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Youth Strike 4 Climate: ‘We are challenging the systemic exclusion of young people from climate dialogue’
As thousands of children walk out of school to protest climate crisis, we spoke to a 15-year-old organiser about how the strike came about, how it has been coordinated and why it's important.
AIPAC is Not the Reason for US-Israeli Ties
Since Ilhan Omar drew attention to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) on social media last Sunday, there’s been much discussion of the significance of the 'Israel lobby’ in US politics. David Wearing argues we’d do better to situate our analysis of US-Israeli relations within a broader account of imperial US power.
Catalonia: As Independence Leaders Stand Trial, Is Spain Heading Towards Constitutional Crisis?
As leaders of Catalonia’s failed 2017 breakaway bid go on trial, charged with rebellion, sedition and misuse of public funds, the future of Spanish democracy hangs in the balance. What exactly is happening and why? Tommy Greene and Eoghan Gilmartin report from Madrid.
Another Lewisham Is Possible: Overcoming Housing Crisis and the Democratic Deficit

Unwilling to tolerate the democratic deficit, local people in Lewisham are organising to ensure their voices are heard in taking on powerful housing development companies bent on gentrifying the local area.
What Can the US Nurses’ Campaign for Medicare for All Teach Organisers in the UK?
Today UK volunteers will call people in the US to encourage them to demand Medicare for All, which would guarantee healthcare for all Americans. Jo Beardsmore takes a look at what can be learnt from the nurses' campaign for Medicare for All to inform the fight to defend and expand free universal healthcare in the UK.
Latin American Community ‘Betrayed’ by Council Plans to Let Private Developers Demolish Tottenham Market
Pueblito Paisa Latin market has been fighting demolition for more than a decade. Now the community has just six weeks to push forward with a pioneering, community-orientated redevelopment plan, before Haringey Council acts on a compulsory purchase order.
‘Silence from the international community is killing us’: Union Activists on the Sudanese Uprising
Tens of thousands of people have taken to the streets of Sudan since late 2018, in what protesters are describing as a revolution. We asked activists from the Sudanese Doctor's Union UK branch what exactly is going on.
What is Going on in Venezuela?
Last week the US recognised Juan Guaidó, head of Venezuela’s National Assembly, as the country’s rightful president, demanding that Nicolas Maduro immediately step aside. Aaron Bastani explains what is going on in Venezuela, and how the left should respond.
Podemos’s Divisions Are Finally Coming to a Head
The Spanish left has been rocked by news of a Podemos split as co-founder Íñigo Errejón announced he will be running for the presidency of the Madrid region on a new platform in 2019. With far-right Vox on the ascendancy, the left looks more divided than ever.
5 Things You Need to Know About Duterte’s Drug War in the Philippines
Since coming to power in July 2016, Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte has overseen a nationwide 'drug war' in which police, paramilitaries and vigilantes have killed suspected dealers, users and other criminal suspects with impunity. Here are five things you need to know.
The UK Needs a Green New Deal, And It Stands Within Our Grasp
Since Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez danced her way onto the political stage, interest in plans for a ‘Green New Deal’ to move the US away from fossil fuels while tackling economic inequality has skyrocketed. If we’re to see something similar in the UK, we’re going to have to fight for it ourselves, argues Clare Hymer.
Paweł Adamowicz: A Very Political Death in a Country Torn by Culture Wars
The recent murder of Gdansk mayor Pawel Adamowicz is a consequence of the normalisation of the radical right in Poland, writes Ana Oppenheim.
Activists in East London Are Fighting to Stop Property Developers Destroying a Dalston Market
Hackney residents are fighting against the redevelopment of Ridley Road Market, demonstrating how a diverse community can reject neoliberalism’s deterioration of community space and offer grassroots, democratic solutions.
London’s Air Quality Is a Problem, But Sadiq Khan’s Congestion Charge Isn’t the Solution
From April this year, Sadiq Khan plans to impose a new congestion charge of £11.50 per day on minicab drivers in an attempt to reduce air pollution in London. But with the charge set to cost up to £4k each year to drivers already on the brink of poverty, this policy needlessly pits people against planet, argue Kulsoom Jafri and Charlie Macnamara.
Labour Must Now Reject a Second Referendum and Pursue a Norway-Style Deal
Following the historic defeat of Theresa May's Brexit deal in parliament on Tuesday, it's being reported that the Labour leadership is coming under pressure to back a second referendum on leaving the EU. This isn’t true, and the party should instead get behind a Norway-style deal, argues Aaron Bastani.
What Can We Learn From Rosa Luxemburg?
A century ago today, Rosa Luxemburg was murdered by the German Freikorps, her body dumped in Berlin's Landwehr canal. But while her death has entered into socialist martyrology, her life and thought - and especially her manner of thinking - still has much to teach us, argues James Butler.
The Global Refugee Crisis is at Our Shores, and We Need to Take It Seriously
As Sajid Javid calls migrants crossing the Channel a "major incident", it’s easy for the left to want to dismiss his reaction as hyperbolic. But with thousands risking death to reach Europe each year this clearly is a crisis-level situation, and we must be making bold arguments for how the global response should be reconfigured.
Latin Venues in Elephant and Castle Forced Out to Make Way for Redevelopment
The long-running regeneration of Elephant and Castle has been a source of local acrimony for more than a decade. This week, the starkly differing fates of three of its best-loved cultural venues have raised new questions about Southwark council and developer Delancey’s approach to local residents and businesses, writes Ed Gillett.