Transmissions.

The both sides-ism of significant parts of the left on the recent protests in Cuba misses the crucial fact that their very meagreness suggests they have little to do with popular feeling.

by Aidan Ratchford
July 30, 2021

Gargi Bhattacharyya's new foreword to Ellen Wilkinson's 1939 book suggests we read it as a manual for excavating labour histories for current struggles.

by Gargi Bhattacharyya
July 22, 2021

Euro '2020' saw the culture war explode into football. The England squad have shown us how to fight, but they can't win it for us. It's time for fans to become militant anti-racists.

by Jude Wanga, Tom Williams
July 20, 2021

A report on the reading group discussing the role of legal challenges in the struggle to defend the right to protest.

by Materialist Lawyers Group
July 15, 2021

The reputation of political science is substantially shaped by a handful of "Pol Profs", but the academic study of politics is important. An anti-Pol Prof is needed.

by Jonathan Dean
July 9, 2021

If Left MPs decide to lock members out of a genuine choice of Labour leader by falling in behind Rayner they will be showing a craven weakness and condemning themselves to irrelevance.

by Nicky Hutchinson
July 1, 2021

The soft left of Labour is often imprecisely defined—but exploring the political effects of the 'left-wing but not voting with the left' faction in the 80s teaches us a lot about its possible trajectory today.

by Nicky Hutchinson
June 13, 2021

A statement calling on the government to abandon its censorious and repressive approach to controlling Palestine solidarity campaigning in schools.

by Palestine in School
June 4, 2021

Following last week's successful mass popular resistance to an immigration raid in Glasgow's Pollokshields, a consideration of the often inconspicuous work that makes these successes possible.

by Chris H
May 19, 2021

He's made his positions clear—the problem is that they're shit and unpopular.

by Nicky Hutchinson
May 9, 2021

The European Super League has led many on the left to see an opportunity for socialist argument - there is indeed an opportunity but it lies in more serious exploration of capitalism and football.

by Tom Williams
April 26, 2021

The so-called 'Nordic Model', which criminalises the purchase of sex, is often mooted as a solution to women's oppression. But does it work? Anastasia Diatlova offers a view from the Nordic countries.

by Anastasia Diatlova
April 20, 2021

How does the relationship between unionism and Brexit, recent policing scandals and the post-Troubles economy help understand the recent riots?

by Conor McFall
April 19, 2021

Both sides of debates within Labour over proportional representation avoid asking the important but difficult questions about the contradictions in the Labour alliance.

by Tom Blackburn
April 15, 2021

The Sarah Everard case, and the police crackdown that followed, have shown that police and prisons cannot keep us safe. Now it's time to take action.

by Sisters Uncut
March 18, 2021

The Farmers' Movement of India's North Western states should be understood not only as resisting Modi's Black Laws but as a challenge to a much longer history of imperialism and oppressive social relations.

by Amardeep Singh Dhillon
Feb. 15, 2021

The big "sell" of Starmer during his leadership campaign was competence. We aren't seeing much.

by George Peacock
Feb. 11, 2021

We are beginning to see murmurs of disquiet from liberal commentators for whom Starmer not being Corbyn is no longer enough. How should we understand Starmer's lack of vision?

by Tom Blackburn
Feb. 5, 2021

UCU cannot wait until the crisis in universities hits permanent members on secure contracts - the time for action is now.

by Corona Contract
Jan. 27, 2021

Data on political donations from the Electoral Commission shows that money in politics is much more a question of the exercise of class power of capitalists rather than direct corruption.

by Adam Blanden
Jan. 20, 2021

Courts are not Covid secure and any tenant losing their home will face an even greater range of difficulties under current conditions. There should be a stay in housing possession proceedings.

by LSWU Housing Group
Jan. 7, 2021

What are the basic ethical and analytical principles that can structure our understanding of and response to the pandemic crisis?

by JN Hoad
Dec. 22, 2020

The Government's refusal of a public inquiry into the murder of Pat Finucane is part of a cover up state collusion and an attempt to continue to obfuscate the political nature of the conflict in Ireland.

by Daniel Baker
Dec. 17, 2020

Recent months have seen the development of solidarity funds aiming to redistribute wealth locally and build the connections necessary for stronger community movements.

by Annie Pick, Sandy Goddard, Lily James and Ester
Dec. 14, 2020

Even motions in compliance with the restrictions imposed on democratic discussion by Labour's General Secretary appear to be leading to suspensions.

by anonymous
Dec. 12, 2020

In the first of three pieces, Tom Gann and josie sparrow reflect on some of the possibilities and limits of tenants' organising.

by Tom Gann, josie sparrow
Dec. 11, 2020

Corbyn's policies do remain popular with Labour members, but without the left building our influence independent of the leadership this is politically irrelevant.

by Terry Cox
Dec. 4, 2020

The pandemic may have dealt a decisive blow to an already irrational and often oppressive industry, but the sense of solidarity developed between English Language Teachers may outlive that collapse.

by Adam Blanden
Nov. 25, 2020

Labour's Green Economic Recovery is a huge retreat in terms of ambition and understanding of how to decarbonise the economy particularly when it comes to public ownership.

