity. How can the left resist and respond in ways that are affirmative of life?

by josie sparrow
April 23, 2020

Calls which suggest "moral judgements" should be replaced by "strategy" misunderstand what it means to organise a movement from below.

by Daniel Frost
April 19, 2020

Labour's left is disorientated and fractured after traumatising defeats. But any retreat into low-stakes sectarianism would consign it to irrelevance for years to come.

by Tom Blackburn
April 9, 2020

The health of prisoners was already in crisis before the Coronavirus outbreak, what should a radical response be to this life or death issue?

by David Scott, Joe Sim
March 26, 2020

Whatever the result of the Democratic Primaries, the Socialist Republicanism of Eugene V. Debs offers a way forward in conceptualising socialism as a politics of freedom.

by Tom O'Shea
March 15, 2020

Powerlessness is the root of so many of the problems faced by ordinary people. Community organising can challenge this.

by Tom Williams
March 13, 2020

Calls to give up distinctively socialist policies for short-term tactical gain are mistaken. The left can learn as much from 2017 as 1983.

by Rory Macqueen
March 4, 2020

Khan's proposal is an empty gesture that relies on British exceptionalism. This is why the Remain movement failed.

by Sabrina Huck
March 3, 2020

What would it take to reject capitalist temporality? In Jenny Odell's popular book, Nicole Froio finds a new way to think about productivity, connection, and relationship.

by Nicole Froio
March 2, 2020

The Jewish Labour Movement leadership hustings demonstrated the limits of current attitudes towards antisemitism. The left must develop its own analysis of this oppression.

by Joanna Phillips
March 1, 2020

The support of most Labour leadership candidates for trans rights is welcome. But arguments over 'sex' and 'gender' miss the sheer complexity and bureaucracy of current laws on gender recognition.

by Jules Joanne Gleeson
Feb. 27, 2020

Keir Starmer looks set to win & Rebecca Long-Bailey’s campaign has stuttered, but the left must not pass up a historic opportunity to transform the party, & resist the inevitable attempts to do so from the right.

by Tom Williams
Feb. 26, 2020

Keir Starmer's leadership bid gestures towards generosity whilst manipulating our emotions & appealing to our unconscious biases. We should refuse this dishonesty.

by josie sparrow
Feb. 24, 2020

Blending essay and fiction, Holly Jean Buck argues that ecosocialists must engage with new technologies

by Justin Reynolds
Feb. 20, 2020

The Conservative government may wish to centralise power in Westminster – but there are trends in British society that no tech whizz can fix.

by Adam Blanden
Feb. 12, 2020

Ashley Bohrer's latest book brings Marxism and intersectionality into dialogue, offering a groundbreaking reading of the two traditions, but a limited view of collective struggle.

by Jules Joanne Gleeson
Jan. 23, 2020

Our hope, our love, and our togetherness are powerfully transformative. We must never forget this.

by josie sparrow
Dec. 11, 2019

After the election the real struggle begins, it's time to fight fire with fire. Time for Class War Corbynism.

by Archie Woodrow
Dec. 11, 2019

How should the Tory moratorium on fracking be understood in the context of their efforts to reshape society and the state to render them even more subject to the logic of the market.

by Gareth Fearn
Dec. 5, 2019

The reactionary disavower wants to stake a claim to a mode of rationality which is as equally grounded in feeling and fantasy as the furthest-out-there utopian and moralistic socialists.

by Andrew Key
Dec. 1, 2019

Why thousands who had never taken part in political activism before are campaigning for Labour.

by Tom Williams
Nov. 30, 2019

Labour's manifesto offers a great deal but when it comes to trans rights there is a worrying ambiguity around the Equality Act and trans healthcare is completely ignored.

by Elaine O'Neill
Nov. 25, 2019

There are potential contradictions between decarbonisation in the Global North and the needs of communities in the Global South. How should we handle them?

by Daniel Willis
Nov. 18, 2019

Debates between partisans of “reform” or “revolution” presume that the Bolsheviks really “smashed” the Tsarist state. What if this isn’t true?

by Ed Rooksby
Nov. 3, 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

John McDonnell's UBS report offers a potential framework for a revolution in the ways we conceive of and meet our needs.

by Tom Gann, josie sparrow
Sept. 23, 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

Leaked documents reveal the Tories' plans to offer teachers a massive pay rise and more power—but at what cost?

