
Transmissions.
Dispatches from the struggle.
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Call for pitches: Class.
All the information you need to pitch for our forthcoming 'Class' edition.
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A Revolution Fights on its Stomach: the story of Cambridge Community Kitchen
In late 2020, a small group of squatters entered an abandoned pub in Cambridge. Eighteen months on, it's become a focal point for feeding—and transforming—the city.
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Beyond the Right to Food?
How might we nourish everyone without exploiting land, life, and labour?
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New Socialist 5th Birthday Edition
This June will be our 5th birthday, to mark it we're going to publish a mini-edition.
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Safe as Houses? Can the Tories keep their electoral Coalition together?
The real glue keeping the Tories’ electoral coalition together is not big spending pledges, but the promise of protection offered by Johnson to his homeowning voter base.
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‘Bolshevik tactics’: fighting for better housing in 1980s Dublin
The histories of housing activism are frequently overlooked, and struggles easily forgotten. In Ireland, CATU members are working to reconstruct the collective memory of the housing movement.
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No More Cruel Optimism, Leaving the Labour Party
The capitulation of left MPs over the question of NATO is the final straw.
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‘Not Racism’™
What is ‘not racism’? This short comic by Petroglyph Studios and Alana Lentin explains how this new form of discursive racist violence can operate.
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Renewing the Land Question: Against Greengrabbing and Green Colonialism
Neither rewilding nor agribusiness, but agroecological socialism.
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The Slow Death of the Campaign Group
By tolerating a semi-autonomous faction that seeks compromise with the centre, the Socialist Campaign Group could be sealing the fate of socialism in the Labour Party.
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Reflections on the Chilean Election
With Boric’s resounding victory, the Chilean far right have been kept out of office. But legislative limits, and conformist cabinet appointments, mean that there may well be little else to celebrate.
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A Negative Peace: 50 Years Since Bloody Sunday
It is impossible to understand the Bogside Massacre without acknowledging the colonialist nature of British occupation in Ireland.
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Philosemitism: An Instrumental Kind of Love
Histories of philosemitism to try to grasp our current conjuncture and the necessity of an autonomous antiracism.
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Open Meeting for Subscribers
Details of our open meeting at which subscribers can help shape plans for New Socialist.
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Palestine, Feminism, and The Pitfalls of Liberalism in Germany and Beyond
An interview on Race and Figurations of the Palestinian in Germany Today.
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Chile: Polarisation, Party Crisis and Prospects for the Left
Analysis of the likely outcome of the Chilean Presidential election. The left should win but the prospect of low turnout in poorer, radical neighbourhoods is a potential wild card.
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The Bank and the Public Good
Analysis of the Bank of England's decisions over interest rate increases needs to be understood through its role in securing the legitimacy of the British state through organising a supportive social bloc.
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Event: Philosemitism & antisemitism—anti-racist tools for solidarity and resistance
Join us on Tuesday 14 December to discuss how we might generate an anti-racist, anti-Zionist internationalist praxis.
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Letter in Response to Sonia Sodha's Observer Article
In order to protect women from violence we need to provide for their material needs, not make them more vulnerable by criminalising their source of income.
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In Capitalism, there can be no Care without Punitivity
Central to the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill are new authoritarian powers directed at children - these cannot be understood though by an easy contrast between punitivity and care.
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Extra-Parliamentary Counter Power. Momentum Community and Refounding Momentum
Before the 2019 election a worry from the left was "office without counter-power", now we confront: lack of office, marginalisation in the Party and still without counter-power. What can Momentum do about this?
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Culture in the Culture War: New Socialist at TWT21
Looking ahead to our panel discussion at The World Transformed 2021.
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Refounding Momentum: Labour Transformed
At present it is the Labour Party that inevitably sets the limits on the political horizon of Momentum; a break with this is necessary for a coherent, useful organisation to form.
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Is this Guatemala’s Plurinational Moment?
Since 2015 the frequency of anti-corruption protests in Guatemala has increased, but current actions go beyond a rejection of corruption to demand a revolutionary plurinational refounding of the state.
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The Nonsense of ‘Nuance’: On Recent Events in Cuba
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.
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How to use 'The Town that was Murdered' today
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.
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The Culture War in Football, Football in the Culture War
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.
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The Right to Protest can only be won on the Streets: Reclaim These Streets Reading Group Report
A report on the reading group discussing the role of legal challenges in the struggle to defend the right to protest.
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Political Science in the Age of the Pol Prof
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.
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We Need a Left Leadership Candidate On Any Ballot
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.
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, or: How the 1980s Soft Left is Making a Comeback
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.
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Joint Statement on Censorship of Palestine Campaigning in Schools
A statement calling on the government to abandon its censorious and repressive approach to controlling Palestine solidarity campaigning in schools.
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Glasgow's Tradition of Resisting the Home Office
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.
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No, the problem with Keir Starmer is not that he hasn’t announced enough policies.
