If the right win control of Unite the Union, there will no doubt be a huge impact on the Labour party. But there’s arguably an even more important question to consider: what happens to the radical potential of workers if trade unions refuse to provide an outlet for it?
The overrepresentation of trans-hostile voices in the media means we’re denied a realistic view of the issues facing trans and non-binary people, writes Ash Sarkar.
Some of the left are nervous about the perceived unpopularity of anti-imperialism undermining efforts to bring about socialism in the UK. They shouldn’t be, writes David Wearing: transnational solidarity isn’t just important, but increasingly common sense.
Earlier this month the government announced plans to cut funding for arts subjects at universities by 50%. Why? Because attacks on the arts play into the Tories’ confected culture war between salt-of-the-earth folk with ‘proper’ jobs and the ‘metropolitan elite’, argues Chardine Taylor-Stone.
The government’s recent Integrated Review of Security, Defence, Development and Foreign Policy has spelled out the agenda for British foreign relations in the 2020s and beyond. It’s going to make us and the rest of the world a lot less safe, writes David Wearing.
From his “let the bodies pile high” remarks to refurb-gate, Boris Johnson is once again mired in scandal. But rather than being any mortal wound to his prime ministership, the controversies speak to a much bigger problem at the heart of British politics: what counts as corruption, and how little it seems to matter, writes Samuel Earle.
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