by M Tetrapod
Aug. 28, 2019

The self-image of the celebrity centrist relies on the stereotype of an uneducated, bigoted, 'White Working Class'. It's time for them to take responsibility for their own beliefs.

by Phil McDuff
Aug. 12, 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 Tom Blackburn, Rhian E. Jones
July 17, 2019

The decision not to readmit Williamson offers a sliver of hope that the left of the Party, and its apparatus, may yet be able to tackle antisemitism.

by The Editors
June 30, 2019

Technocratic policy fixes and sci-fi fantasies won’t save us—ecological collapse calls us to rethink our attitudes to extraction, exploitation, and interconnection.

by josie sparrow
June 16, 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

For political education to work, it must connect theory to what is local, material, and concrete. Southampton Transformed is one of a number of regional events aiming to do this.

by Tom Williams
May 31, 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

Ralph Miliband and the new left's analysis of the failures of the 1945 Attlee Government, allows us to predict the obstacles that would face a socialist government and offers ideas how these might be overcome.

by Dan Evans
March 24, 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 Larne Abse Gogarty, Hannah Proctor
March 13, 2019

Recent attempts to rehabilitate vitalism, despite claims to be radically ecological, are an example of how fascism re-appropriates the past in an attempt to colonise the future.

by josie sparrow
March 10, 2019

To claim that working-class women don't do politics is to overlook past and present experience of how, and what happens when, they do.

by Rhian E. Jones
March 8, 2019

To get further than vapid statements about ‘change’ and ‘politics being broken’, centrists must ask themselves some fundamental questions about beliefs and strategy.

by Juliet Jacques
March 5, 2019

What does the Independent Group’s claimed “duty to lead” tell us about their attitude towards the world-making capacities of the working class?

by josie sparrow
Feb. 25, 2019

The longing for a vanished world can't be assuaged by pretending the dark history of working-class defeat encoded in 'A Design For Life' never happened. It can only answered by the production of a new world.

by Dan Barrow
Feb. 8, 2019

Despite the many gains made by feminist and LGBTQ activists, society - including the mainstream left - remains more invested in the couple and the nuclear family than in broader ideas of community.

by Spinsters for Corbyn
Feb. 6, 2019

Asad Haider’s Mistaken Identity, one of the stronger contributions to the ‘identity debate’, is a convincing defence of coalitions and class struggle but an all too subtle argument against political pessimism

by Jules Joanne Gleeson
Jan. 6, 2019

How might re-conceptualising pregnancy as work—that is, alienated labour—help us radicalise the politics of care in trans-inclusive ways?

by Sophie Lewis
Dec. 26, 2018

Only a particular sort of socialism can make the necessary junction between ecology and the satisfaction of needs.

by Raymond Williams
Dec. 9, 2018

In 'For a Left Populism', Chantal Mouffe talks of radicalising democracy and partisan interventions. But what she actually offers is not especially bold.

by Chris Green
Dec. 6, 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

The Very British Coup megagame provides much food for thought on how Labour should approach its present internal and external battles, and the bigger ones still to come.

by John Foster
Nov. 23, 2018

Three lessons from history about labour movements drifting to the right, and how we can guard against it.

by Matteo Tiratelli
Nov. 15, 2018

A genuinely democratic system that is open to popular knowledge is an essential part of defining our lived social spaces

by Gareth Fearn
Nov. 11, 2018

Andrew O’Hagan’s ‘The Tower’ is neither radical or neutral, but a symptom of a middle-class journalism that upholds and supports the given political order through its dishonest claims of objectivity

by josie sparrow
Oct. 25, 2018

Capitalism has pocketed much of the foundational infrastructure of the internet. Here's how we can start uprooting it.

by Hendrik Erz
Oct. 23, 2018

The Guardian's sly, transphobic editorial rightly caused outrage but should also help clarify strategies for future trans politics

by Jules Joanne Gleeson
Oct. 21, 2018

The democratisation of candidate selection opens up questions and possibilities that are much wider than factional advance

by Tom Gann
Sept. 22, 2018

An ambitious policy agenda for change is taking shape on the left in both Britain and the United States. But so far the structure of the state has not featured prominently in proposals for reform.

by Dan Hind
Sept. 18, 2018

Jeremy Corbyn's media reform speech was a good start, but flawed - it severely underestimated the scale of the media crisis.