by Terry Cox
Nov. 20, 2020

Further Israeli annexations have led many to conclude the state is governed by an apartheid regime. Does this mean those who refuse to serve in the Israeli army could be able to claim asylum?

by Materialist Lawyers Group
Nov. 10, 2020

Art has always flourished against the odds—but it shouldn't have to. Gaps in Government support for working class artists present an opportunity to rethink culture from new principles.

by Fielding Hope
Nov. 6, 2020

As waves of direct action erupt across Poland in response to the latest crackdown on reproductive rights, new networks of trans-national solidarity are developing.

by Stefan Bielik
Nov. 5, 2020

High profile figures on the left claiming that Corbyn's response to the EHRC report was 'unwise' betray a poor understanding of the duties of comradeship.

by Nicky Hutchinson
Nov. 2, 2020

The result of Chile's referendum represents an overwhelming victory of the popular classes, but ultimately the direction of the country will be decided outside parliamentary and constitutional processes.

by Charlie Ebert
Oct. 29, 2020

Yesterday saw extensive and co-ordinated bad faith attacks on No More Exclusions in an attempt to undermine their work and abolitionist arguments in education.

by No More Exclusions
Oct. 27, 2020

Whilst the City of Culture scheme can build civic pride by celebrating non-metropolitan places, in Coventry it is contributing to the risk of losing what makes it unique.

by Luke Charnley
Oct. 15, 2020

Previously hegemonic ideas about Labour and the British state are crumbling in Wales, resulting in significant support for independence but the Labour Party are largely proving inadequate to this shift.

by Huw Williams
Oct. 13, 2020

It is necessary to explore criticisms of tenants' unions but their capacity to act and have effects may be more extensive than these critiques allow.

by Kate Bradley
Oct. 9, 2020

A statement of solidarity from legal workers specialising in immigration law.

by Legal Sector Workers United Immigration Group
Oct. 7, 2020

A Labour Party funded by ordinary people whether as members or through trade unions is a democratic necessity.

by Duncan Davis
Sept. 29, 2020

The DfE’s recent categorisation of organisations as part of PSHE guidance is extreme Conservative authoritarianism, a censorship of political education, and racial gaslighting.

by CARE: Coalition of Anti-Racist Educators, BEA: Black Educators Alliance
Sept. 28, 2020

Starmer's Director of Policy Claire Ainsley has a methodology which precisely links political communications and policy making. Understanding Starmer's strategy requires that we understand this.

by George Peacock
Sept. 24, 2020

Many guffawed and the combination of Nazi salutes and defence of the Churchill statue but in fact the symbolism is a coherent condensation of a white supremacist worldview.

by Francis Gooding
Sept. 19, 2020

We spoke to Roger about his experiences as a Black man within the labour movement, his Unison General Secretary candidature, and how best to organise for socialism and workers' control.

by The Editors, Roger McKenzie
Sept. 14, 2020

A spate of recent interventions aimed at Labour members risks deflecting attention from the rightward shift of the Parliamentary party.

by Nicky Hutchinson
Sept. 11, 2020

It's a positive step for the left to take housing struggles seriously as a site of political activity. But is a union-style dues-paying-membership organisation an effective model in the current housing context?

by Nick Bano
Aug. 31, 2020

Recent stories have seen attempts to “ethnicise” antisemitism, but the discourses and violence that make up the long history of antisemitism are far more organic to the cultures of white, Christian Europe.

by Michael Richmond
July 30, 2020

Ed Miliband is a serious, thoughtful, intellectually curious ideologue of the Labour centre and understanding this should shape socialist tactics and strategy.

by Nicky Hutchinson
July 23, 2020

We need socialist media, and part of the refounding of Momentum should be establishing a media fund to support and develop it.

by Leo Watkins
July 17, 2020

United Voices of the World shows how trade unions can beat back racist outsourcing

by Kane Shaw
July 16, 2020

UCU members should vote to reject the offer from the Universities and Colleges Employers Association to keep the current dispute live and build solidarity.

by Corona Contract
July 13, 2020

As Poland prepares to elect a new President, how should we understand the social context that has led to the rise of the right?

by Paulina Olszanka
July 12, 2020

How can Ted Knight's strategic proposition of rooted Labour Party units working in tandem with local communities & workers to challenge the capitalist order inform our strategies today?

by Ben Wiedel-Kaufmann
July 6, 2020

Casualised members are a source of strength and not weakness: we won't settle for a 'foot in the door'.

by Corona Contract
May 22, 2020

To begin the era of Starmer and Rayner by taking sides in a battle between two non-socialists would be a mistake. The left needs to develop an independent socialism.

by Nicky Hutchinson
May 13, 2020

Workers must demand nothing less than release of all immigration detainees and closure of immigration removal centres.

by Legal Sector Workers United
May 11, 2020

Now is the best time for organising rent strikes in England & Wales since at least the 1980s—but many discussions have been ideologically hollow and strategically underthought.

by Nick Bano, Franck Magennis
April 14, 2020

Outsourced BAME and migrant workers at SGUL are preparing to launch a landmark legal action against their employers. Here, they tell us why we should all support them.

by Cetin Avsar, Cyril Hawken, Kazi Ullah, Yomi Shittu, Dennis Darboh, Yusef Outtara and Dexter Ncube
April 4, 2020