He's made his positions clear—the problem is that they're shit and unpopular.
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Bigger than Greed: The European Super League Fiasco and Capitalism in Football
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.
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Looking for Victims, Finding Migrants: The Realities of the Nordic Model
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.
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"A Deep Psychological Blow to Unionism": The NI Protocol, Loyalist Anger and Class.
How does the relationship between unionism and Brexit, recent policing scandals and the post-Troubles economy help understand the recent riots?
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Out of Proportion?
Both sides of debates within Labour over proportional representation avoid asking the important but difficult questions about the contradictions in the Labour alliance.
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Policing is the Crisis
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.
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Kisaan Andolan and the Neoliberal Food Economy
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.
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A Bad Week for Starmer, or worse?
The big "sell" of Starmer during his leadership campaign was competence. We aren't seeing much.
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The Vision Thing
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?
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UCU Must Strongly Resist Job Losses and Restructuring - Now
UCU cannot wait until the crisis in universities hits permanent members on secure contracts - the time for action is now.
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Is Britain a Chumocracy?
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.
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Statement Calling for an immediate Stay on Housing Possession Proceedings
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.
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Pandemic Ethics: Eight Theses
What are the basic ethical and analytical principles that can structure our understanding of and response to the pandemic crisis?
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On the Finucane family's Struggle for Justice and the Collusion of the British State
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.
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The Rise of Solidarity Funds in London and Beyond
Recent months have seen the development of solidarity funds aiming to redistribute wealth locally and build the connections necessary for stronger community movements.
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A Statement from a Member of Chipping Barnet CLP
Even motions in compliance with the restrictions imposed on democratic discussion by Labour's General Secretary appear to be leading to suspensions.
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Serve the People? Some questions on tenants' union consciousness.
In the first of three pieces, Tom Gann and josie sparrow reflect on some of the possibilities and limits of tenants' organising.
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The View from the Sidelines: How the Left Can Adapt to Starmer’s Leadership
Corbyn's policies do remain popular with Labour members, but without the left building our influence independent of the leadership this is politically irrelevant.
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The mood was one of dejection: English Language Teachers in the Pandemic
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.
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Continuity Miliband: Labour's Green Economic Recovery
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.
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Asylum for conscientious objectors to Israeli apartheid?
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?
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Singing When Times Darken
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.
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‘A Hell for Women’
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.
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Which Side are You On?
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.
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On the Chilean Constitutional Referendum
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.
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Statement on co-ordinated attacks on abolitionists in schools
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.
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Coventry and the Dark Side of the City of Culture
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.
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The 10 Crumbling Commandments of Welsh Labour’s Common-sense Unionism
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.
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Is there Power in a Tenants' Union?: A Reply to Nick Bano
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.
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Statement in Support of Migrants Organise
A statement of solidarity from legal workers specialising in immigration law.
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Labour Should Refuse Large Private Donations
A Labour Party funded by ordinary people whether as members or through trade unions is a democratic necessity.
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Statement on Department for Education Guidance on PSHE
The DfE’s recent categorisation of organisations as part of PSHE guidance is extreme Conservative authoritarianism, a censorship of political education, and racial gaslighting.
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Starmer-Ainsleyism: The Methodology behind Starmer's Week
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.
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Heil Churchill: on Nazi Salutes at the Cenotaph
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.
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“We can’t do this work on our own”: an interview with Roger McKenzie
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.
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Labour Members aren't the Problem.
A spate of recent interventions aimed at Labour members risks deflecting attention from the rightward shift of the Parliamentary party.
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Critical support for renters unions
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?
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On "Black Antisemitism" and Antiracist Solidarity
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.
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Centrism for a Sceptical Age
Ed Miliband is a serious, thoughtful, intellectually curious ideologue of the Labour centre and understanding this should shape socialist tactics and strategy.
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Proposal for a Momentum Media Fund
We need socialist media, and part of the refounding of Momentum should be establishing a media fund to support and develop it.
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United Voices of the World shows how trade unions can beat back racist outsourcing
United Voices of the World shows how trade unions can beat back racist outsourcing
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Why we Must Reject the UCEA Offer
UCU members should vote to reject the offer from the Universities and Colleges Employers Association to keep the current dispute live and build solidarity.
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The Politics of Grievance in the Polish Presidential Election
As Poland prepares to elect a new President, how should we understand the social context that has led to the rise of the right?
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To a Comrade: Ted Knight, the Labour Left and Local Government
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?
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We Cannot Pause in a Pandemic — Response to Rocha and Marris
Casualised members are a source of strength and not weakness: we won't settle for a 'foot in the door'.
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Neither Holborn & St Pancras nor Ashton-under-Lyne but independent socialism
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.
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Protect migrants, protect workers: close detention centres now.
Workers must demand nothing less than release of all immigration detainees and closure of immigration removal centres.
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Rent Strike—now? A legal and political analysis.
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.
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Now is the time for hope—it's the bosses who should be scared.
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.
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