by Leo Watkins
Sept. 12, 2018

What good is theory in the face of catastrophic climate change? In "The Progress of the Storm" Andreas Malm articulates a strong case for a red-green, anti-fascist, anti-colonialist politics

by Andrew Key
Aug. 11, 2018

The Get the L Out disruption of Pride reflects capital's tendencies to fragment and incorporate struggles.

by Jules Joanne Gleeson
July 19, 2018

On the words that are the very keys to unlocking politicisation and its potentialities; a blueprint for thinking, critically and reflectively and a signpost pointing towards practice.

by Daniel Bristow
June 29, 2018

The Labor Republicans offer ways to help us talk about how work makes us unfree

by Tom O'Shea
June 7, 2018

Labour's positioning on the police represents a failure of leadership and a failure to challenge oppression with harmful consequences

by Ashara Peake
May 15, 2018

In the wake of the local election results, how should strategies for local government sit in Britain's geography?

by Daniel Frost
May 8, 2018

This hostile environment is no mystery. British capitalism developed in symbiosis with empire: a formal structure of violent domination and exploitation of people of colour the world over.

by David Wearing
April 24, 2018

Antisemitism exists within the left, including among supporters of Jeremy Corbyn. There must be no place for it, it must be condemned without equivocation.

by The Editors
April 9, 2018

It is now more important than ever for the labour and trade union movement alongside the British left, more generally, to take a hard stance against transphobia and transmisogyny.

by Sylv M
March 15, 2018

Several weeks ago, Johann Hari told us that everything we knew about depression was wrong.

by Nic Murray
March 12, 2018

New Developments in the Abuse and Expression of Effeminacy in Anonymous Online Spaces

by Jules Joanne Gleeson
Feb. 3, 2018

As Alice Bonasio tweeted live from the Lush Creative Showcase on 4 September 2017: ‘Jeremy Corbyn says he’s got no bath to use the bath bomb he’s made [in.] “Number 10 has a bath” replies Mark Constantine.’

by Everyday Analysis
Oct. 15, 2017

On U.S. campuses it is increasingly clear that fascist strategy is to hypocritically use notions of free speech to support a racist, reactionary agenda.

by Aaron Jaffe
Sept. 24, 2017

In an exclusive and edited extract from his new book "The Corbyn Effect", Mark Perryman traces the origins and potential of Corbynism.

by The Editors
Sept. 20, 2017

Tom Gann spoke to Mark Perryman about the legacy of Stuart Hall, Labour modernity, possibilities for radical organisation, cultural politics and more.

by Tom Gann
Sept. 18, 2017

Inevitably, Angela Nagle’s new polemical non-fiction book, Kill All Normies, sent me on a trip down memory lane.

by Jules Joanne Gleeson
Sept. 17, 2017

It is necessary to criticise Jeremy Corbyn’s recent comments on immigration, which are not only a problem in themselves but indicative of a general direction of the project which needs to be resisted.

by Tom Gann
Aug. 18, 2017

This critique comes from a place of solidarity.

by Uday Jain
Aug. 11, 2017

Arguably, we are at a critical sociohistorical juncture.

by James Trafford
Aug. 10, 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

This piece follows on from the author's election special essay, "The Hegemon Crack'd".

by David Beer
July 19, 2017

In 1987, the late Stuart Hall published an essay titled ‘Gramsci and Us’ in Marxism Today, then (still officially at least) the theoretical journal of the Communist Party of Great Britain.

by Chris Green
July 8, 2017

The General Election result not only settles the question of the Labour leadership but also of the broad contours of the programme, at least in terms of social and economic policy, for the next election.

by Tom Gann
July 3, 2017

Some insightful comparisons have been drawn in recent weeks between the Labour Party’s platform at the recent general election and their platform in 1983.

by Edie Miller
June 26, 2017

"Credibility" is a sort of shadow-play in which sincerity is always understood to be instrumental, a token, something more or less successfully faked.

by Dominic Fox
June 22, 2017

What happens when the most firmly held of common senses meet the hard reality of political transformation?

by Alex Williams
June 18, 2017

After the June 2017 General Election, can we see a new class coalition emerging?

by Kyle
June 17, 2017

After the election result I couldn’t help being reminded of the classic TV show Columbo. It played out a little like that.

by David Beer
June 16, 2017

It’s worth exploring precisely why there is, and will continue to be, a lingering anxiety about the trustworthiness of centrist détente.

by Joe Kennedy
June 13, 2017