If Jews Don’t Count As an Ethnic Minority, It’s Because We Haven’t Always Wanted To
Joseph Finlay
Only recently has ethnic minority status become covetable. British Jews have spent much of our history avoiding it.
Stop Asian Hate
Zing Tsjeng on why east Asian hate is also a problem in the UK.
After Storming Heaven
James Butler is joined by Laura Forster to trace the many red threads of the Paris Commune, which began 150 years ago this week.
Vaccine Passports Could Be a Dystopian Nightmare
James Meadway
What seems like a sensible measure could be a slippery slope to a social credit system.
How We Win: The Media
James Schneider
To win the 2020s, we must tell our story. At every opportunity, socialists must make clear, emotional and positive arguments to build support for our solutions, cut through government spin and disarm the culture wars. The final part of the series How We Win.
Rishi Sunak Found the Magic Money Tree
After 2010 British politics was shaped by one idea above all others: austerity. We were told that there wasn’t enough money to pay for EMA, university fees, council housing or even the existing range of benefits. And yet the government’s response to Covid-19 demonstrates the extent to which that was a political choice rather than […]
The Dutch Left Was Savaged at the Polls – but Its Policies Remain Unscathed
Merijn Oudenampsen
An incumbent buoyed by pandemic uncertainty, the right stealing the left's thunder with redistributive policies - sound familiar?
Rising Unemployment Is Making Us Depressed. But We Are More Than Our Work
Harriet Williamson
We must separate our self-worth from our productivity.
How We Win: The World
James Schneider
Our enemies are globally networked; so must we be. The fifth part of the series How We Win, a socialist strategy for the 2020s.
Banning Your Right to Protest
#TyskySour returns this evening with Michael Walker and Aaron Bastani.
Unfinished Revolutions: How Syria’s Uprising Turned Into a War
David Wearing
How We Win: The State
James Schneider
If we aren’t preparing to use power, we are preparing to have it used against us. The left needs a state strategy, starting with municipal socialism to lay the groundwork for a national programme. The fourth of the six-part series How We Win.
If We Can’t Change the Law, We’ll Break It
Rivkah Brown
Resisting the Tory protest crackdown may require ever greater acts of civil disobedience.
Why All Drugs Should Be Decriminalised. Interview With David Nutt
The criminalisation of drugs has almost no impact on drug use, denies access to proven medical treatments and disproportionately targets people of colour. Yet the idea that drugs are ‘evil’ and that drug users are criminals is entrenched in international and domestic law. How can we begin to shift this point of view? What are […]
People Are Waking Up to the Horrors of Police Brutality. It’s Time to Build a Movement
Chardine Taylor-Stone
We’re all fighting the same beast – and it’ll take more than a few radicals to kill it.
How We Win: The Party
James Schneider
Labour is not a socialist party, particularly not with Keir Starmer as leader. Yet it remains the best vehicle for socialism we have. The third instalment of the six-part series How We Win.
Outrage at Met Police Handling of Sarah Everard Vigil
After the Met’s outrageous handling of Saturday’s vigil for Sarah Everard, and as MPs debate the draconian policing bill, we speak to Gracie Mae Bradley, interim Director of Liberty, about policing and protest in Britain.
Women Protest Police Brutality in Westminster
After a vigil for Sarah Everard was violently shut down by police, protestors came to Westminster to grieve and to resist overreaching police power. Rivkah Brown reports.