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Review: Can We Solve the Climate Crisis Without Ending Capitalism?

by Aaron Bastani

Bill Gates has written a book on how to avoid climate catastrophe. He claims that capitalism, with a historic dose of state intervention, can help us rapidly decarbonise. He might be wrong, but in approaching ‘net zero’ as an engineering problem - rather than a political question - he offers an important perspective from which the left can benefit.

Opinion: You’ve Been Fined by the Police. What Can You Do About It?

by David Renton

Don’t panic, lawyer up.

Opinion: Even Without the ‘Vaccine Bounce’, Boris Johnson Would Still Be Winning

by Samuel Earle

Boris Johnson's catastrophic mishandling of the pandemic has led Britain to one of the highest death rates per capita in the world. But it hasn't lost him voters. In fact, he’s gained new ones. In the first of a new series on the Tories and power, Samuel Earle looks at how the prime minister gets away with it.

Jewish Leadership Council members sit in Number 10 for a meeting

Opinion: If Jews Don’t Count As an Ethnic Minority, It’s Because We Haven’t Always Wanted To

by Joseph Finlay

Only recently has ethnic minority status become covetable. British Jews have spent much of our history avoiding it, writes Jewish historian Joseph Finlay.

Analysis: Vaccine Passports Could Be a Dystopian Nightmare

by James Meadway

What seems like a sensible measure could be a slippery slope to a social credit system. We must not sleepwalk into more unregulated, opaque data collection, writes James Meadway.

Analysis: How We Win: The Media

by 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.

Analysis: The Dutch Left Was Savaged at the Polls – but Its Policies Remain Unscathed

by Merijn Oudenampsen

Wednesday's historic defeat is especially confounding given the popularity of leftwing policies among the electorate, writes Dutch political scientist Merijn Oudenampsen.

Opinion: Rising Unemployment Is Making Us Depressed. But We Are More Than Our Work

by Harriet Williamson

Pandemic-driven unemployment has shown that basing our self-worth on our productivity is unsustainable. As we emerge from a year of lockdowns, we must rethink our relationship to work, writes Harriet Williamson.

A Bolivian woman with a flag against a rural landscape

Analysis: How We Win: The World

by James Schneider

Our enemies are globally networked; so must we be. In the fifth instalment of How We Win, James Schneider sets out an internationalist strategy for the 2020s.

Analysis: Unfinished Revolutions: How Syria’s Uprising Turned Into a War

by David Wearing

Ten years ago this week the Arab uprisings arrived in Syria, with large demonstrations marking the culmination of weeks of brewing unrest. In the fifth piece of his series on the uprisings, David Wearing looks at how the attempted revolution in Syria became a full-blown war.

A red box sitting on a green table in front of a Union Jack flag

Analysis: How We Win: The State

by 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.

Protest following the kidnap and murder of Sarah Everard in London

Report: If We Can’t Change the Law, We’ll Break It

by Rivkah Brown

On Saturday, police banned a vigil for Sarah Everard - hundreds turned out anyway. The new policing bill may threaten our right to protest, but we already know how to resist. Rivkah Brown reports on a resurgence in civil disobedience.

Opinion: People Are Waking Up to the Horrors of Police Brutality. It’s Time to Build a Movement

by Chardine Taylor-Stone

After the police violently shut down a vigil for Sarah Everard, many people have had their eyes opened to the horrors of state brutality for the first time. If the left is serious about building power, we shouldn't dismiss these people for being late to the party, argues Chardine Taylor-Stone.

People holding up 'Vote Labour' placards

Analysis: How We Win: The Party

by 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. In the third instalment of his six-part series How We Win, James Schneider sets out the work we must do to render the party capable of social transformation in government.

Analysis: How We Win: The Movements

by James Schneider

Arguments are won with actions, not words. If socialist ideas are to become reality, we need power, and to generate it, we need movements, writes Momentum co-founder James Schneider.

Report: Tired of Greedy Landlords, Students Are Setting Up Housing Co-ops

by Eloise Barry

The past year has seen students nationwide coordinate the largest wave of rent strikes in recent history. But growing numbers are going one step further: breaking away from the private rented sector altogether and setting up housing co-ops. Eloise Barry reports.

Opinion: Being in Prison During Covid-19 Was Hell – but Pandemic or Not, the System Ruins Lives

by Sam, as told to Sophie K Rosa

Inmates have endured unthinkable conditions during this pandemic, but even before coronavirus, being in prison was like lockdown on steroids. Sam, who has just finished a 30-month sentence, recounts his experience to Sophie K Rosa.

Report: General Strike: Workers Take on the Military in Myanmar

by Htar Nwe

Trade unions in Myanmar called for a nationwide strike on Monday, as the country entered its sixth week of mass protest since the military coup. Novara Media spoke to organiser Htar Nwe.