Hollywood and the IRA’s American Connection
Nate Lavey explores how Irish American support for the IRA has been portrayed on screen, from Columbo to Patriot Games.
How State-Sanctioned Multiculturalism Killed Radical Anti-Racism in Britain
Ilyas Nagdee & Azfar Shafi
Enter the rainbow nation.
The Rail Strikes Are Entirely Justified
Aaron Bastani
The RMT’s demands are the least of what workers deserve.
Truncheons at Dawn
When a filmmaker and a solicitor investigated the policing of protest, they found secret manuals, imperial legacies and dirty tricks.
Direct Action is Just What the Doctor Ordered
Moya Lothian-McLean
Resistance isn’t futile - and more people are realising it.
Our Day Will Come
After the horror of the hunger strikes, Noraid is invigorated – but the movement is beginning to fracture. Will the future be decided by rifle or ballot box?
Terfs Are Marginal in France. A New Media Platform Plans to Keep It That Way
Olly Haynes
Liberté, egalité, transfemininité.
Germany is Projecting Its Holocaust Guilt Onto Palestinians
Nael Ibrahim
Germany wants us to believe antisemitism is an Arab problem.
Abolishing Prisons Is Only the Start
How can we build a world that has no need of policing? Rivkah Brown finds out with scholar-activist Ruth Wilson Gilmore.
Labour is Out of Ideas on the Energy Crisis
Matteo Tiratelli
Here’s one: strengthen price caps.
Lawyers, Guns and Money
When a federal investigation forces a Brooklyn arms smuggler into the limelight, his lawyers come up with a defence so crazy it just might work.
We All Lost Confidence a Long Time Ago
Moya Lothian-McLean
The rot in our political system isn’t new.
Why Do Tories Love Crypto?
Peter Howson
Because the winner takes all and the poor get nothing.
Sri Lanka is Being Held Hostage By Its President
Amita Arudpragasam
As the country crumbles, Gotabaya Rajapaksa remains in office.
The IRA’s Technical Support
In this bonus episode, we meet two American inventors whose homemade weapons aimed to launch the Irish republican campaign into the skies and below the waves.
PartyGate Photos Leaked, Johnson’s Nasty Advisors, Australia’s New PM
After the police cleared Boris Johnson of all but one rule breach, photos have emerged of the PM drinking booze at a separate gathering during lockdown. How have the Met let him get away with it? Plus: Australia has a new PM and the Tories are still all over the place on an energy company windfall tax.
What the British Media is Missing About the Rise of Sinn Féin
Ciarán O’Rourke
Post-Brexit blowback is only part of the story.
An Era-Defining Political Comeback—Aaron Bastani Meets Lutfur Rahman
In the 2022 local elections, something unprecedented happened in Tower Hamlets, a borough in East London. Not only did the constituents elect a mayor previously banned from taking part in politics, but that candiate’s party, Aspire, took the council from Labour. Aaron Bastani speaks to Lutfur Rahman, the new mayor of Tower Hamlets.