Calais Migrant Camp: The State So Far
Alex Fusco
Calais's migrant camp is under attack. The French and British states have been failing the people living there for years, so why is this happening now?
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#Slaveroo, Industrial Action and Cooperativism: What Does the Future of the Digital Platform Economy Hold?
Jim Benfield
Recent strikes by Deliveroo and UberEats workers drive home the threats to rights and conditions behind the growth of the digital platform economy. What does the future hold for these technologies and our relationship to them?
The Fragility of Legitimacy: A Queer Critique of Hillary Clinton
Alessandro Granato
While Hillary Clinton has put LGBT rights at the forefront of her White House bid, such a move is indicative of her political expediency when it comes to queer struggles.
Long Read: Towards a Queer Crisis: On Capitalism & Compulsory Heterosexuality
Sophie Monk & Joni Pitt (Cohen)
For most of the history of capitalism, heterosexuality has been mandated by law. Sophie Monk & Joni Pitt (Cohen) examine the role of compulsory heterosexuality in capitalism, and consider how it can be disrupted.
Exposing London’s Dirty Energy Complex: 5 Companies (and Industries) Causing Climate Change
Daniel Macmillen Voskoboynik and Charlie Satow
Climate change is being driven by more than just big name oil and gas firms like BP. A whole network of industries contributes to and relies on environmental destruction. Here are five of the worst offenders based in London.
Podemos 2.0: Towards a Party-Movement?
Pablo Castaño Tierno
Following the disappointing results obtained by the coalition Unidos Podemos in the Spanish election earlier this year, a growing number of Podemos leaders have called for the need to restructure the party.
Larry Sanders: “We Don’t Really Know Who the Labour Party Is”
Josiah Mortimer
Josiah Mortimer interviewed Green party candidate Larry Sanders, brother of Bernie, about his running in the Witney by-election, Jeremy Corbyn, and the possibility of a Green-Labour alliance in the next general election.
Long Read: Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Communists? Red Scares, Then and Now
John Medhurst
John Medhurst examines the infamous 'Zinoviev Letter' incident, and draws parallels between the 'red scares' of the 1920s and the current media campaign to discredit Jeremy Corbyn and Momentum.
The Cost of Being a Model Minority: Neoliberalism and the British Sikh Family
Symrun Chatha
While the British Sikh population has often been framed as a 'model minority', their success is only understood in neoliberal terms, and has come at great human cost.
Why the Movement for Scottish Independence Has to Remain Radical
Liam Young
Nicola Sturgeon has fired the starting gun on the prospect of a second Scottish independence referendum, but if #indyref2 is to succeed it will need to recapture the radicalism which galvanised working class people the first time around.
Department for Education Emails Reveal a Crisis in Children’s Mental Health Policy
Jessica Brown
In May the mental health for schools champion was fired for criticising government policy, suggesting the Tories are more concerned with PR than children's mental wellbeing.
Long Read: ‘I’m not looking for a new England’: On the Limitations of Radical Nationalism
Kojo Koram
As UK politics veers wildly to the right, some people are attempting to rehabilitate a progressive English nationalism as part of a left project to push back against a rising tide of xenophobia and racism. Kojo Koram examines the limitations of this project.
It’s Not About Jackie Walker
James McAsh
Comments made about Holocaust Memorial Day by Jackie Walker, now ex-vice chair of Momentum, have once again prompted a discussion about antisemitism on the left.
Rent Strike Weekender: Why Students Must Fight Unaffordable Housing Collectively
Anabel Bennett
In the face of extortionate rent prices for student accommodation, students from across the country came together last month at a rent strike weekender to share experiences and build solidarity networks.
The Consequences of Top-Down Economics Are Not Accidental – But There’s Cause for Hope
A.R. Naraghi
It's no coincidence the rich are getting richer while public services grind to a halt. Both sides of the Atlantic, depressed wages and demoralised towns are the creation of our economic system.
A Network of Liberated Spaces: Visiting Barcelona’s Squats
Tomás Lynch (Words) and Georgia Lalor (Photos)
Amidst the ongoing political stalemate in Spain, Catalonia's squatters are trying to carve out different ways of living together. Tomás Lynch visited to talk about 15M, Catalan independence, escapism and solidarity.
Long Read: Mining for Red Gold
Campagne in Lotta
Workers in Italy's tomato industry are organising against exploitation that local government has continually failed to tackle.
A Hot Day in Paris: Report from the Renewed Struggle Against Loi Travail
Ina Fever
François Hollande’s proposed labour market reforms look set to deepen levels of worker precarity in France. After a period of relative quiet, September witnessed a renewed show of public resistance.